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And also, the nurses and your OB will play a big part in this and can easily sabotage your plans to go natural. My first OB sucked. He sold me on the fact that he was natural birth friendly and would go with my plans. I was only in labor for about 12 hours and he still wanted to break my water and give me an enema during that time because I wasn't advancing quick enough for him. He also told me I was SOL with regards to cervical checks starting at 37 weeks because that's just how he did things. He was extremely pushy about the fact that I had GD and he "wouldn't allow me to go past my due date." My GD was controlled via diet and I only gained 19 pounds. I was fine.
My nurse was a rockstar and I attribute a lot of my success to her. She told me when she thought the OB was being unreasonable and helped me with some positioning. I could tell she wasn't fond of him.
This time around, I have a much, much more supportive OB. He won't induce until 41.5 weeks if everyone is healthy. He's ecstatic I have a doula and wants me to labor at home as long as possible. He's so anti-C/S it's not even funny.
Tell me your experience with being confident going into a unmedicated birth. Was it successful or did you lose confidence when the pain was too strong?
I had two unmedicated births, one a water birth. They went just fine. Yeah, it hurt...A LOT...but I was able to work my way through it with the help of my husband, a doula, and a supportive obstetrician.
True. I was adamant that I wanted a home water birth. I had a lot of friends that had them and thought they were great. Somewhere after my 3rd miscarriage there was no place I would want to be but in the best maternity ward in the city. Life and pregnancy became too fragile. I ended up adopting, not giving birth. But our last pregnancy I was thinking how much my plans had changed through the process.
Yeah, my "plans" very quickly became, "What's safest for me and safest for the baby? Okay, let's go with that. New plan. And, go."
Ultimately , there really isn't any shame or pride in giving birth medicated or unmedicated. You do what you have to in order to have a safe and healthy birth, and it isn't anybody else's decision or business, anyway.
I'm a big fan of pain medication. I was induced, had very painful contractions and welcomed the epidural which gave me great relief. The negative to the epidural was that it deadened my lower half and I had trouble pushing.
Still, my daughter eventually popped out and was fine, and we all went home happy.
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