I love how honest n genuine you are. This was so in depth n really painted a full picture of everything a mama needs to know. I’m due in January with my first baby n definitely scared but I’m walking into it knowing as much as possible, a flexible attitude on how everything will go n doing my best to teach myself that my body is made for giving birth 💜

I’m ten days away from my due date! I’m glad I stumbled upon this video because I am definitely going through the “holy cow, I’m about to push a baby out of my lady bits” and I am terrified. 🤣

Thank u so much for sharing from your experiences ! 😊really like your videos they are just so informative !!

Thank you for these really long informative videos! No one else ever goes this long into detail and it’s so helpful! 😁

Thank you! I am a FTM and 36 weeks and trying to mentally prepare myself as much as possible. This was really helpful!

Thank you for this. I just hit my half way point a couple days ago and have been bingeing all of your videos. This helped calm and prepare me a ton. ❤️❤️

Your videos are so valuable!! 40 weeks & 1 day over here with our first 🙏🏽💪🏽💕!

This was SO, SO helpful! Out of the many videos I've seen to prepare for delivery in February, this has been the most insightful. Thank you 💖 love your channel

I legit watch so many KZfaqrs rn bc I’m expecting my first and you just make me feel so much better about everything. I get a warm mama vibe from you and can tell you want to help other mamas. Also thank you for being practical. Love it.

This is exactly the kind of video I’ve been searching for, thank you! I’m due in March with my first baby and I just had no idea what to expect, while I know every labor is different this gives me a good idea of the process and makes me less anxious ❤️

Thank you! This was so helpful, especially the part about engaging the core muscles! I have a birth plan written and its a lot of what you said, I heard from my doula that putting the ideas (I like music and affirmations, I want an epidural, etc) and some preferences (For example, please no students in the room) on a sheet of paper can be helpful (knowing you have to be flexible! Nothing set in stone) as reminders for yourself, birth partner, and hospital staff.

Honestly this makes so much sense! Thank you so much because so many moms have told me to push like I’m pooping and I’m just like that doesn’t seem right.

First time expecting a baby here! I've watched several videos, but yours are my favorite. Thank you for sharing all this!

Sooooo much information that I NEEDED all in 1 video!! Thank you so much for this!! 😁😁😁😁

We are expecting our first baby to make his arrival any day now! Listening to you talk about that golden hour with your baby has me so emotional!! Thank you for always providing such informative videos! ♥️

Thank you so much for sharing all of this! You’ve been so helpful and have actually helped relieve a lot of stress and worry. Thank you! 💕

Pregnant for the 1st time, and Im super nervous, but watching this video was very refreshing ☺😍🙏🏻

This video helped so much and calmed myself down a ton haha I’m currently 40+6 days as a FTM and I’ve been stressing out hard.

Great advice on the pushing. I’m 7 months pregnant, and haven’t mentally prepared yet. But ur advice sound great, can’t wait to start engaging my core later on, closer to delivery.

I'm so glad that I found your channel. Expecting mama over here and I find your videos so helpful and real! Sending love from Europe, Estonia! :)

Thank you. This video was so helpful ❤️

Fairly new subscriber and I’ve been absolutely obsessed with these videos! Vlogs to the more educational videos I’ve been loving em all!! I’m a first time mom 37 weeks today so this video came at a perfect time :)

Thank you! Due to be a first time mum in December 💕

I watched your video twice. It's my first baby, due in March 2022 and you really know how it feels when it's first time. And you are absolutely right about the fears, I got into a panic mode when I realised its my 33 week and only a month is left for me to experience that labour and delivery phase (which is completely unknown thing for me). But your advices are really good and helped me get a bit relaxed and be prepared for what's coming. Thank you so much, sending lots of love and prayers 💖💖

This is the best video I’ve seen regarding what to expect during labor and delivery! Your honesty and purity shines through. Thank you for sharing tips and advice! ❤️

You are so incredible! This encouraged me so much. Thank you!💗

I just wanna tell you how thankful I am that you take the time to make these videos! I'm currently 28 weeks pregnant with our first baby and I am starting to question whether I can actually do this. I am adopted and my adoptive mom never had kids of her own so I can't ask her questions and my bio mom died so I was really lost and scared until I found your videos...so thanks so much again! I love you and your channel ❤ ♥

37 weeks tomorrow with my first!! I've been watching videos trying to prepare like crazy! Lol very overwhelming. But yours are different. So informative and laid back! Love your videos!! ❤❤

This defiantly put my mind at ease 💗

You are seriously an angel... thank you SO much for these informative videos!! I feel so much better having our baby girl this spring.. I hope she is early rather than later!

