All natural delivery 🙂 | Post depression ☹️

I gave birth to awesome young man 20 days ago and wanted to share my delivery story.

pregnancy was the best time of my life. I was so happy, loved feeling kicks, enjoyed feeling ... full and wanted to be pregnant for the rest of my life.

At 38w4d my water broke and I was surprisingly calm and cool. I went in shower, checked hospital bag and stayed home for 5 hours (no pain).

When I got to hospital half an hour later contractions kicked in hard. 1,50mins apart and 0,40sec long. Contractions were getting stronger and I could barely move or take a breath. They lasted 4 hours until I had to push. But I was determined to not have any help (medicine-wise).

The worst pain was right before pushing, but when we had to start, all pain went away and adrenalin came. I was pushing for 40mins only and healthy boy was born. My first baby.

I wanted tell you girls that you don’t need medicine to get trough this (if you have normal and stable pregnancy). Pain is bearable. Where I live, we have to pay 100€ to get a pain relief.

What was hard - post depression. That surprised me unexpectedly and I wasn’t ready for emotions, feelings and thoughts I had for 2weeks straight after birth.

I think that doctors and specialists are not talking enough about depression or how to get trough it, so please share your stories. There are so many young moms feeling alone and depressed when they should enjoy this time being a young mom.

Do you feel prepared for post depression / did you experience it and how did you got trough it?