In this episode I’m sharing a birth story recorded before Covid 19, from one of my wonderful Hypnobirthing clients, Amy. This is a great example of when things don’t go to plan, but are still really positive. So get as comfy as you can, and enjoy!
Amy shares her empowering birth story, highlighting the importance of support and respect during childbirth, even when plans change. With the help of hypnobirthing techniques learned at 34 weeks, both she and her husband, Martin, navigated the challenges of an induced labour that ultimately led to an unplanned C-section. Despite the unexpected outcome, Amy found the experience beautiful, emphasising the value of a supportive birth partner and the need for personalised birth plans.
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In this episode, I’m sharing a birth story recorded before the pandemic from one of my wonderful hynobirthing clients. Amy, this is a great example of when things don’t go to plan but are still really positive when you feel supported and respected and have a great team around you, how that can work out really well. So get as comfort as you can and enjoy.
You’re listening to the Pregnant in Aberdeen podcast, a podcast for those expecting in the northeast of Scotland. I’m your host, Jade Gordon, clinical hypnotherapist, hypnobirthing teacher, and doula. And I’m based near Stonehaven and my aim here is to bring you local information, birth stories like we have today, and birth tips and techniques. So let’s get started.
So, hi guys, it’s Jade from, SONA Mum here and yeah, tonight I have Amy with me to share her birth story. So hi. Hi. How long ago was it that you came to her birthing classes now?
Well, he’s 17 months and I came relatively late to the hypnothing, so I think I was about 30 or 34 weeks our first week.
So yeah, 19 months ago something like that came to you, Isn’t it? A year? It’s much longer than I remember. Wow. So yeah. So you guys came to a group course. Did you enjoy practicing your hypnobirthing when you were pregnant?
Yes, it was. We really enjoyed it. It was actually really nice thing I thought to do with my husband, Martin. It was kinda the first opportunity for him to do, to be active in some of the preparations, I guess for, for the birth. A lot of the other stuff we did was all just about need and he, he really embraced the hypnobirthing. He, he took on the all the breathing exercises way quicker than I did and he still uses that kinda stuff to get to sleep and things like that.
So he’s a big fan, Yeah, I should have him chatting today. That’s great. It’s so, it’s always wonderful when the birth partners are really into as well and help support because it’s great. Have that reminder in labour someone there to, who knows what’s helpful.
I think so, yeah, because if I think if I’ve done it myself or if he hadn’t been so into. I wouldn’t, he wouldn’t have been so enthusiastic and so keen to kind of bring me back to it when I was getting a little bit distracted I guess from, from the what I was trying to do or what I wanted to do. He kinda reminded me that that was what we practiced and that was what we wanted.
So were you quite good at practicing regularly?
I think so. Me, I think I, I think I said to you at the time, it took us about three weeks to hear the end of the rainbow relaxation to get, but we did listen to it every night and yeah, I find, yeah, it was actually quite a fun thing for us to do. It encouraged us also to go to bed a bit earlier, kind helps, like just getting us to unwind and stuff in the buildup to, to Alistair’s arrival because like I said, we came quite late, but I think that we still, we really threw ourselves into it, we got a lot from it
And yeah, I usually see it to people to come earlier so they have time to practice. But yeah, if you Definitely, you told us that If you do come later, like there is still, it’s still fine, but you just have to be like a bit more committed to your practice. But that’s helpful partner who’s like that.
Yeah, we didn’t have any, we didn’t have time for that, although was 11 days late.
Yes, I was gonna say like, tell us how you went into Labour, how it all, how it started.
So I, I was induced. I went in for my duty appointment with my midwife and, and booked the induction with, within the back of my head thinking I probably would end up cancelling it if I did go to, it was nine days over that they booked my induction for and I, I had in my head that I can always change my mind but at least that date is there. Cause I wanted to everything to go naturally and I wanted to be able to stay at home, get ready for the delivery and go in and we had a clear idea in our head of the type of birth that we wanted. Yeah.
And, and that didn’t, didn’t involve induction. And as it turned out, by the time I was nine days over, I was just climbing the walls. I loved being pregnant. Absolutely loved it. And for 40 weeks and maybe it, it was just too much for me. I just fed up really. I was just so heavy and tired and I was getting myself quite, quite anxious about Martin going into work and what if something happened and the longer we went over it was like this ticking time bomb. It was just becoming a bigger, I guess yeah, a bigger deal in my head.