I’m normally an incredibly anxious person, but surprisingly I’ve been abnormally calm during my pregnancy. You talking about your thought process about not freaking out about labor and accepting the fact that baby has to come one way or another is reassuring 🖤 just wanted to say I’ve been watching all your videos and they are super helpful and informative, so thank you!😊

Thanks a lot, it’s so helpful 😊

I’ve been sending your videos to my daughter! She’s 18 weeks and no better time to prepare than the present! Thank you for all you share. God bless you and your family ❤

I am so glad I came across your videos. Your birth vlog with your fourth baby was the first video I saw. I am so glad I have your videos to help and rely on. I’m a FTM and I’m 30 weeks pregnant with a baby girl. 💗

38 weeks! Ive been watching your videos religiously all pregnancy! I know I’m commenting on an older video but I’m also enjoying your new tips series too! ❤️ I’m getting really close to having baby boy now and I just wanted to comment one more time and tell you that you have helped me prepare SO much! I’ve learned a crazy amount by watching you. Thank you for sharing so much with us!

True! I had our first daughter 7 years ago and I totally forgot what goes on. I'm due in May so I'm watching a ton or labor vlogs and a lot of newborn content right now😂

I’m having a planned cesarean. My other 2 were also. I love ❤️ your videos they are so inviting and comforting. Your honesty is hard to find now a days.

You give the best tips and explanations!!

Great tips about the mindset! super helpful!!!

I’m 7.5 months and about a week ago I started getting so terrified of birth it’s all I can think about. This video helped me a lot !! Thank you 💞

Best video ever on this subject!!!!! Thank you

This really helped, thank you sm

thank you for this, i’m due in 2 weeks and i’m honestly terrified but i’m also ready and excited to meet my baby girl and hold her 🥺

Loved all your tips, thank you so much for all of them!

Thank you so much for such informative honest video!

Love your videos! Thank you from a new mama to be ❤️

Your videos have helped me so much!

Pray pray and pray for a safe delivery.

I’m 29 weeks and have started thinking more about the L&D part of pregnancy and this calmed me so much! My favorite part though is “it’s all jacked up y’all” 😂❤️ I love your videos so much! I have 2 step kiddos at home (14 and 10) and this is our first “ours baby”!

Due date In 10 days and FTM!! I’ve been loving your videos! Thank you for making me feel like everything is going to be ok! So nerve wrecking as a FTM ♥️♥️♥️♥️

Just found your Chanel & I’m so glad I did! Love your videos! I’m 5 weeks 2 days Pg with my second baby & I can’t stop watching videos! I would love to see you do an in depth video on breastfeeding- you make it look sooo easy!

I love your videos so much. Mummy of two and 17 weeks pregnant with number 3. I've been induced every time and only laboured for 2 hours within getting induced. I'm hoping to experience water breaking and natural labour this time!

New subscriber here. I've enjoyed your videos. I'm expecting my 3rd in March! It helps the time pass while I'm stuck at home here in California.

I’m getting induced tomorrow at 8pm and I’m a first time mom!

Thank you

Great video thank you

You had me at pray💪

What eyeshadow pallet are you wearing in this video? I love it! 34 weeks pregnant by the way and getting induced January 4th! Thanks so much for the advice.

I love that you leaned upon God. The factor that is kind of getting to me is I get horrible migraines, and I do not want to get one while I am giving birth to baby girl. When I do get them it is excruciating, so that is pretty scary for me, but I trust that God is going to be there for me even if it is going to be hard. I can use all the prayers I can get!

I did the same with my first child. I PRAYED AND LISTENED TO WORSHIP SONGS! AND I WILL DO THE SAME WITH MY 2ND ONE, DUE ON MAY! I AM ACTUALLY VERY EXCITED. KINDA SCARED TO FEEL THE PAIN SINCE I REFUSE EPIDURAL.PHEEEW.😅

The rh factor. I’m curious to maybe try this. If anything helps me recover from a cesarean I’m game to try.

what crib mattress do you have I'm 27weeks and can't decide on a crib mattress help! Thank you!

Great video and so in depth!! I'm so curious about the placenta encapsulation and would love to try it, do you have any recommendations for a good company? I found some info on it but not sure how to tell what's the best way to do it and who is reputable, they all do it in different ways!

I would love to hear about the differences between your labors and births. How your third labor was different from the first two, the fourth different from the rest. You mentioned you were 2 weeks early with your other pregnancies but late with this one I’m curious how else they were different. Thanks for the video love how real they are and into them you get.

Not my experience. When I got an epidural there was no sensation. What so ever. Could not move or feel anything below the abdomen. I had no idea where baby was at any point

first!

