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Two-time Hypnobabies mom relates both her babies’ birth stories!

First Hypno-Baby’s Birthing:

I have used Hypnobabies with both of my sons and I have LOVED the program. I did the Home study course for both births.

My first son was a successful [vaginal] Breech birth. I had a horrible experience during my pregnancy with a Doctor who was not supportive of my choice for a natural birth and who never volunteered information. He didn’t tell me my baby was breech until I asked what position he was in (at about 30 weeks) and when I asked him what I could do to get the baby turned, his response was “We’ll just wait and see what happens. If he doesn’t turn, we’ll do a C-Section”.

It was then that I realized I needed to take control of my pregnancy and, in my search to learn what I could do to get my baby to turn, I found the Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis program (at 32 weeks). I tried EVERYTHING in the book to get him to turn! I would feel him rotate a little and then go right back. On my due date I went in for an appointment and my Doctor made me schedule a C-Section around his vacation. That was the last straw. I fired him and found a new provider that would be supportive of the birth I wanted. It was then that I learned that my baby couldn’t turn because I had extremely low amniotic fluid. I also learned that my hematocrit was so low that if I had undergone surgery, I potentially would have died from blood loss.

My sweet little one made his appearance at 40 weeks 5 days. My “water broke” at hour 4 and he was born at hour 23 – both of us healthy and happy. My providers did not have much experience with the Hypnobabies program and they were all amazed at how relaxed and peaceful I was due to my childbirth hypnosis practice during the entire process. Because I wasn’t making a bunch of noise, they were worried I wasn’t progressing at all. But everytime they checked, I had progressed. It was 23 hours of hard work – mentally and physically – but it was completely worth it!

Second Hypno-Baby’s birth:

My second son was born 7 weeks ago in the comfort of our home. I began having mild pressure waves at 11pm. I would have been able to sleep through them for the most part, except that my 2 year old was sick so I was up with him a lot of the night. For the next 20 hours, I consistently had a pressure wave that would last for only 20 to 30 seconds and came every 15 to 30 minutes. By that standard, it was not considered “active labor.”

I had called my mom and midwife in the morning to let them know that I thought the baby would be coming that day, but I told them to hold off on coming until my pressure waves progressed. My husband and I went about our usual daily activities. At about 3pm, the timing of my waves had still not changed – although the pressure seamed to be greater – so we decided to go for a walk to try to get things moving along. I would just stop to relax and enter eyes-open childbirth hypnosis (while standing) every time a pressure wave would come.

When we got back I was extremely frustrated that nothing had changed, so I called my midwife and asked her what to do. I had a pressure wave while on the phone with her and it was so short that she said my waves sounded more like a Charlie Horse than pressure waves. She volunteered to come to my house and help me either get things progressing, or stop them. And she was really thinking that they would stop altogether when I got in the pool. However, when she got to my house – around 7pm – she checked me and I was 8 cm dilated, and 90% effaced!

So she got me in the pool and then things picked up right away. I spent the rest of the time in the pool – choosing for myself when and how to change positions. I did a lot of kneeling and squatting to utilize gravity. At 11:30pm my midwife asked if the pressure waves were intense (she couldn’t tell because I was so relaxed and deeply in hypnosis) and I said yes – that they were almost constant and I believed I was in transformation.

She asked if I wanted her to break my water. I felt like I could get him here fast if my waters would just break so I said yes. She did and I immediately had the urge to push. He was in my arms a short 14 minutes later – again, both of us perfectly healthy and happy. He was born in the pool, with my husband in the pool to catch him. It was wonderful.

So, my total birthing time was 25 hours, but only 4 hours of it felt like “active labor”. I am positive that I was able to progress so much throughout the day, despite the pressure waves being short and spread out, because of my hypnosis, relaxation and visualization. I tried to stay upright as much as possible, to let gravity to do the work, and with each wave a visualized my cervix opening and my baby moving down. That, and “mooing” were the things that were most helpful for me with this birth.

With my first baby, my most utilized Hypnobabies tool was creating anesthesia. So my focus for each birth changed based on what I felt I needed.

My midwives said that this second birth is one of the smoothest births they have ever seen.  They were both extremely excited about how great it went and have both blogged about it. If you could describe a birthing time as easy, I believe this would be it. It was perfect!  I recommend the Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnosis program to every expectant mother I know!

Hypnobabies thanks Laurie Brown for sharing her stories with us!

Sophie’s Beautiful Birth

I loved reading this birth story about Sophie’s birth.

