#VrikshamBirthStory

Hi akka
My name is Srivalli,
I’m yoga trainer by profession and advance yoga practitioner with sattvic food habits.
Even though I’m prenatal and postnatal yoga trainer, I don’t know this much about labour management until I attend your classes. I only learned and know many techniques to handle pregnancy and prepare body for birth and prepare mind to accept and surrender if things didn’t go as expected.
I’m your nov 21 labour management and dec 21 breastfeeding batch student, here is my story how knowledge I gained in your classes came in picture in each step of my labour hours. But the knowledge you gave in those two days’ workshop is a game changer on labour bed.
I scheduled my pregnancy photoshoot on Dec 18th, it’s 35w 5days. It’s 2hrs shoot started at 8:30am nearby park. So, I got ready and went for shoot, by around 9:30am, had slight lower back pain. I got doubt it might be contraction because I didn’t experience any back pain till then in my pregnancy journey. Again, around after half an hour, I experienced same & Baby moments are good, I told my husband, he said it could be false contraction since it’s way early to the due date, we continued the shoot and started tracking contractions. Till 10 o’clock it’s just 2 mild contractions, from 10:15 am intensity of pain increased and from 10:30am onwards frequency increased with span of 15min.
We went home, told my parents and packed my hospital bag and filled hot pack with very hot-water (THANK YOU for tip of wrapping towel, I remember that and told my husband to do so & that hot pack became my favorite buddy too in my labour) and reached hospital @12pm. Did the NST for half an hour and examined my cervix.
While vaginal exam she inserted fingers to check. It was painful and I was not cooperating 100%, then the nurse and duty doctor were like how you would give birth since you are allowing this small examine.
I remembered your words & I Trusted my body and did not let these comments affect my confidence to birth, again BIG THANKS to you for this. Because similar incident happened in my 6th month too, which created a block in my mind & it got broke in your webinar, tight hugs for this 🤗, I was very happy and confident after your webinar. So it’s @12:30pm they finished examination and said my cervix is 7cms dilated, I was shocked, I know yoga will help me, but I didn’t expect it shorten the period this much. Pains were at peaks from then, I was doing breathing exercises as you told, since you mentioned nitrous oxide can be taken for pain relief (again huge thanks for this information, it’s a game changer), I included bhramari breathing exercises at that time (bhramari pranayam is one type of breathing technique used in yoga for many benefits). So instead of doing breathe out through mouth, I consciously doing “mmm… ” sound which creating vibration and soothing and
while the other side of me wanted to act otherwise, even though I know I can’t take epidural at this point, still I was asking for it and inside me, was laughing at myself by thinking what stupidity it is, but it made me smile. I think it’s ok to freak out, shout, being stupid and all, right!! It’s all expressing emotions😉 I was in all these thoughts together in that period.
Around from 1pm pushing sensation started, by that time, my doctor also arrived, then after sometime I started pushing. After 1st push, my body got heat up so much, immediately I felt very hot, after 2nd push my ears were blocked. I was telling to my doctor, my ears blocked barely hear anything and my husband closed my ears, I think it helped. Then my doctor said “srivalli, we ll have only 45sec in one push, u have to use it maximum”. Those words made me remember your breathing technique, how to continuously push and I did it with full energy, there he came on 3rd push. Later I thanked my doctor for sharing the fact and saying those words to me which triggered to remember your breathing technique, HUGE THANKS and hugs to you for sharing immense knowledge about labour 🥰
My yoga thought me to “Listen my body ” You thought me to ” Trust my body”, all together made my labour journey amazing and memorable 😍
Since my baby came before 36 weeks, doctors first thoughts it’s a premature baby. After Neonatologist examine, he said that the baby is more matured than that gestational age. It’s true, as you say baby will come when he is ready.