Labor of Love: Mama and Baby in Harmony
I woke up in the early morning and knew that our baby was ready to come into the world. My husband and I had created a vision for how we wanted Leona’s birth to unfold, as a peaceful decent. My breath and a positive perspective were my greatest tools in manifesting this. We found an alternative birth center within a suburban Chicago hospital, so that the setting would match our intentions. Natural birth has proven itself billions and billions of times across the globe and was how I wanted to deliver our child.
I spent the next few hours sitting on an exercise ball in a “birth zone.” A hypnobirthing class taught me a few breathing techniques and visualizations that allowed me to open gracefully to the experience and the journey that lay ahead.
