“The hypnobirthing course made a huge difference for us.”
Our little girl, Zara, is now 7 weeks old, so everything is still very new for us.
The hypnobirthing course made a huge difference for us. We planned to have a home birth (which i dont think Yusuf would have ever agreed to, it if we hadn’t done hypnobirthing!) and so most of my long labour was at home in a birthing pool which definitely helped being in our own environment
I was transferred to hospital as the midwives were worried i was getting dehydrated and labour wasnt progressing enough (plus baby was back to back) – i think the ambulance ride did the trick as baby moved into the right position and was born shortly after arriving at hospital. The BRAINS acronym came in handy when we got to the hospital and the doctors started to get pushy about giving me syntocinon and an epidural but we asked them to give us half an hour to decide and Zara was born before the doctor returned!
One midwife even said to Yusuf the next day that he was so brilliant at being my support and challenging the doctor that she wanted him at her birth! The HB course definitely gave him such a clear role – he applied pressure to my back for every contraction for over 30 hours! He walked up and down the stairs with me while I tried to move baby into a better position, he made me a playlist, kept me hydrated, made me eat, put affirmations up all over the house, questioned the midwives every time they said they needed to do something – an internal, emptying my bladder etc – without that course I’m sure he would not have felt as equipped to handle the whole thing.
Hypnobirthing continues to help us in our daily lives, using affirmations and breathing is helping me adapt to my new role as a mum!