Birth Story Series: My third birth - 2026, part 3
As time passed, with one contraction after another, I started to feel like I should be seeing more results for the amount of effort I was putting in! The pushing phase with my first labour had been under 1.5 hours, and less than 30 minutes with my second, so I had kind of expected not more than half an hour or so this time. After a while Haylie suggested I could try moving into a lunge position…
Birth Story Series: My first birth - 2022, part 2
Simo came to see if I was OK. He’d heard my waters break and thought I’d vomited! I told him my waters had broken and he messaged Marianna who said she was on her way. This was shortly followed by the most incredible sensation of my body just taking over with a “pushing” contraction. I wasn’t prepared for it and it was so out of my control! I made some kind of noise through it and Simo came back. I realised by this time that I was never going to get the “longer gaps between contractions” that I'd been waiting for, and that now I was actually through active labour and transition already and into the pushing phase! I told Simo I hoped Marianna would arrive soon because I thought our baby would be born pretty soon!
33 Weeks Pregnant - you don’t need permission to change your mind!
I have never been anti-water birth. I’ve always believed that water is a fantastic tool for pain relief during labour and birth, and studies are quite convincing that birthing in water significantly lowers the chance of perineal tears. However, it’s just never felt right for me.