A Healing Second Birth for Spencer
Amy, we wanted to thank you so so much for helping us achieve our dream birth. After my daughters labour that involved lots of interventions (broke my waters, syntocinon, epidural, episiotomy, vacuum) I wanted to have a different experience with my second child.
I lost my mucus plug at 4am on Monday morning 5th of June, when I got up to my daughter. Then I laboured until mid day, driving her around to see my niece and to my chiropractor appointment. I played the hypnobirthing tracks in the car and breathed through the surges. When we got home at 1pm we laid on the couch watching Bluey and I was breathing as each surge came and left. My partner got home at 4:30pm and I could labour alone. I had a shower and popped the tens machine on. I laid in my bed breathing through the surges and pressing the burst button for the tens machine when a surge started. I thought this was early labour so I was just trying to rest as much as I could.
When the surges started to get more intense I moved into the nursery where I had clary sage in the diffuser and my birthing ball. I had the curtains drawn and a lamp on. This was my calm space. I sat on the birthing ball and leant forward onto the arm of an arm chair. I continued to breathe, press the burst button when a surge came and I put on hypnobirthing tracks. ‘Surge of the sea’ was my favourite. I told myself ‘I can do hard things’. This was my mantra.
At 7:30pm I said it’s time for the hospital. We got there at 8pm. As I was walking to the birth suite I started to make noises through my surges, where I previously was silent. My waters broke as soon as I hit the hospital bed, I started to think that I couldn’t do it anymore and I thought I could be transitioning, then my body started to push. The midwife checked me and I was 10cm and she called for someone to get the doctor. I pushed on my knees leaning on the back of the bed. I was making lots of noise and the midwife suggest that I direct that energy down to my baby. She was reminding me to listening to my body. I wasn’t having success in this position so she suggested that I lay on my back with my heels up near my bottom. I really had to focus on trusting my body and baby and just breathe down to my baby. This was challenging, as I had never experienced this with my first birth.
Our little boy was born at 8:57pm. I had a 2nd grade tear that was stitched up nicely and now I’m barely in any pain and I feel like a million dollars! I am absolutely over the moon with this birth and I am so so proud to have made my dream a reality! You helped me achieve this and I will be forever grateful. I believed all the affirmations from the hypnobirthing tracks and I truly believe that I am ‘calm and confident as a mother’, something I didn’t believe after my first child.