We had another magical home birth in the pool.
Had a third sweep on Saturday morning and had booked induction for Wednesday feeling calm and confident that it would still be a positive birth even if we couldn’t have it at home this time. But as it happened surges started 2am on Sunday morning and were pretty regular straight away. I used my TENS, relaxing place visualisation, long deep hypno breaths through the surges, lavender oil on a towel and again spent a lot of time sat on the toilet! And on fours in the bathroom. Moved to the pool about 3:15 as I felt the urge to push, and he was out by 4:08am. It was really intense, but quick so manageable. The surges were amazingly efficient!
Hypno techniques worked a dream for me again, especially the relaxing in between surges. We are so happy and I’m so grateful for all your wise words in our refresher session. You really helped to change my mindset about the birth and I felt leaving your session that we could have a positive experience no matter what happened. After we’d been given the low Papp-A result which meant we were consultant-led for a lot of the pregnancy I thought the birth wouldn’t be as magical or positive as our first. But, you encouraged us to think positively and focus on what we wanted and cross other bridges as and when we needed to and also to believe that just because the first was perfect didn’t mean we couldn’t have another great birth. After that I relaxed about everything and I’m sure that helped.
