pensamento - relato
Autor: fabiolla duarte | Publicado: 2013-07-01T17:43:00-07:00


Mais um relato. De Dani Lenton. Esse para os quem lêem em inglês.My estimated due date was May the 5th 2012.&nbsp;
Due dates are a funny thing; they can either make you über excited or scare the life out of you!!! Well mine was a definitely the latter and It was freaking me out so much that I was having nightmares about the birth, wondering if I was going to be capable to birth like millions of women have done before me. 

There was two  things I was clear about  :&nbsp;
1) being cut open was not an option,2) I wanted a water birth. 

So I've staters researching for ways to help me overcome my fears and I came across a technic called&nbsp;






HypnoBirthing.
"HypnoBirthing is a simple,&nbsp;straightforward program, thoughtfully developed over the years to remind mothers of the simplicity of birth itself.&nbsp;

Just as the majority of birthing women do not need interventions and procedures for safe and healthy birth, they do not need a complex set of exercises and scripts to prepare themselves for peaceful, calm and comfortable birthing.&nbsp;

The birthing body and the baby know just what to do.&nbsp;



HypnoBirthing is designed to teach women to trust in Nature's way of birth and to relax and let their bodies do what is needed.&nbsp;

By practicing a few key techniques, mothers program their minds and condition their bodies to birth easily. When it comes to programming and conditioning, variety is not necessarily a good thing.&nbsp;

Repetition is what gets the best result.

The more I read about the, the more I believed in it and a seed of hope was planted in my heart."Bingo, that's what I needed to do to achieve the birth that I wanted.&nbsp;

So I did the course and practice every single day ( well almost every single day).The more I practiced the more comfortable I was about the whole birthing thing.So on the 29 of April o woke up feeling very tired yet full on energy and with an urge to clean and tidy my house. I spend most of the day bossing my poor fiancé around and getting myself exhausted. However by the end of the day I was feeling absolutely happy with the way everything was just how and where  it was meant be. 

Monday the 30th of April I woke up early with a very mild  cramps and later on I notice that I was bleeding a little. So I called my wonderful midwife Julie Mountain and she told me that that it could be the so called "show" , that I should just rest, have a bath and take it easy but to call if anything changed.

&nbsp; And have a bath was exactly what I did, being that big, I did not need any encouragement to get in the bath.After about two hours in the lovely warm bath I came out smelling of lavender and hungry.

So I had lunch and finished it off with a few sweet pineapple slices. I lay down on the sofa to have a  rest and out of nowhere I heard a very loud pop and I felt water coming out from between my leg. I don't thing I have moved so fast in my entire pregnancy, being 39+5 days pregnant, like I did at that moment. 

I&nbsp;Jumped up and went to the bathroom to investigate. I was amazed to find this jelly looking thing, seating happily in my knickers staring at me. Excitement kicked in and I called my midwife who told me to go to hospital to get it checked.

I called my fiancé at work and he came home to help me finish packing the hospital bag. By this time the surges were getting closer together but I could easily manage them with my breathing techniques. 

At about 3:30 pm we got in the car to go to hospital and arrived just after 4pm. We went straight to the birthing centre and handed in our birth plan. The midwife on call was very happy to do as we wanted and decided to check how dilated I was. 

The surgers were now becoming more close together and more intense, but I could still managed to breath thought them. I was calm and positive.



Finally after about 30 mins she managed to check me and I was 4 cm dilated!!!!I was so happy because being 4 cm dilated meant that I could stay at the hospital instead if having to go back home to wait for things to progress. Soon after she check me I was moved into the delivery room.  I feel in love with that room straightaway it looked like a very nice hotel room with a ginormous welcoming bath right in the corner. 

By now the surgers were getting stronger and stronger. I was sick  and decided that I needed gas and air which was not the best idea to do because it made me loose focus and stop using my breathing technique making me panic. 

I started to believe that I wasn't going to be able to cope anymore. 

The midwife on call asked me if I wanted to get in the bath and as soon as I got in I felt completely relaxed and the pain became much more manageable. 

I could focus again on my breathing and after about  3 strong surges my beautiful baby girl was born.Looking down at her in the water was the most magical and especial moment of my life. 

I scooped her up and held her in my arms, she looked so peaceful and so beautiful. At that moment I knew what real love was. 

Siena de Barros Lenton was born after only 1h30 mins at 5:25 pm on Monday 30th of April 2012, weighing 7lb8oz(3.4kg) at the White Horse Birthing Centre in Swindon, UK.