Aisling's Birth Story
I wanted to reach out and share with you that I had my little baby girl last Wednesday evening!
If you can remember I was paranoid about going into labour too early (e.g. wk 30-36) but no! After talking to this baby and visualising what I wanted she arrived a day after her due date!
I wanted to tell you a little bit about my birthing experience as I owe so much of it to you and the course that I did with you helped me enormously.
I had my hind waters break early Tuesday morning (5-6am) - however I didn't fully recognise it as my waters breaking as there was only about half a cup of water - not as much as everyone seemed to talk about....
Maddie's Birth Story
We welcomed our beautiful baby boy, Beauden, on the 31st March weighing a very chunky 10 pounds. As much as I will say it was the hardest experience I have ever done, it was made so much easier having completed your course. Not just for myself, but for my partner too.
At 9.15am on Sunday 31st march my waters broke. This was 3 days past my due date and far from ideal as my partner Billy had just arrived in Manchester for work. Luckily I had my mum with me and as we were so prepared with hospital bags and birth preferences that we had established through Esme’s course I felt very calm and in safe hands. We headed into the hospital to have my waters checked out around 11am where they kept me in for observations until around 2.30pm due to reduced movements from baby. Throughout all of this I felt incredibly stress free and in control of my body and baby...
