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 "Miri has been absolutely amazing throughout my hypnobirthing course, and she even supported me after birth with my breastfeeding troubles. As a first time mum, I can’t believe that I actually enjoyed my unmedicated birth experience and I can’t wait to do it all over again! Highly recommended! "Mel

"Hi Miri, hope you are well. 
Just wanted to be in touch to say that xxx was born on Friday morning at home, 7lbs 4oz. We are thrilled. We used the wise hippo techniques and baby was born 2 ish hours after midwife arrived, bedroom floor, x and i were laughing throughout​. And the techniques really came into their​ own during the birth which i felt so much more in control of than last time and meant i was able to really feel how powerful it was. Will never forget it! " L & L 

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"xxx was born on 5 March at 1:33 am. She weighed 6 lbs and 12 oz :)

My water broke at 12:30am on the 4th (her due date!). We went into the Rosie to have an induction booked but I started getting contractions within a few minutes of my waters breaking so we weren't too worried about that. They sent us back to the house until I was farther along. I had B go upstairs to get some sleep (we'd only been asleep for about and hour before my water broke). I napped on the couch between surges. Around 8am they started coming a bit more often, but not close enough together until about 7pm when we went back to the Rosie. I was able to get into the birth tub fairly soon after we got there and did most of my labour in the tub. About an hour or two before she was born, her heartbeat got too fast so I had to get out of the tub and finish delivering her on the bed. I was pretty tired by that point so I was on my side for the rest of her delivery. She was so incredibly alert from the moment she was born, huge open eyes :) Transition was definitely rough, but I made it through the entire process with just a TENS machine until I got into the pool, no pain killers or even gas and air. B was incredible through the whole thing, kept bringing me back to focus during transition. We definitely felt prepared for the entire process so thank you so much for all your help!" Gloria 

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"I had been looking through my diary at 39 weeks pregnant and I noticed that a full moon was coming up. I joked to my Mum that I would definitely have my baby on that date. 

As part of my hypnobirthing practice, I was asked to write my ideal birth story. I wrote out a detailed description of what I wished for in terms of timings, how the labour would start and progress, where I would give birth and way the immediate time post delivery would play out.  I read out my ideal birth story to my husband whilst cuddling my full moon baby and amazingly my story written about 8 weeks before my labour began, was identical to my actual experience. 

One evening I felt different and decided that I was getting more Braxton Hicks than normal so decided I would go in the bath to relax. I lay there immersed in bubbles listening to my hypnobirthing scripts and the sound of waves hitting the shore. I was so relaxed that I barely registered that the Braxton Hicks I was getting were 5 minutes apart, however totally painless. I sent a message to a friend and asked her what she thought about this! She thought I probably ought to get out of the bath given that my daughter was born pretty rapidly 4 years ago. I decided to go to sleep as nothing seemed to be changing and I wasn't sure I was going into labour at all. At about 4am I woke up and thought there was a small possibility that I was in labour and due to my previous fast labour, I had been instructed by my midwife to phone the Birth Centre as soon as I had an inkling something might be happening. I phoned the Birth Centre who said to come in and my husband and I said a tentative goodbye to my Mum who was staying with us, as we were fairly confident that we would be sent home again. 

In the car I used my essential oil blend I had specifically created for use in labour and had used it through pregnancy as an anchor for deep relaxation, and I listened to the hypnobirthing scripts to get in to 'the zone'. We got to the Birth Centre and I was still unconvinced that I was in labour.  The midwife had already run the water for the birth pool and as she went through my birth plan and my husband set up the room with essential oils diffusing, flameless candles and my woven wrap hanging from the ceiling to use in labour, I focused more deeply on relaxing and grounding myself. The surges I was feeling now were stronger but I didn't have any trouble talking through them. I used a hot water bottle on my back every time I felt a surge and I retreated into myself so that I could visualise my relaxing place by the sea. 

When the midwife suggested I got into the birth pool, I was initially reluctant as I didn't think I was in labour yet and I was concerned about slowing down the build up to labour. However she convinced me and I felt very much as if I was at a spa. I continued to use my essential oil blend and listen to the hypnobirthing scripts whilst chatting to the midwife and my husband. I remember at one point asking the midwife if she thought I was in  established labour yet. She gave me a vague answer and I felt reassured that things were moving in the right direction, so it was a surprise to me when during some strong surges minutes after I had asked her that question I felt the need to push. The midwife told me afterwards that she had been stifling laughter at my question and had thought to herself that if I wasn't in established labour then she had no idea what was going on! My waters broke at this point and I remember feeling overwhelmed by the speed at which the labour was progressing. I asked my husband to put on  music rather than the hypnobirthing scripts at this point as I wanted our baby to be born to music like our first born was. Minutes later our second daughter was born in the pool and I scooped her up into my arms. My husband cut the cord after giving it time to stop pulsating and he held our newborn skin to skin whilst I got out of the pool to deliver the placenta. 

As soon as the placenta was out, I had skin to skin with our baby girl and as she lay on my chest, she was able to breast crawl across for her first feed. She and I had skin to skin time for a couple of hours and then she was weighed and had her newborn checks.

The labour was recorded as 1 hour 15 minutes, I had none of the complications (post partum hemmorhage and retained placenta requiring going to theatre) I had in my first delivery, I didn't tear and I had very minimal blood loss. I was ready to go home a few hours later feeling extremely well and physically I felt pretty normal, certainly not like I had just given birth! " Lizzie

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