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My positive comment is this: once it is over you won't even remember the pain and you'll have a beautiful baby. Soooo worth it! Yeah, it hurts. It hurts a lot. But I felt it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Nearly 38 weeks and terrified to give birthš©
I feel so unprepared, I donāt do pain at all. I canāt cope with the slightest niggles of pain. Iām 100% going to ask for an epidural but my fear is they will be too busy or wonāt give me one - Iām in the UK and they arenāt as commonly used here. I had slight cramping an hour ago and I started to freak. Iām so excited to meet baby but I think Iām scared of that too.
Please send me your positive birth stories and even if you didnāt have a āpositive birthā experience Iād still like to here of your thoughts and how you look back on your experience. I keep thinking itās fine because itās going to be temporary but itās still so scary. Iām 23, this is my first pregnancy and baby and she definitely was unplanned which I think is making it scarier even though I wouldnāt change her for the world! This whole virus has thrown me off tooš No birthing classes, no seeing family and being cooped up for nearly 9 weeks now.
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I unfortunately don't have a positive birth story but one thing that helped me that's weird is once the contractions started getting bad, the nurse started telling me when they were coming and I think because I had a second to prepare for them it helped me relax because if you're tense it's so much harder.
I was terrified too. I couldn't do any classes just like you. I couldn't bring myself to even watch videos about labour. But thankfully my birth was actually fine! It was really quick (5 hours total and like 10 mins of pushing). I just kept telling myself that it would end and I would get a little break after each contraction. The time went super quickly and I managed on gas and air (plus paracetamol). You kinda get into a rhythm. It's amazing what your body can manage.Good luck. You will get through it and it can be much easier than you're expecting. š
Hey mama I was soooo scared too! I had my first at 17 and I was terrified. I promise your body can handle it. Your first few hours of contractions arenāt even that painful like in the movies lol. Thereās nothing I or anyone can say to prepare you, but my advice is just to relax and know that weāve been having babies for centuries! Trust your body ā¤ļø
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