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How To Homebirth - Best Natural Birth Tips
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hey guys and welcome back today we're
gonna be chatting about my best tips for
an amazing and successful natural birth
now if we've never met before hello my
name is Brittany and I'm a natural
minded mama of four my oldest is six and
a half and my youngest my daughter is
one and yet we've had four different
birth experiences I'm gonna pass along
my best tips from one family when mama
to another what I've learned also just a
little bit of background surrounding my
births with my oldest we have a planned
Hospital birth it didn't quite go to
plan and I had a really rough recovery
ended up with an infection was in the
hospital for almost a week and I knew
for subsequent births the best option
for our family was to do home water
births I really wanted to do a birth in
the water and honestly it was so much
more gentle and for me a lot easier
helped with pain relief so that's my
experience one Hospital birth and then
for subsequent babies for my last three
we had those all at home in the water
attended by midwives so that's a little
bit more about my background alright
let's get into it with my best tips my
first tip is don't worry and I don't
mean this and like an irritating like oh
don't worry it'll all be fine like that
annoying kind of way what I mean is
don't doubt your body or don't let
anyone allow you to start that little
voice in the back your mind thinking I
don't know if I can do this or I don't
know if I can handle this or I'm gonna
try if you genuinely want to have a
natural birth you want to do it
unmedicated or if you're planning a home
birth and there's a little voice in the
back of your mind thinking I don't know
if I can handle the pain like all of my
friends or family members around me have
had epidurals or you're just not sure if
you can handle the pain of childbirth
don't worry you were made to do this and
if that is what you want to do you
genuinely want to have an unmedicated
childbirth where you want to have your
baby at home don't worry if your body
can do it because you can totally do it
you were made for this and by addressing
those worries you can just knock them
out of the way I know when I was having
my second birth with my son we were
doing a home water birth but I had come
for
the experience of a really rough labor
delivery situation I didn't have a lot
of support I ended up getting pushed
into an epidural so I was afraid I ended
up getting an epidural at 8 centimeters
because I didn't have any support didn't
have anybody to say let's do maybe some
practice bushes and see if we can you
know stretch a little bit more or let's
you know try some positions or anything
so coming to my second birth I was
afraid that I wouldn't be able to handle
past 8 centimeters dilated or passed
transition to pushing one fear that I
expressed my midwife with my second baby
was I just didn't know if I could handle
like I've never experienced the pain of
pushing because I had had the epidural
but by telling her that by voicing that
by saying what I was thinking and
feeling she was able to address that and
tell me basically
Britany contractions you know they start
here and they get to a certain intensity
and they don't go more than what you can
bear like you are made to do this you
are made to birth your baby and that
intensity of contractions it goes up and
up and up but it's never gonna go more
than what you can bear and pushing it's
the same thing you're when you're
working with your body you can do it and
the more you work with your body the
less painful it is going to be I so wish
someone had told me that with my first
and I wish I had had someone that I had
more time to talk with and to address
those fears with my hospital birth or
with the physician so I guess you live
and learn but I can pass that on to you
guys if you have fears in the back of
your mind or you're doubting just don't
even let that take root and push those
worries aside because you can do it my
next point goes hand-in-hand with the
first and that is to talk it out with
your provider whether you have an OB and
you're planning a hospital birth even
though you'll typically have a shorter
appointment time when I was seeing at OB
my appointments for about 30 minutes
versus when I was seeing a midwife her
appointments were about an hour so
you've got you know half the time when
you're with an OB but if there are
things that you really are worrying
about or you want to talk about bring
them up and see what she can offer and
if you feel like you're not getting
support you can always decide to switch
to a different one in the office
that might work better for you or give
you more confidence I know an issue that
I had was my doctor that I had for my
visits she wasn't actually there to
deliver me so that was kind of hard to
you have a break in communication based
on who's on call when you'll be
delivering or when you happen to go into
labor so that's difficult but if you
have somebody that you feel relates to
you and can understand you that will
prop you for the best mindset and the
best birth overall and the same goes for
if you have a midwife if you've got
things that you're thinking about just
voice them bring them up in your
appointments she is there to support you
emotionally and if you've got doulas or
friends who've also given birth bring it
up to them anybody that you're
comfortable with just let it out talk
about it address those fears or things
that are in the back of your mind and if
you have someone who has brought up I
know everybody likes to give their birth
horror stories to pregnant women and I
don't know why they do that I'm sorry of
people who've done that but if you have
somebody close to you let's say your
mother where someone has had an awful
birth experience or something that went
