Birth Stories

Beautiful Birth of Grace

Thank you to Kristall for sharing her birth story with us! I don’t believe in love at first sight. My husband won’t mind me saying this as he feels the same about me hahaha – we were best of friends for years before we grew in love with each other.Ok I lie, I didn’t used […]

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Fill your mind with positive birth stories and videos – Enjoy Birth {day 4}

Actively seek out positive birth stories.  Reading books like Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth Journey Into Motherhood   Reading birth stories on websites Hypnobabies PregnancyBirthandBabies can fill your mind with peaceful images of enjoyable births. Even if the moms telling their stories chose a different kind of birth than you, just knowing their encouraging stories

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Zia’s Wonderful Birth

Zia May’s HypnoBabies Birth Feb. 4th, 2010 About a month and a half before giving birth to my then genderless child, I wrote a note that I called my Manifest List which I slept with in my pillow case. This list covered all of the characteristics that I hoped for my child to have, and

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Kale’s Birth Story

Thanks to Nathalie from the Hypnobabies Yahoo Group for sharing her story with us. This is my birth story for my first child, born November 19, 2011. Hypnobabies definitely helped me stay calm and positive throughout the entire experience, and made labor very easy to manage! Read on for more. As first-time parents, DH and

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Using “Air” During Birth

Hypnobabies did loads to help, but it wasn’t a totally quiet birthing, so be aware! We had a real sloooooow start (5-6 days of stop/start), but then a super fast finish, so prodromal labour might just be useful after all! I was checked at 40+2 and was 1-2cm dilated, cervix thin and soft. Sounded good.

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Inspiring VBAC – She’s Here!

4 AM ?!?! Wow, things were just moving right along! A little while later, I was resting between contractions and I started wondering if someone had turned off the pitocin again because I felt like several minutes had gone by without anything happening. Literally, as I was finishing this thought, I heard Nichole say (to

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