Positive birth stories?

Question

Feel like sharing your birth stories with me? I’m always curious how FTMs or moms in general dealt with labor/birth. 
I’m 20wks+2 and thinking of going all natural. I’m constantly racking up on tips and advice to ease my mind of any worries. I’ve been watching birth vlogs so much that I feel like I am totally ready for labor/delivery 😂

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I can tell you about my third birth. I woke up 4:10 am at 39 weeks and 4 days, when a littlw bit of my water went. 10 minutes later I was having contractions every 3 minutes so we headed to the hospital. In the car I joked about not being able to resist taking the epidural. A few monents later, still in the car, I said I wouldn’t have time for the epidural. My contractions came 2 minutes apart and I could feel they were strong. We arrived at 5:55 am and I was almost 8 cm dilated. I immediatley got a room, and got some gas and air. Oh the joy! Best thing! My water broke at 9 cm, and a few minutes afterward I was 10 cm. I started pushing at 7:15 and it took 7 minutes. So 7:22 my third son was born. He was 10 lbs 8 oz. I didn’t get any tears. I was laughing an hour later with my husband, that this was easy and I didn’t even feel afterwards like I’ve just given birth.

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Always be flexible! (And positive!) I just gave birth to my little girl yesterday. It was basically 3 days in the hospital for an induction that ended up including an epidural and then a c-section last night before I got to meet my girl! We really did our best to remain patient throughout the process, but there just came a time when I knew I needed more help. 
Granted—inductions tend to be more painful more quickly, but we weren’t planning on inducing and certainly weren’t planning on c-section.
But the important thing is that we are both healthy!

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I have a 1 and a half year old and a 2 week old both were natural births . With my first I woke up with contractions around 9-10 am called the hospital went for a walk for about an hour then headed to the hospital. Got there I was 1-2 cm and when they were gonna check if my water was leaking my water completely broke and from there everything went by so fast and I dilated so quick and gave birth at around 6;25 pm . With my second my water broke at home at 8:30 pm went to the hospital and i was already dilated to a 1 since like 34 weeks and hadn’t dilated yet . Got admitted and nurse checked me at 4am to see if I dilated more and I didn’t so they gave me two pills to help me dilate and then contractions got intense and like 5 minutes nurse checked me again and I was already at 5cm . Next time nurse checked me I felt the urge to push and I was already at 10cm pushed for only 5 minutes and baby was here at 5:30am . No tears for both births

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My water broke at 2:30am, had no progression and was only a fingertip dilated so I had Pitocin. After awhile on that, her heart rate would drop when I moved so I had to stay seated in a “throne” position. I was only ever like “oh this kinda hurts” when she flipped and was sunny side up for awhile because it was all just back labor. After an hour or so of THAT I told them to just give me the epidural so I wouldn’t have to continue to sit there when things got intense because I was stalling at 6cm lol. That was around 3:30-4:00pm. After the epidural I literally just sat there 😂 I couldn’t sleep because I was sitting straight up. They had to put a monitor on her head going through my cervix because she was just doing her own thing and moving away from the external monitors. Finally around 11:00pm- the epidural was turned off and I was at a 9 and had an anterior lip that was manually pushed back. After that was pushed back, I was at a 10. She was still high up so I pushed a little, breathed her down, pushed a little more, breathed her down. 12:55am she was born at 7lbs9oz! I had a small second degree tear that required like 4 stitches but it’s just because she inherited my large head 😂

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