Natural Birth & Parenting

Hello experieced mothers :). So looking at water births and been doing research.. watching people do the labor ball. What's something you would recommend/discourage for waterbirths.. Labor ball advice too would be great. So waterbirth posions or recommendations and labor ball. thankyou kindly God bless
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This is how I laboured in the tub as well, it made it easy to nap a bit between contractions lol
Quoting jellyphish:
Positions?
Just follow your body, it'll do it for you. Seriously. I rocked on all fours in the tub between contractions, during contractions I HAD to turn face up and stretch out. I'd never heard of anyone doing that, but that's what I needed. Then I delivered on all fours. -
Lol same here. My body just kind of floated into whatever position it needed
Quoting PoodleMum:
This is how I laboured in the tub as well, it made it easy to nap a bit between contractions lol
Quoting jellyphish:
Positions?
Just follow your body, it'll do it for you. Seriously. I rocked on all fours in the tub between contractions, during contractions I HAD to turn face up and stretch out. I'd never heard of anyone doing that, but that's what I needed. Then I delivered on all fours. -
I just used a ball and birth pool for my birth.
Ball-I sat on it and put my head on the bed so I could rest between contractions. My doula did a double hip squeeze during the contractions and massaged my back in between.
Once I hit transition I peed and then I couldn't take the pain/pressure so I got in the pool. The water was hot which made me feel slightly uncomfortable but it was better for pain relief and for baby's temperature-the water wasn't painfully hot but more like it was making me sweaty. I got on my hands and knees with my knees fairly wide and my body started pushing immediately.