A birth plan, or a list of birth preferences, in short, is how you want your birth to go. That's the short version, anyway.

During my first pregnancy, I had been really interested in the concept of calm birth, but I had never explored hypnobirthing

This hasn’t been the calm, relaxing pregnancy that I wanted; I didn’t get to yoga as often as I hoped

And there he was, at 2.53pm. It took around 3-4 contractions, with about 2-3 pushes per contraction.

I always thought I would be the type of person who would regularly blog about her pregnancy, but for a number of reasons, I haven’t.

When I think back to December, and all of the excitement I felt when my sister and brother-in-law announced their pregnancy to us