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With my second baby I did not have an epidural. I just breathed deeply through contractions and arched my back in during them. It helped alot. I also somewhat ignored the nurses and did what made me comfortable. Lasted about 18 hours and even with the nurses pushing for me to get the epidural( they said it would help me sleep to get more energy when i had to push)l, I did it drug free.

I had a natural labor with my first baby. Was in labor for 8 hours dealing with back labor! I will be honest, it was pretty horrible. I walked, took a shower (or a few) rocked in a rocking chair, sat in a tub. After 6 hours, I said that I wanted something for the pain. They checked me and I was fully dilated so I couldn't get any pain medication. I pushed for two hours and ended up having an emergency c-section. After everything, I felt like I had accomplished a lot. I attempted to have a natural birth, ended up wanting something but couldn't get it, then having to go through a c-section! lol. I would suggest walking and breathing. Good luck!

I simply gave start Nov 30 - my hard work used to be problematic as a result of a again harm I had as a youngster so I needed to have three epidurals for the final one to capture. I used to be precipitated - the worst aspect is breaking of the water - its simply plenty of stress and uncomfortable. The epidural allowed me to dialate quicker - and it fairly does chill out you - you do not suppose a lot however you are going to suppose a stress to push. If I had been to get pregnant once more I could get an epidural faster alternatively of ready till my contractions had been a pair minutes aside. I additionally had an epitosmy - so if this occurs to you there may be mild on the finish of the tunnel - approximately 7 days later you are going to suppose like a brand new individual. Forgo the epson salts it burns - get a sids tub, bathe tons, and get pads soak them in water, wrap them in saran wrap and freeze them - whilst you move to make use of them that's extremely advocated wrap the pad in a face fabric - additionally tucks medicated pads for hemoriods works for your stitches as good. These all helped enormous time. Take stool softeners believe me you don't wish to be constipated! The frozen pads I used a tonne of them for every week it fairly is helping with swelling. I did check out the demoral shot and had no alleviation . With an epidural it fairly helped to velocity my delievery on. Whatever you selected hard work pains will all be a factor of the beyond when you bond together with your new born. Good success - keep confident - I used to be terrified too however boy used to be it valued at it!

Thankfully mine lasted only 7 hours and I had no meds. I tried the gas and air since people had said it make you feel a little spaced out, which sounded like fun in a fairly stressfull situation and it just made me sick. What got me through labour which I had to do on an empty stomach as I had sicked up my breakfast thanks to the gas and air was counting and eye contact. I would count during my contractions and each one lasted to 16 or 18 counts so I knew by the time I got to 10 that contraction was nearly over. Having that frame of mind helped a lot and just keeping my mind on the fact that I was not in control of this, my body was and I just had to do what my body told me to.

I am surprised over how easy I found it, but hindsight means I have probably forgotten about the worst. And looking back at my papers I didnt get to hospital until 3 hours before giving birth and before then my contractions was quite liveable, so I only endured 3-4 hours of bad contractions.

yes i had 3 natural labor without epidural it hurt really bad but it will be over when the baby is out planing again for my fourth baby good luck

I managed and lived to tell about it! I only had 1 epidural out of 4 pregnancies - I even delivered my twins vaginally without any med's