Breathing, massage and rocking

Jake and I welcomed a beautiful little boy, Toby, into the world last night. He came at 38 weeks on 13 June weighing 3.22kg and 49cm long. My waters broke at 12:30pm and bub was born at 10:12pm. Thank you for all of the support and guidance we have received from Yoga baby. We appreciate everything we learned in active birth classes together as well as pregnancy yoga with Loz. We certainly used the breathing, massage and rocking techniques during labour. I was able to rely so much on Jake and his practice and confidence learned from classes are the reason. 

Our obstetrician was unable to do the delivery but she couldn't believe how well we did when she read our hand over and it was definitely because Jake and I worked as a team after the practice we did during pregnancy. We didn't get to control every decision made, but we were confident to explain why we made certain choices in our birth plan and actively engaged in decision making during labour.

Ashley attended Pregnancy Yoga and Active Birth Yoga and the Active Birth Workshop with Suzanne.