2nd Baby

Wanted to share our news on baby boy number two Thomas Rhys Huggett. … I did it!! I never knew how incredible it’d feel having a totally natural birth with a touch of gas and air at the most. You helped me in so many ways in that room. Thank you! Never thought I’d be able to do it but here we are 💙 I think understanding the process a little more and also learning from your first Labour that you’ve got to try and stay in control in your head - that certainly was the biggest difference for me this time!

A brisk walk around Upton Country Park yesterday got contractions coming in quickly at around midday, called and checked into Haven Ward and Thomas was born at 6.02pm (40 weeks and 5 days). Golden thread, cafetiere and my husband's constant reminder of floppy face, floppy fanny in true Dulcie style worked a dream plus some gas and air!
My first labour was quite traumatic and required intervention but this time around I have never felt so empowered and proud of what our bodies can achieve! Thank you Dulcie for everything you teach us 💙 now to a house of three boys 💙

Happiness is….

Email from her husband Sergio received at 3am the night of Leo’s birth:

Dear Dulcie,

I can't sleep. It is clearly the excitement. Or maybe the oxytocin. Whatever it is, today Kirsty and I finish a journey that is indeed the start of a new one. As all journeys are.

I had to write to you. I have been thinking about you and your lessons so much. You don't know this but Kirsty and I have been on a quest to try to do this right, which has taken us to so many places and so many lessons. The journey was long for me personally, and I have Kirsty to thank for it, but of course, there were so many people along the way. And the first person on the list is you. You gave us such a spark to start an immense flame. It was not only the content of your lessons. It was your certainty, your attitude, your care, your passion. You clearly don't need to do what you do. You just do it because you love it. You do it is because it is good. You do it because You are good. There lies a lesson in itself.

Let me tell you that today you would have been so proud of Kirsty. She went on a trip of 36 hours straight, starting birth at home, going through all of it surge after surge, breath after breath, pose after pose, in the bath, on the sofa, on the bed, on the pool, on the floor, on her knees, on her toes, always polite, always composed, always serene, knocking out not one, not two and not three, but four rounds of midwives, and ending up on the haven's pool giving birth to our beautiful baby boy and not even needing a single stitch. Ain't that a super mamma! Ain't that the Goddess that you kept on praising!

Dulcie, please do me a favour. Read this. Not for you, or your ego. Read it to the group of people that you have today in your house. They need to know how amazing their journey is, and how amazing is going to continue to be. They need to know there is no destination. If they are listening, if they are curious, they already arrived. They just don't know it yet. I just hope that the partners present in your living room today discover, like me, a new level of respect, admiration and love for the woman they have next to them. a true Joyful Mamma. A true Goddess.

I don't want to take much more of your time.

I just need to add a final thank you.

And of course, my new mission in Live. Here is Mr Leo Sol Morgan-Jimenez

Big Love,

Sergio