Sitting on a toilet helped me a lot with my second babe my contractions started at around 4:00 AM and I labored at home Until about 9:00 AM and we took our daughter to my parents house so we could go to the Doctor, I really didn't want to go to the Doctor yet because I now my labor pains had to become more intense before giving birth, but my husband was so nervous about my labor, 😂 it was his first time being there for the labor and birth he wanted to go a lot sooner, l told him the Doctor would just send us home if we went to soon, but around 10:00 AM, I gave in after my mom said it might be a good idea to go and check it out, my contractions were pretty strong by then, but I thought they had to get much stronger, so anyway we went to the Doctor and he checked my cervix and said I was only 3 centimeters dilated and we could go home or wander around in town until 12:00 pm and then come back to check me again, and then I told my husband (I told you so) and so I wanted to go to the toilet before we left and then my water broke it was a splash and from then on the contractions were so powerful I couldn't get any rest from them, so I couldn't even get off the toilet by myself, and then the Doctor came to check what was happening and when he saw me he told me to get off the toilet before I dropped the babe into the toilet and once I got back on the bed he checked me again and said I was 10 centimeters dilated and in 3 pouches she was born, after sitting on the toilet for a couple of minutes I was completely dilated and it went fast from there, so yeah I think sitting on the toilet really helped me.
Just a note, it's possible to donate very quickly. I went from 2/3 cm to fully dilated and baby born in an hour. If contractions are super intense but you're not dilated or don't feel baby low enough yet it might be a position issue.
I utilized your breathing techniques during my first labor, and did it all-natural, no drugs, no epidural. Labor went so smoothly and I was able to stay relaxed despite how painful it was!
39 weeks tomorrow. I watched a TON of your videos with my first. Refreshing myself now, this is super super helpful!!! Thank you for all of your amazing videos!
Hey Bridget, I just need to tell you something. Like you have mentioned before, many people, including myself, have an idea in their head of what childbirth looks like- on their back, legs apart, screaming in the hospital bed- like in the movies. Even when speaking to friends and relatives about birth, there hadn't been any other indication that giving birth more naturally was even possible (I.e. no pain relief, different positions for labour and birth etc). After educating myself with your content, i even explained to many my intentions to have a more naturual birth using the techniques you share, to which most of them questioned was a good idea. Your videos helped me prepare and feel empowered for labour and birth. I was ready to have my baby and have an unmedicated labour. Sadly my waters broke and I did not enter labour after 36hours and needed an induction. The induction did not work for me, and many hours of pain later my body and baby were in distress and I ended up having an emergency c section. This was the most intense and terrifying experience I have ever had as i was not prepared for major abdominal surgery while being awake. But it was worth it for a beautiful daughter. Despite all this, I still want to thank you. I will recommend your content to pregnant friends/family till the day I die. Even though I couldn't give birth the way I intended, I still want to encourage as many as I can to think about giving birth more naturally.
Yeah, even in my country there is a belief, that women sleep on back, and spread legs and bend knees and expose private parts all open to display for doctor and many people, and become like a motionless still frozen statue with no movement, then doctor comes and 'ARTIFICIALLY HIMSELF MANUALLY REMOVES OUT' a baby from other side of bed, while woman seeing towards ceiling and thinking of london n being brutally half unconcious half nude and near death and not knowing what is going on other side, she horrifically gets a big jolt when doctor MANUALLY from outside REMOVES or TAKES OUT A CREATURE OUT OF STATUE LIKE FREEZED SLEEPING WOMAN BODY and screams like hell and all her eyes turn red red like drunk , and suddenly baby cries are heard. If doctor is not able to ARTIFICIALLY TEMOVE a mass of baby out of flat laying motionless, speechless statyed and glued woman's body, he probably takes two his two hands and 'PRESSES' stronlgy and hardly , vigorously up and down on her belly like crazy and ARTIFICIALLY SQUEEZES OUT BABY TO REMOVE IT This was how we are shown birth on tv serials and movies And it taught us - DOCTORS GIVE BIRTH to women's babies, and 'Disburden' pain ridden helpless and fateful woman's body by 'EXTRACTING' baby out of her frozen body.
I was just talking to my mom today about the importance of peeing frequently during labor! We’re both doulas and she’s a nurse also ❤️! Great video! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏿!