And I, I think I’d, I’d spoken to you actually when I was over before I went into being induced about, about how I could incorporate the hypnobirthng Yeah. Into my induction.
And you were very positive about that, which helped.
And so yeah, so I went in and I was induced when I was nine days, nine days over with Alistair, which is a Thursday morning.
I mean it’s good. That’s an option and that choice that women have and like, you know, you so it helped me so many times talk about how induction is a choice,
but yeah, like it, for some people having that as a positive choice is really, really helpful and it’s right for them and yeah, you need to be positive about it if you’ve chosen it. But yeah, like it obviously it felt right for you guys. Yeah, I think it was just, I think frankly it was quite a selfish decision for me cause I was just so fed up of being pregnant and that’s actually what it was.
I just, I wasn’t really coping with being pregnant anymore and I was just, just ready for the baby turtle Body as well. Like you have to listen to your body and if it, if it feels right and you know, you feel like this is the time, it’s let’s do something then Yeah, go for it. Yeah. So we went in on the Thursday and I was the first on the,
on the list to be induced. Everything was looking sort of favorable but nothing, nothing had happened in terms of dilations. So I had to start with a, with a pey, which was a 24-hour one. Yeah. And I started getting tightenings fairly quickly after that. And Anything or did you see the, yeah, So cause cause it all started the back of,
back of eight o’clock, they, they got me in and got, got us going. So I had that full day with Martin there. So he was dragging me around the hospital out into the fresh air. It was October, so it wasn’t the nicest of weather, but it was fine for going out and walking around and trying to just keep, keep busy.
We were playing cards and things like that as well. So yeah. So that first day was all that Thursday that was fine. And then Martin went home in the evening and overnight all the tightenings were getting much stronger and had my affirmations. I was going through and trying to keep myself sort of relaxed and things. And I took a bath. There’s this amazing bath in the Westburn ward.
There’s like this lovely deep bath. And so I asked them to run me a bath about three o’clock in the morning and I had this lovely warm bath with my oils that had taken along and that was all great. They was, they were actually, there was a, a student midwife there who when I mentioned that I was using hypno techniques, she was like right on it and she was saying,
we can offer you this, we can help you with this. Don’t be afraid to ask for X, Y and Z. Don’t feel that you have to do, you know, a, B, and C. She was absolutely fantastic. That’s great. That really helped. And she made very clear that they were happy to run me a bath whatever time of,
of day or night it was. So I was very grateful for that. I find that an enormous help for pain relief. Yeah, same. We’ve got such a positive association with baths, most of us anyway, you know, if you’ve had a tired day and you get into that lovely word, bath body’s just like, oh relax, it’s so nice.
And then I, I don’t think there’s an elegant way to have somebody help you at the bath when you’re 14. So, yeah. So did you have like continuous surgers and tightening in with the pessary? Yeah, so they were fairly consistent and they were getting, well I I I thought they were getting stronger and that kind of thing. So I was quite optimistic that after this 24 hours they were going to examine me,
you know, I’d have just nailed it, you know, six centimeters and we’d be heading off to the delivery. But nothing had happened in terms of dilation after 24 hours. So I think I had to take six hours off and then they gave me a six hour pass or a 12 hour pe I forget the times exactly. Got the second PE and things really cranked up.
The tights were getting stronger and I was getting, I was getting in my head a little bit thinking if this isn’t even me in labor and these are quite sore. Yeah. What’s the, you know, at this point that’s when Martin really pulled me back and, and, and that’s, he was immensely, yeah, I mean he’s kind like that just in general life.
He, but he was really great at that. And after that PE my tightenings were really strong strong and I was getting really big surgeries and they were very regular when they examined me. Again, no dilation, so Isn’t like, it’s so hard. It was just, I just felt so sort of like frustrated I guess and a bit kinda let down and I had this expectation of how things would happen and I think that’s just something I’d never considered,
that my body would be doing what it was supposed to be doing or what the, the midwifes expected it to be doing. So because my, I was kind of in this difficult situation, so because my tightenings were so strong and because I was getting these big surgeries, they didn’t, they didn’t want to give me the next persony in case it made everything move too fast.
But they couldn’t do anything until my surgeries had calmed down. So I just had to wait. So eventually they slowed down and they gave me other person, but at this point I was thinking, well this isn’t gonna work. None of the other ones have worked. And then, yeah, so after the second sixth hour pe still no dilation at all and they got the,
the consultant to come in and speak to me about what to do next. Yeah. That was a, from the Thursday morning to Saturday afternoon. Yeah. A long time to be like stuck in hospital as well, like waiting. Yeah. And I think what I think what I hadn’t anticipated he though was that Martin would only be there for, from nine till nine.
