Its your first, and you've decided, after hours of watching The Business of Being Born, or whatever other anti-medicinal approach to child birth, that you plan on laboring and delivering with as little intervention as possible. To which I say, "cool, lets do it".First things first, in order to experience the least amount of pain possible, tell no one. This goes especially for first time mom's, like, don't do it. Don't breath a word of it to a soul. I promise, the pain and agony of having to debate every Jane you meet, the intense scrutiny in their rolling eyes, they're subconscious clutching of their pearls while saying "Bless your heart", the immediate and visceral need to scoff, rebuff, and dismiss...can all be avoided by keeping it to yourself.
Once you're past step one, its smooth sailing! Lol! Seriously though, I got all of the "this woman is clueless" looks and talks I could take. Some of it even felt like I was being attacked. Were there some in my set that said sounds good? Heck yeah! AND they didn't even bother to say it in a dismissive way. But there were innumerable amounts of others that did even bother to stop short of telling me how dumb I am. Yep, plowed right through it.
Listen, if you believe that you are making the best choice for you and your baby by forgoing whatever type of medical intervention has you skeeved out, then do it! But if you're the type to get easily discouraged, or offended, then you'd do best to keep this little tid bit to yourself. From no epidural alllllll the way to birth in a yurt, its your body, your decision, and your secret to keep till little one is here. HA!