Bridget your breathing techniques for labor and delivery rlly helped me for my first time and this mama is here again for the second go 😅thank you for your wisdom ❤
Hai Bridget, thank you so much for your breathing techniques and affirmations, has a short labour with good progression from 12 am in the night till 6 am in the morning n blessed with baby girl, this is my second normal vaginal birth, I m so grateful to you for encouraging mamas like me, keep doing the good work ❤
Im a month away from my 3rd home birth (2nd water birth). Im not necessarily lookong forward to the whole process but im looking forward to having a more peaceful labor and delivery. :)
35 weeks now 🫣 Your videos are so informative, inspiring and calming at the same time 🙌🏼 Thank you so much for all the information 🤎 I'm so looking forward to delivering my baby naturally 🥹🥳
Dear Bridget, thank you for the work you are doing. I learned a lot watching your videos preparing for my second labor. I also listened to your hypnobirthing audios before and during labor and it helped me a lot. I couldn't wish for a better birth for my daughter. Everything went naturally and healthy!
I did all of the things, watched all of these videos, I was ready. Then she got stuck in the right side of my pelvis and fractured my pubic bone and i havent been able to walk since. But it's healing guys, just saying, you may need the epidural at the end of the day.
Just curious, would the epidural have helped baby not get stuck? I wonder if you had little to no sensation bc of the epidural you could have had more damage if you pushed the same.
How can we go to toilet, in case of water break. In my 1st pregnancy, my water broke and i was kept on bed , i didn't even move or change my position as i wasn't aware of anything 😂 But, by God's grace, i had watched your breathing technique video also, i was doing prenatal yoga till last day So, my delivery was smooth and vaginal. But, i still want to know more about ,what to do when water breaks. I am 33 weeks pregnant with 2nd baby 😊 Do you have video on that? Plz share the link. And thank you for sharing such wonderful awareness ❤
They would not let me eat during Labor, i went 36hrs without eating because of how long labour took and then i hemorrhaged right after. I was also told not to eat past midnight because i was being induced.
Hey Bridget, I love your videos!!thanks so much for the inspiring content. As a birth doula, have you had experience with a rh- mother carrying a rh+ baby? I’m o- and my husband is o+, I’d like to have a natural home birth but I can’t find any information on if rh incompatibility complicates that. Also, I’m aware that it’ll be recommended that I get a rhogam shot, so you know if that complicates birth and/or breastfeeding? Thanks!
Hi bridget.. do you have any experience working with moms who have inplants OVER the muscle? I'm having difficulty finding information on this. Most lactation consultants tell me they only have experience with moms who have under the muscle inplants. Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank you!!
I dont think im not gonna be able to NOT pee 😂 even now at 33 weeks the toilet is the most comfortable place for me to sit 😂 sometimes i just hang out there with my cats for a few minutes 😂
I'm 33 weeks along with baby #2. My birth with baby #1 was wonderful, no medication wanted or needed. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on how to alleviate nausea in active labor. With my first, once active labor started, I vomited until my stomach was empty, and I was desperately thirsty, but any tiny sip of water I took just resulted in uncomfortable dry heaving with the next contraction. I would love to find a way to be more hydrated in labor this time!
Bridget hi! Thank you for your work !! I’m wondering if I start doing exercises that are supposed to do on the middle stage, but the baby is still on the first level? Can’t it negatively affect the labor process ?
Do you have any videos on flipping breech babies at all lovely? I am 37 weeks and just found out she is breech. I'm so sad thinking that the birth isnt going to be the beautiful water birth I have been envisioning.
Just so you are aware, there are many home birth midwives who are willing and able to deliver breech babies at home. Breech is a variation of normal! ❤ Obviously I don’t know your situation or birth team, but you do have options, even with a breech babe, for a natural birth! 🥰 Many hospitals say breech is an automatic cesarean, but it’s only because of liability, and because many doctors are not trained in breech delivery. My midwife is, and has delivered many healthy breech babies. Not trying to tell you what to do-I just encourage you to do your research on the options available! God bless as you await your new addition!
@@mykaelaorwig9646 thank you so much for your comment. Yes my midwife has spoken to me about the possibility of still giving birth with her in breech. I need to look more into that as I hear it can have complications. Just so deflated at the moment after hearing the news that she is breech. Hopefully with acupuncture, massage, spinning babies and prayer... She will turn 🤞
Hi, I am 37+5 today and I had what we call 'external turn' in German. My hospital delivers breech babies but my baby is to small and to weak to open my pelvis with her butt coming first (the baby can use way less pressure with their butt then with their head obviously...). Because I want to avoid a c section I had her turned from the outside. I don't know if that practice is available at all in the US. A doctor grabbed her through my belly skin and turned her upside down. It was a little uncomfortable but I am happy she now is upside down and I can hopefully deliver her without a c section. I had found yoga classes for turning on UA-cam which I liked but her butt was already stuck to far down to turn on her own... I hope you can get your baby turned one way or the other or deliver it breech. Good luck!
