Birth Stories

Our baby girl was born yesterday, April 16th, 8:15am at the Cambridge Birth Center. She was 7lbs, 20".
It was a lovely water birth. We used HypnoBirthing®  techniques during the beginning and the end of the birth (things got a little unfocused in
the middle). I was so calm on the phone that the midwife thought I was only half way through labor, but called us in because I thought the
water had released and was feeling the urge to push (which she dismissed as "just pressure") but when I came in I was fully dilated,
and birthed the baby an hour later. Both of us are happy and healthy.

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!!!