Certainly (from what I have heard from friends and family who are in the baby birthing zone in the UK) homebirths are really widely supported in the UK, Ryn....much more so than in Australia......... but a GF of mine who lives in Brighton, who has given birth to her 2 babies at home, was telling me that Sussex NHS Trust has the 2nd highest homebirth rate in the UK (after a rural county like Devon, I think?) with some astounding rate such as 8%?
So if anything Ryn, you are in the right place...............
I didn't have a birth plan – I just went with the flow. Of course I would have preferred a drug-free birth but I was in so much pain I just wanted whatever I could get! Unfortunately they could not get an anesthetist in to administer an epi so I tried gas (which I didn't like) and then ended up agreeing to pethidine which really didn't help the pain that much!
I have both my kids drug free but i cant say that i really planned it that way. I actually said with my first that i would take gas but nothing else. I didnt even think about it to tell you the truth. I just got on with it and made every pain a positive pain. I walked as much as i could and slept between the contractions with #1. I was then stuck to the bed with the monitor around me so i had to get as comfortable as i could, but still just got on with it.
#2 DS, was drug free to which is what i wanted again, and thats only because i knew i could do it. I walked again through contractions and made the pain positive.
Everyones pain threshold is so different so thats the teller really. I actually thought mine was low but soon found out it was quite high, lol.
I think the advantage to a drug free birth is that you feel reasonably well afterwards.
Just go with the flow and take what comes. And remember, its positive pain.
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