Laura shares the birth story of her daughter Mackenzie
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I was a week and a half overdue with my first baby and hadn’t had much movement from the baby.
My midwife suggested getting acupuncture to help bring on labour as I liked the idea of a natural birth, not having to be induced.
So I had the acupuncture and suddenly there was a disco in my tummy, heaps of movement from bubs which made me think that labour was on its way. However 2 days later and nothing. So I went in to be induced.
I was labouring for about 15 hours with still no baby so ended up having an emergency C-section as the baby’s heartrate went up (indicating it was stressed).
My little darling daughter Mackenzie was born about ten minutes later – and guess what? We’re so lucky they went with the C section as she had the cord wrapped around her neck four times!!
It makes me wonder if it was the acupuncture that did it as I had had all that movement, maybe it caused the cord to wrap around so many times? Who knows! We are so lucky to have her anyway 🙂
~ Welcome Mackenzie ~
