12/08/2025
💛🏡Demi's story🏡💛
'A home birth was always something I hoped would happen for us and with this being our first baby we did a lot of research about labour and the different possible outcomes so we went into it as informed as we could be.
My waters broke 21:50 on 29th May and Gwyneth came out to check me over, she was so lovely and set the tone for a relaxed labour, after she left we went to bed and I woke around 3am with light cramps which I managed to sleep through until around 5am. I sent my husband to work as I knew the early stage of labour could stop/start so wanted to carry on as though nothing was happening. I pottered around the house in the morning before calling the team around 10:30am to let them know the contractions were every 4 minutes but not too intense.
By midday my husband was home and the contractions were now every 3 minutes and I was breathing through them with my TENS machiene, at 1pm there were no home midwives available so we called triage who said to call back in 2 hours but things really picked up and I was getting in the pool within those 2 hours feeling the need to push.
My husband called the homebirth midwives at this point and Lara managed to arrange a community midwife to come and check on me, this midwife confirmed I was 10cm and helped me breath through the contractions until Lara was able to arrive around 40 mins later with the delivery kit. As soon as Lara had arrived I was allowed to push with the contractions and around 20 mins later our little girl was born safely at home just how I had hoped.
The birth was beautiful and calm, and I felt like I had the best support during the delivery. The team were amazing throughout my pregnancy and labour and I am so grateful for the beautiful birth I got to experience. Thank you to the whole team!'
