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Daisy Birthing Stories Part 5

So to finish off this series of birth stories, here is just a selection of generally lovely stories to read!  I am so proud of all of the mums in my classes.  Having a baby is such an amazing experience and I am so lucky I get to share your pregnancy journey with you.

Nina's story....

I went into spontaneous labour at home in the early hours of Wednesday morning when my waters broke at 37 weeks! After arriving at the hospital at about 1:15am in the morning I used lots of rotate to dilate movements to help my contractions to start. By about 3:15am I was 8cm dilated and had had no pain medication, after a little bit of gas and air to help me through the last few contractions I gave birth to our beautiful baby boy at 4:12am on Wednesday morning weighing a small 5lb 6oz!

Although I didn't have long to put everything we did in class into practice, I still used the rotating and the breathing techniques which I believe helped me make it as far as 9cm before giving into a few puffs of the gas and air! Overall I had a fantastic birth experience. Thank you for all your help in classes and I wish the other ladies all the best."

Emma's story...

"Just to let you know our beautiful little girl, arrived at 6:45 on Sunday morning, weighing 5lbs 8oz and extra special as she was born in her own membrane, which is really rare.

I wasn't quite expecting her to arrive as quickly as she did. I was on my baby shower on Saturday afternoon when the contractions started. Hubby thought i'd just eaten something a bit rich. We went to hospital at 11pm on Saturday and the 3 of us returned home at 6pm on Sunday! The whole experience was amazing. I don't remember a lot as the relaxation techniques worked so well, in fact for the first 4 hours Jon and my mum said I didn't even open my eyes but when I was fully dilated I was wide awake! I was 4cm dilated when i arrived, the midwives didn't need to examine me again during my labour as I listened to my body and knew when I was ready to bear down. They only checked for her heart rate which was fine throughout. The bearing down breath was a great focus and the senior midwife loved it! I didn't use any pain relief and giving birth squatting in the bathroom they expected me to tear badly but everything was fine. The midwives were wowed by the techniques and said they found it very emotional to watch us all work together.  All I can say is my birth was wonderful, our baby is calm and happy and I couldn't have done it without your instruction! It couldn't have gone any better. Thank you so much. I can't wait to bring my little princess to baby daisy classes (and I'll miss my Wednesday relaxation this week!) "

Of course I haven't been able to include everyone's story this time as there are just so many, but please do keep sharing your wonderful stories with us :)

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Daisy Birthing Stories Part 1: Big Babies

I've recently posted this at www.thelazydaisychain.co.uk so thought I would share this here too.  A series of birth stories from mums attending Daisy Birthing classes with me...

Over the next couple of weeks, I would like to share with you a selection of birth stories from the lovely mums attending my Daisy Birthing classes.  It’s always the highlight of my day when I receive a text or email with baby news!

One of the things mums in class are often concerned about is having a “big baby” so I thought I would start off with a couple of stories of the births of some slightly larger babies....

Starting off with Clare's story....

"Well finally at 11 days overdue *baby came into the world weighing a whopping 10lb 5oz!!! We did get a little caught by surprise and not a huge amount of opportunity to implement what I'd learned as active birth was only 50mins in the end but I certainly tried to use the escalator breath, and when he was coming before the MW arrived I remembered your advice to get into the resting position to take pressure off the cervix. And I did manage to use the bearing down breath twice before he popped out."

And Nicky's story...

"I was given a sweep at 8 days overdue and booked in to be induced at 10 days over. At around 3.30am on the morning I was due to be induced I woke up and realised I was in labour. I managed at home using the breathing techniques and by keeping active, I had a bath for the backache and used a contraction timer app on my phone which seemed to help me concentrate too! Things seemed to progress fairly quickly so decided to leave for hospital dropping Finley off at nursery on the way, by the time we got to the end of our road my waters had broken! We got to hospital about 7.30 and there was a bit of a panic as there was no space on the delivery suite, I was really pleased though as this meant I would be in the midwifery led unit like i had wanted but told due to low platelets/anaemia that I wouldnt be allowed! I was examined and told that I had already got to 10cm-hoorah!! Rotate to dilate really does work lol :) I waited until I had the urge to push and then used gas and air. After hours of pushing on my own I was told that the baby was stuck and was taken to theatre to be prepped for an emergency c section and given a spinal block. I asked them to try a ventouse delivery and after only a couple of *baby was born at 10.22 weighing 11lbs 9.5oz!

I was so pleased that the techniques you had shown me had worked to move the baby when she was transverse but was absolutely over the moon to get to 10cm without any pain relief :)"

Amazing work mummies and just goes to show there is no need to panic if baby is measuring a bit big for your dates. Our bodies are built to birth and babies are grown to fit!

More inspiring birth stories to follow soon...

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