“I went in to the hospital Saturday afternoon because my blood pressure had spiked and I was having blurry vision. This had been the second episode of high BP within the last couple of weeks but no indication of pre-eclampsia, thankfully! While I was hooked up to the monitor, my daughter’s heart rate kept dipping and then coming back up.
My doctor and I decided to go ahead and induce birthing time as I was 39+6 already and considering the other factors.
My doctor started me on cervadil about 8:45 in the evening because I was only at 1 cm dilated, 30% effaced, -3 station.
By 12:45 AM there had been no change so they did another round of cervadil and planned to start pitocin at 6 AM so I could try to sleep a bit before birthing time.
Throughout the night my daughter’s heart rate kept dropping and coming back up because I was having small waves that were very close together and not giving her much of a break to recover in between. So we tried some interventions to help baby such as position changes in bed, fluids, and oxygen but it kept happening.
At 4:45 AM they checked me again and there was no change in dilation or effacement. I decided to stop trying to sleep and get up and moving to help the waves become more efficient since the pattern was so consistent and stressing my girl out.
I got on a birthing ball about 5:00 and my waves turned almost immediately to baby bringing waves. Very quickly I entered transformation but didn’t realize it at the time.
My waves came on strong and quick but my hypnosis kept me calm and felt warming and soothing as they got stronger. My prompts about waves feeling like a big hug had me picturing my other two children hugging me tightly around the belly, which was a neat experience and helped with staying calm.
Shortly before 6:00, I started feeling pushy. Mind you, I thought I couldn’t be very dilated because I had been at a 1 only an hour and 15 minutes earlier so I thought that my water was trying to break and planned to have the nurse check dilation again.
I called the nurse and could barely get up on the bed before my body started pushing her out, totally without my help at first! I reached down and realized her head was already born and told the nurse. She called for the doctor and I kept pushing my daughter out. She came out before the doctor who was in the building was able to get to my room and I caught her myself!
This is actually the second baby I have caught myself which is such a powerful experience!
Everyone was so in shock (including me) that I had gone from a 1 and 30% -3 station to meeting my daughter in less than 2 hours!
Hypnobabies was absolutely the reason I was able to stay calm and comfortable during such a rapid and unexpected birth! Things didn’t go as planned but my affirmations kept reminding me to accept the path that her birth was taking. 
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