pre birth premonition - pph

[happyjane]

Before giving birth I sort of imagined bleeding to death in childbirth. Not sure when it started but I imagined it several times. Then I went on to have very severe life threatening pph. Terrifying and now I'm not sure if it was a premonition or if it was just a coincedence. So I am wondering - have others had pre birth premonitions especially re pph and did they come true??

hi happyjane, sorry to hear about your pph. I hope you are fully recovered. Have you had any other premenition experiences?

This is slightly different, but about that sort of subconcience-mind/physical connection...

Someone i know used visualisation as her sole pain relief, bar breathing etc. While pg she spent lots of time visualising the entire birth. She imagined it all going smoothly and her coping beautifully with it.

And that was exactly how it was.

Untill it came to delivering the placenta. Which firmly refused to budge. So having given birth at home she had to go in to hospital for manual removal. Poor thing!

It turned out she had not thought to include the delivery of the placenta in the visualisation...and her body had not thought to include it in the birth.

As it had been such a powerfull tool for her i decided to use some visualisation in my labour and delivery. I was very carefull to include every stage of labour, right up to a happy, healthy, healed, baby and me!

Unfortunately, yes.

I "knew" the birth was going to go wrong. I wanted a second opinion in the last month of pregnancy, I wanted a c-section to stop the birth going wrong.

The consultant wouldn't listen to any of my concerns. My concern was that the baby would get into distress and I would be carted off for an emergency c-section and it would be life threatening to the baby.

The result was that the baby did get into distress but the hospital staff were so busy that there was not enough care for me, and the birth did indeed "go wrong". No emergency c section, but instead a baby who almost died, and now has brain damage and cerebral palsy, and more besides.

I definitely believe that I was "told" by some higher being what to expect.

So, yes for me I believe it not to be a coincidence but a sort of knowing. If you understand me!

So sorry to hear your experience twoisplenty.

twoisplenty that's terrible - I am really sorry.
I wasn't sure how normal it is to imagine things happening though. My friend reckons she imagined disasters too but nothing happened.

In my first pregnancy, 2 weeks before the birth, I dreamt that I was feedin my baby in a dark room. When I returned, baby had vanished. I didn't think anything of it but I really cried when I woke up. Around the same I had my dream, dh dreamt baby was unwell. Sadly, she passed away a day after her birth.....

But I have always dreamt of things that have significance.

twoisplenty - sorry for what you went through.

so sorry for your loss sh77 and for your baby's injuries twoisplenty

when I went into labour with dd, I went by myself into a quiet room to 'chat' to her before she was born. I ''knew'' she'd be born with the cord round her neck and waters intact and she was - despite best efforts of mw to break waters. I also knew she'd be fine though and she was

so sorry for your experiences!

With DD2 we were struggling for a name, we knew she was a girl, the day before she was born I was being really morbid according to DP and saying of things go wrong etc please do this and that. I also said if things go wrong promise me you'll call her XX after my grans.

The following day had massive pph and as being wheeled to theatre was saying to DP her name is XX.

I don't know why, i just had a thought that all waa going to go wrong, but im fine, DD is fine and she is indeed called XX (not XX you understand)

i believe my gran was warning me and looking after us!