Hospital and Home Birth Stories 🌱 This episode is with the very Empowered Woman, Mother and award winning Hypnobirthing Practitioner Shari Lyon 💜
I love, love, love listening to Hypnobirthing stories. And this episode left me feeling a whole lot of goosebumps! Have you ever had real fear surrounding birth, do you have fear around birth. Its hard not to with the fear that is out there and surrounding us as parents.
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Shari growing up was told by her mother that if she birthed her naturally, she would have died. This is not uncommon to be told this from our parents. This comment come though with all the right intentions yet for Shari this stuck with her for her life. Tucked away with this information in her subconsciousness it finally come her time to become pregnant. And then the time for her programming to come out. Shari also had a big fear of needles so this was a double whammy for her, for then she had to face her fears. So a good friend told her about Hypnobirthing, Shari was a bit apprehensive, wondering how on earth do you birth a baby while under Hypnosis! Yet they explored this idea and attended their first class, then over the weeks Shari describes ‘my whole perspective on birth changed’. Having this explanation in detail on her body in birth, what it did and how it worked. This understanding gave her a new connection to the feelings in birth. Things started to change for Shari and she gained much more confidence in her body and in birth.
First birth with Harley
Shai went into labour before her EDD. Surges started during the night, nice and far apart which allowed her to rest well. They were booked into the birth centre, yet the midwife was not on duty that night and so the birth centre was not open as there was no other midwives available. They got to the hospital and her awesome husband and doula managed to wrangle them being allowed in the birth centre room as long as they did not birth into the pool. Apparently they had a great deal of time alone as the midwife was very busy. 30 + hours later, Shari was feeling very tired and went into a phase of wanting drugs, and her husband again stepped up to help her through what looked like transition. He coached her through and bought her back to 5 minute intervals. And from there baby was born into her husbands arms. Team work like this will set things up for a great second birth!
Shari talks about how she then become a Hypnobirthing practitioner, and how she wanted to share this with other families.
Birth with Taleah at home in the pool
We then talk about her next birth journey, home birth with her daughter who is now three years old. Keen to make sure that home birth would happen Shari describes doing lots of natural labour inducing from 38 weeks, her fear for this pregnancy was going over 42 weeks and having to go through hospital. He labour kicked in at 41+1 weeks and Shari talks about the early experience. From the moment her son got picked up from a friend, the labour really kicked in. In this birth she made sure that she kept up with her movements. Shari spent a considerable amount of time lounging in the pool, if you check out her video below you can see how zen Shari looks in the lush Australian tropical day! So picture this, her sister is in the kitchen baking a cake, her partner in the lounge with Shari doing some light touch on her back, candles and crystals that were placed around the room. All of this she visualised and this was happening well into the birth. The more intense the surges the more relaxed she felt. Shari even describes falling asleep right before she was born! The membranes did not break until baby was nearly out and the birth was quite quick and wonderful. This time Shari enjoyed the physiological third stage and baby took to the breast straight away.
Two beautiful stories that just got my self feeling just in love with empowered mammas!
We talk a little about Sharis new project she is birthing www.nurturehub.com.au 💜
From Shari–
“Sometimes we just need to bring that goal back to being a little bit more achievable”.
“Its just as important for your birth partner to be educated on the options, and process of birth”.
“Its about creating a positive and calm experience for couples.”
“Everyones birth is individual to them, as long as they feel confident, safe and secure. That’s what I want to see.”
“Its really important to invest into our birth, the application of knowledge is power.”
Resources:
Birth of Harley – https://hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au/harley-james-born-11-july-2011/
Birth of Taleah – https://hypnobirthingaustralia.com.au/taleah-born-15-march-2014/
Video of Taleah’s Home Birth – https://youtu.be/Y8YKqqGHkkY
Nurture Hub – Directory Australia wide for Pregnancy, Birth and Baby – https://nurturehub.com.au
Connect with Shari:
Website: www.belly2birth.com.au
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Belly2Birth.Hypnobirthing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/belly2birth/
Meet Shari
Hi and welcome to my website, It’s so great to see that you are looking into your options when it comes to preparing for your birth.
My name is Shari Lyon and I am a certified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner & mother of 2 and I currently share my time between Queensland beautiful Gold Coast and Gladstone in Central Queensland.
After moving from the Gold Coast to the region in 2012 with my family, I saw the need for more pregnancy and birth support to be made available to couples of Gladstone and Rockhampton.
I have personally used the Hypnobirthing techniques during my own 2 births . My first and life changing experience was with my son at a Birth Centre on the Gold Coast, Australia and my second in a beautiful home birth where I even filmed my birth for you to see me using the techniques I teach within my courses and so you can see just how amazing birth can be. Watch my birth by clicking here.
I first studied to be a practitioner through the American Institute in the Mongan Method of HypnoBirthing however after hearing that Hypnobirthing Australia’s Melissa Spilsted was creating her own unique Australian program I jumped at the chance to be apart of this group as Melissa had personally taught my husband and I Hypnobirthing for the birth of my son.
I have now been teaching this amazing program to couples all over Central Queensland for 3 years and I have now taught over 150 couples. I have also presented and been asked to talk at the local hospitals as well as organised free information nights and Gladstone’s first ever Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Expo.
I am an award winning practitioner and I was awarded one of only 4 awards given out by Hypnobirthing Australia at the Hyponobirthing Australia conference 2 years in a row. This is something that I am so proud of especially coming from a smaller community than other practitioners.
I have been featured in a number of stories run by the Gladstone Observer & Channel 7 News. My hope is to improve awareness of women’s birth rights and to help educated them on the options available to them during their pregnancy and birth.
I am also the director and founder of NurtureHub.com.au “Australia’s Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Network” which is a national directory website where you can easily find local practitioners, services or products to help you through your journey from preconception, pregnancy, birth & beyond.
Most of all though… I am a mum who want’s to help other couples have the same birth experience that I did, so if you would like to learn more about how I can help you please spend some time looking around my website as you will find some very useful information as well as resources to help you along your journey.
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