A Calmbirth® couple story.
Little baby was Lola born at 10.35pm, 25th of Jan 2015. Â Weighing 6.8 pounds (3.1 kg)
Early labour started around 11pm Tuesday 24th, I had little sleep as the braxton hicks type contractions woke me every 5 min, though they were painless. The next morning Tom went to work and I told him to keep his phone close at hand, I was pretty sure it was false labour and it would fizzle out but they just got stronger and were still consistently 5 min apart.
At 10am I had the ‘show’ and then the contractions became a lot stronger. I got in the bath and started deep breathing. Inhales I visualised help my cervix dilate and exhales I visualised the baby moving down.. I think I made that technique up but it was really good to focus on and it made me almost welcome the contractions when they came. I was enjoying it!
At 3 I rang tom to come home as they were pretty intense and I thought I wouldn’t be far off needing to go to the hospital. When he got home I didn’t have a contraction for 15 minutes and then BANG they were incredible! As soon as we got to the hospital (5pm) it went pear shaped. They strapped me up to the monitors and I couldn’t get off the bed and I couldn’t get back into my ‘visualisation zone’ I started vomiting relentlessly until they gave me an injection to stop it, the baby turned posterior and then the pain was too incredible and I asked for the epidural. It didn’t work for some reason and it made the baby’s heart rate drop to a critical level so they whizzed me to theatre and I went under general anaesthetic where lola was then born by cesarean.
In labour, Tom was brilliant, he was suggesting my ‘happy place’ giving me massages and was really supportive (he did listen!)
Thank you so much for the classes, although the birth didn’t eventuate the way we hoped, We definitely drew on what you taught us in the experience we had.
Lola is the perfect baby, feeds brilliantly, was above her birth weight in 5 days and sleeps really well. She has stolen our hearts xx
Sierra