A few years go, I was fortunate enough to come across the “Law of Attraction” through the book/dvd “The Secret”. This changed my entire life. I learned that I can attract positive or negative experiences into my life, based on my thoughts, expectations, words and actions. Fortunately for me, this information came to me shortly before I became pregnant with my first child. I decided to try it out. Instead of listening to the media, friends and neighbors, and even complete strangers telling me about the horrors of childbirth, I decided that I could expect a wonderful, easy, short birth. I fully educated myself and my husband during that pregnancy on labor and birth, and we took a wonderful childbirth course (in this case, a Bradley Method class) to prepare us. I wrote up a detailed birth plan and description on how my labor would go, and how I would feel about it, and I read it often in my last trimester. I developed a confidence in my own strength, physical and emotional, and entered birth knowing I had done everything I could to make it wonderful. I had no fear, just excitement. I ended up with a magical experience. My husband served as an incredible, trained, labor coach, and assisted me through the birth until the end. I had a 5 1/2 hour labor, and delivered my beautiful daughter completely unmedicated, with a smile on my face (most of the time!) and was fortunate enough to have not torn at all. I did the same thing with my second birth, with the knowledge that if I had done it once, I could do it even better the second time! My sons’ birth was even shorter and easier than my first!
I firmly believe that if I had not had the proper mentality and confidence in myself, as well as the education and practice of comfort techniques, that my experience could have been much different. We get what we want in life. We can have wonderful experiences in childbirth. Decide today what kind of birth you want, and do everything you can to prepare for it.
I think he’s pretty cool too