Our class was very positive, informative, and especially empowering.  Hypnobabies equips mom and dad withtonnes of knowledge about pregnancy and birth so they can make good decisions and the cd’s and hypnosis toolshelped to calm me both leading up to and during the birth.

The amazing part of all this is that when I first met Jenn my fear was taking over.  As I look back on our birth experience I now realize that not once did I feel a single moment of fear.  It was intense and challenging, but never fear inducing.  And I can say that our experience was very positive despite a few changes in our plan.

Click here to read the whole story.

Some of the materials were new to me, even though I am a nurse and this is my second pregnancy!”

I loved reading this nurse share her experience with Hypnobabies.

My journey to a calm and comfortable childbirth was not an easy one. I was the girl who said she would never try a natural childbirth. Why, you may ask? Let me start by saying that I am a Registered Nurse. I remember back to my nursing school days very vividly. I remember watching and assisting women with the birth of their babies, watching them scream and writhe in pain. To me, that was no way to welcome the birth of your baby. I knew from that point on that I would be getting an epidural when the time came for me to have babies. I wanted to enjoy the birth of my baby and that did not appear to be possible without an epidural.

Fast forward to June of 2010, we were expecting our first baby, a little girl. We were so excited about adding to our family and could not wait to meet our daughter. I ended up going into labor on my own at 41 weeks. I received my epidural when I was dilated to an 8. I thought that epidural was the best invention in the world. Well, once my water broke, we found meconium present in the amniotic fluid. The NICU team had to be present at the birth. My epidural had me so numb that I pushed for three and a half hours. My fabulous midwife was saying that we might need a vacuum extraction to get my daughter out. Luckily, we did not need that and she was born after a lot of effort on my part. She wasn’t breathing adequately so she had to go to the NICU. I had to stay in my hospital bed because I was too numb to go anywhere. Once my epidural finally wore off, I got to see my daughter…four hours after she was born. I didn’t get the bonding experience I so desperately craved.

When I got pregnant with our second child, I knew that I wanted a better experience. I knew there had to be something more fulfilling available to mothers. I knew that getting an epidural was not an option for me this time around so I started looking into natural childbirths. I researched birth doulas and while doing that, came across the Hypnobabies program. I was skeptical, to say the least, but thought that it would be worth a try. I figured that using my wonderful Hypno-doula, Anne, and using Hypnobabies was my best chance at having a natural childbirth.

Click here to read the rest of her story!

It was amazing how powerful it felt to take my healthcare into my hands.

Thanks to Monica for sharing her story!
Okay, so I know that Juneau is now three months old, and who writes a birth story when three months have already passed?  The problem is that I have been trying to figure out how to put into words what an amazing experience Juneau’s birth was, and I feel like no matter what words I choose, I won’t be able to do it justice.  But I figure, if I don’t write it down now, it may never get written.  So, here I go….

Where do I begin? We found out we were expecting in late August 2011. Juneau is our second child. We had our son, Phoenix, in May 2010. In preparing for Phoenix’s arrival, I studied the hypnobabies program.  It was great in helping me to relax and enjoy the pregnancy.  I think that with the aspects of being a first time mom and not being sure of what it would be like to actually give birth, I wasn’t 100% confident in what I was doing and was very willing to defer to the medical professionals in terms of what needed to be done.  This led to a cascade of interventions that led to me giving birth to Phoenix in the operating room, completely numb from the neck down, unable to feel or see anything.  After he was born, I was so shaky from the medication that I couldn’t hold him and then he was taken for his newborn cares to the nursery and away from us for a few hours.  All of these things really traumatized me and I knew that I did not want a repeat of that experience.

With this pregnancy, I was determined to have a natural birth. I studied the hypnobabies program again and armed myself with as much knowledge and support as I could.  We decided to hire a doula to help us achieve our desired birth experience and I am so glad I did.  Mandy was our doula and she was phenomenal.  We met with her several times before Juneau’s birth and she helped me to work through the issues that I had after Phoenix’s birth and let those go and realize that this was a new birth and a new baby.  She helped me to gain confidence in myself and the fact that I could have a natural birth.  The hypnobabies program again helped me to focus myself and relax during the later stages of pregnancy.  I read up on different natural birth books and websites.  I read as many natural birth stories as I could gaining inspiration and motivation from the fact that all of these women had been able to do it.  I knew that I could do it too.

