We've always planned to have atleast 2 kids with an ideal age gap of 2 yrs and we were blessed with my 2nd child on the 8th Sept 2016.

I remembered right after delivering my 1st, my mensus only came back from the 4th month post-partum. It was a monthly cycle too, thankfully! Because I still had PCOS on the left side. Also I was exclusively breastfeeding on demand.

After my 1st boy turned 1 year old, I manage to conceive my 2nd boy. And during the 9 months in gestation, I continued to exclusively breastfeed my 1st son throughout my whole pregnancy. He was already eating solids (3 to 4 meals a day), I was just his comfort food especially right before bed.

I wanted to have a calm and gentle birthing without any intervention for my 2nd birth and I decided to go to the HypnoBirthing seminar (which I almost missed) to find out what is it about and how it can be beneficial to both me and my husband. (Read more about the seminar here)

Since my 1st pregnancy, I came across "Hypnobirthing" through an ex-colleague of mine. She was teaching classes nearby my area. However, it was just a brief explanation that I wasn't really enticed into. Also I was already in my 3rd trimester then so it was going to be like a crash course for me.

Hence, I decided to simply run a search on google to read up about it and see if I can gain anything from Google or YouTube! I learned the breathing "J" method and practiced it whenever I remembered for a month or so until the day I gave birth to my 1st child!

I gave birth to my 1st son on 11th Nov 2014. It was a very raw, new & exciting experience as a first time mom. I went for 2 antenatal seminars thinking I was prepared. I even read stories from other moms on FB and google up all sorts of information just to be prepared when my 1st child arrives into our lives!

It was exciting and fun at the same time. I wanted to go for HypnoBirthing classes however, timing wasn't right so I went on YouTube and practices "J" breathing on my own. However, please don't follow me. The method is totally wrong!! (Read my 2nd birthing with proper HypnoBirthing method applied). Because I wasn't properly prepared for birthing and I opted for normal birth, my birth plan was quite simple, normal birth + immediate skin-to-skin + fully breastfeed + delayed cord clamping (up to 2min).