Ultimately I didn’t get my perfect home birth but I was listened to. I didn’t have any unnecessary interventions and I felt in control. I had prepared as much as I could and gave it my all. I had prepared birth plans for all scenarios:...
With no pain relief I pushed my baby out in 6 minutes. I was amazed that with my first born, I had an epidural and with my second, I had no pain relief what so ever! I honestly couldn’t of done it without the help and...
As a massive control freak, birth was an exciting but anxious time for me as there are so many things you can't control! I decided to research and prepare as much as possible by doing hypnobirthing and looking into evidence based birth information....
I had a wobble in the middle of my labour where I doubted my abilities and also discovered that my contractions never regulated like everyone else's but I had a positive birth despite it being different to what I envisaged....
This isn’t the story I expected to be writing when I was preparing for the arrival of my son – it’s definitely not a Plan A story, but I still take so many positives from the experience so I hope it will show that even...