On one of Mandy’s visits, we practiced different positions to help ease the discomfort of pressure waves.  This made me excited to be able to put into practice all of the different tools and in a way I couldn’t wait to use them.  Little did I know that practicing them would be about all I would get to do.   My due date was May 2nd and I knew from the start that I would most likely go past that.  Everyone around me was saying they were sure I would have an April baby, but I remained calm in the fact that my baby would come when she was ready (and it would most likely be after May 2nd).  This helped me not to feel pressured or anxious when May 2nd came and went.  We went for our weekly doctor’s appointment that day just to be sure that baby was doing okay.  On the ultrasound we confirmed she was a girl (thank goodness otherwise her pink room would’ve needed a quick paint job) and they guesstimated she was 6lbs 13oz.  Fluid levels looked okay and I was contracting when they hooked me up to the monitory.  The doctor never pressured me for induction but said that if she didn’t arrive on her own, he didn’t feel comfortable with me going more than two weeks over.  Even though he talked about it, I was never phased because I knew that she would come when the time was right.

I was hoping for a Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) baby and the fact that there was a supermoon that night was inspiration.  May 5th came and went and still no baby.  Early the morning of May 6th, things started happening…I felt more intense pressure waves that were gaining strength and not going away with a drink of water or resting.  I felt so excited and sure that today was the day.  I kept in touch with Mandy through the early morning hours (sorry for the 3AM texts, Mandy!) and waited to see what happened.  It was cute, because I woke Nevada up and he wanted to know right away if we had to go to the hospital.  It wasn’t anywhere near that point yet, but it was nice he was so concerned.

By mid-morning the pressure waves were continuing and some were coming as close as every 6 minutes.  I didn’t know how things were going to progress so I asked Mandy to come over, just in case.  Grandma had come to pick up Phoenix earlier in the day.  Once Mandy got here, things started to slow down and they weren’t as regular.  I would still have to concentrate on them, but it wasn’t anything that was unbearable.  Mandy was calm and supportive, never second guessing what I was feeling.  By about 5:30, things had pretty much fizzled out and I was disappointed.  Having never experienced my body begin the birthing time on its own, I felt kind of defeated.  Again, Mandy was reassuring saying that my body was definitely working and just preparing for baby.

The next few days passed without incident.  There were pressure waves here and there, but nothing too serious and while I was anxious for her arrival, and for people to stop checking into see how I was doing and if the baby was here yet, I was still at peace with knowing she would come when she was ready.  I had been sleeping on the couch for the last few weeks of pregnancy because it was where I could get the most comfortable and most nights I stayed up watching tv because sleep wasn’t easy to come by.  On May 9th, Nevada sat up watching tv with me for a little bit and headed up to bed around 10:30.  I was still awake watching American Pickers when I felt a strong pressure wave.  Hmmm…that felt a little bit different than before.  I figured I would just lay there and see what happened and if any more pressure waves wanted to make their appearance.  That was around 10:45 or 11. Sure enough, another one came along not too long after.  I had to close my eyes and focus on my hypnosis to feel comfortable during it.  I didn’t want to jump the gun, so I continued to lay there and see what would happen.  Around 11:30, I thought this is the real deal and I started timing the pressure waves.  They were between 6-8 minutes apart and definitely intense.  Around midnight, I headed upstairs to get Nevada up.  This time he could tell things were more serious and he asked if he should call his mom to come and watch Phoenix.  I told him to do that and call Mandy.  I tried to talk to Mandy but the pressure waves were intense enough that I didn’t want to do that, so Nevada talked to her instead.  She suggested I get into the shower to see if the waves would continue or if they would fizzle out.  So around 12:20 I got into the shower.  The pressure waves continued and seemed like they were coming faster.  The warm water felt good on my stomach, but it was hard to stand in the shower without holding on to something.  After I got out of the shower, it was difficult to get dressed, but with Nevada’s help I managed, having to stop every few minutes to work through the pressure waves.

By the time I got downstairs, Nevada’s mom was there.  Mandy was on her way, but figured it would take her about an hour from the time we first called her at 12:15ish.  Nevada’s stomach was upset so he was looking for some Pepto and talking to his mom about where it could be.  At this point pressure waves were coming every 2-4 minutes and were super intense.  I told him to forget about the Pepto and that we needed to get going to the hospital.  I made it into the minivan and put my ipod in with hypnobabies playing.  Nevada called Mandy and told her there was a change of plans and we were headed to the hospital.  She would head there too.  We also called the hospital to let them know we were on the way and found out that the one doctor from the practice that I didn’t care for was going to be delivering babies that night.  I took in the information and then let my concerns about it go.  She was going to be there to catch my baby and that was it, the rest of it I was going to be in charge of.