@@andreamariapohl1611 thank you so much. I am in Australia and they call that procedure ECV. I have thought about it but I'm not sure that I want to try that. I am so glad it worked for you and your bub! ☺️ I am hoping that she turns and if she doesn't... Well I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that she may have to be born via csection 😔 I just want her out safely 🙏
I have had a external turn too. I would totally go for it, if I were you. There are way less risks involved in that than with a c section of breech delivery. Dont wait too long though. The longer you wait how harder it becomes too turn the baby
It always amazes me what should be a no-brainer best practice but also denied in the hospital. Like 8oz water per hour -- nope! I've chips only. Or protein then carbs every hour! -- nope! Not allowed.
Hearing your info on eating and drinking just makes me so mad that hospitals do not allow moms to drink or eat then to stop progress by keeping the mom on her back with stupid monitors makes me so mad.
Not sure how true this is now. At least in my experience, my doctor is encouraging me to stay hydrated & have small snacks throughout labor. She also is not forcing me on my back unless it's medically required.
I asked my doctor the other day and he told me that eating is totally fine, but most women don't want to eat by the time they are in active labor due to feeling nauseous. So my plan is to eat as long as I'm feeling comfortable with it so that I have the energy
Hello friends, I am Haider and I am 16 years old from the Middle East (Iraq) and I want to be friends from different countries. Can I find someone here who will become my friend?
Sitting on a toilet helped me a lot with my second babe my contractions started at around 4:00 AM and I labored at home Until about 9:00 AM and we took our daughter to my parents house so we could go to the Doctor, I really didn't want to go to the Doctor yet because I now my labor pains had to become more intense before giving birth, but my husband was so nervous about my labor, 😂 it was his first time being there for the labor and birth he wanted to go a lot sooner, l told him the Doctor would just send us home if we went to soon, but around 10:00 AM, I gave in after my mom said it might be a good idea to go and check it out, my contractions were pretty strong by then, but I thought they had to get much stronger, so anyway we went to the Doctor and he checked my cervix and said I was only 3 centimeters dilated and we could go home or wander around in town until 12:00 pm and then come back to check me again, and then I told my husband (I told you so) and so I wanted to go to the toilet before we left and then my water broke it was a splash and from then on the contractions were so powerful I couldn't get any rest from them, so I couldn't even get off the toilet by myself, and then the Doctor came to check what was happening and when he saw me he told me to get off the toilet before I dropped the babe into the toilet and once I got back on the bed he checked me again and said I was 10 centimeters dilated and in 3 pouches she was born, after sitting on the toilet for a couple of minutes I was completely dilated and it went fast from there, so yeah I think sitting on the toilet really helped me.
Just a note, it's possible to donate very quickly. I went from 2/3 cm to fully dilated and baby born in an hour. If contractions are super intense but you're not dilated or don't feel baby low enough yet it might be a position issue.
I utilized your breathing techniques during my first labor, and did it all-natural, no drugs, no epidural. Labor went so smoothly and I was able to stay relaxed despite how painful it was!
39 weeks tomorrow. I watched a TON of your videos with my first. Refreshing myself now, this is super super helpful!!! Thank you for all of your amazing videos!
Hey Bridget, I just need to tell you something.
Like you have mentioned before, many people, including myself, have an idea in their head of what childbirth looks like- on their back, legs apart, screaming in the hospital bed- like in the movies. Even when speaking to friends and relatives about birth, there hadn't been any other indication that giving birth more naturally was even possible (I.e. no pain relief, different positions for labour and birth etc). After educating myself with your content, i even explained to many my intentions to have a more naturual birth using the techniques you share, to which most of them questioned was a good idea. Your videos helped me prepare and feel empowered for labour and birth. I was ready to have my baby and have an unmedicated labour.
Sadly my waters broke and I did not enter labour after 36hours and needed an induction. The induction did not work for me, and many hours of pain later my body and baby were in distress and I ended up having an emergency c section. This was the most intense and terrifying experience I have ever had as i was not prepared for major abdominal surgery while being awake. But it was worth it for a beautiful daughter.
Despite all this, I still want to thank you. I will recommend your content to pregnant friends/family till the day I die. Even though I couldn't give birth the way I intended, I still want to encourage as many as I can to think about giving birth more naturally.
