01/09/2026
Good afternoon ….I have a fantastically empowering story to share with you today from a very strong and resilient mother who knew what she wanted, believed in what she could do and then went and did it 🙌🙌
And this amazing woman is our lovely Lydia from my Sutton Coldfield Pregnancy Yoga Class 🤰
Before I go any further I must add that Lydia is a very sensible lady and at no point made any “risky” decisions …. What she did was ask the right questions and weighed up the information and facts and then made sound evidence based decisions in line with her values and never put her baby at risk 🙏💕
This was Lydia’s second rodeo with me and she had a fantastic water birth first time around getting to the hospital fully dilated so she knew she could do this again ….. and she did 🙌💕
What stands out to me in this story is just how much the “noise” around a labouring mother disrupts her progress 😌
Lydia sadly had a lot of “noise” around her like so many do these days as sadly we have forgotten the conditions women need to give birth well in - calm, peace, safely, quiet, dark - all in an environment of love and supportiveness too 💕
(I would also add in supported by women who understand birth 👩🍼but I might get hounded for this 😅)
If you read Lydia’s story slowly you will see how her labour slowed and stopped any time she felt stressed …..and also when she was left alone and listened to ….she started to progress again 🙌
I can never stress to you enough that this is how nature works 🙄
You will NOT give birth if you are stressed - it’s against nature’s rules - no precious baby will exit your body into “danger” unless it is forced out in some way 😌
Lydia I’m so proud of you 💕 and I truly believe that if you hadn’t advocated for yourself and had those lovely midwives around you at the end …..you could easily have ended up as another statistic in our ever rising Caesarian section rate 😅
Well done my lovely …..I hope you are proud of yourself and baby William is just beautiful 💙💙💙
I can’t wait to see you both in Baby Massage in a couple of weeks time 🥰
Lots of love from me 💕