I listened to hypnobabies the entire car ride and did a lot of deep breathing and was starting to make some low noises to help get through the pressure waves.  What seemed like the longest 15 minutes passed before we made it to the hospital.  Nevada dropped me off at the entrance and I stood holding onto one of the posts for support.  He zipped in the parking garage to park the car and didn’t even have time to grab the bags.  We figured if we needed something, he would have time to run back out.  It was then that I saw Mandy running across the parking lot too.  My entire team was in place…it was time to have a baby!

I tried walking to the entrance, but that wasn’t going to happen so Nevada ran and got a wheelchair for me.  I was still doing lots of breathing and low moaning and working through the pressure waves which felt like they were right on top of each other.  Nevada started to wheel me through the lobby and took me to the green elevators.  At this point I was with it enough to tell him he was at the wrong ones and had to go to the blue elevators.  I remembered from our tour 2 Blue.  We zipped around and got to the right elevators and headed up.

Arriving at L&D makes me laugh when I think about it.  We pulled up and of course they started asking me questions.  I was able to answer some between pressure waves.  “What are you here for?”  Umm…I was thinking I really wanted to eat some good hospital food…I’m having a BABY!!!  Mandy crouched next to me and kept reminding me to breathe and to lower the sounds I was making to help keep in control.  Nevada helped by answering some of the questions and they took me to a triage room.  Things were super intense at that point and I just kept on focusing to get from one pressure wave to the next.  They told me to get undressed and I’m still not sure how I managed to get my clothes off and get up on the bed, but I did.  They checked me and said I was 8 cm.  Thank God!  Things were so intense that had I been at a 4, it would’ve been hard.  While there, the nurses were asking if I wanted an epidural and I was confident in my decision to tell them no.  After I was checked, they took me over to the L&D side of the wing (I guess now they believed me that I was having a baby?).

Once in the L&D room, I was checked again and found to be 10cm and complete. Mandy and Nevada were by my side with water and helping me with peace cues and touching my shoulder which I later found out really helped me relax.  In the moment, I wasn’t realizing it but Mandy said when she would do that, she could visibly see me relax into the pressure waves.  Once the doctor came into the room, she was getting ready to break my water.  Mandy noticed what was happening and asked me if I consented to it.  I said no, and the doctor stopped.  I think it made her a little bit mad because it was 2 something in the morning and she probably wanted to get this show over, but it was my baby and we were going to have it my way.  As I worked through the pressure waves, I had my eyes closed most of the time to help me keep my focus, but I did open them at one point and saw the doctor kind of statnding at the end of the bed with her arms crossed looking at me frustrated.  Too bad, this was my birthing experience.

After just a few minutes, I started to feel like I wanted to push.  This was intense pressure.  Not pain, but pressure.  According to Mandy’s notes it was around 2:25 that I told them I wanted to push.  The pushing phase is kind of a blur.  I know that was pushing for a few minutes when my water broke.  While pushing, I still had my eyes closed and I know there was a time or two when I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it.  The nurses and Mandy and Nevada all cheered me on.  Then all of sudden the pressure changed and I could feel Juneau moving down and out.  I never experienced a ring of fire as they call it but just a lot of pressure.  Finally I heard someone say the head was out, and I gave another push to get the rest of her out.  They had to remind me to open my eyes so I could see my baby girl.  She was immediately put on my chest and I looked down in wonder at the little miracle that had just been inside of me.  Juneau was born at 2:50AM, approximately 1 hour after arriving at the hospital.  She weighed 6lbs 3oz and was 20 inches long.  She had a full head of hair and the most perfectly shaped head.  (At the pediatrician’s office they asked if she was a c-section baby because her head was so round).  It was love at first sight.

When the doctor was stitching things up, she was going to give me a shot of Pitocin.  Mandy again asked me if I consented to it and I asked the doctor if I needed it.  Her response was well, we routinely give Pitocin after birth.  I again asked her if I needed it and if I didn’t, I wasn’t going to consent to it.  So, guess what, no Pitocin!  It was amazing how powerful it felt to take my healthcare into my hands.

After Juneau’s birth, we told the nursing staff that we wanted all of her newborn cares to take place in the room.  So she was bathed, monitored and taken care of where we could see what was going on and only after we had been able to cuddle for a significant amount of time.  It was fantastic never having her leave our side.  Such a different experience than the first time around.

