Birth Stories

Surrounding Herself With Positive People And Taking The Class Helped Shelly During Her Hospital Water Birth

  • When did you realize you were really in labor?

    When my contractions were 2-3 minutes apart and everyone around me was telling me it was real. I even asked the nurse if my contractions were real.

  • What was the most challenging thing about going natural?

    Surrendering to my body. It knew what it was doing and I was just along for the ride and it was a little bit frightening bc I couldn’t stop it and just needed to trust and work with it.

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  • What was the most helpful thing you did to prepare for childbirth?

    Surround myself with positive people who knew what I wanted. Taking the class to empower myself to know that I could do this.

  • What surprised you about your birth?

    How fast it went. They say second births are faster but from time I set foot into hospital to time she was born was less than an hour.

  • Surround myself with positive people who knew what I wanted.
  • What pain relief strategies worked best?

    Really trying to focus on the fact that it wouldn’t last forever and to take it one contraction at a time. Also I kept telling myself that I was ok and I could do it.

  • What position did you end up delivering in?

    I ended up having a water birth. At first, I thought I would just use the tub for pain relief but baby wanted to come as soon as I got into the tub and I needed to push.

  • How did it feel to hold your baby for the first time?

    Amazing, relief, indescribable

  • How did the Mama Natural Birth Class help you in your childbirth?

    Gave me the knowledge and tools to know I could do this and to trust in myself.

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