{"id":15549,"date":"2015-08-26T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T05:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/?p=15549"},"modified":"2020-07-08T16:53:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:53:51","slug":"lotus_winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au\/lotus_winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lotus Winter, born August 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Melissa,<\/p>\n

I wanted to thank you so much for everything that you taught me through the hypnobirthing course.
\nBefore the birth of my daughter every night I listened to my hypnobirthing tracks and would listen to the affirmations whilst I was in the bath as I planned on having a water birth. I did a lot of preparation with all of the tools that you gave me.<\/p>\n

From when my labour began I was playing the affirmation track and I had it on repeat for the following hours whilst I breathed through the surges. The track helped me to get into the zone and into a deep state of tranquility and relaxation whilst my body and mind rode the waves.
\nFor the first few hours I was laying on my side in what I have described felt like my own personal cocoon.
\nOnce I got the ok to get into the water my labour progressed and it was not long until I was in transition, I had a moment when I was 9cm dilated and I wanted to escape, to run away, but these feelings were quickly replaced when I heard “you are a strong woman” and almost immediately I let out a lot of primal noises and Lotus entered the world.<\/p>\n

I had this other moment in transition where it felt like I had to surrender and shed all the skins of my past to be reborn as her mother, it was such an intensely spiritual birth! I said after she was born that I wanted to do it all again?.<\/p>\n

It was beyond beautiful and the best experience of my life.<\/p>\n

I must say that through my whole pregnancy when I thought of birth or watched a birth where a woman made any noise it made me feel queasy and scared me. I quickly learnt during my labour that my body and mind was helped by the vibration of noises I made at some stages and that it isn’t a bad thing at all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I highly recommend hypnobirthing and believe that because of my hypnobirthing classes with you my birth was so amazing. I am so thankful.<\/p>\n

Jessica, Gold Coast, Australia.<\/p>\n

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Lotus and Daddy having skin to skin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Jessica and baby Lotus have a cuddle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi Melissa, I wanted to thank you so much for everything that you taught me through the hypnobirthing course. Before the birth of my daughter every night I listened to my hypnobirthing tracks and would listen to the affirmations whilst I was in the bath as I planned on having a water birth. 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