Birth Pain Management
I am currently preparing for my 4th birth, 3rd home birth.
How are you all preparing to manage pain or things you are looking into?
For some background information, it's been 5 years since my last baby. And my labors are relatively fast. My water has broken with each baby prior to any contractions starting.
With my 2nd baby, once contractions started, she was born 2 hours and 15 minutes later.
With my 3rd baby, once my first contraction hit, she was born 44 minutes later.
I felt like 44 minutes was too fast and hard to mentally manage the pain. So this time around I'm looking into maybe doing hypnobirthing, listening to music, birth comb, tens machine, any other ideas?!
The previous births all I have done is dim lighting, breathing through the pain, I had my birth affirmations hung up to easily read, reminds to relax my body, but I have never tried meditation or hypnobirthing while in labor, nor music, or anything else.
What has worked for you? Especially if you have had fast labors.
Edited to add: that both my home births (2nd and 3rd babies) were water births. Also, my 1st baby was a hospital birth, induced, with pitocin and epidural.
I have had a yoga ball as well for all births, and water births with the last too, planning a water birth for this pregnancy as well.