Water birth

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Today's guest is Lacey Coffey, a pastor's wife and mom of two with another little one on the way.

And was the plan

you sort of touched on, and I know how your birth unfolded, but was your plan at that point, if you can, to have a water birth in the hospital?

Yeah.

So, I mean, from the start, I always said to Peter, obviously the best outcome is just everyone survives.

you know, we're hoping for.

So that was when I kind of like locked into a lot of books and research and podcasts and things and heard other stories and kind of figured out what felt right for me.

And the water birth just kept coming up for me and as natural as possible.

And that's where I kind of started to have that vision and have that idea in my head of that's the birth that I would hope for.

... uh, just a bit closer to us, maybe an hour and a half.

So we'd gone to look around there, and actually at the end I'd chosen that as my choice, and I was hoping for a water birth and-

Mm

... yeah, I'd planned no pain relief and everything like that.

So you were happy to go with their recommendations, and so they started the syntocinon?

Yeah.

So I'd actually mentioned to the midwife that was looking after us that I really wanted a water birth, and-

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When Marcy and her husband first got pregnant, they would unfortunately miscarry and not get to raise that baby earth-side, but God would use it for good, and it led them to the midwives who would go on to help them deliver their next baby.

Her husband's mantra during labor was, "Prepare, prepare, prepare," while hers was, "Deny, deny, deny." This dynamic was quite comical, but it all balanced out in the end, and they had a beautiful water birth at home.

[upbeat music] Welcome to another episode of Surrendered Birth Stories.

I am your host, Kayla Heater, and I have Marcy with me today, who I just learned is the sister of Leslie, who's been on this podcast before, which is so exciting.

So if you're trying to think, "Okay, what's the one wrap I should buy?" That would be what I'd say.

Have you ever considered a water birth? Honestly, no, and I know people swear by them, and I've talked about this on here before, I'm sure.

But that Bradley Method works so well for me, and you can't do it in, in the water.

I know people say they can, but I really don't think you can, because the, the position that Bradley prescribes is so specific, and it works so incredibly well when you get the hang of it.

We all have the thing that works for us, and then we want everybody to do it just like that, because it's the only way.

And so I'm, I'm not saying that.

Like, I can understand that water birth is awesome.

But I have practiced my Bradley Method.

So that was... uh, devastating to get that news.

And also just to have to, cause I was aiming for unmedicated water birth and to like, I have to switch all the mindset of, um, no, this might be a C-section and he might have, he might be small.

Yeah.

He might be small.

And then like I was like, oh, just so much relief.

Yeah.

And so it was really important to me to try to do a water birth.

In terms of comfort measures, like hot water is my everything.