I woke up at 2am on Sunday morning to the feeling of strong period-like cramps. This must be Braxton Hicks, I thought. I dosed off but was roused every twenty to thirty minutes with another tightening feeling. It was two days after my official due date and my family was visiting from the US, for…
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I went over 42 weeks and was happy with my decision. VBAC story.
I was term plus 15 days and declined induction, including stretch and sweep and had CTG monitoring daily from term plus 12, that is the policy at the hospital. And all was always ok. I have had a previous emergency C-section, (due to positioning of baby and failure to progress) but with discussions it was…
I focused on my breathing and just knew baby was close. A VBAC story.
On the night of my due date I started having irregular surges. I didn’t want to get my hopes up and carried on with my night. This could take few more days yet, I said to myself. By morning the surges were getting more regular so I knew I was probably going to have the…
I imagined baby coming down the birth canal
I woke up and just knew by the end of the day I’d have my baby. I went to the toilet and had a “show”. I was getting slight cramps that seemed like period and I carried on with my mother duties. I have a seven-year old who thinks she is 21 and a 12…
Positive birth experience made me passionate about homebirth
My eldest daughter was born in a midwife led unit (birth centre) located at Kingston Hospital. Whilst it had been a positive experience I had found the transfer to hospital challenging, and there hadn’t been time to use a pool when I arrived. I therefore hoped to have a home water birth with my second…
Facing my inner strength
At 4am I was in very early labour. It was bearable, I managed to return to sleep knowing I would need as much rest as I could possibly get to prepare for birth. By 6am, each contraction had me pacing up and down the stairs, trying to avoid waking up my husband before his 6:45am…
Not a walk in the Jurassic park
The week before I gave birth to our beautiful daughter, Bess, I read an article in a baby magazine entitled, ‘I Had an Orgasm During Labour’. Needless to say this had sealed the deal; my childbirth was going to be easy; orgasmically easy. I had been doing pregnancy yoga every week since I was 16…
