Long Birth, well worth it to have Max!

*BOP warning – mom does experience discomfort and chooses and epidural, but a positive birth overall!*
I’ve enjoyed reading all the amazing birth stories on the Hypnobabies blog and have debated for a while whether or not I should post mine.  I praticed Hypnobabies for about 12 weeks prior to my guess date (10/11) which I [...]

Read Full Post »

Janet in New Mexico – Hypnobabies Instructor of the Week

Janet Field HCHI, CHt, CD, BS EarlyChildhood Development

(505) 797-5935
HypnobabiesNM@comcast.net
http://www.hypnobabiesnm.com/
Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque and Santa Fe, NM
TEAM TEACHERS:
Janet Field HCHI, CHt, CD, BS Early Childhood Development
505 797-5935
HypnobabiesNM@comcast.net
http://www.janetfield.com/
“With 25 years of birth experience and over 60 births attended, Janet brings a special depth of knowledge and experience to her clients and students. Janet’s calm, gentle confidence and intuitive understanding [...]

Read Full Post »

Charmian in Hawaii – Hypnobabies Instructor of the Week

Charmian Redwood HCHI

808-344-9932
charmiangel40@hotmail.com
http://www.hypnotherapyforthesoul.com/
Haiku, Maui HI
Certified Hypnobabies Instructor.
The birth of my twins in 1980 was traumatic, medicated and surgical. I knew that there must be another way to achieve a gentle ,safer, softer birth for Mother and Baby. I have been a practicing Hypnotherapist for 20 years and I know well the power of using Hypnosis [...]

Read Full Post »

Inspiring induction birth story

I found this Hypnobabies Birth story that won an essay contest.  I thought it was pretty inspirational.  Mom overcame her fears of birth, moved forward with a Natural Birth, circumstances led to an induction, mom followed her intuition knowing that was the best choice.
Click on over and read!

Read Full Post »

Ivy’s Birth – very similar to what mom visualize during pregnancy

Hello All!
Here is my birth story, it was AMAZING. Below the birth story is my “perfect birth” that I visualized for hypnosis(I wrote it a few months ago). I thought I’d include it so you can see how my perfect birth really happened almost just as I had visualized it!!!!!
Ivy was born on October 6th [...]

Read Full Post »

Mikayla’s Fast VBAC birth story

Mikayla’s fast and un-medicated VBAC birth story
At 2:12 am on Tuesday the 13th of October, I felt a funny kick that woke me up. Soon after I started having some pressure waves. I wasn’t too worried about them, as I have been having practice waves for weeks, but these were very regular and consistent. I [...]

Read Full Post »

Rachelle in Massachusetts – Hypnobabies Instructor of the Week

S. Rachelle Smith, MSW
(413) 458-0071
Rachelle@AlohaSmith.com
www.AlohaSmith.com
Williamstown, MA
Late Dec – Early Jan in Hawaii – Cell (808) 347-0803
Clinical Social Worker, Educator, Mentor & Energy Worker
For Peaceful Relationships, Wellness & Childbirth
I teach Hypnobabies, Birthing From Within, How to Avoid Marrying a Jerk, WifeWORK: What Marriage Really Means For Women Today, Motherhood: Myths & Misconceptions, Taming the Chew, PAIRS [...]

Read Full Post »

Matthews Fast Intense Birth (Induction)

Well, Matthew is here – born 10/16 at 1028 pm, 8.5 lbs, 21 inches.
Here is his very very long story – sorry, just kept writing.
This definitely needs a BOP at times, but thought I’d share anyway.  Also, occasionally a possible TMI.
I have had two previous inductions that were very good.  I had some IV meds [...]

Read Full Post »

Avynlee’s beautiful birth.

I got an epidural with my first child and went natural with my second.  I debated the first half of my third pregnancy if I would have a natural childbirth experience again or if I wanted the epidural.  When I went natural with my second, the pain was unbearable and I thought I was going [...]

Read Full Post »

Beautiful Unplanned Home Birth

Background: We live in Taiwan (Asia). DH left on a long and necessary business trip to Europe and planned to return to Taiwan at 39w. While this was cutting it close, I myself was born a week late and I’d read that first babies usually take a little longer to “bake” so I figured we’d [...]

Read Full Post »