After I was stitched up, I was up and walking around within about 20-30 minutes and surprisingly felt great.  We transferred to our postpartum room and as opposed to the first time around, I could walk and move and had no issues.  When the nurses came in and asked what I wanted for pain management, I told them that I felt okay and I would let them know if that changed.  So after Juneau’s arrival I didn’t have ANY pain medication-not even tylenol or advil.  I just felt like I didn’t need it.  Things were a little bit sore, but it wasn’t anything I couldn’t handle.  I felt like SuperWoman!  I think the nurses thought I was crazy because they never had moms who didn’t need pain meds.

The adrenaline from the experience still gets me today when I think about it.  When discussing with my doctor my desire to have a natural birth, his advice had been to stay at home as long as possible and come to the hospital when you are ready to push.  I didn’t think that I would actually do that, but sure enough, I came in at an 8, progressed to a 10 within about 10 minutes and was ready to push baby out within about an hour of arriving at the hospital.  I couldn’t have imagined a better scenario.

I credit the awesome experience to my Hypnobabies hypnosis studies, my awesome doula, and my ever supportive and loving hubby.

Hypnobabies Mom uses hypnosis to lower her heart rate, during a stressful ‘change of birth plans’.

This mom had a great beginning of her birth.

We went up to the room and they hooked me up to the machines to monitor the contractions and the baby’s heart rate. I continued to relax through what were apparently pretty intense contractions. Evan said the nurse kept looking at me in amazement as the contractions spiked and I just sat there quietly, breathing. The doctor came in at 8:15 to check me and see if the contractions were productive. He popped his head up and said to me “Are you ready to have a baby today?? You’re 8 centimeters dilated!” and I think I seriously got the chills I was so surprised. IT WAS HAPPENING. I had heard and read so many stories of women going through this hardest part of labor, as you get closer to 10cm. Somehow I was there and was doing just fine. At this point I thought “Wow, I’m seriously going to do this!!!” and was so excited that Hypnobabies actually was working for me. Even without any sleep the night before, I felt full of energy and also really relaxed. The doctor said he would come back in an hour and check again.

Then a surprise breech baby at 10cm created a scenario where she had to have a cesarean.  It was a shock, but she was able to use her Hypnobabies to help stay calm.

Read her story and see her beautiful pictures here.

Congratulations on your sweet baby girl!

4 Children…Adoption, Cesarean, Hypnobabies Hospital VBAC, and a Hypnobabies Home Waterbirth!

My name is Veronica. I have 4 children. Each have come to me in a different way. We are blessed to have experienced adoption, a birth center water birth turned c-section, a hospital VBAC, and a beautiful home water birth VBAC. My youngest daughter was born at home in what I have said is our perfect birth. ThiS is our story. 

 

My EDD was 5/11/12. It came, and it went. On 5/13/12, Mother’s Day, I thought I had a small high leak of my amniotic fluid. Since I was not in my active birthing time at all and the trickle came and went infrequently, we decided to enjoy the day and rest. My 3 children were sent to enjoy some quality time with their Noni for her Mother’s Day evening and my husband and I decided to get some sleep. The next day, 5/14/12, was our wedding anniversary. We decided that since my pressure waves were still seemingly practice waves, we would enjoy the day by eating at one of our favorite breakfast spots and then walking a gorgeous trail at Peter’s Canyon. Since I still felt leaking we contacted my midwife and agreed to have her check me to see if the leaking was in fact amniotic fluid. As it turns out, it was not. She believed, and we would later agree, that it was cervical fluid. At this point I was at 1cm and the baby was still high. We decided to grab some lunch after my midwife left. I was still having strong practice waves intermittently. We decided that today was the day to try a few natural induction techniques knowing that they would not take if my baby/body/mind were not ready to embark on this journey. After a stop at Target to pick up some castor oil, root beer and vanilla ice cream, we headed home. I drank one root beer float with castor oil. Nothing significant happened. A few hours later I drank a fruit smoothie with castor oil. Nothing happened. And finally, we agreed to try nipple stimulation. If that didn’t work then we were comfortable with waiting it out as long as we needed to. Well, to my surprise, after nipple stimulation by pump for 30 minutes, nothing happened. At 8:00pm I had my hubby turn on a movie so we could enjoy some time together without any focus at all on our baby coming. WHAM. At 8:30 I began having strong and effective pressure waves. I was sure that this was still practice until I, timing them myself, realized that I was having a new pressure wave every 5 minutes. At 9:00pm I had my DH shut off the movie, and begin to run scripts with me. He was amazing. It was the most intimate experience being able to completely turn off my switch and knowing without doubt or reservation that he would catch me and give me my cues as needed. By 10:15 I knew this was not going to slow down. My pressure waves began getting longer, stronger and only 90 seconds apart the beginning of one wave to the next. We called my best friend/doula/ two time Hypnobabies mama herself. She arrived at 10:50pm. By 11:30 she sat with me rubbing anesthesia all over me and chanting “peace” and “release” as I needed it. This was so immensely helpful as my husband was unable to be by my side while he set up the birthing tub.

