02/09/2026
Audio up! 🔊
When I was told “we need to take you to theatre to have your baby in 30 minutes,” I didn’t have time to process, plan, or Google a single thing.
I went from sitting in a waiting room eating an M&S cookie, to calling my mum to tell her there were fish fingers in the freezer for my toddler, to meeting my baby in under half an hour. If preparation meant having weeks of notice, I’d have had zero.
But I’d already done the work before I needed it, months in advance, from that first pang of first trimester anxiety to be precise.
I’d already made peace with not controlling the whole plan, and controlling what I could. So when plans changed fast, I turned to my husband and said, “we’re having a baby!”
That’s the whole reason it wasn’t traumatic. Not luck, not weeks of warning, but because I prepared differently.
It’s exactly why I built Ahead of the Bump the way I did, to get your mindset in the right place from the very beginning, long before you think about where to give birth, what your choices are and pain relief.
I couldn’t control that I needed a very speedy c-section but I could control how mentally prepared I was for a moment like that.
I’m spilling my exact process so you can take control too.
Comment BUMP and I’ll send you the link before doors close Friday 11th September x
