I've searched this topic and I've found nothing on it. I think I would prefer pain-killers because of how much it's supposed to hurt but I also am a chicken when it comes to needles (epiderals would scare the crap out of me lol) so I was thinking about the natural birth? My mother had a natural birth and she said it was painfull at first but it eventually goes numb. What is your opinions?

I've also heard of natural births in a tub with water which sounded a little strange to me.

ahh needles! Scary. I might try natural =/...I'd have to learn more about it all though.

Maybe by the time I do have to worry about this, some more advaned thing will come out I have years to think about this. Many..many years.

wouldn't that almost drown the baby when it comes out though?

i would want pain killers in the hospital. but maybe natural. if i could handle the pain (which i probably couldn't) then i'd just do it naturally.

but my mom said the used pain killers the first time (for my brother) and the second time she could handle it (with me) and she gave birth naturally. i guess i could do that

im just 12 turning 13 ill still have to think about it lols

that wouldn't drown the baby when it's born, the umbilical cord is still attatched which gives the baby air and food. studies have shown that babies born in a tub or in water are calmer.

on july 1st, my half sister in law gave birth to a baby boy, she had a natural birth because it was too late for the pain killers...she said it was the worst pain imaginable she also said that there's this monitor thing that shows the contractions and how bad they were, hers were off the charts... but she was only in labor for 5 hours so it can't be that bad.

i'd have a natural birth even though when i got my ears pierced a second time i felt like i was going to die ...because my boyfriend's genes are kind of the weak side and my skin is allergic to certain medical lotions so i wouldn't want to risk hurting my baby with pain killers.

I wonder what sort of tub you would give birth in? A sanitized one obviously, but at home or in a hospital? I'd be afraid to give birth at home, even if a doctor was there because my fear is that what if something bad happened and the doctor would need to perform a c-section.

You can choose to have a natural birth but there is a certain time limit and once you pass a certain point and decide you want pain-killers, the doctors will refuse to give it to you. So that would be kinda scarey to me if I decided to have a natural birth then once it started to get extremely painful and I asked for pain-killers then the doctor said, "Well you can't have any."

My boyfried actually wants me to have a natural birth lol once we decide to have kids. I never thought guys would care if the woman had a natural birth or not?

any tub
my teacher did it in her bath tub

i say go for the whole package, drugs and all

fallen fairy

i probably would want the painkillers but im afraid of needles so a huge needle in my spine doesnt really appeal to me.
im sort of afraid of a natural birth but if i were to do it natural, it would probably be a bath tub birth.

drug me up all the way!!

eh but i dont want to have kids anyway so yeah.

I hate pain, and i hate needles. Sooo, most likely going for natural even though I would HATE the pain.
Oh well, there's still a while to what will happen. :)

I would rather have it at the hospital where the doctors are there to help you. At home, you might not know what to do & something might happen. So, I guess I have to go on the safe side.

Drug me up please! :D though It's more on the borderline between natural and painkillers...

I'd like to have natural but knowing myself, my toleration of pain is about 2 seconds. So, i suppose it'll be the drugs...at least it won't be as painful...

i'd go with natural at a hospital. just in case something happened to the baby. hopefully i'll just be painful for like half an hour or something.

I'd rather have the pain killers at the hospital. My mom told me what happened in the hospital when she did natural with my brother XP.

I had an emergency C-Section, which took 20 hours and hurt more than hell itself.

^^^ what do you mean it hurt lyk hell? dont they use anesthia when they do c sections??? i dno..im not too educated in giving birth X_X.

i was born in my house.. =]

anyways. not sure. i kind of want to experience all that is given, but i dont know

NATURAL! it doesnt really matter to think about it now unless you're planning to have babies soon. technology might make somethign better lol.

id do it naturally.
mom did it naturally,
so did grandma and everyone else.

i just hope i wont get a C-section.

I had an emergency c-section since my baby was breech...

I don't know if it was because I was just freaking myself out or if it really was painful but it wasn't a nice experience. I was having contractions but the guy kept telling me to relax so that he could insert the needle correctly. I'm all, "Holy shit what if I tense us all of a sudden? OMFG what if a contraction comes and the needle breaks inside me cuz I straighten up too soon?blahblah....?"

I basically feels like a regular shot.. only it's going into your spine and you can feel the needle go in.

"The grass is green. The sun is warm. The grass is green. The sun is warm." lol to all the karate kid fans.

I wish I could've gone through my natural birth though. I see it as an honor. Your first test of motherhood--show how much pain you're willing to endure to bring your child into the world.

give me the painkillers i guess i'm weak

natural birth will hurt, yes, but it will be the best thing of your life after all that pain... i actually want to have pain because i need to learn to be strong and have patience and what not.

a baby is surround by liquid all 9 month s. so when it comes out in a liquid environment the baby will be more relaxed perhaps?

I think I'd go with painkillers.