By 11:15 I am in the water and so thankful for my support team and hot water. 🙂 they literally held me afloat while I turned off my switch and breathed through my pressure waves. It is now 5/15/12 and my pressure waves are one minute long each. My midwife asks to be notified when my pressure waves have continued like this for one hour. 45 minutes after that first minute long pressure wave hits I know my body is pushing my baby down. I know I have passed transition. My doula knows I have passed transition.

My midwife arrives promptly at 1:50am and soon after arrival she checks me and declares that I am a very elastic 8cm. She also tells me that if I feel led to push then to work with my body and do so. Yes. It felt so good to work with my body. At 2:30 I begin mother directed pushing and by 3:00am my beautiful perfect baby girl was born into her father’s arms. After my midwife guided my husband’s hands through her birth, he gently but enthusiastically places her on my chest. We did it. 

 

An hour later we were in comfy pajamas, eating snacks, marveling at our perfect baby girl and our amazing birthing. There is no doubt in my mind that we could have achieved the birth of our dreams without our Hypnobabies techniques, fully supportive birthing team members, and lots and lots of practice. I also believe that my birth was so efficient due to the regiment of Red Raspberry Tea and Evening Primrose Oil. I had no tearing or swelling at all anywhere. My daughter was 8 lbs 2 oz and 21in long. She scored a 9 & 10 on her Apgar tests and was so alert from the get go. This peaceful, respectful, intimate birthing was what I had been dreaming of and working so hard to achieve.

Hypnobabies mom says, “It really was that simple!”

I just wanted to quickly add my testimony of the effectiveness
of Hyponobabies to the thousands that have already been shared.

All day on Thrusday I’d been having ‘soft’ birthing waves. We went to
bed that night and about 12:30am I woke up in pain. I decided to sleep
through what I could because I was comfortable and warm. I woke up at
5:30am exhausted and jumped in the shower. After I got out my husband
went to get my Cds. I put in the Easy First Stage and I relaxed.

I remember really having to concentrate on relaxing through 4 waves. When
the CD ended 2 hours later (I think it played through more than once??)
I woke up and thought when am I suppose to go the hospital? I feel
great!

Then it hit me…HARD…I needed to go NOW!

We called the sitter and took one kid to school on the way. I showed up
to the hospital complete and delivered 15 minutes later.

I couldn’t believe it! I have to admit I was a little skeptical of the
whole process. I’m a believer now!! I plan on using Hypnobabies with all my
births from now on. I just wish I discovered this 7 years ago!!

I sound like an infomercial, Haha!! But it really was that simple 🙂

~Denay

Maizy’s Beautiful Hypnobabies Birth…”It was amazing to me!”

Maizy’s Beautiful Hypnobabies Birth with great pictures.

We were talking and joking and enjoying our selves the whole time.  When a pressure wave would come, I’d just turn off my light switch, focus and then go back to the conversation.  There were a couple times when someone was talking to me when a pressure wave would come and I tried to talk to them rather then turning off my light switch.  Those couple times I felt my body start to tense up and as soon as I turned my light switch off, I’d relax and be much more comfortable.  It was amazing to me!  I also used my peace cue and that was very  effective and helpful in staying calm and relaxed.

Click over to her blog to read the rest of the story and see the pictures!

A Hypnobabies Skeptics Review

There is nothing better than finding a wonderful review about Hypnobabies on a Mom’s Blog!

So, my review is 5 stars!!! Seriously, Hypnobabies is wonderful and made my pregnancy so much more enjoyable. I was able to take some time every single day to relax and I felt so much more prepared for this birth. During labor Hypnobabies helped me remain calm and focused. I had a very speedy, relatively easy birth that was almost exactly how I had envisioned it.

Go over to Aubrey’s Blog to read the whole review!