Did you achieve a natural birth (no pain meds) in a hospital or at home?

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WHAT GOT YOU THROUGH NATURALLY? Giving birth at home allowed me to forget about drugs and flow with my body. I imagine it would be very difficult to avoid interventions and pain meds in a hospital when you’re out of your comfort zone and you know it’s available.

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Educating myself and knowing natural birth was healthier. Turns out it made the labor and recovery so much easier too.

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I've had 2 natural births at a hospital. I think what helped was labouring at home (there was no time for an epidural even if I wanted one lol) and my amazingly supportive midwife team.

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I live in Germany and natural births tend to be the rule rather than the exception here. Midwives are the ones who deliver babies here, even in hospitals. It's not standard procedure to place an IV and offering a hot bath as pain relief is pretty normal (in the 30mins it took my midwife to prepare by bath I'd gone from 5-8cm and by then it was sadly too late). Nobody even mentioned drugs to me. Not once. And I didn't see a doctor until minutes before baby was born and she just stood in the corner and waited until I was ready to be stitched up. 
It helped me to know that each contraction brought me closer to meeting my baby. I enjoyed the breaks between contractions immensely rather than worrying in advance about the next one.

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Taking the hypnobirthing class and reading Ina May Gaskin. I felt so informed and empowered. I had a healthy home birth.

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Not at all. All 3 of my kids were born in a hospital but i only received pain medication for my first one. 
There is a bit of comfort with knowing that its there if you want it but I didn’t and i had no trouble staying the course. 
Congrats on your little bundle, thats a great picture!

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I had a natural hospital birth I wouldn’t even let them lay me on my back I pushed in a squatting position and didn’t let them dictate when I pushed or how long I actually let my body do it and once her head was out she just slipped out. 
I didn’t hypnoborthing ima yoga lover so it didn’t hurt I don’t remember any pain but the burning sensation from the ring of fire.

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Ive had 2 natural hospital births. I birthed with midwives who know the value of natural delivery and knew what I wanted. Interventions aren’t available unless you consider them available.

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I gave birth naturally now too times using only lavender oil to smell during a contraction. Drinking red raspberry leaf tea more this last pregnancy really helped active labor only be 3 hours and my body pushed by itself this time. No one told me when except to try to make me stop pushing till the midwife made it back in the room. Lol

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Hypnobirthing classes really helped me. Both the birth education and relaxation techniques were key for relaxation. I've had both of my babies at home and will be having a 3rd end of this year.

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I made my wishes clear to my husband and my midwives and, later my OB's (midwives were made to leave my hospital after the OB's got upset. The midwives had more than 75% of the patients, meaning less money for the hospital, as they tend to not have many emergency c sections). I would not allow pain meds. If I begged, they were to pretend not to hear me. It turns out, being completely calm and in control helped me to be completely silent and I never even thought about wanting any help from the pain. By the time the pain got really bad, I was starting to push during my contractions,  slightly, not bearing down, which helped enormously.

Did you achieve a natural birth (no pain meds) in a hospital or at home?

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