I tried to practice the
hypnobirthing as much as I could before hand and
made sure this was part of
my birth plan.
I listened to the river dawn
music at home once my husband was awake (2am)
having been in labour since
9pm.
I felt pretty calm although
tired. Once we got to the hospital there was
quite a bit of discussion
about labour ward Vs midwife led due to my age
and other risk factors. They
wanted me to have continuous monitoring too. I
agreed to switch to labour
ward if I could have a birth pool and said no to
continuous monitoring at
that point.
We set up some lovely
candles and put on the River Dawn music. I got in the
pool at around 12:10. The
midwife who I'd been seeing came to visit me at
12:30 and commented about
how calm it was and how present I was. I had my
little girl at 1:08pm. I
didn't use any pain relief and I was very glad to
have not used gas and air as
I really wanted to be more aware. I lost a
fair bit of blood and
decided I didn't want to do a natural placenta
delivery so I got out to do
that after a good while in the pool.
Everyone
who came in commented about
how calm it was and the midwife who helped me
deliver said in my notes
about how well I was doing. I found it hard to
apply the visualisations
that much because things were progressing very
quickly but my husband with
some prompts helped me to focus and keep calm
when I started to loose
focus and feel less in control.
We then had the music on for
hours afterwards and even now I find it
comforting.
We named our daughter Arwen
River Nightingale Williams
Lucy Williams
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