If another testimonial will help, here is mine on the subject…..
My midwife said the same thing to me when expecting my first baby, she also
warmed “HypnoBirthing doesn’t always work”.
2 weeks later I was 2 hours into a blissful labour and I quietly announced “the
baby is coming” (I’m not quiet person, so my husband took note). The midwife
said “it will be a little bit longer love, this is your first baby, they take a while”.
With my partner’s encouragement to check, the midwife shined the torch through
the water and exclaimed “oh my, we have a head” and “reach down you can feel
the baby”.
I calmly smiled up, “I know I felt it when I told you”. My baby had crowned and
easily moved through to birth by herself with nothing but my natural expulsive
reflex” and my birth breaths. 4.125kg, not a scratch on me.
Needless to say this midwife has revised her opinion on HypnoBirthing and
mandatory forced/coached pushing……
Since then I have had two more babies, each birth has been a different, yet
comfortable and an empowered experience. My biggest baby so far has been
4.5kg and I know the reason I have not needed stitches is because I have not
tried to purple push. Going within and trusting my baby and my body has been
truly life changing for me.
I’m now expecting my 4th baby.