• Home
    • About Us
      • Testimonials
      • In the Press
      • FAQ
  • Online Course
    • Redeem Code received from your Practitioner
    • Login
  • Book a live Workshop
    • Find a Practitioner near you
    • Mindful Hypnobirthing Workshop
  • Mindful Hypnobirthing Teacher Training
    • Practitioner Login to Kajabi
    • Practitioner Login to this site
  • MP3s
    • Book MP3s (free)
    • Antenatal Downloads
    • Postnatal Downloads
    • Birth Partner
    • Affirmations
    • Fact Sheets
  • Contact Us

Jo

Our baby was due on 6th March 2012, this never seemed like the right date to us and we felt that the baby would arrive on the 10th March from the beginning. I wanted a drug free birth and a lot of my friends had used hypno birthing to varying degrees of success. I am frightened of drugs and medicines ever since I had my drink spiked at 19, I am frightened of the effect it may have on my body and fearful of being out of control. I wanted very much to be in control during labour, to remember ever second of bringing my baby into the world and not to be afraid. I have used mindfulness meditation in my everyday life for over 10 years now and was very excited to find a course using the techniques I had already learnt for labour, my other half was quite sceptical though and not at all convinced that the power of the mind could overcome extreme pain. We found the course itself brilliant, the videos, practice and simplicity of the meditiation won over my other half and we left keen to put the scripts and techniques in to practice. We wrote a script together and the other half recorded it onto my iphone so I could practice when he wasn’t around. I used the music and script almost every day from 7 months pregnant and multiple times a day in the three weeks leading up to my due date. So predictably the 6th March came and went without a baby and I began to feel twinges on the evening of the 9th March. I sat for the whole evening on my birthing ball and meditating to relax, I sent the other half to bed early – just in case. But by midnight I was feeling nothing so decided to go to bed. At 2am I woke up, feeling some sort of pain, but it wasn’t intense, so I wandered downstairs, put on a film and sat on the ball. Fairly quickly I realised I was having regular contractions, but it wasn’t that painful. We’d decided to hold off on using any mindful techniques until the pain ramped up. By 4am I was quite uncomfortable and woke up the other half, we phoned the hospital to book in

(normal practice in Brighton) and I got into bed. By now I was having quite strong, short contractions but feeling nothing in between. I got into bed with my partner and we used 5-4-3-2-1 to relax my body during contractions and we both fell asleep between contractions, even for a few minutes. We both felt very calm and prepared, we were excited about meeting our baby and knew it was time for the baby to arrive. By 9am it was too uncomfortable to lie down any more, so we got up and I used the sofa to lie on between contractions and lean on during. By now stroking was not having any effect and I had a lot of pressure in my upper legs, so stroking turned into hard rubbing which really helped to relieve the pressure. Around 10am I stood up for a contraction and my waters went all over the living room floor, this really did take us both by surprise and there was a moment of panic in both of us. We calmed down using 5-4-3-2-1 and phoned the hospital. It was then that we discovered that Brighton hospital was closed for any new admissions and we’d need to go to Haywards Heath, a 30 minute journey from our house (Brighton hospital is around 5 mins away). The midwife said we should leave right away to be assessed, I however felt fine and would happily have got into the bath, but the other half wanted to leave straight away so we packed up our things and got into the car. In the car we put on the music we had been given and I had been using to relax, I felt calm and in control and knew this was the final journey we needed to make to meet our baby. The music was exactly the right length to take us from our house to the hospital. Less than 5 mins after getting into the car I had a new sensation and after a second, realised I was getting the urge to push, I asked my other half if we were nearly there as I needed to push, he went pure white and said hold on. He calmly drove to Haywards Heath, although afterwards admitted he didn’t really know if he knew the way and we took a few detours…. We arrived at the hospital at midday and abandoned the car at A&E as we’d been told and found the Delivery Suite. We met our lovely midwife, Dionne, and she asked to examine me, immediately she said she could see the baby’s head and that I was 10 centimeters dilated and about to give birth. We were both quite shocked, but also relieved that that baby was about to arrive. We didn’t have time to move the car, the baby wasn’t going to wait! I tried various positions to push and the talking of the midwives was quite distracting and my contractions slowed down. I ended up standing up, my partner was fully involved, telling the midwives to let me get on with it and holding onto me to keep me standing. 4 pushes later at 1pm our beautiful baby arrived, screaming, into the world. It was a wonderful sound. My partner told me we had a boy and cut the cord. I can still remember the sound of his voice as he told me we had a son, full of pride and cracking with emotion. I was handed our son and he sat in my arms quiet now and looking round at the world, he was just perfect. We didn’t have a chance to use all of the pieces we planned, such as the lighting and music, and our birth plan never even made it out of the car! But I think the techniques were so successful for us that labour progressed more quickly than we’d ever imagined and it was manageable with the techniques we had.

