374 | Diana, two babies, spontaneous labour, epidural, fourth-degree tear, fistula, doula, MGP, physiological birth, second-degree tear
Australian Birth Stories
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Did You Feel Nervous About Your Postpartum Stage?
It feels so much better to have an unmedicated birth because you really can sort of work with your body to get the baby out. I did not think of the tear at all in the moment. My main sort of thing was I need to get this baby out because it's painful. It wasn't until he was out and I had pulled him up onto my chest that I had gone. Okay, now we need to assess what has happened to me. So after he was born, we went on to hospital bed and the midwife had done a check and I was absolutely freaking out at the time. And when she had said to me, it's a second degree. It's
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