I was so excited once labor started (around midnight) and I’m so glad I had special time with both Skylar and Shalom before our family of 4 became a family of 5 🥰 I did hypnobirthing and had such a calm, grounded labor and birth and it was truly such a special, empowering and inspiring experience. Women’s bodies are made to birth and if you trust your body and you baby, you don’t need interventions to bring your baby into this world. Fear is what causes cortisol to rise and tenses up your muscles - which is what causes pain and the inability for your body to open and baby to come down. But if you relax and breathe, your body opens and baby can come down easily without pain. Yes, it’s intense but not painful per se. The same way that our bodies know how to grow a baby throughout pregnancy, our bodies know how to deliver that baby. Just like all other mammals give birth naturally and intuitively, we can too. 🩷 . . . #mom #naturalbirth #birthstory #dogmom #newbaby