Does your hospital confine you to just the room while in labour?

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The more that I think about my first birth, the more I wish I listened to my mom.
My mom's had 3 natural unmedicated births, when I was in the third trimester with my first she kept advising me to stay active, when in labour stay home for as long as you feel you can and even then, stay active. 
When she was in labour with her last a couple of years ago, I remember her actually being in the garden planting roses, went for a shower, tried to have a nap and some food etc. I held my breath everytime I saw her have a contraction. Then she knew when it was time to go and off she went, gave birth within 2 hours of being in the hospital, she said it was the same for all 3 of us. 
Anyway when i was in labour with my first, the second I noticed my contractions were regular, I called her, she told me to keep busy but I panicked and went to the hospital, immediately I was strapped down on monitors, no real reason, I was low risk. They gave me a birthing ball but that's all the activity I could do.
When she came to visit me in labour, she argued with one of the nurses to atleast let me walk around the hospital, they gave up and said I have 30 minutes, I was only 3cm then after 12 hours, after that walk around I jumped to 5cm, I thought great, speeding up now, but I was strapped down again and didn't progress any further. 
I was there for a total of 36 hours till they wheeled me in for an emergency c section because baby was stressed and loosing oxygen, I didn't sleep or eat in those 36 hours, contractions were back to back and were so intense that I cried for an epidural and gas and air. 
With my second I was scared of that so I opted for a planned c section. 
I wish I listened to my mom when she said "I'd rather labour at home, doing the things I love and risk giving birth on the living room floor than be confined to a hospital room with stress". 
Does your hospital confine you? What was your experience?

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probably now more likely to contain you because of covid

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i couldnt walk around bc of covid. i absolutely hated my hospital stay and couldn't wait to come home

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I wasn’t, but I had mine before covid was a thing. I was allowed to walk around the entire L+D floor. Once they started pitocin, I was still able to move around as I pleased. Once contractions got too intense, I chose to stay in my room and do a bath etc.

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My first I got to walk. 2nd was so fast, it a two hour then done. 3rd I had to be induced and due to Covid I wasn’t allowed to walk the halls.

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My hospital let me walk up and down the hall of L&D during my labor. I was also in labor for two days so the first day they had me walk to help me progress. By the second day I was confined to my room since I was in active labor and requested an epidural.

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I was encouraged to walk/move around as much as possible, one of the midwives even walked up and down some stairs with me. They also encourage to eat and drink whatever I felt like the whole time. Even when induced with my second at 41+4. Luckily birthing here is a lot more holistic than in the US, it's also midwife run. You only see an obgy if baby is breech, multiples, or you for some reason need a C-section.

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I was because I was on pitocin. As a general rule, they do not.

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I was induced with my daughter (hypertension). Pitocin. They had me on the highest dosage by the morning. Gave me a break and let me walk the halls with a wireless monitor for baby. I wasn't allowed to go too far because it would be out of range but I was able to walk circles around the L&D floor. This was back in 2018. Pre-covid times. 
I was allowed to go into spontaneous labor with my son. Oct 2021. Labored down at home. Got to the hospo at 4-5 cm with a bulging bag. Sat in triage for an hour waiting on covid test (negative) and a room. Got into a room at 3:28 am. Not hooked up to anything. Told I could do as I pleased within the room. Lay down, sleep, rock, walk, take a bath. Anything and everything as long as I stayed in the room. COVID times. I was actually in the middle of speaking to the nurse about 50 mins later when I mentioned I needed to push. Sure enough baby time. Wasn't expecting that. I hadn't even changed into a gown. Had enough time to get my pants off. But he was placed on the shirt I wore in after he was born. Didn't even have time to take that off 😅 thought we had hours to go because I wasn't in a lot of pain and I was only 4-5 when we got there. Thankfully I wasn't out walking the halls or I'd have had him out there.

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Love your moms advice

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If your alone your stuck in your room, but if you have someone you can walk the halls of that floor. Its a fall risk if your alone walking the halls. The birthrooms here are massive and you have lots of space for various balls, walking. Showers, tub etc.