Hi Gracie just wanted to add that I feel/felt the same way as you - silly and naive whenever I start to talk about not wanting drugs at all. I intend to stay at home for as long as possible (we're only 15 mins from the hospy), so I can work with the contractions in a comfortable environment (their birth unit is like a huge room with no windows!! eep). I really don't like the idea of taking anything because it'll cross into the placenta and I don't want to be 'out of it' - I will, though, keep an open mind that anything can happen.
I'm a big believer that our bodies were designed to give birth - no matter what way it happens. So drug-free is possible, for sure! Women have been doing this for thousands of years - and it's only really been in the past, what, 90 years? that we've been given drugs and carted off to the hospital to have our babies.
I took a prenatal yoga class - and the teacher was amazing. I ended up buying her book so I could keep her teachings in mind and practice at home. I think we're all 'taught' that labour is all screaming in the stirrups, but I think it's also the best day of your life I'd rather go into it thinking "I can do this" than "when can I get my epi?" - but this is what I want. I can't wait!!
Hope everything goes well for you xx
Last edited by tracey*; September 28th, 2007 at 04:23 PM.
just wanted to add that I feel/felt the same way as you - silly and naive whenever I start to talk about not wanting drugs at all. I intend to stay at home for as long as possible (we're only 15 mins from the hospy), so I can work with the contractions in a comfortable environment (their birth unit is like a huge room with no windows!! eep). I really don't like the idea of taking anything because it'll cross into the placenta and I don't want to be 'out of it' - I will, though, keep an open mind that anything can happen.
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