It was the birth we had hoped, both of us doing it together, supporting each other, without any fear or intervention. We named our son Samson Jack and he arrived on the 10th March as we’d been manifesting from the beginning. He remains a happy, calm little boy and is now almost 10 months old. I also think that our calm birth helped us so much in the early days, particularly with being calm enough for feeding, I breastfed Sam from the begining without any problems and strongly believe that being calm and believing my body could do it helped us both get the hang of it. I can’t thank you enough for the techniques you have given us, we wouldn’t hesitate to use them again should we have more children and have recommended you to our friends. The birth of our son is a day we remember every second of and will cherish forever. Thank you.

Primary Sidebar

  • Practitioner Training
  • Online Hypnobirthing Course
  • Book a live Workshop
  • Buy the books
  • Shop
  • Contact Us

Testimonials

01

“The course was brilliant, although we were somewhat sceptical beforehand it was great experience, and a super day to share together our expectations and needs.”

2018-10-10T15:58:21+00:00
“The course was brilliant, although we were somewhat sceptical beforehand it was great experience, and a super day to share together our expectations and needs.”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/01/

02

“I’m looking forward to my birth experience and left the venue with a smile on my face and a bounce in my stride. This Course should be standard for every pregnant mother and her birth partner.”

2018-10-10T16:06:37+00:00
“I’m looking forward to my birth experience and left the venue with a smile on my face and a bounce in my stride. This Course should be standard for every pregnant mother and her birth partner.”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/02/

03

“Thanks for a brilliant class. I feel so much more relaxed about the whole thing and as a lovely bonus am now sleeping at night (after practising with the CD). Feel like a different person.”

2018-10-10T16:08:44+00:00
“Thanks for a brilliant class. I feel so much more relaxed about the whole thing and as a lovely bonus am now sleeping at night (after practising with the CD). Feel like a different person.”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/03/

01

“I just wanted to say thank you, for such an interesting relaxing and empowering day. Both Martin and I really enjoyed it, and he’s got just what I hoped he would out of it – some confidence in his own abilities as a husband, supporter, advocate and future Dad!”
2018-10-30T17:01:06+00:00
“I just wanted to say thank you, for such an interesting relaxing and empowering day. Both Martin and I really enjoyed it, and he’s got just what I hoped he would out of it – some confidence in his own abilities as a husband, supporter, advocate and future Dad!”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/01-2/

02

“I just wanted to drop you an email to thank you for the fantastic course on Saturday. We have talked about almost nothing else since we left your home and both feel that we have gained so much from it.”
2018-10-30T17:01:30+00:00
“I just wanted to drop you an email to thank you for the fantastic course on Saturday. We have talked about almost nothing else since we left your home and both feel that we have gained so much from it.”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/02-2/

03

“I came in with a very sceptical husband who was telling his mates on Saturday night how fantastic the course was and giving tips to those who are going to be Dads later in the year.
We also learned so many simple things that we wouldn’t have even thought about before like the fact that I find it so much easier to relax when Mike is touching me.”
2018-10-30T17:01:51+00:00
“I came in with a very sceptical husband who was telling his mates on Saturday night how fantastic the course was and giving tips to those who are going to be Dads later in the year. We also learned so many simple things that we wouldn’t have even thought about before like the fact that I find it so much easier to relax when Mike is touching me.”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/03-2/

04

“I would just like to commend you on designing and running such a really fantastic course! It really has empowered both of us,to the point where most of our fears about birth have disappeared already. We have always wanted to go down the natural birth route, but felt that there was not enough support & advice out there about how to do it drug and pain free. Your course, although short, covered pretty much all aspects that I felt were missing from our antenatal classes & many more. Vic now feels a lot more confidant, and I actually feel like I have a proper role in the whole event, other that driving her to the hospital & sitting on the rocking chair! “
2018-10-30T17:02:13+00:00
“I would just like to commend you on designing and running such a really fantastic course! It really has empowered both of us,to the point where most of our fears about birth have disappeared already. We have always wanted to go down the natural birth route, but felt that there was not enough support & advice out there about how to do it drug and pain free. Your course, although short, covered pretty much all aspects that I felt were missing from our antenatal classes & many more. Vic now feels a lot more confidant, and I actually feel like I have a proper role in the whole event, other that driving her to the hospital & sitting on the rocking chair! “
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/04/

05

“I did really enjoy the course yesterday and I am definitely feeling much more positive, I was surprised actually by how much Luke and I talked about the course immediately after and the impact it has had on Luke, We both feel like he is more involved now and that he has got an invaluable role to play!”
2018-10-30T17:02:38+00:00
“I did really enjoy the course yesterday and I am definitely feeling much more positive, I was surprised actually by how much Luke and I talked about the course immediately after and the impact it has had on Luke, We both feel like he is more involved now and that he has got an invaluable role to play!”
https://www.mindfulmamma.co.uk/testimonials/05/
0

Affirmations





Find us on facebook

Find your nearest Practitioner

Copyright © 2023 · Mindful Mamma · Website by Primrose & Bee