You’re a warrior ❤thanks for sharing your story
Yeah, even in my country there is a belief, that women sleep on back, and spread legs and bend knees and expose private parts all open to display for doctor and many people, and become like a motionless still frozen statue with no movement, then doctor comes and 'ARTIFICIALLY HIMSELF MANUALLY REMOVES OUT' a baby from other side of bed, while woman seeing towards ceiling and thinking of london n being brutally half unconcious half nude and near death and not knowing what is going on other side, she horrifically gets a big jolt when doctor MANUALLY from outside REMOVES or TAKES OUT A CREATURE OUT OF STATUE LIKE FREEZED SLEEPING WOMAN BODY and screams like hell and all her eyes turn red red like drunk , and suddenly baby cries are heard. If doctor is not able to ARTIFICIALLY TEMOVE a mass of baby out of flat laying motionless, speechless statyed and glued woman's body, he probably takes two his two hands and 'PRESSES' stronlgy and hardly , vigorously up and down on her belly like crazy and ARTIFICIALLY SQUEEZES OUT BABY TO REMOVE IT
This was how we are shown birth on tv serials and movies
And it taught us - DOCTORS GIVE BIRTH to women's babies, and 'Disburden' pain ridden helpless and fateful woman's body by 'EXTRACTING' baby out of her frozen body.
I was just talking to my mom today about the importance of peeing frequently during labor! We’re both doulas and she’s a nurse also ❤️! Great video! Thank you for sharing 🙏🏿!
Bridget your breathing techniques for labor and delivery rlly helped me for my first time and this mama is here again for the second go 😅thank you for your wisdom ❤
Congrats! 💗💗💗💗
@@Rayna.Marie.Anxiety_Pregnancy thank you💕🌸
Hai Bridget, thank you so much for your breathing techniques and affirmations, has a short labour with good progression from 12 am in the night till 6 am in the morning n blessed with baby girl, this is my second normal vaginal birth, I m so grateful to you for encouraging mamas like me, keep doing the good work ❤
Im a month away from my 3rd home birth (2nd water birth).
Im not necessarily lookong forward to the whole process but im looking forward to having a more peaceful labor and delivery. :)
35 weeks now 🫣 Your videos are so informative, inspiring and calming at the same time 🙌🏼 Thank you so much for all the information 🤎 I'm so looking forward to delivering my baby naturally 🥹🥳
Just wanted to say thank you so much for all your videos. I prepared by watching your videos and I had a beautiful natural water birth 3 weeks ago!❤️
Dear Bridget, thank you for the work you are doing. I learned a lot watching your videos preparing for my second labor. I also listened to your hypnobirthing audios before and during labor and it helped me a lot. I couldn't wish for a better birth for my daughter. Everything went naturally and healthy!
I did all of the things, watched all of these videos, I was ready. Then she got stuck in the right side of my pelvis and fractured my pubic bone and i havent been able to walk since. But it's healing guys, just saying, you may need the epidural at the end of the day.
Ouch! This is why it’s so important to have a plan B if things don’t go according to plan. Glad you’re healing, mama
Just curious, would the epidural have helped baby not get stuck? I wonder if you had little to no sensation bc of the epidural you could have had more damage if you pushed the same.
Every one's body is different and everyone will experience a different birth
Only 3 weeks away from my due date, super helpful 😊 could you link the electrolytes you recommend? Thanks!
I love Body Armor (low calorie ones cuz they don't have a much of added sugar).
Thank you so much your videos helped me with my first child and now I’m 39 weeks pregnant I am watching your videos
How can we go to toilet, in case of water break. In my 1st pregnancy, my water broke and i was kept on bed , i didn't even move or change my position as i wasn't aware of anything 😂 But, by God's grace, i had watched your breathing technique video also, i was doing prenatal yoga till last day So, my delivery was smooth and vaginal.
But, i still want to know more about ,what to do when water breaks. I am 33 weeks pregnant with 2nd baby 😊
Do you have video on that? Plz share the link.
And thank you for sharing such wonderful awareness ❤
Great video..Very informative! Thank you!! 😊
They would not let me eat during Labor, i went 36hrs without eating because of how long labour took and then i hemorrhaged right after. I was also told not to eat past midnight because i was being induced.
Hey Bridget, I love your videos!!thanks so much for the inspiring content. As a birth doula, have you had experience with a rh- mother carrying a rh+ baby? I’m o- and my husband is o+, I’d like to have a natural home birth but I can’t find any information on if rh incompatibility complicates that. Also, I’m aware that it’ll be recommended that I get a rhogam shot, so you know if that complicates birth and/or breastfeeding? Thanks!
Such a helpful video thank you!!
This is phenomenal information, ty
Great info, thank you for sharing!
When being induced, may i still drink and eat?
