*Trigger warning* – Contractions (not negative for me), pain, true knot, second degree tear, previous birth trauma So happy to finally be sharing my birth story! I’ve not seen many stories with GD and water births but very thankful to have had an amazing empowering experience – the complete opposite from my first! Apologies it’s … Read more
*Trigger warning* – Pain, contraction, sickness, induction, injection A little back story on our chosen birth: We live in Kent and unfortunately our local hospital is currently closed the birth center and on top of that, after a terrible experience of lack of cleanliness and lack of care from my midwives with my options on … Read more
After spending months of my pregnancy afraid of my birth (first time mum), I was recommended the hypnobirthing course, by a friend of mine that had just taken the course and had a really positive birth! During my pregnancy I had noticed that all my ideas of birth were conditioned to be negative from what … Read more
Even though it went very well from a medical point of view, I’d experienced the birth of my first son as something quite traumatic. It had been an unassisted delivery, but I’d found it incredibly painful and had felt out of control through most of it. I’d requested an epidural but hadn’t got it, and … Read more
Pregnancy My pregnancy was quite hard, my sickness started at 3 weeks pregnant (which is how I found out ). Around 10 weeks pregnant, I had to see a doctor as I couldn’t keep any food or drink down for days, I couldn’t move or even brush my teeth some days as I would just … Read more
I was so grateful to have found the Positive Birth Company’s course. I’m not one for reading explanatory books, especially baby ones, I find them boring, but I knew a natural birth was important to me. My Mum had all her children naturally and my sisters had also done natural, unmedicated births. These women paved … Read more
At 39 weeks I woke up and heard it was the Queen’s birthday. I joked with my husband saying “how cool would it be if the baby was born today and shared the Queen’s birthday?” My husband replied “I hope not, we aren’t ready”. This was true, we recently had an extension which had completed … Read more
PREGNANCY: The first and second trimesters were fairly straightforward. Some early nausea, an increase in headaches and allergies, but mostly not too bad. At 38 weeks, I started to get severe lower back pain and pelvic girdle pain. This was really quite disabling. I had been quite active throughout pregnancy (swimming, walking and yoga) but … Read more
40 weeks +1 day 5.30am – I woke up with mild surges, they were different to the Braxton Hicks surges I’d been having throughout the previous week at night, that’s when I knew these were definitely the real thing. But as they were mild, and I felt I’d slipped through a few already, I thought … Read more
I was really lucky to have had a pretty straightforward pregnancy, bar some pelvic girdle pain in 3rd trimester (which was massively helped by seeing a Chiropractor), pretty bad acid reflux, and a lot of paranoia about reduced fetal movement, but each time we went in for monitoring there was never a cause for concern. … Read more