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We had a boy, Samuel Ellis (Ellis is a family name from Chris) 8\u00a0pound 4… and 10 days past his official due date. He must have done some\u00a0serious growing in those last few days! He is quite long and has my enormous\u00a0feet otherwise, he is a little Chris!<\/p>\n
I guess labour technically started on Friday afternoon I had walked into\u00a0town to meet some girlfriends for lunch, and on the way home, I had to stop\u00a0walking cause my back was cramping in a weird way. I was meant to have an\u00a0acupuncture appointment after that, but called the guy to tell him I\u00a0wouldn’t make it I just didn’t think it would be smart to drive anymore\u00a0because I was feeling so emotional that I couldn’t think straight!<\/p>\n
He ended\u00a0up coming to do a house visit instead which was quite nice having all the Chinese\u00a0herbs being burnt on the points in the comfort of your own home!! There were\u00a0a few more surges that were anywhere between 20 & 40 minutes apart overnight, and then the next morning, my waters broke or at least I thought they\u00a0did. A pretty non-eventful version of ‘waters breaking’ I thought! Anyway,\u00a0come 5 pm in the afternoon, the surges were 5 minutes apart, so I thought it\u00a0would be an idea to get closer to the hospital in Nambour, so we booked a\u00a0hotel in Alexandra Headlands on WotIf.<\/p>\n
In the car on the way to the hospital, I experienced the REAL waters\u00a0releasing! Holy Dooley!!! It was like I was sitting in a wading pool!\u00a0Luckily we have leather seats…I don’t think fabric seats would have\u00a0recovered!! We checked into the hotel at 7:30 pm, had some dinner and then\u00a0checked out @ 11 pm!<\/p>\n
When I got to the hospital I promptly spewed my dinner up (seriously tasty salad what a waste!!) and then I proceeded to hurl my way through\u00a0the rest of the night. Between every other surge, I had a sick bag in front\u00a0of me! I was actually quite happy about this though. I was thinking about\u00a0all the pressure of vomiting, it was helping Sam make his way out! I spent 5\u00a0hours in the bath, and then just got sick of being wet…couldn’t quite\u00a0regulate my body temperature. I had 2 of the most amazing midwives & one of\u00a0them I was convinced had done Hypnobirthing\u00a0 and she visited me after the\u00a0birth to say how well she thought it went\u00a0 so I asked her about whether she was a Hypnobirthing Practitioner, and she wasn’t, but geez, if she was, there\u00a0wouldn’t be much change in her approach I don’t think ” she was the best!<\/p>\n
I gave birth (over a beanbag) at 7:30 am and the birthing part I thought\u00a0was great. I really enjoyed the sensations of birth as they were unlike anything I’ve\u00a0ever experienced (of course!!), but also, unlike anything I expected.<\/p>\n
I really\u00a0loved the birthing part. The surges were such a mental test, and I found\u00a0that if I didn’t have my thoughts right before a surge came up, I was in a\u00a0world of trouble, but if I was right, then it was completely fine. I am keen\u00a0to do it again so that I can ‘do it better’ as such! I found that the\u00a0breathing with the surges was great, and I had Steven Halpin’s music playing\u00a0the entire time. I didn’t use any of the visualisations, but Chris had his\u00a0Cheat Sheet that we adapted from the one you gave us, and he ad-libbed on\u00a0top of it too he has been just fantastic the guy with zero emotion\u00a0(pre-Samuel) has turned into an emotional being it is really lovely to see\u00a0him with Sam, and he has just been so great to me as well.<\/p>\n
Given another chance, I would like to get my head ready to REMEMBER about\u00a0the breathing through each of the surges because for me I think that is\u00a0key. But the whole experience of having Sam was just incredible & I can see\u00a0why women go back for more!!<\/p>\n
Melissa, you have been so integral in helping me have this great birth, I\u00a0can’t thank you enough. I thought of you quite a few times… it was the breathing I kept coming back to!<\/p>\n
Lots of love, and my many thanks again,<\/p>\n
Sally and Chris, Kelvin , Brisbane<\/p>\n
PS. Even Chris has been talking up the Hypnobirthing. I almost fell off the\u00a0couch when I heard him saying this to all his mates he said “You\u00a0would think it is all this hippy crap, but it is actually really good”. Said\u00a0like only a man could ![\":-)\"](\"..\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\"){kind=icon}
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Even Chris has been talking up the HypnoBirthing – I almost fell off the couch when I heard him saying this – but to all his mates he says how "you would think<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-testimonials","tag-natural-birth"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n