Informed Empowered Birth
My first birth didn’t go as planned. It felt so strange to be walking into the hospital to meet our baby without ever having felt a single contraction. My water had broken at 39 weeks. We had waited 24 hours to see if contractions would begin – meanwhile trying the things we had learned could naturally encourage labor to start. We had a birth plan , and it was for a natural, unmedicated birth. I was open to intervention if it became truly necessary for my health or the baby’s
