Un-Medicated Births, Please share your experiences

[honeygirl]

Sposa6 Anything that you can do to relax will be helpful. As I said in my story I did a hypnobabies course and while you don't have time for that you can just practice just relaxing your entire body-a good time to do that is at night when you go to bed. Focus on relaxing one body part at a time -your eyes, your neck, your arms, your hands, your legs, your feet -just concentrate on relaxing each part and keeping it relaxed. If you tense up during a contraction it will make it more painful so the more you're able to relax the better.

This exactly. Relaxing is so very important IMO with unmedicated childbirth. I wrote DD1s birth earlier in this thread, and DD2 was unmedicated also. I studied Hypnobabies with #2 even though I was able to relax pretty well naturally w/#1. I figured the more the better! And it was much better with my second labor, up until the pushing phase. I hadn't gotten to the pushing tracks yet (she was 2 wks early) so I was unprepared and baby #2 rocketed out of me without any nice controlled pushing. But up until that part I was able to focus on relaxing thru contractions and found them quite manageable.

[Millie03]

Thanks for all of the postings! I am deeply disappointed in my birth (long story short, I was admitted to the hospital the night before to be induced (DS was two weeks late) but the cervidil given that night ended up breaking my water and putting me into labor that night, AFTER they gave me two sleeping pills. Needless to say, I was too drugged to have control over anything and ended up getting an epidural 7 hours or so later. And then it ultimately ended up in a c-section with many complications afterwards). So, reading your stories inspires me as we're gearing up to TTC #2. My husband doesn't really understand but I really, really want an un-medicated VBAC. You guys are awesome!

[mgrace]

Congrats on your addition!! I'm sorry birth wasn't what you wanted (I totally understand). My second was so much better.