Hannah: Two Planned Positive NHS Home Births, Water Birth, Physiological birth, Hypnobirthing, Fetal Ejection Reflex, Retained Placenta

British Birthing Stories · Feb 17, 2026 · 44m

Two home births. Two boys born in the pool. Two labours where her body did almost everything on its own and no pain relief either time.

Hannah is a mum of two boys from Somerset who shares two calm, positive NHS home water births. Her first, during COVID, came after weeks of reading, hypnobirthing practice, and a pregnancy where her son measured small and consultants kept changing their minds. Labour started at 3am and built slowly through the day. The midwife was delayed. The pool was nearly too late. And then, in the water, just after midnight, her son wriggled out on his own in a Superman…