I just received a letter in the post enclosing two beautiful
photographs and a copy of an email sent to me in October and February
respectively and both of which I never received on the internet. This
is a beautiful HypnoBirthing Story . Jutta's first birth was
traumatic, her experience left her feeling unfullfilled and very much
a "failure" . She had a casearean. Jutta came to my classes late last
summer . She had to travel about 2 hours each way in order to attend
the classes. She held on to her negative beliefs through out the
course. Her husband however found hypnosis an excellent tool and was
able to be the right kind of support for her during her second birth.
Here is her email..

"Our son Dominik was born on the 08 Oct 2006 at home in Grimsby. 52cm,
3,2 kg, strong and healthy
It was an experience we will not forget - for the good things of it.

Saturday night Stefan and I went out for a BBQ with friends and had a
nice evening together with a tiny little bit of champagne for me and
some nice dance in the moon shine. That was probably the most relaxing
start of it all. In the night I was suddenly awake for 2 hours and
felt that the baby did movements that i did not feel before. I got
very excited about it and was suddenly in the mood ' I can do this'. I
fell asleep again and Sunday morning started with a nice long
breakfast and Franziska, our daughter 18 months, in a very good mood.
Around 10 am i felt a sudden knock in my tummy - a sound as if a bone
is breaking, but no pain. Within an hour, contractions started and
progressed very hour to short distances. We had arranged with NHS for
a home birth and Stefan called the midwife on duty after noon. We used
a fragrance lamp with the chinese litsea oil which I got in Singapore.
Stefan closed the curtains half way and the room was warm, so it was a
relaxing atmosphere. The midwife Louise who we had never met before,
came at 1.30pm and check me and also read our birth plan. I was 2 cm
dilated at that time. She seemed not to be in a hurry with that result
and promised to come back around 3pm. I went to take a hot bath with
some chestnut oil and Franziska joined me for a while until she found
it too scary to see me having contractions. she spent the rest of the
afternoon in the garden planting herbs with the nanny.
After a while, I had to leave the bath tub and prefered sitting on the
bed at exactly the place where i always practised my relaxation. I
also tried standing and belly dancing, but contractions than became so
strong with no break and so much pressure downwards that I prefered
going back to sit on the bed.

Louise came back 3.30pm, immediately called a second midwife to help,
and from that moment on it went all very quickly as I was almost fully
dialted and the baby already started pushing down. At least it felt
like this for me. That contractions developed in someting that felt
like an earth, it was not as developing and pushing downwards - and I
could feel my tummy shaking and the muscles moving stronly. There was
not much pain, but still some with the few final contractions before
the baby started moving down. There was no pain at all when the baby
passed the birth chanel, no tears of the perineum and it took maybe
only 3 or 4 contractions to get Dominik out. I did not really realize
how far birth had progressed and I did no realize things going on
around me. i was just wondering what else is still to come and how it
might feel. Stefan was next to me on the bed and told me to relax a
few times when I seemed not to be relaxed, wiped my face as I was
really swetting a lot, I believe.
Dominik was born 4:08 pm, brought on my tummy straight away and the
midwifes follwed what we wanted with no arguments. All was quiet and
pieceful. As soon as the baby was born, Stefan collected Franziska and
the nanny from the garden and they got to see Dominik was put to my
breast. According to Leboyer, Stefan bathed Dominik in warm water
gently while i was giving birth to the placenta probably 10-15 min
after Dominik was born. Dominik was smiling when Stefan slowly let him
sink in the warm water and was so actively looking around and moving
his arms and legs. I was so happy to see that. Vitamin K was given
orally to the baby, we wrapped him soft towels and stayed together in
our bedroom for the rest of the evening. The next morning, I already
got up and took meals in the kitchen and wear normal clothes. Pain and
bleeding were much less compared to the first birth and i did not
experience any postnatal depression during the week after birth. There
was already plenty of milk 24 hours after birth, Dominik did not have
any trouble drinking from the breast. The midwife Louise came to see
us the next morning and told us how impressed she was from what she
had seen. She borrowed the HypnoBirthing book and told me that she
found it really interesting and that she took notes from the book for
her future work. Several midwifes visited us in the course of the next
2 weeks and they all told me about how well it went.

How does it feel for me - i feel like a "proper" woman now, I was able
to give birth to a baby normally. I feel sometimes still very sorry
for Franziska who has not had such an easy start.

Thank you so much for teaching us this method, for me , it was a life
changing experience and I can now understand a lot of the feelings i
had after Franziskas birth. It makes such a difference......

1 friend of mine in Singapore was impressed by this story and got in
contact with a trained midwife over there for the birth of her second
child..."

Jutta

Grimsby , UK

2007