Painfree labour

[SweetPea]

I did calmbirth for my second and third labours - was the best thing I did! My second labour was under 2 hours and was not what I considered painful, to me contractions felt like a tightening sensation but were not painful at all and totally manageable using the breathing techniques. At transition there was a brief moment where I said I'm not sure I can do this and my dh said yes you can you are doing it and de2 was born about 15 minutes later. I didn't get that ring of fire sensation, just felt like intense pressure and opening, when the head stretched the perineum it felt like a rush of hormones were released that numbed it, anyway thats how it seemed to me at the time.

My third labour was totally different and longer. Once again contractions felt like tightening and releasing but not painful. Second stage this time for me was more challenging as it was a lot longer and he had a much bigger head than my first two with his arm up next to his head which I think slowed things down. Once he finally moved down he came quickly. I think that if I hadn't used calmbirth I would have had a lot more difficulties with this labour. I also laboured quietly with all my labors, just focused on breath, which threw the midwives as they didn't think I had progressed as far as I had.

Highly recommend calmbirth, minutes after giving birth I said I want to do that again! If we go for number four (need to convince dh!) I would do calmbirth again, my dh said he felt like one of the couples in the interviews!