If your baby feels safe and loved (remember you share all your hormones at this point), they will find their way when the time is right.
Stick with hypnobirthing
You can use what you learnt even more now. Make sure you double up on your positive thoughts and affirmations. Use your Power and Confidence script. Check that you’re ready to set up whatever birth space you have to be as calm, quiet and dark as possible. Talk with your caregivers to make sure they know how to help you have the gentlest versions of any induction or delivery methods you end up needing.
Know your facts from your fictions
This means staying off mumsnet and google. Just don’t go there. Get in touch with your hypnobirthing teacher or an online support group to help you pick your way through your options before you next see your midwives. So many birth stories end up embellished and even then, no two births ever happen the same way, not even with siblings, so what one mum says will probably be nothing like what happens to you.
Hypnobirthing is just as valid and useful for an induction or a c-section birth, perhaps even more so. There’s no judgement – a successful birth is any one where baby is happy, you’re healthy and can make peace with the path it took.
You still have the amazing body designed perfectly to deliver your baby; it will work for you if you let it. You might just need to work a little harder to get your mind out of the way.
You can do it mama.
Hannah is a KG hypnobirthing teacher, mama, writer and feminist. She’s passionate about women’s and children’s health, and runs hmhypnobirthing.co.uk, helping parents to be in south London plan for empowering, confident births. She can also be found on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
