tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414435776825765041.post9035093412533851100..comments2024-03-25T23:24:53.777-05:00Comments on Stranded in Chaos: Hypnobirthing- thoughts? Sara Strandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02641499434694637445noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414435776825765041.post-87882865036191587772015-01-15T15:04:47.132-06:002015-01-15T15:04:47.132-06:00Read Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. It's ...Read Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. It's really hippy-dippy, but good stuff. Lynseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06665829879876020821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414435776825765041.post-18911389357428399842015-01-15T15:03:51.900-06:002015-01-15T15:03:51.900-06:00Read Ina May's Guide to childbirth by Ina May ...Read Ina May's Guide to childbirth by Ina May Gaskin. It's really hippy-dippy, but good stuff. I had an awesome natural birth with my 3rd baby. Just go into it with the mindset that you're doing it. No drugs allowed. My mantra was, "you can do anything for 30 seconds." Which was how long the bad part of contractions were. You got this!Lynseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06665829879876020821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414435776825765041.post-31226850209505856722015-01-13T14:45:46.466-06:002015-01-13T14:45:46.466-06:00I'm doing the HypnoBabies home study course an...I'm doing the HypnoBabies home study course and LOVE it! I have a few friends and aunts that have recommended it to me and they all say it helped tremendously. I researched the difference between HypnoBabies and Hypnobirthing and the HypnoBabies sounds far better and more suited to my style. Plus it's only $150 for the kit and I don't have to go to class and interact with other people hahaSteffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14387523324618066104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414435776825765041.post-55784706656215365952015-01-13T09:18:37.839-06:002015-01-13T09:18:37.839-06:00I had a natural birth and I wish I had something w...I had a natural birth and I wish I had something wonderful and earth shattering to say that would make you feel so much better, but the truth is my natural birth wasn't planned. I didn't want an epidural, but I certainly wanted whatever drug it is (the name currently escapes me) to take the edge off. Well, my labor progressed far too fast and I will say that honestly the worst part was the contractions. If you can make it through the contractions the pushing really isn't that bad. I only pushed for about twenty minutes, but I had a few hours of brutal contractions and I found that to be the worst part! I'll be really interested to hear about what you find out about hynobirthing! Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08361616697600249450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3414435776825765041.post-52116930799409419342015-01-13T07:51:57.920-06:002015-01-13T07:51:57.920-06:00Coming out of lurkerdom to say while I didn't ...Coming out of lurkerdom to say while I didn't "do" hypnobirthing, but I did use a range of meditation and visualisation and dare I say breathing to get me through. Things that I knew worked for me in general, like muscle isolation relaxation and imagining I was in my warm happy place and repeating mantras. Sounds really hippy dippy but I'm not particularly like that, and it totally worked for me. I was away in the zone and didn't notice the time passing. I spent nearly 2 hours under the shower (no bath) but it felt like 15 minutes. <br />Boo was 10lb7, active labour was 10 hours and I had gas for the last hour. My plan was to hold off on it for as long as possible so it made a difference when I really needed it. You really need supportive people around too, who won't undermine your will power by repeatedly offering drugs or telling you youre crazy for trying or that things are going too slow so they'll just intervene. But maybe I've just watched too much American OneBornEveryMinute!Ellen https://www.blogger.com/profile/00405434791158268648noreply@blogger.com