I'm not really a natural birthing kind of a gal. With the boy I pleaded for an epidural from five minutes after conception, but this time (all being well) I'm planning to do things a little differently.
I want to enjoy (ha! enjoy!) "meeting my baby". I don't want to be so terribly, terribly scared the entire time so that my body is a ball of tension which nothing - not even a breath, let alone a baby - was getting out without a fight.
So I'm signing up for Hypnobirthing. I've bought a book and everything and read countless lovely birth stories in which women dilated at the speed of light, and didn't push and their babies just magically appeared.*
I'm planning on doing a course later in the year - if I can persuade himself it's not all new age mumbo jumbo - and I'm actually excited because I feel I'm in control of the whole thing.
It can't hurt, can it??
* Mild exaggeration, but only mild.
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Officially Congrats hun!!! Your labour story sounds as bad as mine with Kielan. Ryan's wasn't half as bad ie quicker, natural only gas and air, and I felt 10 times better emotionally and physically. Hoping yours is better this time round xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I wondered a few posts ago by something you said - no, I don't remember what it was.
Yea!!! and Congrats.
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