wrong address that with your provider
because if there's something scary
that's happened with you know someone
related to you you kind of might start
feeling well that might happen to me
because we're build a life or we have
the same genetics but that is not
necessarily the case so bring that up in
your appointment talk it out and get rid
of that doubt my next tip and sort of
birthing strategy is visualization I
really really think this one is
important and it is so helpful
especially if you're going in with the
mindset of a non medicated birth or a
home birth because you know you don't
have medicine here but I think that
visualizing how your birth is gonna go
what it might look like where you might
labor even if you like let's say that
you're planning on breathing in your
bedroom visualize where the pool is
gonna go visualize what might be
comfortable to rock on or where you
where might be comfortable to stand or
squat or walking around the house even
if you're just relaxing like laying in
bed listening to some nice music and
thinking about that or maybe thinking
about it at night I think it is so
comforting to picture just a peaceful
birth and I can tell you for an
experience that it definitely helps you
when you're actually going through labor
and delivery to have those thoughts in
your
and have those positive thoughts and be
familiar with everything and I already
have pictured that and since you've
already got them you know you've
probably already got the big old
pregnant belly when you're watching this
and you feel you know when your baby's
kicking down there or maybe you're
already having some pre-labor
contractions you're feeling a little
glimpse of what its gonna feel like in
labor so don't belittle the fact that
you already kind of know what to expect
here if you've gone through menstrual
cramps it's kind of similar to that even
if you've never had a baby before don't
belittle the fact that you can
definitely visualize you can definitely
plan and you can do this you could
totally do it now I could go on and on
about this topic for so long I've
probably felt my own masterclass because
I'm just so passionate about birth and
pregnancy and the whole process is just
amazing to me and I loved it so much but
that would be a different video and a
whole series the next tip I have for you
is about relaxing just relax when the
process is unfolding so I mean like when
you're having either Braxton Hicks
contractions or if they're progressing
and you're starting to go into
full-blown actual labor contractions
through transition keep in your mind
that point of what your body is doing
like this is what is bringing your
precious little baby finally to you this
process if you can relax now I don't
mean just like relax and peace I mean
like in your mind release that anxiety
and allow your body to do what it's
doing so for those of you that have had
babies before a lot of people will
explain it as you know your belly is
suddenly tightening and it gets tighter
tighter tighter that's the uterus
contracting that's the baby being pushed
down if you can relax and breathe with
that and breathe your baby down it's
gonna help even if you start to feel
like it's getting a bit much after
you've gone through contraption after
contraption when you've got that little
break in between keep that point in your
mind of this is getting me closer this
contraction is so much closer than the
one before it and as you're waiting for
the next one to come just gain that
strength up breathe and get ready for
the next one because it's gonna bring
you that much closer and I think at that
point when you feel like you just can't
like I don't know if I could do this
I'm gonna be able to last much longer
through these contractions I think
that's when your life you're almost done
that is like the end of transition at
least that's what I've experienced and
that's when it's time to like start to
do some practice pushes now my last tip
in having a successful and an amazing
natural birth is to prep as early as you
can
even before you conceive to start
prepping your body to be strong and to
be healthy as early as you can even if
you let's say you haven't done any form
of exercise or you haven't been eating
healthy and you're already halfway
through your pregnancy the earlier you
can start the better for one for your
peace of mind just knowing how strong
you can be and how strong you are but
also obviously it's gonna help build up
some muscle tone in your body and it's
gonna help your baby to be healthy and
just overall promote success with that
so make sure you're getting enough water
make sure you're walking make sure
you're getting enough protein and folic
acid all of those are really important
vitamins minerals sunshine if you've got
it in your area all of those good for
you things make sure you're doing
everything you can to build your body up
and especially with your nutrition that
is probably the biggest thing that you
can control as a pregnant mama is the
nutrition that you and your baby are
taking in and that'll really help during
labor and delivery and even after
childbirth to with nursing and all that
good stuff well that's gonna be it with
my tips I also wanna let you guys know
if you are curious about my home birth
my experience I do have both my home
birth story and my actual birth footage
if you'd like to check that out I'll
have them linked up in the cards and
down in the description below I think
it's helpful to just see the experience
of other people and be able to feel more
comfortable with how birth can look
Hollywood often portrays moms and labor
as being helpless and screaming and
crying and in so much pain and just
unsure of what's happening to them so if
you need a little bit of extra help with
visualization and if you'd like to see a
natural real mama experience then I've
got my birth date down below for you
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