This is hypno-birthing

This is hypno-birthing. This is labor starting with so many unknowns and a mamma who practiced and practiced and practiced taking one step at a time. And breathing into each step. Expanding. Contracting. Expanding. Expanding. Contracting. Two steps forward, one step back.

This is the culmination of an infertility journey and covid and feeling like time is slipping away while, at the very same time, knowing everything happens for a reason at the exact time it is supposed to happen.  Breathing into that space.  Expanding.  Contracting.  Expanding. Expanding.

This is regular self-hypnosis practice during pregnancy and attending guided meditation all the way through 40 weeks, connecting with the other moms and learning how to connect your breath to your body, to your baby, to your mind and breathing into that space all the while wondering what lies ahead with baby’s birth…..

And then the beautiful day arrives, just before a winter storm.  And just before the storm outside began, the storm of laboring came and made it’s powerful, glorious transformation within the landscape of a mamma’s body who continued to breathe, and open, and allow….leaning on her self-hypnosis practice, leaning on her guided meditation, leaning on the other moms who had shared the journey with her, leaning into her body as it opened the door between heaven and earth…..

….and a little star was born.  Congratulations to this beautiful family.  Mamma, you rocked it.  It was an honor to support you throughout your pregnancy and your birth.