BIG BABIES can be born safely, without fear and without induction. Although a “predicted” big baby weight can be inaccurate in terms of guessing a baby’s weight, sometimes it can be true, but on top of this I always remind my Hypnobirthing clients how amazing their birthing bodies are.
❤️Even with BIG BABIES ,the mothers are even more likely to be able to birth a big baby if the body is as prepared as it can be, if they are not on their backs, working against gravity, not with their chin on their chest, not with “directed” pushing “uphill”, consider all that tension in the jaw and in the pelvis and with a reduced diameter of the outlet, now that may cause issues!(of course there is occasionally a need to direct the birth and to expedite the birth for a genuine medical need).
❤️A tense body makes the labour less comfortable, and that’s a fact, when the body goes into fight/flight mode. Just look at the Fear/Tension/Pain cycle, as noted by Dr Grantly Dick-Read in his book “Childbirth without Fear”, written in the 1940’s.
❤️I hear lots of women and birthing people having fear installed into them about the labour and birth of a predicted “big baby” with lots of talk about the “baby getting stuck”. Funnily enough one of the risk factors for baby “getting stuck” (yes I know that phrase is scary !!) is INDUCTION of labour!! So the very intervention that is being offered, is a risk factor for it happening!
❤️Here is a fine example of a client who prepared well, read the research and very importantly trusted her instincts to be able to birth her baby. She declined induction, after having made a fully INFORMED decsion. Shout out too to the midwives who were present at the birth 🤩
❤️ “Hi Janet! Meet (our baby boy) ❤️ He arrived only 5 hrs after my first contraction. I did have a sweep but otherwise all natural, made it through with just gas and air. I did ask for drugs at some point and freaked out a bit at 8cm but midwives were amazing at talking me down from that and keeping reminding me to stay calm. I was in the pool for a while but ended up wanting to get out – it was so hot!
Delivered on my knees leaning on the bed, yay for gravity 😃 Pushing stage was really fast and only minor tears. We stayed in the delivery room after that and we’re home 6.5 hours later.
And guess what?! He IS a big baby but my body still did it and I feel great!!! 4.61 kg
Instead it was amazing to have such a good birth experience this time around. Thanks again for everything – all your advice and training ❤️” Sal and Knud ❤️(with permision to share)
Huge congratulations to my Hypnobirthing clients on their baby that weighed over 10lbs 🎊❤️🎉🤩