My first birth was better than I could have expected, after some initial nervousness I took a hypnobirthing course and religiously listened to my affirmations and relaxation tracks. I believe this all helped me to have the quick, relatively painless birth I was lucky enough to experience. Nearly two years later and with my second pregnancy, suspected growth restriction was picked up at 34 weeks and quickly the talk turned to inductions at 37...
Zoe’s Positive Induction
My first birth was spontaneous and our daughter was born at 42 wks plus one day. Birth had started in the early hours before the day we were due to be induced for post-dates however it was a long birth and she arrived at 42 wks exactly it was a pretty traumatic birth experience and I was keen to avoid that second time. 4 years later and we didn’t share our due date, I...
Induction Help – I Wanted to Give Birth in the Midwife Unit
One of the common stresses when deciding on induction is the change in environment from where you would originally give birth. When you plan to give birth in a midwife led unit, you usually sign up for a less clinical environment; a more relaxing decor, dim lights, birth stools, maybe even a birth pool. It can be hard when you’ve visualised you birth in this environment to consider the labour ward. The image below...
Is There any Point to a Birth Plan?
Birth plans – they tend to divide people, some create detailed pages of information, preferences, for all the various options, they may even be colour coded with colourful sticky tabs for each option (ok, I admit it this is a confession, of my own first birth plan – it was so detailed it even reminded my husband to set the automatic feeder for the cats before leaving the house!), and then there are others...
Help – my Partner has to go Home During my Induction!
Although there is generally a move towards finding ways to have birth partners stay during all of the induction process, the reality is that in some areas women spend some of the time during induction on their own at night. This is usually the case early on in the process, generally by the time you’re in established labour you would be together. Why is it beneficial to be together? I want to talk about...
Kirsty’s Story
My second birth was a very different experience from my first birth. My first baby was born at 41.3 weeks. I expected that this pregnancy would be similar, however, I had an induction at 36+2 weeks due to intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). I had been monitored weekly from 32 weeks with doppler scans and ultrasounds. While they never commented on there being an issue with the cord blood flow, they were concerned that baby’s weight...
Louise’s Story
Induction,Hypnosis and Orgasms: Our daughter’s birth story As a Hypnobirthing instructor I had all the tools I needed to ensure my baby had the right birth on the day, yet I still hadn’t prepared myself for the possibility that I might not get the birth I had been imagining. So let me tell you about my induction for birth, how self hypnosis prepared me and how euphoric my baby’s birth was. My first pregnancy...
5 Things to do during a ‘Boring’ Induction
It’s not uncommon for induction to take a while to get started, especially if your body isn’t showing any sign of things starting up beforehand or if you’ve not reached your due date yet. Although things can start up quickly, many mums find themselves with what they describe as a rather boring day or two waiting for induction to kick in properly. So I wanted to share with you some things you can do...
What is a Positive Induction?
Not long after I created the Positive Induction Facebook Group someone asked me what makes an induction positive? It’s a really important question to address here in the first blog post. Positive Induction is something that will vary from person to person, the same way positive birth will, some describe their birth as positive when they have a home birth with an independent midwife and perhaps even their dog as birth partner, whilst others...