Anyone have an unassisted birth?

[Sam Pearson]

id not choose an unassisted birth but after having had a natural labour and delivery i really wouldnt be scared going it alone next time if mw's didnt get there in time. i have read birth stories of uc and think there amazing. x

I found with my hospital birth I turned to the hospital staff to "help" me birth but they were't much help, with my independent midwife attended I was anxious for them to arrive and once they did I again emotionally and practically handed over to my midwives to "help" me birth but they weren't much help. I was slow to catch on that the work was all mine. With my freebirths I wasn't looking to anybody to arrive or do anything - I looked myself and I just simply birthed. It was that straightforward. We simply took the phone off the hook and locked the door and didn't leave the house. I laboured while my family carried on as usual - read, baked, watched tv, played, slept, ate the cake, made another, filled the pool etc. Then I birthed, we put the pool down and we settled in to enjoy our babymoon.

 

[mamawannabee]

I have already had my baby now, we planned a water birth at a birth center, wound up at the hospital with an induction due to the amniotic fluid all leaking out (without me knowing!). They did an u/s just to check as I was 11 days past due date and it was all gone. As much as I didn't want the birth I got, it has given me a much better feeling of the hospital, I had such a fear before (cried as they transferred me there) but it turned out well. I would absolutely do an unassisted birth in the future as long as I felt the pregnancy had gone smoothly with no complications.

 

[Sam Pearson]

Congratulations!!!

 

[ZoeZo]

Sorry to hear it wasn't as you planned, but glad hospital wasn't as awful as you thought, and congratulations on the arrival of Everly! x