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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Previous poster here (from Austria) This is interesting.  I am a little surprised at the "allowed to " language -- isn't the laboring woman in charge? I did not have any monitors -- the midwife just listened regularly on her stethoscope. is that  the right  word? Epidural in not common at the maternity center. I think those are for emergencies.  I need to check with a friend who delivered in a hospital back home.   I delivered lying mostly on my side both times and my midwife guided out my son. It was so painful but by the time I was pregnant with my 2nd son i had forgotten the pain of the first one -- well, almost!

I need to do more research. [/quote]

If you want that kind of experience (and you have a low risk pregnancy) you probably need to do a home birth or maybe a pretty low intervention birthing center.   I had a home birth attended by midwives and my experience was very similar to yours.  I labored in the privacy of my home, used a tub part of the time.  My midwife eventually encouraged me to switch positions into one that she thought would work for pushing and my son was born 3 pushes later.  My husband caught him. DS nursed right away.  Every friend who had a baby in the hospital had substantially more intervention by need or choice.

Honestly, while a home birth was the right choice for me at the time, I'm not sure I'd do it again because the contractions were waaaayyyyy worse than I expected and I would probably want pain relief next time.  [/quote]

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