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Hi Melissa,<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been meaning to tell you about Amelia\u2019s birth, which was now nearly a year ago.\u00a0 Amelia was born on a Wednesday evening at 8.39pm on 15 July 2015.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to believe she will be turning one in a couple of weeks, but I thought I would still share her birth story, which might resonate for those who are considered \u201cadvanced maternal age\u201d (38 years and over) as I turned 40 just ten days prior to Amelia\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n

\"hypnobirthing<\/a>Amelia was born at 42 weeks and leading up to her birth, my age was causing quite a stir amongst my care providers.\u00a0 I had always maintained that unless there was a medical reason for being induced, then I wanted to be left alone.\u00a0 In the final few weeks, I had to be quite strong about not being induced and to the midwifery team\u2019s credit, they understood and went with my wishes.\u00a0 The duty obstetrician made the comment that \u201cI should have been induced at 39 weeks\u201d because of my age.\u00a0 I commented that unless there is a valid medical reason, I wouldn\u2019t have gone along with an induction based on my age.\u00a0 As a compromise, I did agree to some foetal heart monitoring, which came back as fine.<\/p>\n

My pregnancy and general health up to the day before Amelia was born was essentially uneventful.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t have any issues and Amelia\u2019s growth and heart beat were all fine.\u00a0 My blood pressure had increased at this point, which I would say was largely due to feeling pressured and stressed by the hospital to be induced and have regular foetal monitoring.\u00a0 On a number of days prior to Amelia\u2019s birth I was experiencing some early labour and I was very excited about her arrival.\u00a0 I had also been going to my acupuncturist to help with the impending labour and birth.\u00a0 It was my acupuncturist who had pointed out to me that Amelia was in a right occiput anterior position (ROA), which was easier to turn posterior than a left side anterior position (LOA).\u00a0 I was regularly talking to Amelia about working together, listening to the hypnobirthing affirmations and relaxation CD, along with leaning and resting in positions to help with her foetal positioning.\u00a0 I also did some of the rebozo technique to help turn her to lie on the left hand side.<\/p>\n

\"hypnobirthing<\/a>On the Tuesday morning before Amelia was born, I agreed to a stretch and sweep, which was an attempt to reduce my chances of a full induction and this seemed to have some effect along with the fact that she was close to 42 weeks gestation.\u00a0 In the early hours of Wednesday morning (from about 12.30am), I was getting regular surges and I was so pleased as I was due to go to the hospital for an induction at 5.00am that morning.\u00a0 I rang the hospital and they said to still come in, so Paul, my husband, and I drove to the hospital and went into the pregnancy assessment.\u00a0 During the drive over, my surges were really regular.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, when I arrived at the hospital, everything stopped.\u00a0 Thankfully, the hospital had ten (I know, seems ridiculous) inductions booked for that day, so I said I was happy to have more time to go into labour again.\u00a0 I was able to go up to one of the ward rooms and bide my time.\u00a0 Paul read affirmations and did some massage. We did a fear release as well because I was trying to calm myself down about the impending induction, which I had been trying to avoid based on my previous birthing experience with Jack.\u00a0 I also felt the need to walk and climb up and down stairs, which helped me go back into labour and I was getting regular surges again.<\/p>\n

As each surge came, I leaned on Paul for support and then kept walking and climbing.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t feel the need to rest too much.\u00a0 Thankfully, I had the rest of the day to go into labour.<\/p>\n

\"hypnobirthing<\/a>At close to 6.00pm, we were taken down to the birth suite and the midwife examined me and ruptured my membranes at around 6.30pm.\u00a0 The midwife said to me that I was already about 6cm dilated, but she would write down 4cm to keep the obstetrician away from me for longer, which I thought was pretty funny.\u00a0 The midwife also said to me that \u201cyou\u2019ll have your baby in a couple of hours\u201d.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t believe her at the time. \u00a0At this point, I didn\u2019t think Amelia would arrive until the following day, the 16th<\/sup> July.<\/p>\n

Before the midwife left as it was the end of her shift, she put her hand on my head and said \u201cdon\u2019t let that get away from you\u201d.\u00a0 My surges got very intense soon after the rupture and I was really leaning on Paul for support and he also pressed acupuncture pressure points and did massage.\u00a0 I was leaning over a ball for a lot of the time until I decided to hop in the shower.\u00a0 Before I got in, I joked to the midwife that I assumed I didn\u2019t need any syntocinon and she obviously didn\u2019t see the joke and said in a serious voice that no, I definitely didn\u2019t need any syntocinon.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t last that long in the shower and felt the need to get out again because I think I was in the transition phase.\u00a0 At this point, the duty obstetrician came in and started chatting to me about seeing how I was progressing and if I was at least 4cm dilated, they would leave me be.\u00a0 I replied that I\u2019m definitely more than 4cm because I think my baby is very close.\u00a0 The midwife wanted to check the foetal heart rate (I was wearing a wireless monitor, which was a bit annoying) because she wanted to check that there wasn\u2019t a deceleration in the heart rate or if the monitor had just slipped.\u00a0 She asked me to hop on the bed and I said I didn\u2019t want to stay there for very long.\u00a0 So, after only a few minutes, I was insistent that I hop off the bed and lean beside the bed to give birth.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think the midwife realised how close I really was to giving birth.<\/p>\n

While kneeling beside the bed, I thought to myself, this is what Melissa was talking about with the rest and be thankful phase<\/em> because everything in that moment seemed really calm.\u00a0 Not long after, I then realised I felt the natural expulsive reflex<\/em>, which was quite amazing.\u00a0 I was determined to use gravity and let my uterus do most of the work.\u00a0 The midwife said to stop pushing and I said that I wasn\u2019t really doing anything.<\/p>\n

Only two hours and nine minutes after rupturing my membranes, Amelia arrived into the world with a little yelp while I was kneeling beside the bed.\u00a0 Paul helped to hand her to me and then I hopped on the bed with her to have a rest and some skin to skin.\u00a0 I tried for an hour to birth the placenta, but eventually got an oxytocin injection.\u00a0 Throughout this time, we allowed the cord to stop pulsing.\u00a0 I had some minor tearing, but no other issues.\u00a0 Amelia started feeding while we were lying on the bed.<\/p>\n

We have had many comments about how engaged and aware she was since birth.\u00a0 In the end, after a few minor battles to try and reduce any unnecessary interventions, Amelia\u2019s birth was a very positive, empowering experience.<\/p>\n

I was grateful for doing the hypnobirthing refresher course (May 2015).\u00a0 I found having the tools and information from the course leading up to labour and birth extremely useful and empowering, particularly given my circumstances and the pressures under which I found myself from care providers.<\/p>\n

Thanks again Melissa for all your help, knowledge and great advice,<\/p>\n

Cynthia, Paul, Jack and Amelia<\/p>\n

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