It was really happening there during the day, but it was overnight that you really needed somebody to keep your spirits up. Cuz it’s not like I was sleeping all night or anything like that. So yeah, so the Dodge came in and spoke to us and said that we had really, well a number of options. And what she said they often will do is when there’s a field induction is offer the mom to go home,
wait 20 hours, come back in and, and start the process again. Which I don’t this again. And it was essentially silly, but when we’d left the house, we’d sort of done this bye house, next time we see you we’re gonna have the baby. And so just that the thought of that was really not appealing to me at that point.
And the, so the second option she said was, was perhaps to think about a section Yeah. Which was I think probably if not at the very bottom, very far down the list of things that we had not wanted on our birth plan. But by that point we, when we’d spoken about it, we kind of knew that that was gonna be one of the options that they were going to suggest to us.
And I think by that point I was exhausted, very over ready to meet my baby. Yeah. And I think we just kind of, I just kind of thought, I’m not sure I have it in me now to, cause I was, I, I was 50% worried she was gonna come in and tell me that I should have a section and then I was 50% really worried that she’d come in and tell me I’d just gone into labor and that was then gonna have to do another stretch of this.
So we, we made the decision to, to go ahead with the, with the unplanned section referred to as an emergency section. But there was no urgency or, or anything like that. I think it’s a pure phrase. I think unplanned is a more inaccurate description of it. Okay. So that, so did they give you, did they give you time?
How long was it from that point to actually it Happening? So that, that was about three o’clock and because I’d had a banana I think an hour before that, it didn’t take me until six. We went down. So we had a few hours to kinda get our heads around it. And my mom had actually come up from five knowing that the baby was gonna come around that weekend.
But we’d sort of said, we went into the hospital, right? We’re going into B don’t call us, we’ll call you. Yeah. That was obviously two and a half days before my mom was frantically texting my husband being like, what’s, so they came in and they saw us and we told them that we were gonna have the baby that night and stuff.
So it was really nice to be able to have that and yeah, so, but also what was really great was, again, this midwife had, the student midwife had come back on shift. Yeah. So I was still walking around the ward just cause I was still, I was still getting all the, excuse me, all the surgeons and everything.
So I was still sort of walking around trying to manage those. And I bumped into this midwife and I said, decided to go. She sort of, I think she said, well are you still here? I said, yeah, we’re actually going for a section now. And I got wee bit sort of teary. Yeah. And she sat me down and she says,
right, well this is what the thing, these are things that you can think about with your hypno growth thing, even though you’re going for a section. She, she was absolutely fantastic. And so Martin and I had a, a chat about things that we wanted our music Yeah. And we wanted skin, immediate skin to skin. We wanted delayed cord clamping as much as as possible with the,
with the section. But it still, it still is. Yeah. To a degree. And they were all, they were all really accommodating actually. Everyone was just so lovely. So you went down, did you walk down then to your section? You don’t Remember? Honestly. Honestly. Can’t remember. I think I did. I just like would talk about that being a really strange thing,
like walking down to theater. I think I did I double gown on For Well, but yes. Yeah. So we walked down and then we did the, the pre theater bit and Martin went and got his scrubs on and, and all of that kinda thing. And they took us in. It was just, I have to say it was a really,
it felt like a really sort of Christmas eve type feeling. Everyone in the, in the theater felt really, it felt like we were all really excited about meeting this baby and we were all there for the same reason and doing it together. And it was just a really, a really nice atmosphere to walk into despite the fact that, you know, I’ve had,
I’ve had my tonsils out before, I’ve been in a theater, but you’re never aware of it under, under most circumstances. And it was, I was quite nervous of, again, the spinal because again, with our birth plan, that was something that was really Yeah. Quite far down our list of things that I would’ve liked. Husbands, How you see yourself calm during that.
Then Good breathing. Martin did my affirmations with me. Yeah, he, he really, he really was, he really was great. And we, we had on a, we downloaded from the CD that you gave us the tracks and we had them playing leading up to going down. Although he Aster was actually born to meet everything’s we can listen to.
