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Situations (usually in other countries) where a pregnant woman dies and people have assumed the baby did too without fully checking due to lack of medical stuff. but then they hear crying because the body naturally birthed the baby. It's a more rare case obviously, but I've heard of it happening. Your body was MADE to do this and by the time you're in that moment of pushing, you'll just be on the mission to get the job done. Then, your little one will be snuggling with you and it will be the best moment ever.
Honestly with my first I found pushing to be the easy part. It was such a relief. Transition was the only part of birth that was overwhelming for me but thankfully it was super short. But my first baby was 48 hours non medicated vaginal birth. I will say though I can't imagine having pain medicine and not being dialed into my body? I feel like that would have been so much harder? But obviously people do it everyday... hopefully someone with that experience will comment if that's an option you are considering
@Bree thank you for sharing !!
@Christina I’m glad you had it easy!!
@Bree just like you said, we were made for this, and our body can do it!
@Christina You can still feel it even with the epidural, it's a pressure near your anus that tells you when to push.
@Iryanna interesting!
So, I'm a mom of almost 6 (6th and last is due this month) When your body is ready to push, IT WILL. Most moms (including me with my first 2 babies) don't know that your body will naturally MAKE you push when it's time. My first 2 babies were hospital births. My 3rd, 4th, 5th, and this one that's coming are all home births with a midwife. I've learned more from my midwife than I EVER learned from the OBs I've had in the past. The best example I can share is this one (as weird as it is lol) think of when you REALLY have to poop. Like, it's an emergency and it's coming whether you're ready or not. Your body will eventually MAKE you poop yourself. A body in labor will do the same thing. Now, with interventions or an epidural, I'm sure it can be a bit harder to read your body more (I've never had either, so that experience i don't have) But naturally your body when all is going good (I'm sure even with an epidural) will do it's thing. Also remeber this, women in COMAS have had babies. There have also been...