home birth for baby no. 2

We had an amazing birth experience this time round. All I can say is thanks so much for the workshop. We really wouldn’t have had such a positive birth experience without the awesome positive birth preparation tools and guidance you provided us with!

We had Stanley at home in the birthing pool with the midwife (James best friends Niece who he taught to surf when she was a teenager) and Hollie from the Maizy Midwives team. It basically felt like two friends hanging out in our house (we made them a little space to make tea, write notes and just be) and they did their checks and were there for total re assurance and guidance the whole way through - simply brilliant!

Midwives arrived at 10:30am Stanley was born in the pool at 7:30pm (nothing more amazing than pulling him up from the water where he was pulling himself onto me to feed straight away - nature is truly amazing) and they were packing up at 10pm. Hollie managed to catch some magical moments on film and we have the entire birth on video too (with your lovely track 4 playing in the background).

I have never felt more alive and in ore of these lovely people around me (you, midwives and James) that made this awesome birthing experience something I will never forgot. When someone tells me to visualise the happiest moment in my life I will go back to this place and pulling Stanley out of the water. Every time I look back at this photo that incapsulates this moment it makes me choke up! How amazing that you can guide people to this point :-)