Don’t be a hero

As most of you new moms do, I attended a birthing class pre-babe as I wanted to make sure I was prepared for giving birth in every way. I wanted a natural birth. I wanted to sit there with my hubby and do my breathing in all the groovy positions, and bring this little baby into the world gracefully and magically.

What I didn’t realize was that there is no class in the world that would have prepared me for what I was to experience and apparently I had an amazing birth. The nurses said I was born to have kids and that I should have 12 kids...I was a super hero at birth! A super hero who wanted her toe nails pulled off because that would be less painful then squeezing out this baby.

I started labour at midnight and went from 2 to 9 cms in an hour and a half. I had my baby in a record 4.5 hours...sounds dreamy right? Wrong. It was so ingrained in my head that natural is better and that epidurals are not necessary, and that I should be a woman and claim what is mine in this world...the ability to bear children (AHHH, light shining down from the heavens). I can’t stress this enough to all you folks out there who thinks that you are going to ‘try’ it naturally...DON’T BE A HERO. Get the epidural, take the drugs...do whatever you can to stop the pain...trust me on this.