I'm pregnant for the 1st time and am 30 weeks today.
I'm curious to know what it will be like giving birth in hospital (I'm under midwife care, 'normal' pregnancy so far).
I've been doing a lot of reading about active births, staying mobile, and even giving birth on all fours or squatting. Although I won't know how I'll feel until I get there, it's something I'd really like to try, assuming everything is going well.
My DH imagines it will be like you see in films, woman lying on her back in hospital bed, lots of wires and drips etc. Although that's fine if it's necessary, I'd be really upset if that happened to me because it was the 'way to do things'.
How much does this depend on your hospital? How much say will I have in this (bearing in mind I'm not naturally assertive) - would I have to fight to be allowed to do this, and then feel as though I'm causing a fuss?
Thanks for any advice!
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Hospital birth - what's it going to be like?
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Katy44 · 12/02/2007 14:15
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