Hi bridget.. do you have any experience working with moms who have inplants OVER the muscle? I'm having difficulty finding information on this. Most lactation consultants tell me they only have experience with moms who have under the muscle inplants. Any suggestions will be helpful. Thank you!!
I dont think im not gonna be able to NOT pee 😂 even now at 33 weeks the toilet is the most comfortable place for me to sit 😂 sometimes i just hang out there with my cats for a few minutes 😂
I don’t see the electrolytes linked what were they?
Just linked them!!! glnk.io/koyv/builttobirth
I'm 33 weeks along with baby #2. My birth with baby #1 was wonderful, no medication wanted or needed. I'm curious if you have any thoughts on how to alleviate nausea in active labor. With my first, once active labor started, I vomited until my stomach was empty, and I was desperately thirsty, but any tiny sip of water I took just resulted in uncomfortable dry heaving with the next contraction. I would love to find a way to be more hydrated in labor this time!
Ugh this has happened to me with both of my previous labors. It sucks!!!
Bridget hi! Thank you for your work !! I’m wondering if I start doing exercises that are supposed to do on the middle stage, but the baby is still on the first level? Can’t it negatively affect the labor process ?
Thank you 🎉❤❤❤
Do you have any videos on flipping breech babies at all lovely? I am 37 weeks and just found out she is breech. I'm so sad thinking that the birth isnt going to be the beautiful water birth I have been envisioning.
Just so you are aware, there are many home birth midwives who are willing and able to deliver breech babies at home. Breech is a variation of normal! ❤ Obviously I don’t know your situation or birth team, but you do have options, even with a breech babe, for a natural birth! 🥰 Many hospitals say breech is an automatic cesarean, but it’s only because of liability, and because many doctors are not trained in breech delivery. My midwife is, and has delivered many healthy breech babies. Not trying to tell you what to do-I just encourage you to do your research on the options available! God bless as you await your new addition!
@@mykaelaorwig9646 thank you so much for your comment. Yes my midwife has spoken to me about the possibility of still giving birth with her in breech. I need to look more into that as I hear it can have complications. Just so deflated at the moment after hearing the news that she is breech. Hopefully with acupuncture, massage, spinning babies and prayer... She will turn 🤞
Hi, I am 37+5 today and I had what we call 'external turn' in German. My hospital delivers breech babies but my baby is to small and to weak to open my pelvis with her butt coming first (the baby can use way less pressure with their butt then with their head obviously...). Because I want to avoid a c section I had her turned from the outside. I don't know if that practice is available at all in the US. A doctor grabbed her through my belly skin and turned her upside down. It was a little uncomfortable but I am happy she now is upside down and I can hopefully deliver her without a c section.
I had found yoga classes for turning on UA-cam which I liked but her butt was already stuck to far down to turn on her own...
I hope you can get your baby turned one way or the other or deliver it breech. Good luck!
@@andreamariapohl1611 thank you so much. I am in Australia and they call that procedure ECV. I have thought about it but I'm not sure that I want to try that. I am so glad it worked for you and your bub! ☺️ I am hoping that she turns and if she doesn't... Well I'm slowly coming to terms with the fact that she may have to be born via csection 😔 I just want her out safely 🙏
I have had a external turn too. I would totally go for it, if I were you. There are way less risks involved in that than with a c section of breech delivery. Dont wait too long though. The longer you wait how harder it becomes too turn the baby
It always amazes me what should be a no-brainer best practice but also denied in the hospital. Like 8oz water per hour -- nope! I've chips only. Or protein then carbs every hour! -- nope! Not allowed.
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Hearing your info on eating and drinking just makes me so mad that hospitals do not allow moms to drink or eat then to stop progress by keeping the mom on her back with stupid monitors makes me so mad.
Not sure how true this is now. At least in my experience, my doctor is encouraging me to stay hydrated & have small snacks throughout labor. She also is not forcing me on my back unless it's medically required.
depends on the hospital, mine encourages movement and different positions.
I thought you weren’t supposed to eat in case you needed a c-section?
www.asahq.org/about-asa/newsroom/news-releases/2015/11/eating-a-light-meal-during-labor
I asked my doctor the other day and he told me that eating is totally fine, but most women don't want to eat by the time they are in active labor due to feeling nauseous. So my plan is to eat as long as I'm feeling comfortable with it so that I have the energy
I was told no eating but I am a rule breaker and brought snacks. Totally planned on eating them anyway, but I honestly wasn’t even hungry.
Hello friends, I am Haider and I am 16 years old from the Middle East (Iraq) and I want to be friends from different countries. Can I find someone here who will become my friend?