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18/3/2004 10:00
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Before I had my first baby I remembered how much pain I had every time I had period. My mom told me it was painful like contractions. Usually I couldn't deal with the pain and took painkiller pill and went to sleep because that pain would go without any stop for stright eight hours
but when i read about labor, and heared from women stories that its comes in contractions with breaks so i was thinking, I can take it because it has breaks!
if labor was one long contraction stright 8 hours, I would scream for epidural!
or will ask someone to take hammer and knock me out on my head , haha
and I was thinking if I would take epidural it looked nasty to me, a big needle to your spinal cord and a catheter.. looked like an ouch. also the risks associated with it (slowing down labor then the need for pitocin, and maybe vaccum or c setion higher rates and the risk to damage the back) and the idea to feel numbed down and being unable to feel the feet...
it scared me enough that I was determined to find a way to avoid it.
when I asked people around about birth pain, I realized that our grandmothers and people from less developed countries had much less painful births, so I realized that the pain is more cultural induced than objective feeling. so I said well if it has to hurt to me, it will hurt to me like the women from the other countries .
my first birth indeed, hurt alot but was bearable. every time it became overwhelming unbearable I realized I needed something like going to the bathroom or drinking or eating.
I avoided disturbances like having any needle stuck to my hand or interventions like induction. I moved around alot, and killed the time
before my second birth I studied into the pain issue deeper and realized that it just mirrors our fears or it alerts that something is wrong like hunger, need bathroom, beind tense, disturbance from people or caregivers or being angry, or a need to change position
also learned that painful births are connected to lack of nutrition or vitamins like Vitamin A, vitamin K, iron, calcium. its very important to take them in form of greens, red raspberry tea, blackstrap mollases, liver, milk products like yoghurt, red meat for protein, eggs. no surprise, nowdays most people are deprived of this
(before my first baby I didn't know so much about this)
also I read about hypno-birthing classes. their phylosophy was that birth doesn't have to hurt. That labor is just muscle tightening to push the baby out that all, nothing mysterious. some hospitals provided these classes. there were several internet stories about women who had painful births but after they learned into this pain issue had less painful or almost painless birth or even pain free birth. all my family had PAINFUL births.
so I was thinking if hospitals 'approve' hypnobirthing classes and women could have it so much less painful then WHY it has to hurt?
I can do it! I still doubted myself so I said I can at least try and see what happens.
when i was in labor I didn't know it was. then I realized. but every time I got scared or was in wrong position like sitting or lie down, then it was painful like labor but when I went back to relaxing, kneeling or walking the pain dissapeared
it worked so well all the way till the birth
I guess part of my success was becasue I didn't have to be afraid or worry what anyone will think, and what will be done to me if it will not progress.
indeed, I was not progressing in my laobr for about 13 hours then all sudden I was dilated from 5 to 10 in just less than an hour and had the baby!
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