Izzie & Hudson
1st Baby
After an early miscarriage in my first pregnancy, I felt understandably anxious the next time around and unfortunately had nausea for the entire nine months. Dulcie’s Monday night yoga quickly became the highlight of my week – a space where I felt safe to be vulnerable and learned so much about birth and beyond.
Despite a bit of a rollercoaster pregnancy, I couldn’t have asked for a better birth. My waters broke naturally at home 2.5 weeks early and I laboured there using the hypnobirthing breathing techniques I’d learned in class before heading to the Haven Wing at Poole Maternity. I was convinced I was much further along but was only 2cm dilated – thankfully my cervix was favourable so they didn’t send me home! I had some pethidine early on, which really helped me stay calm and relaxed as labour progressed.
After only a couple of hours in hospital I felt ready to push, and 45 minutes later – with some gas and air – our gorgeous boy Hudson arrived.
The sickness I’d had for nine months disappeared instantly and my husband joked I’d had a personality transplant. Apart from a small tear (expertly managed by the amazing midwives) I felt remarkably well and was on cloud nine for weeks.
I’m so grateful to Dulcie and the lovely friends I met through her classes for the support, knowledge and space she created during such a special time. I truly can’t recommend her enough. If you’re pregnant and able to attend one of her classes, retreats or courses – just do it!
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