I get the gush, the pop woke me from a sleep. I didnt realize u coil hear the actual pop it was weird and yes my epidural failed but it helped push atleast

Expecting my first and I’m SO SCARED. I have been bedridden since week 4 … so needless to say no working out. Throwing up 5-20x a day almost daily and now I’m just so dang scared of labor and hoping I get to keep all my teeth once she is born and I see a dentist. But all these videos always mention working out helps… which is frightening. But maybe the baby is used to high stress now since she has been in a miserably sick body for her whole existence lol

After 3 kids I can honestly say that I feel like a birth plan is a set up for failure...

The video was helpful, I love your channel but those cute sounds your baby were making distracted me.. so adorable I cannot wait to have my baby in a couple of months.

Just a question is it true that you have to live with horrible back pain after getting the Epidural? I am getting ready to have my baby next Friday (will be induced) and I want the Epidural but my mom keeps saying that I shouldn’t get it because I will have horrible back pain for the rest of my life..... 😰 she had to get an epidural with her last baby and she says she still suffers w/ back pain from getting it! Plz someone tell me that its not true!

Were they able to put your epidural in easily with clothes that didn’t open in the back? I’d love to wear my gown and robe set for photos afterwards but I do not want to hinder the Drs and nurses.

OMG Jess I think I'm pregnant idk yet .. it's been 6yrs um38omginoa sosonervous scared I am I m gonna watch your videos OMG. Omgiam 38omg

Did you end up getting the belly bandit? If so what did you think about it? Was it worth it?

I love the information you shared, thank you. Since you had 4 beautiful children, did you get hemorrhoid? Did you have issues with it such as interval and external? I am 8 months pregnant and I have both internal and external hemorrhoid. and very nervous it will get worse during labor as first time mom. Any suggestions to minimize it? Thanks again.

The problem with how she regards and describes a birth plan, is that she is missing the point of a birth plan. The point is not the ultimate piece of paper that results. The point of the birth plan is the actual THINKING and CONSIDERATION of the choices involved: everything she mentioned prior to the pain of birth segment is a part of the creation of a birth plan. The important thing that must be said about a birth plan is that no one should expect to know how labour will play out; there is always something unexpected that comes up. But it's essential to consider what one wants that experience to look like and what one needs to get through it. Reviewing a birth plan template and thinking of one in general is the mental preparation for the experience. I don't want to find myself anxious and uncomfortable while giving birth and not know what other options are available to me. And, the nurses are not there to give me those ideas but only to give what I ask for. But, if I do not know, how can I ask? Lastly, for any WOC watching this: we do not have the luxury of trusting completely in the U.S. medical system, much less maternal care in this country. We need to know how and when to advocate for ourselves at every turn because we never know when our medical providers are truly allies. Thus, giving a birth plan true consideration beforehand also helps us in this mental preparation so that we can also advise our support people how to best advocate for us when we are in labour and unable to do so for ourselves.

When my water broke for my first baby, my labour naturally started about 2 hours later, so I did not need to be induced!

For me, the epidural took all sensation away... That's part of why I'm so determined to do baby #3 without it... I feel like I missed out a little... I was able to push perfectly, but I had no pressure or tightening... I wondered if they can control that somehow with the amount of medicine or if they can turn it off at some point. ?

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Am I the only one who gets frustrated by listening to so many examples of how our body naturally does this process and then everything the doctors do to make it happen faster or different or whatever? So many times through this video I’m bothered by how much interference there is and the fact that NOBODY talks about all the options we have! “They won’t let you eat”, sorry, how am I supposed to have the energy to push after STARVING for 24+ hours. You CAN eat. “Your water breaks” (meaning labor started naturally) “but they give you pitocin to get things going”. Things were already going! “You have to have antibiotics if you test positive”, actually you don’t. You don’t even have to be tested for it. (You don’t have to do a lot of the testing they do during prenatal visits.) There is a very small chance Group B Strep will be passed onto your baby even if you’re positive and don’t get the antibiotics - and what’s more, your baby is STILL at risk of getting it later in life by some other means even if you get the antibiotics or if you test negative! People need more education on this. My heart breaks for all the people in the world who truly don’t know what they’re putting themselves and their bodies and their babies through. Doctors definitely have their place, yes they can save your baby’s life if needed, but the majority of labors and births aren’t complicated and are low risk, yet they’re still handled as if they’re high risk and that causes complications. That is infuriating to me.... Soul Tribe Mama, this is absolutely not bashing you or your stories or experiences, I just want other readers in the comments to understand this is NOT the only way things can or should be done in a hospital. I want them to know they have way more power over their labor and delivery experience than they think... whether they choose to exercise that power is one thing, but they definitely can’t if they don’t even know their options....

Completely disagree re birth plans. We call it preferences but you can’t make decisions in labour in the same way and if you’ve not made decisions beforehand you may end up with the dr/midwife standards. I also think it’s incredibly naive to think they’ll ask for permission for every decision

Love this video! Thank you for making this!! I'm 34 weeks today and definitely starting to get nervous