Lauren and Rohan. Dec 2022.
On the 21/12/22 I gave birth to a beautiful healthy boy. His name is Tom Paul Fleming and he is absolutely perfect! Weighing 3040grams.
At 11:30pm on Tuesday night my waters broke (at 36 weeks and 5 days), we were so calm and knew exactly what we needed to do. We gave the hospital a call to let them know and they suggested coming in because we weren’t quite full term yet. Once we were at the hospital we had a CTG scan attached, and Tom and I were both doing great. I declined to have the scan on throughout the labour and instead they used a Doppler to check Tom’s heart rate. He was posterior which was quite intense so I tried having a shower which helped for a little bit. After that I decided to have the water injections which really helped and lasted for about an hour each. I ended up having 3 lots of water injections. Labour progressed quickly and I moved to a birthing room around 10am on Wednesday. We tried spinning babies which helped him to move to an anterior position and I found swaying my hips helped him through the birth path. Throughout labour and birthing I used the breathing and relaxation techniques that I had learnt through hypnobirthing. Rohan was incredible and was so supportive throughout the whole process.
He was born at 2:35pm on Wednesday and we had skin to skin straight away, as well as delayed cutting of the umbilical cord. The birth was such a magical experience and I feel like Rohan and I were so calm and in control of every decision we made throughout the day. I felt confident and trusted my body to do exactly what it needed to do. I remembered watching the lady talk about pausing as the baby is coming out during our last HypnoBirthing session, which is what I did. I believe this helped me to have only minor grazing and no tearing at all.
We can’t thank you enough for everything you taught us which made it such a positive experience. I know that we would not have had the same empowering experience if it wasn’t for Robina and Hypnobirthing. So thank you very much!
Lauren and Rohan xx