I attended the Hypnobirthing course with Simone Hackett from Peaceful Birthing and I wanted to share my incredibly positive birth story with you. I used hypnobirthing techniques during my labour and in the lead up to my birth and I felt well informed because of the information in the course.
My waters broke on Monday 1st March at 39 weeks +1 which I was so relieved about as I had horrible back pain and was getting impatient. I had been drinking raspberry leaf tea, eating dates, expressing, bouncing on an exercise ball and spending time on all 4's to try encourage labour to start.
We went into hospital and whilst they were monitoring me, the baby's heart rate became high and they began preparing me for a caesarean section. Just as I was about to be wheeled into theatre baby's heart rate went back to normal and the decision was made to continue monitoring me. I was on the CTG machine for around 7 hours while they were getting the right...