It was just, yeah, Martin hit me with a breathing, actually I think he had to use some hypno birthing breathing during me getting the spinal because he’s no good with needles. So Were you together for that? Yes. So I, I was sat on the bed and he actually had to, because we’d warn them that he was so bad with needles,
they had to in front of me, but he sort of had a hand like this holding my hand but not looking. And he told him when it was safe to look and things like that. And actually the spinal that I got, it didn’t, it didn’t, there wasn’t enough of it. I had to get a top up. So he was this ice cold spray at my back and he was saying,
you know, can you tell me when you can feel it? And I sort of had this, I think I’m a bit of a people pleaser, so I really didn’t want to tell him that I hadn’t reached all the way up because I wanted him to think he’d done a good job. And I was like, no. So they had to, they had to get me.
It’s very, very undignified when you’re numb from the waist down and you can’t roll onto your side when a whole theater of people are trying to push you onto your side. But they, yeah. But the top for that, again, that made me a little bit anxious, but Martin was talking me through it and I was getting my breathing and and with,
with the, yeah, I find the affirmations to be probably the most helpful part for me. I, I find the repetition of those together with the breathing to be the, the most valuable at that point anyway. Yeah. I find them super helpful. Good. And yeah and then mid midway through all of that there was a shift change with and the midwives.
So about seven o’clock there was a shift change. So everyone that I just kind of got used to faces of, they all swapped around. The doctors stayed the same, the anesthetist and the, the two surgeons stayed the same. That’s, yeah, that’s not ideal to, Doesn’t really help with the sort of relaxation when there’s, it feels like about 20 people in the room at one time.
And then 20 past 7, 21 minutes past seven ster was born. So then straight up onto you pretty much well deletes deletes Cord. So they showed us them, lifted them up over the screen and had a couple of names but as soon as we saw him we were like, that’s ster. And then they sort of took him back and asked Martin if he wanted to cut the cord,
which he was adamant that he hadn’t wanted to do. But I think he got a bit of an adrenaline, adrenaline rush and wanted to get involved in. Although I think with this section they don’t cut the cords so much as trim it I think. I think someone else has to deal with that. But yeah, they, they waited before, before cutting it and I think actually,
yeah, I think I got ’em fairly quickly. They’d taken a shoulder out of my gown. Yeah. So that I had sort of a whole side of me was, was just exposed the guess so that when when they came out they were able to put ’em on that side and then Yeah. And then we got huddle with them and then we’ve got are we cuddle with them and then went away them and stuff like that.
Yeah. I think had, had I maybe had a bit more time to plan for this section. We’ve asked about sort of the golden hour and maybe having a bit more time with them. But I don’t know how logistically that works with theater time and things if they’d rather weigh them in the theater. I don’t know. We didn’t have, we didn’t have a huge amount of time with him before he was taken away and weed.
But did they did bring him right back. Yeah, that’s good. With Those things it’s always worth, you just gotta ask. It will of course always depend on the situation and how mum and baby are and things like that. But yeah Absolutely. So you had, well everything was getting well, they were finishing everything up. Yeah, so Martin thinks,
says that his memories of that to quite a long time. But it felt like it happened in a blink for me because they were just sort of using it as baby. Although I think I hadn’t sort of realized that the be comes to right under your boobs then you’ve got this baby kind of here. It was quite precarious. You can all that well cause you’re kinda just looking down there and so it was,
it wasn’t the best look at that. I got, I got, I stood down all night of course, but it was quite a studio experience and then I got to hold onto him all the way through to the recovery. Yeah. Yeah. They didn’t take him off me again after that. And yeah. So how was your, how was your recovery afterwards?
Were you in hospital for long? Well they offered me to go home the next day. Yeah. So yeah, 15 hours after I’d had him, he was born at seven o’clock at night and they offered me to go home at lunchtime, to which I politely said no thank you. I think because I was breastfeeding and the first night, because by the time I came out of recovery was taken down to the ward and Martin left.
It was pretty much midnight or thereafter. Yeah. And it felt like quite an artificial night and I I I wanted to have a whole night. Yeah. Knowing that the support was there if I needed it. I just didn’t feel like I was quite ready Yeah. To go, to go home after that. But I mean in terms of my physical recovery,
it was a dream The day after that he was born, I think I was probably had a more of a spring and a step than some of the other women had their babies. Naturally I was very, very lucky. I don’t underestimate that there was a lot of luck involved in that and not, and not, not anything necessarily that I did, but it was,
it was, it was a really, I felt fine sore and achy and things, but I had a bit of referred pain in my shoulder. I think I had in my head that it was gonna be, I think I thought I’d be sort of hold up in bed and not really feel able to, to move around and things like that. But I didn’t,
I felt the recovery was really, really great. And also I was worried that it would affect breastfeeding. I got into my head a little bit about that, that somehow because I had delivered them naturally then we would have this disconnect and it would more difficult or milk wouldn’t come in or, or things like that. And although I don’t, I think I had a breastfeeding that was on the,
the easy side of, of normal. That’s good. Yeah. Like, cause those things are more common with and birth like that delayed milk and things like that. But it’s not always the case that you say sometimes it, sometimes things go well and that’s, that’s great. Like it’s hard to know until you try it to see what it is. But then women also have those same experiences when they have vaginal birth too.
