nate born at sunshine coast private hospital on 19 jan 2016

First I have to say the biggest thank you. There is just no way I could have done that without knowing what you taught us.
 
So, at 40 weeks and 8 days pregnant, after a couple of hours of putting clary sage on my belly, in the diffuser and on my pressure points around my ankles, I started getting intense surges that formed a pattern. Me and my daughter Ella rubbed it on together and I told her to tell the baby it's time to come out now. She said "baby baby baby come out now" and was singing it. 

I knew labour was starting but we had to go to the Plaza because my husband had just smashed his phone at work. So we all made a trip there, Rhett went to Optus and me and Ella picked up the last supplies for baby, we didn't even have any wraps!

I stopped every now and then and pretended to look at my phone when the surges came, I didn't want to look weird in public. Got home cooked dinner, didn't tell Rhett yet that I knew I was in labour.

Every time I had to pee I felt more and more pressure going on down there. After our night's showers and Ella's books I told Rhett I was definitely in labour. I called Mum to come over in two hours time ( 9.00 pm). By that point Ella was in bed and I was on my ball listening to meditation music. Mum arrived and started saying annoying things, so Rhett told her to stop talking.

I stayed in my zone, breathing, and doing little weird things that just came to me, like tapping my fingers as soft as possible on the fit ball and of course balloon breath.

We went into hospital at 10.00 pm, they put me straight into birth suite and Rhett ran the bath. We had a midwife lingering, but she was great, didn't interfere at all. She put on lavender next to the bath and our music, it felt like a dark day spa not a birth suite. I pretended I was some where else, and in between surges we had a few laughs, and a few 2 min sleeps. When surges got really intense and I felt baby move into my bum they called the OB in from home - about midnight I think. She just sat in the corner in the dark completely silent watching trying to work out where I was at. I could hear the midwife telling her she had no idea what was going on.

Then, I got the craziest leg cramps I've ever had in my life, both legs, entire legs! (completely ruined my zone). I asked the OB to do an exam so I could get some reassurance he wasn't far off, she did it in the bath and Baby was right there. So I was fully dilated with basically no pain - but I started to panic from the leg pain and only then did I start getting pain in my pelvis and belly, I asked for an epidural and was screaming like a maniac (but I made sure it wasn't a high pitch scream, it was more like a roar ha ha). My husband was amazing, making sure even through the roars I had relaxed hands and shoulders and face.

I got out of the bath, and up on the bed on all 4's, they called the anaesthetist, but the OB said he was 20 mins away and that baby was coming - she could see him, and that the only way my leg cramps and pains would go is if I let baby come out. 

I didn't push, but my body did, head came out nice and slow and caused no damage at all (even after having an episiotomy with my first child, Ella). His shoulders and elbow got a little stuck, and my body pushed too fast and tore, but that was okay! I reached down and my OB passed baby up to me through my legs. 

The most intense craziest unimaginable moment of our life. Completely different to being drugged and forcing it.

I've never felt so strong and in control in my life, even though things got really hard and I totally wanted to give up and "just go home" I can't believe we actually did it. We couldn't have done without you and your amazing Hypnobirthing course.
 
​Sarah
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I've never felt so strong and in control in my life, even though things got really hard and I totally wanted to give up and "just go home" I can't believe we actually did it. We couldn't have done without you and your amazing Hypnobirthing course.