rainbowtrout
Ideal_Rock
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Calling PS mommies...
Did any of you have a "water birth" or any of the other non-traditional hospital births? I don't intend to have children for 3-5 years, but for some reason I have this morbid fear of pregnancy and childbirth. It doesn't help that surgery (and anesthesia!) freaks me out too, and my mother had to have a ceasarian (skinny hips). The "aliens" referant in the quote is that for awhile pregnancy reminded me of nothing so much as a sentient being sort of eating you from the inside out...
I shared that sentiment with my grandmother and mother recently and I swear they almost fainted. Grandmother said "Who ARE you???" in a confused way...and then told mother they were never getting grandchildren...
So I was reading the paper and saw this referance to "water birth" yesterday (and how you could even do it in some hospitals) and it actually didn't want to make me run screaming for the hills. No one I know has had anything more unusual than the whole Scientology birth thing, which is just a hospital birth with low lights...
So has anyone tried this? I'm trying to sort of acclimate myself to the whole pregnancy idea so that in a few years I don't totally flip out. I know that sounds premature, but I tend to start acclimating myself to big life things a few years in advance.
Did any of you have a "water birth" or any of the other non-traditional hospital births? I don't intend to have children for 3-5 years, but for some reason I have this morbid fear of pregnancy and childbirth. It doesn't help that surgery (and anesthesia!) freaks me out too, and my mother had to have a ceasarian (skinny hips). The "aliens" referant in the quote is that for awhile pregnancy reminded me of nothing so much as a sentient being sort of eating you from the inside out...
I shared that sentiment with my grandmother and mother recently and I swear they almost fainted. Grandmother said "Who ARE you???" in a confused way...and then told mother they were never getting grandchildren...
So I was reading the paper and saw this referance to "water birth" yesterday (and how you could even do it in some hospitals) and it actually didn't want to make me run screaming for the hills. No one I know has had anything more unusual than the whole Scientology birth thing, which is just a hospital birth with low lights...
So has anyone tried this? I'm trying to sort of acclimate myself to the whole pregnancy idea so that in a few years I don't totally flip out. I know that sounds premature, but I tend to start acclimating myself to big life things a few years in advance.