You Can Have a Baby Without an Epidural

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My name is Annabelle, from Pearently, and I want to tell you that YOU CAN have a baby without an epidural! I am here to encourage you in your pursuits of a natural hospital birth! ► Learn more about Pearently by clicking the link below…

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First things first. There is a lot of competition out there amongst women about their labor and delivery process. Today I want to come to you and say there is NO competition here, only encouragement. In my opinion, we women need to stick together and encourage each other because we are powerful women that get to carry and deliver life into this world.

And because of that we shouldn’t be scaring each other. We should be lifting each other up and saying, “You can do this! What you want to do with your labor and delivery process is your choice and I am going to say go for it! You’ve got this girl!”.

So, now I want to talk to you a little bit about my experience and how did my labor and delivery process.

I am a nurse and health expert. I come from a family with my Dad as an OB/GYN and my Mom as a Labor and Delivery Nurse for 10 years. I have/had a lot of information around me. During my pregnancy, this information was very helpful, but I still had fears. I was still very anxious because this was the first time I was going to have a baby.

I had grown this watermelon inside of me, and then it HIT ME! Oh my goodness, it has to COME OUT and there is NO going back.

With that in mind, I wanted to prepare. But I did not know EXACTLY how I was going to do it.

I started asking lots and lots of questions to my parents ESPECIALLY one month before my due date. I asked every question I could possibly think of and i asked if there were questions I wasn’t thinking of…and there were many!

I wanted to picture the process in my mind. I wanted to be prepared. I wanted to know how the contractions would feel. I wanted to know when the contractions would get stronger. When I needed to go to the hospital. What would happen when I got to the hospital?

On and on my questions tumble out in droves…

But let me tell you! The biggest decision I had to make was if I was going to get an epidural or if I was not going to get an epidural.

I said, “No, I do not want an epidural”.

The problem with that is people would ask me. I would tell them, “No, I am not going to have one”. Then, all of these “experienced” mothers would say, “Ok, Yeah! I didn’t want either but then when my contractions got to this point and I had labored for this many hours I said ‘I have to have one’ and I couldn’t deal with the pain anymore. So you will probably do the same thing”.

HONESTLY, I got a little tired of hearing all of these “horror stories” all of these moms that said to me, “You CAN’T do it” and that was defeating.

Until I met this ONE WOMAN. Who was about my age and had a son of her own. She asked me about my pregnancy. I started to tell her about my pregnancy and how I was planning on not having an epidural and I wanted to give birth naturally. I told her I was getting a lot of negative feedback and I was starting to become discouraged.

She stopped me before I could even finish and she said, “Ok, stop listening to all of that negative talk. This is a beautiful thing and you can do it. Of course, there is a ring of fire and it burns! But it is not as bad as everyone keeps telling you it is. And when you hold your baby it is worth it, you forget about it. Yeah, you are a little bit so