AHHH!! Congratulations Jodie, and welcome Cleo! Gorgeous name
Well done on the HB! I wanted to be a HB achiever too, but if you could see my living room you'd see why I opted for the midwifery unit!
LOL Vivienne, that's a whole different kind of pain! I went for the shaving option, no way anyone's ripping hair off me!
Stef I think everyone screams a bit the first time, till the midwife tells you to stop and concentrate on pushing! My first I had gas and air, though I found it did very little, I liked biting the mouth piece! This time nothing, just breathing baby down and some weird primitive moaning thing that happened as he was born. What I kept in my mind that helped that first time was; a) millions of women have done this, it's meant to come out of there, I can too. b) thinking of my friend with cancer, and knowing this pain will be over soon, hers won't.
This time I took a very different approach as I knew what to expect. I used the breathing baby down method - with every contraction I focused on what my body was doing and why, rather than 'ouch'. So thinking 'my stomach is contracting, the baby is moving down' and with that, relaxing and allowing the feeling of pressure to take over, rather than tensing up I relaxed into the end of the contraction. In the last stage, my body took over and pushed all on it's own, three contractions and I had delivered my own baby in the pool! I can honestly say I enjoyed it!
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im going to go back and add you all now
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and wow at sharing a birthday with Daddy!
Think labour will hurt less. Pain threshold has gone totally.
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