On day fifteen after official due date, I just came into natural labour, went into natural labour. And it was just so much better, so - obviously second babies will be easier, but I just, it wasn't something to get worried about, went into labour, got my TENS machine at home which was much better than the one the hospital gives you, much better, that I'd bought. And
And did your doula come to the house or..?
She didn't, because she was coming from the opposite direction so she met me at the hospital. She was actually quite concerned I was going to make it in time, because it all kicked off quite quickly. And it, it, just the whole process made me, I was, it was actually very therapeutic for me to have my second child so quickly, in a way, because it confirmed what I had thought all along. My gut feeling and what I had really sort of known, that my body is actually very healthy at pregnancy and childbirth and knows exactly what it's doing, and can do it perfectly well with manageable pain - obviously with bits, you know, of help from a TENS machine and stuff - and my child can breathe perfectly fine, thanks very much, when you don't cut the umbilical cord, you know, literally sort of abortively, almost. And, and you just leave nature to its own devices and my body's fine. Now I know some people's bodies aren't very well suited to childbirth, and you need to have that intervention. You need to help, or else naturally speaking some women would, if we were completely left to our own devices, die in childbirth. But, you know, one should be left, you know, nature should not be interfered with unless there's a problem with it. And the whole process with the second baby was, was great. |
