Birth Stories

Our baby James has arrived!  530am March 18th 6lbs 11oz 18 inches!
I ended up doing about 8 hours of laboring at home- initially thinking I was experiencing braxton hicks!!
By 2am I gave the nurse a call and she advised us to get movin!  Jim miraculously got me to the hospital from home in about 45 minutes!?!  Thank God for NO traffic :D
My doc appointment on Monday showed I was 1cm...by our arrival that night at the hospital I was 9 cm dilated!!!  Less than two hours later our lil man arrived naturally and drug free!  I kept my eyes closed just about the whole time ..I was in "the zone" with the breathing and visualization techniques! LOL
It was an amazing experience and I can't thank Karen enough for the tools you provided me in prenatal yoga and our hypnobirthing class!!!

Karen used the the HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Method for the birth of her son in 2003. Through the use of HypnoBirthing and prenatal yoga, Karen had a short, natural, beautiful birthing experience. It worked so well, she decided to get certified to help other women have as wonderful a birthing experience as she had. Karen took the Hypnobirthing® facilitator training in August 2005 with Marie Mongan, the founder of HypnoBirthing®. In addition to being a HypnoBirthing® instructor, Karen is also a certified Hatha Yoga instructor and has her license to teach high school in Massachusetts.