Hypnobabies was so helpful in my VBAC. I know it may sound silly to use hypnosis, but I feel like it made a big difference in my birth experience. I never intended (or even wanted) to have a pain-free birthing experience. What I wanted was to clear my mind of the self-doubt that comes from having had a c-section for “failure to progress”. Hypnobabies taught me to trust my body and my baby to know when and how to make things happen. It taught me to trust my gut when choosing where and with whom to birth my baby. I used the tools to train my body to relax and just surrender to the process, and I feel like it did what I wanted it to do for me. I would not call my birthing comfortable, but I wouldn’t call it painful either. That just isn’t what birth is to me. It is intense and powerful. And although my birth was augmented with a tiny bit of pitocin (making those sensations stronger), it never felt like more than I was able to handle.
