Any tips for unmedicated delivery?

I'm pregnant with my fourth child and am REALLY motivated to have an unmedicated natural birth. My first birth was my twins, I had a planned c-section that went amazing but I felt like I was robbed of even trying to birth them naturally. I was extremely uneducated and didn't know much about what was happening. My second birth, my daughter was born at 17 weeks vaginally with no pain intervention. My worry is that after delivering her I hemorrhaged before delivering the placenta and had to be put under, but my doctors still support my desire for natural and unmedicated. Any tips of getting through contractions and progressing labor?

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Look into hypnobirthing!! It was the best prep I did to deliver unmedicated

Mental fortitude and having the right support system who believes in your authority is necessary

Also agree with the hypnobirthing, got me through my first birth with naturally and highly recommend a water birth x

Learn all protocols that you'd be rejecting if you're entering a hospital 😂 understand you have to say I am not doing X, you cannot do X, I do not consent to X under all circumstances.

@Emma i asked about laboring in a tub and my hospital doesn't do it :(

@Mari that’s such a shame 😭 maybe you could enquire about taking your own one with you? Over here we can hire them, like blow up ones xx

@Emma i did and they said no because if it pops and floods it's gonna be a huge thing🙄

@Mari it's laboring...in a tub... you don't need permission for that?! And tell them to leave you alone in the room until you call them!

And know that a doula cannot actually go to bat for you without threats of being kicked out. They can only gently remind you of what you want and when you tell rhem what you want, it has to sound like it is coming from you. I said I don't want to be here a few times. It never mattered I had to say I AM leaving. Signed an AMA. I have quite the story.

make your environment as calm and comfortable as possible. know what you want and don’t want and make sure your birthing partner knows so they can help advocate for you. practicing deep breathing and focusing on your body, like meditation. that’s what got me through my labor. research ways your partner can physically support you. tune out everything else but your body and baby

@Alina i wish i would have known to just tell them to leave me alone lol. the nurses and dr fussing over you is very distracting when you’re in the birth zone. it was what i disliked the most about my hospital birth!

@Izzie oh I know it's incredibly tough for women like a battlefield in a hospital. They just love medically managing births. I'd I didn't leave that day and chose to stay I'd say pull up a chair 10ft from the bed and SIT ON YOUR HANDS. I have such a anger for the system in regards to maternal care. It's there when needed... but woman are their authorities over their laboring and birthing bodies. If you need encouragement to step out of the hospital system and do homebirth / sovereign birth ... I'm all for that 😆 I'm on #2 rn. So grateful for my hands off midwife who's basically a good friend now.