okay now… did you get an epidural?

I planned an epidural my entire pregnancy… but I also listened to positive unmedicated birth affirmations every night before bed. however, i ended up laboring at home for 35 hours before going into the hospital. My water broke as soon as i arrived and I went from 7cm to 10cm in a minute. I started pushing on a stretcher in the hallway despite the doctors telling me to stop they needed to check me, but i trusted my body and sure enough my sweet perfect boy was out about 20 minutes later with minimal pushing (i did get into a delivery room lol)

anyways!! obviously my birth was unmedicated due to this. I didn’t receive pitocin, an epidural nor anything else. I did have a 2nd degree tear which sucked. I was made to have pitocin after unfortunately though. once i gave birth like this i started doing some research and realized a lot of stuff. yet i find a lot of crunchy moms who refuse to vaccinate their kids didn’t mind getting an epidural put in. I’m genuinely just curious of everyone’s opinions / thoughts on this!!

let me say also: i respect everyone and have no judgement whatsoever! I’m just curious ❣️