Archive for 'My Births' Category

Kaisa’s Hypnobirth

Mar 31st, 2009 by Fiona | 0

Since I have a few readers now I am going to try to be better about posting!  I wanted to share Kaisa’s birth story on here as well, even though it happened almost 2 years ago!  Wow, time flies!  (I wrote this as if I was writing to Kaisa, so I left out one part…after [...]

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Everett’s Hypnobirth – Stage 3 & Postpartum

Feb 12th, 2009 by Fiona | 1

I couldn’t believe my ears when they announced his weight…9 pounds 13 ounces!! I had birthed a nearly 10 pound baby naturally! The next thing I thought was, “oh no…what’s the damage to my perineum!” I looked at Roberta as she was examining me and she informed me that I did not need stitches…I [...]

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Everett’s Hypnobirth – Stage 2

Feb 12th, 2009 by Fiona | 1

Roberta said I was dilated 9.5 cm and to push if I wanted to. The problem was, I wasn’t really feeling the urge that strongly, and when I pushed it didn’t feel right. The pressure was not in my bottom where it should be. A couple of surges later I was fully dilated but [...]

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