what are your labour plans???

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what are you going to do while you wait at home before hospital (if you're having a hospital birth?) I was thinking of just using the birth ball to try to ease labour pain and sort of wing it until contractions were close enough to go to hospital... but my midwife thinks I should get paracetamol with codeine or use a tens machine. whats everyone else doing??

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Labor at home until I feel it's time to go. Completely natural labor and birth. Showers, walking, yoga ball/peanut, lots of water. Ice packs for the back labor (which I'm already having lol)

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I plan on walking a lot while I still can to help the process. Once contractions get closer together and more painful I plan on using my yoga ball and the shower to help with the pain. 
If my water breaks, I'm putting an adult diaper on and continuing my day. Lol. I'm trying to labor at home as long as possible to prevent medical intervention.

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It's looking like I'm probably going to have a C-section since my little lady is refusing to drop. (My husband was a giant baby and my MIL had to have a c-section because he never dropped.) So my birth plan sort of went out the window. Haha. The game plan was to labor at home as until 5-7 minute contractions- take a shower, bounce on my ball, eat some toast, and pack up last minute things for the hospital bags. 
You know what they say- if you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans. 😉😂

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My plan if I go into labor on my own, is basically just live my life normally as long as possible. I want to labor at home as long as possible so I want to clean our floors one more time before I leave, maybe finish packing our bag (mine and hubbys). If I have to be induced of course I wont get that luxury.

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It really is hard to plan something like that cuz you never know what can happen. So I got to plan for every situation kinda but if I break at home I'll just be at home, I want to keep myself busy they say that's really helpful until the contractions are unbearable so I'll probably want to do laundry cook or clean and finish packing the bags till the contractions are 3 to 5 minutes apart and then go to the hospital.

what are your labour plans???

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