Like they can also have like problems with breastfeeding and things and or it can go well. So, you know, there’s always that crystal ball if you knew what was gonna happen. Yeah. And if I was to, if I was to do it all over again, there’s no guarantee that it would be the, I would even, I might not experience the same thing again if I was to,
to have the same thing happen. So no, it was, it was probably, I think in our birth plan we said, no, no morphine, I did have some morphine, no. Did my watches broken, broken, didn’t want induced, didn’t want a spin, didn’t want a section. And then all, all of that went out of the window.
And last, We always talk about, I always start with what we want and don’t want and we talk about how they don’t want actually might be necessary. And they’re not, they’re, they’re not always like the negative worst things. They can be a really positive thing as well. Well That’s, that’s the thing we always said, our bottom line birth plan was healthy mom,
healthy baby and whatever route we had to take to that, this was our ideal. But we would, we would obviously take each decision as as it came. And I mean as was eight pounds 11 and he had a gigantic head. So in the, in the end I don’t think it was necessarily, well I think it was the right decision for us for him to come out the way that,
the way that he did. So you obviously had like a really positive experience. Well it sounds like that anyway to me. What were the main things that made your birth really positive? Having such a supportive birth partner who really knew the ins and outs of what I wanted and why? Because it made, he made it okay for me. Cause I think I kind of struggled with saying yes to the section and I think having Martin there saying that he understood why it was difficult for me to say yes,
but he also supported that decision. It really helped sort of validate it for me, I think, yeah, I think having a specific birth plan, but understanding that that’s the ideal and not the, if if we, if we deviate from that, it’s not a failure, it’s just the direction it had to go in and yeah, enormously the, the sort of coping skills techniques that we learned in,
in hypno, I really find that to be just enormously helpful and keeping us focused and, and just managing everything. Just yeah, just keeping sort an eye on the prize a little bit with that and, and knowing everything was, you know, was, was gonna be, was gonna be fine. Plus the staff. I I, I couldn’t fault the staff that,
that we dealt with. There wasn’t a, a difficult person among them. They were just all fantastic. Yeah, it sounds like the decisions you made, you were really supported and you had time to meet those decisions and that support around you from the, your team, your healthcare team as well, which makes a big difference. It’s so nice when someone’s there encouraging you and being very positive about helping birthing as well.
Like having that rather than, I think sometimes people worry like, oh, people know what hypno breathing is, or well they think, well, they wonder what we’re listening to or doing. So it’s that support as well. Encouragement. It was great not having to explain to someone what it was like always this girl was hypno breathing and she was just right away like,
oh, fantastic, that’s great. You know? I know she was kinda like, well I know exactly what that is so I can help you. You don’t have to, we didn’t have to explain what individual things that we we brought in with that. She was just completely on board. So Yeah. What what advice would you give to a pregnant mom at the moment?
I think, well I think, like I said, having a birth plan that has what you would like in an ideal situation is I, well I find that enormously helpful to do quite a, quite a detailed one. We had the positive birth book and, and and, and used that to build our birth plan and that was great because again, it was something I could do with Martin and he could get involved in,
but also it meant that we went and with him knowing what we, what I wanted. Yeah. Which feeling what I wanted, which feeling what I wanted. And so I felt that if for some reason I couldn’t make decisions, I wasn’t able to verbalize my decisions or what I wanted or even if I was just so focused on what I was doing,
he could, he could let them know what, or he would know what was what we wanted. So I find a detailed birth plan to be really helpful, but also to, to try and remember that even though you might not get what you think you want or you might not get what you do really want, deviating from your birth plan or, or making decisions that are different to what you might have,
might have planned is okay. And be ready for that and be, be try and be as open to that as possible. Yeah. Your preferences over plan, I think that’s like what you’re saying as well. It’s that your preference and your ideal, but Yeah, yeah, Yeah. That is, that is probably a better, a better phrase for its preferences rather than Plan’s.
