Maid of Honor actress Busy Phillips opened up to The Cradle about her pregnancy style and her plans for an all-natural childbirth. Phillips is expecting a baby girl this August with her husband, writer Marc Silverstine.
The actress says she is hoping for an all-natrual childbirth.
“I’m not going to do an epidural. I’m going to do natural childbirth. We did a HypnoBirthing class, so I’ve been practicing that. I’ve had several friends that have had great success with HypnoBirthing and the techniques.
And I don’t know how to explain it, but I’ve also always known since I was young that I wasn’t going to have pain medication when I gave birth. I believe that it’s a very personal choice, but I really believe that this is something our bodies are able to do naturally, and we should get out of our body’s way and let [it] do it. So while we are going to have a hospital birth, we’re also planning on spending a lot of our labor in our home, which is where our midwife is going to be, and then she’s coming to the hospital with us too. I’ve been doing a lot of reading, and I feel really prepared. Yet, that being said, if something were to happen, I really trust my doctor. So if the baby needs to be born another way that I can’t be in control of, then that’s the way the baby is going to be born.
I feel incredibly prepared for the kind of birth that I want to have, but half of it is up to the baby and what she wants to do. We’ll see what kind of birth she has planned!”
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