#188. Lydia's homebirth to Eloise

don't i think it's unbelievable But it's true.

Yeah.

And just for the record, I haven't paid you to say this, have I? No, absolutely

not.

I was telling my kids something about

someone that something had said, my son was like, oh, so how much do you pay them to say that? And I'm like, no, no, these people are asking me to come on the podcast.

You know, like I've got a

queue of people backed up right now to come on the podcast to talk about their

experiences.

Yeah.

and you know it is it is pretty cool because it does make it make a difference and that's what we're going to hear about Lydia how it made a difference for you so are you happy to take us back four and a half five years ago and briefly talk about your experience with Sebastian

absolutely yeah gosh a long time ago I guess I went into my first pregnancy and birth quite naive I was 25 I I I've always felt and believed that as a woman, our bodies are literally designed for pregnancy and birth and all of that.

And so I've always had quite a big faith in that.

I didn't really want to know anything else.

I kind of went into it just being like, I've got this.

I'll figure it out as I go.

And I had an excellent experience.

I had an awesome usual pregnancy, you know, the usual morning sickness and whatnot, but nothing crazy.

When it came to giving birth, it was COVID.

We were in some form of lockdown.

I had wanted to have... a natural birth I'd really wanted to have a home birth but at the time my husband was like I'm a bit too scared and I don't think I had enough confidence in myself to push any further and I sort of thought you know what I will do this one in hospital I'll

prove myself

And I had an awesome birth.

I managed to have a labor at home for right up until the last few hours.

I hadn't done any hypnobirthing training, so I didn't have any of those techniques.