mmmmm.... Wise you are.

When your body has fear, its one of the most primal emotions. There are two things to do with fear, fight or flight. Neither will help get a baby out!! When I was going for my VBAC I knew this and had to set up ways to stop giving into fear. Like Nic said, doing hypnobithing as my antenatal gave DH & I something to do instead of freak out. Calming down was fantastic. The other thing was having birth support. I had a doula. I debriefed my first birth with her and with a close friend who is a doula. I read and got informed about what my body was doing and about birth. When it was time and I was in labour, I got really excited about it rather than fearful.

Informed you must be!