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As you all know, I recently gave birth to a beautiful baby boy. He weighed in at 7lb 10.5 oz.
For many women, experiencing labour is very painful, and to other women who are pregnant for the first time, the thought of dilating 10cm so bubs head can come
out, scares them so much that they have pain relief OTHER than gas.
For me, the thought of dilating 10 cm scared me the first time, so i had an epidural! That made the birth of my daughter a very bad experience. I had my legs in stirrups, got torn very badly, had an episiotomy plus my daughter was delivered with forceps! On top of it all, the epidural wasnt very effective!
This time I decided to be brave and try giving birth the natural way, and used for my option as pain relief if i needed to!
I was still scared of the pain i would feel when the babies head was coming out and the contractions etc.
For me, it was all new.
On the 6th of march, at 8am, I was booked in for an induction of labour. However, my little man decided that he didn't want to be forced out so my contractions started at 4am on the day i was booked in for the induction. By the time my Dr arrived which was at 8 am, i was already 7cm dilated. All that was left was to break my waters! So Doctor broke my waters and then everything started to get more painful BUT not unbearable.
I had a shower and then let nature take its course. I dilated one cm every hr or so and during the last cm i was dilating - i started to use the gas... it was only used for half an hour to an hour and then it was time to push!
Due to me not being able to pin point properly where to push, it took a while for bubs head to come around the bend and pushing time was about 45 min from start to finish!
For me, the last hr of contrations, were more painful than the head coming out and i am one who hates pain and will swear and stuff if i hurt myself..... but i didn't even say one swear word or scream during the whole labour!
I am hoping to reach out to all pregnant women through this advice and all women considering having a baby. Try and go natural with the option of gas as a pain relief. Labour is a good pain and not a bad pain. Your endorphins will kick in and block out the bad pain so you wont feel it....but this will only work while bub is coming out.... I can't guarantee you won't be in pain after bub is out.
I just want to say thankyou to minti member Samantha, who was actually the one who helped me to make the decision to go natural, and if it wasn't so risky for me to go back for more, well i'd probably have another two or three bubs!
Make sure you talk to your doctor or midwife during the labour and also before hand so that you can voice your fears if you have any!
Good luck to all those mums expecting..... and just remember.... labour is a good pain, not a bad pain! But for the precious little gift at the end, the pain is all worth it!
(March 2008) (