A lot of things you would’ve had in your preferences or your plan did happen and that like you were together like, like cut to the court, maybe it wasn’t in Martin’s plan, but having things like baby skin to skin soon after, like having your music that you wanted on, like a lot of that stuff still tested and you’re, and your birth.
Yeah. And we didn’t, we didn’t sort of throw the baby out with the bath water with our preferences. We didn’t think, right, well we’re having a section so we can’t get any of the things that we want. We were still able to sort of say, okay, well that one thing’s changed and while that’s a biggie, let’s see what else we can keep.
Yeah. And I think that was, that was valuable. There was definitely value in doing that because I’m not sure I would’ve thought to still ask for a delayed cord clam pain. I’m not sure I would’ve had the, I know the clarity of mind to say I, I really do want immediate skin to skin and sort of not dig my heels in,
but just made that really clear. And so yeah, I think it’s just because one thing goes, one preference has to change doesn’t mean that they all have to go out the window as well. And I was actually quite surprised at how much I did use the hypnobirthing after everything went. So Yeah, Far away from what we thought it was going to be.
I mean, I wanted the water birth, minimal intervention, low lighting, you know, I, I really wanted the, the sort of, well, yeah, pretty much everything I didn’t have and it was still beautiful and it was still wonderful and it was, yeah, it was still really positive. I mean I, it’s, it’s not, I know that I know that sections people have a mixed experience with sections and surgery and all that kinda thing,
but it was, it was really for me, an extremely positive Yeah. Experience. Brilliant. That’s great. Well is there, if there’s any other things you wanna add to that, then go for it. If there’s any other advice, otherwise we can leave it there. I don’t flow of like here are the things, but yeah, that preferences and having that attitude that,
you know, it’s okay if things change if, cause I think like I had first around like plan A, plan B, plan C, but second day I had more preferences and that felt, it was the same idea. I just brought it into one document instead of three documents. But yeah, having that sweet. Well that was brilliant. Thanks so much for sharing that.
It’s great to hear Your story. Awesome. Thank you so much to Amy for sharing your story initially and also for allowing me to share it here on the podcast too. If you have a birth story from Aberdeen or the northeast of Scotland that you’d like to share, do get in touch. You can email me, jade pregnant and aberdeen.com. Here are a couple of points I want you to take away from this episode today.
Firstly, the difference having a great birth partner can make and by great birth partner, it means someone who’s enthusiastic and involved in the planning and preparation and is there present for you when you’re in labor. Although you absolutely can do this yourself and have supported clients in doing that, having the support of someone that really cares about you and gets what you need can be such a positive aspect of birth.
It can be really wonderful in pregnancy, labor and beyond. There’s a lot of negativity and TV movies about birth partners, especially male birth partners. We even in society make jokes about them, fainting and things like that. But bringing your partner to class and talking through your hopes and expectations with them is really important and can be really beneficial. They can be a really positive part of birth and that’s great for you and also great for them and great for you as a family.
Like if, if it’s your partner for example. Secondly, Hyno birthing is great for changes in plan. I think we’re still, there’s still a lot of misconceptions going around about Hyno birthing only being for home births or midwife led births. Really straightforward non medicated births, but it’s just not true. The first thing I always cover in class, other than making yourself a cup of tea and getting a biscuit,
is intervention and changes and plan and how we can cope better with that. So if you’re doing Hyno thing and you’re not covering that, like reach out, find someone who’s gonna cover that because it’s so important. Hyno Bar thing is for all births and it’s there to help you prepare better for changes in plan. Finally, even when things change, you still have options.
It was great to hear that there was so much support for Amy in helping her make her birth personal. It wasn’t just a another cesarean, it wasn’t just another induction. It’s about thinking about how this can be your own experience and having support for people saying, oh, what about this and would you like to try? This is really positive. It’s great to hear that.
And as Amy said, even though it wasn’t her original plan, it was still beautiful, wonderful, and really positive. And I think that’s really important to hear that even when things change, that doesn’t mean that suddenly it’s all bad, no negative, it can be your own birth still, you still have some choices. So thanks for listening. Head over to the show notes for this [email protected]
slash episode two, where you’ll find links to additional free resources and links to our upcoming classes. So thanks again for being here with me today. And again, thanks to Amy for sharing. Do get in touch if you have any questions. As I say, you can email me, jade pregnant in aberdeen.com and I’ll be back very soon with our next episode.
I hope you have a lovely week.