by Michelle Clift | Jan 14, 2020 | Birth Stories, ChildBirth
Michelle here! I was Zehra’s doula and I remember getting the phone call that she was in labour. Things sounded early on so I rested a little more but after half an hour or so, I had a feeling I should head over. I spoke to Zehra’s husband on the way, he...
by HypnoBirthing Collective | Sep 5, 2019 | Birth Stories, HypnoBirthing
On Monday the 29th of July, Zach and I welcomed out beautiful baby girl, Hazel Muehlke-Taylor into the world. I experienced an all natural, drug-free, vaginal breech birth. It was an incredible experience and HypnoBirthing helped me listen and trust my feelings and...
by HypnoBirthing Collective | Sep 3, 2019 | Birth Stories, HypnoBirthing
After a day of feeling tightenings that I put down as Braxton Hicks, my waters started leaking at 10.30pm on Wednesday. The tightenings immediately became mild surges that kept me awake all night, that and excitement that it was finally happening. I let my doula,...
by HypnoBirthing Collective | Jun 21, 2019 | Birth Stories, HypnoBirthing
So things started on Friday 29th March (I was 39+4), I lost my uterine seal – but then nothing all weekend. On Monday morning 1st April, I woke up and had a show and thought, omg I’m going to have an April Fools baby! I had what I thought were Braxton Hicks...
by Michelle Clift | Jun 4, 2019 | Birth Stories, ChildBirth, HypnoBirthing
I look back on my pregnancy fondly. I felt connected with my baby, beautiful and empowered. I was lucky enough to avoid all morning sickness and aside from being diagnosed with gestational diabetes, we had a pretty smooth sailing 9 months. We chose to do...
by HypnoBirthing Collective | May 11, 2019 | Birth Stories
My pregnancy with Nicholas had been relatively uncomplicated. That was up until about 34 weeks when I felt anxiety creep its way in with the impending challenge of birthing my boy into this world. As a result my blood pressure began to creep up at every clinic...
