How did a your outlook on birth affect your actual labor?

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So I'm interested to know how a positive outlook before labor can affect the actual process of labor and how you experience it. This is obviously for mamas only! 
The first two options mean your outlook matched the labor (and by negative outlook I mean you were afraid, worried, scared, etc.). 
The other two options refer to the outlook first and the opposite actually happened during labor. 
Sorry if it's confusing 🙈 just curious to know how far a positive view can take you.

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I felt very positive before my first two deliveries and ended up with two great births that I look back at fondly. I really didn’t want to go in with any fear. I do think it can a difference.

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I felt very positive and excited and had a great planned csection! I went in smiling, had very little anxiety/nerves and enjoyed the morning at home, went in around 11, had zero issues from hospital paperwork to the spinal, procedure went great- recovery has been easier than I thought. I think a positive outlook had a lot to do with it- my delivery was different as it didn’t include labor, but the positivity surrounding me made for a really easy ‘birth day’

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I was very positive and open to whatever needed to be done to keep us both safe and healthy.  I was induced on Friday at 41 weeks and was thrown into painful early labour throughout the night.  On Saturday the doctor broke my water throwing me into active very painful and unmedicated labour.  When he broke my water he discovered baby was breech.  We were shocked as the midwives had been sure he was head down for months and I’d been checked by an ob the day before who didn’t feel anything strange either.  2 hours later I had an unplanned c-section after labouring for 24 hours due to the induction.  We are both safe and healthy but I am not sure how to process what happened just yet.

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My first 2 I was positive and had a positive outcome 😁

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I was positive about my outlook for having a VBAC or a scheduled csection. I went to the chiropractor weekly and did spinning babies only to STILL have my baby be breech. So then I made peace with a scheduled csection. Then last Friday at 38 weeks, I had bleeding which sent me to the hospital. Found out I had low water and my outer sack ruptured. That led to an emergency csection but because I had eaten dinner I had to wait it out over night while in labor at the hospital so I started off this parenting thing with no sleep. We are both healthy but I definitely had a negative labor experience even going into it with a very positive outlook. There’s just no way to spin how my labor went as positive other than We are both home and healthy.

How did a your outlook on birth affect your actual labor?

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