How will you give birth?

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Please comment with why one way and not the others!

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I voted all natural, I can only wish for a home birth. My midwife won't be available in May. So it will be a hospital birth but I will stay home as long as possible before heading in. :)

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I would like to see how strong the contractions are before I decide whether or not I'll get an epidural. I'm usually very pain tolerant but I don't want the experience to be completely unbearable so I'm on the fence. I'm also really hoping not to have to have a c-section but as long as my baby is healthy that's all that matters ??

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I've experience medicated hospital births and an all natural homebirth now and I can tell you the homebirth was way easier and less hassle! So that's why I'm planning to do it again. Not to mention that it is much healthier in so many ways for mom and baby to go all natural. I might have considered a birth center but we don't have one in this area.

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I voted all natural. I've been thinking and researching a lot about this and I can't get past the fact that women have been giving birth for thousands of years naturally, why does there need to be intervention now? What hormones/bonding/healing are we missing out on when we take away the pain? Birth works so perfectly on it's own, what benefits are we losing when we change it?

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That hypnobirthing seems pretty cool, I want to look further into that as I have no pain tolerance whatsoever :( even the thought of the epidural makes me flinch!

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I have had two previous csections.

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Just because I have had two c-sections already and when I get pf with #3 will also have to be. Unless I travel 2.5+ hrs to see a diff dr that will allow vba2c.