At 4:43am I felt uncomfortable from my sleep (standard), and rolled myself over from my right to left in bed. I then heard the oddest noise – no joke, the sound was what you hear as the bath or sink has almost emptied itself. I thought, gosh, I know my tummy often growls at me,…
I had my first daughter (you can read that story here) at 38+2 weeks after my waters went and labour started spontaneously. This time I was ready for an early baby again and finished work a bit earlier. But I was over 37 weeks and hadn’t noticed much so I thought I had to prepare…
The end of my second pregnancy was very different to my first. We had a dream birth with my first son and we wanted to try and have a similar experience. We did Amy’s hypnobirthing course first time round and so it was only right we came back to her for a refresher.. and also…
I went to have my nails done 2 days before my due date. Everyone got talking and shared their birth stories (all very positive) and we decided I’d probably go over due as my bump was still high. I went home, moved my living room furniture around to do the last deep clean, sat down…
A fast and positive induction story involving obstetric cholestasis.I found out at 31 weeks that I had obstetric cholestasis and was told I’d be induced between 37 and 38 weeks. I’d been induced 6 years previously when I’d had my son so at first, I felt ok about it but then the anxiety started to…
A positive second birth on labour ward at the John Radcliffe Hospital. Featuring Low Papp A, Induction and a quick birth. So here’s a brief run down of the whole thing – It was so different from my first birth and the Hypnobirthing really did make a difference, my partner, Neil, said I was really…
Hello, Thought I’d send you an email about Rupert’s entrance into the world. It wasn’t my ideal “birth plan” but it was a very positive experience and I felt very confident going into labour after doing the course with you. Monday 22nd we were sat having dinner at 9pm and I felt a ‘pop’ and…
I started having what I can only describe as twinges, similar to what you’d feel right before a period, on Saturday the 18th December in the evening time. I decided to just ignore it and we carried on about our evening and went walking round the supermarket buying Christmas food. Throughout the night period pains…
We were ready for our little boy to come. We had done all the prep; birth plan written, bags were packed by the front door, revising our hypnobirthing notes most nights. We were excited for the big day! Following on from what we learnt in Amy’s class, we knew it wasn’t very likely that our…
When I found out I was pregnant I was so excited however It soon dawned on me that I would have to give birth and I started to panic; all I knew about birth was what other women had told me and it sounded like a painful and traumatic experience. I looked into ways to…
Waters broke at 5:30am when I sat up in bed as heard my first son shouting for mummy! I called triage to let them know. They said see how you get on with contractions. New community midwives would start their shift at 8am so we were aiming for sending them after then! I was naive…
It took me a while to write this as I felt at first my birth didn’t go to plan, the first bit of labour where i was contracting at home was nothing like I imagined it! I was not prepared for how intense contractions could be! Looking back it was literally the birth I planned…