My Birth Plan: Gimme The Drugs

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My Birth Plan: Gimme The Drugs
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No matter how a woman gives birth, she is a freaking badass.

Before I had my first child, I had no real idea what to expect. I mean, I planned to give birth in the hospital and hoped that it would be complication free. But I had no real– except for drugs. I knew I wanted the drugs. In fact, if I could have written it in big bold letters across the top of my chart, I would have said GIVE ME ALL THE DRUGS.

These days it seems – and even all those years ago when I was first pregnant, for that matter – natural was in. Other pregnant women I knew talked about water births and how they birthed their babies without drugs. Many of them said this matter-of-factly, but others said it with an air of superiority, as if delivering their babies without medication was some kind of badge of honor.

Before the epidural, I was an angry woman who just wanted to be left the fuck alone. After getting the epidural, I was positively glowing, I tell you.

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