I have a girlfriend who just delivered her 5th child. My girlfriend was “due” 6 days before me, had her baby two days ago. She definitely wanted to be in the hospital because she has 4 other children and likes the peace, contrary to me who plans on experiencing my birthing surges at home an plan on getting to hospital at the very last minute! She went into labor Saturday evening. I came over to her house on Sunday afternoon and they were getting ready to head to the hospital as her surges (contractions to her!) were ten minutes apart. She ended up getting sent back home as she was only dialated 4 cm. She ended up going back at midnight and she so wanted an epidural. She actually stated her primary reason for getting to the hospital early was to get her epideral as soon as possible.  She got to her room at 1am and delivered at 2am. She didn’t get one because the doctor was too busy with another delivery. She stated that it was very painful and horrible. If she had HypnoBirthing as a tool, it would have been much easier for her!

I talked to her about HypnoBirthing, but as I said before, she now has 5 children and knows what she wants and really didn’t want to change what she was used to in her birthing experience. She did have a C-section with her first child, like I did, but all other children were VBAC’s which is very applaudable.

Currently I’m now having real surges every now and then and are breathing through them.  Apparently I’m in the zone in which I can safely have my child as I am now considered full term.  My gut (no pun intended) tells me that I will probably end up having my baby in two weeks or slightly later.  My gut is correct far more often than not!