I ended up having an epidural for pain relief and our son was eventually pulled out by ventouse delivery. His birth definitely didn’t go to plan and although I tried to look back on the event as a positive one – after all it brought our gorgeous son into...
I had the most empowering birth with our first child Finn that my only fear leading into this birth was that it wouldn’t be as calm and positive, and if it wasn’t I would be hugely disappointed. To challenge this fear I took time out to prepare myself, mentally and...
It was an amazing and interesting natural birth. Our preparation with our doula Ingrid, the course with Tracey and yoga breathing definitely got us through. I managed the labour at home by myself from about 5am to 2.30pm – I listened to the meditations, did...
Lots of my friends and family would tell me to stop thinking about it, all that mattered was that in the end we had a healthy baby and a healthy me…I could see their point but always thought that they didn’t really understand where I was coming from. After Madelon’s...
It has been great reading everyone’s stories and seeing all the beautiful bubs being born. OK…..an exciting adventure happened with the birth of ‘big’ Patrick (which is better told in person….cause it has actions…but I’ll try...
