Our birth story… What I learnt throughout this birth of our first child Émanuel (Manu for short), was that for the rest of my life starting now, things may not go as I plan because there is another spirit on this life ride with me. I felt very strong going […]
Birth Stories
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Jason and I are overjoyed to share with you the birth of our son J.R. (James Robert). Our birth story was made possible by hypnobirthing. The mindset we gained from your classes and at home study gave me the focus I needed to have the birth I dreamed of. My […]
My daughter Lia was brought to my husband and I on March 21 at 5:00 pm. I had an amazing pregnancy and stayed active throughout as I worked in a physically demanding job. I was due March 20 so was exactly 40 weeks pregnant when I delivered her. I had […]
“The birth was the most beautiful and empowering time I will ever have in my life.” ~Laura England Myla Grace Myla Grace entered our world at 10:51am on April 3rd. Our original guess date was March 25th, so I began preparing for anything to happen anytime in March. Although I […]
There were a few different ideas of when our “due date” was. According to the pie chart at the doctor’s office – the one that calculates a due date based on your last monthly cycle, our baby was to be born on June 21st – the summer solstice. Our first […]
I went to sleep Thursday night feeling really restless. I had a bit of cramping and uncomfortableness but ended up finally falling asleep around 3am. My husband got up to leave for work around 6 am, shortly after he left I decided I get up to use the washroom. As […]
I woke at 5:00 am on July 8th with regular surges, nine days past my guess date. I was very excited that things were finally starting, but I still tried to sleep or relax until a little later in the morning. Finally I woke my husband, Kris and we went […]
My guess date was Jan 12th 2013. A week passed with no real sign of labour. I tried just about everything possible to get things going. After three acupuncture sessions and trying some Clary Sage essential oil from Marie, I finally started feeling some surges at 1:00am on Jan 23. […]
The skills I learned in hypnobirthing helped me throughout Félix’s entire birth, especially in the active stages of labour. I view his birth as happening in two stages. The first stage started with my water breaking on May 27th at 1:30 a.m. I felt calm and reassured my husband that […]
Marie’s Note : I am deeply grateful to Jill for sharing this HypnoBirthing story. It’s often difficult to find positive birth stories if you are in a situation where there is a medical reason for an induction. I hope everyone who faces such a situation is able to read stories […]
Rachel Paige’s Birth Story After staying a week past her predicted arrival date, Rachel decided she was ready to join the world and she wanted to get here fast…. I met with my midwife, Debbie, on Friday, August 24th for my 41 week appointment. I was healthy, baby was doing […]
My first labour was only 4 1/2 hours long and although I decided beforehand that I would have an epidural, there was no time and my daughter was born naturally and drug free. My husband, Ryan, and I decided to try hypnobirthing for our second baby as we expected the […]
The last couple weeks of April were stressful for my husband and I as he was very busy at work and we were convinced this baby would come early and quickly like our first child. Our guess date with this baby was May 4th and I successfully remained pregnant until […]
My baby girl, Neko Lilian, was born August 1. It was a good labour and delivery. I had some stress leading up to it because our neighbour’s water tank broke and leaked and caused water damage on our floor, a section of it was ripped up, it looked awful. He […]
Jessica is our second child, Andrew is my oldest child and he will be three in October. His birth was fantastic also so I will tell you about his first. We were living in Medicine Hat, and at that time I didn’t know about hypnobirthing. I was taking prenatal class […]