Thankful Thursday

As I near my due date for our little man I am reminded of how thankful I am for modern medicine. While I believe that as women our bodies are capable of birthing babies without modern medicine I am thankful that we have the knowledge to make it safer (though not all interventions are for the good, but that's for another time...) and I'm especially thankful for the drugs. I'm not someone that has a desire to be able to say that I delivered without drugs. With our daughter I only dilated 2cm in 8ish hours before I got my epidural. After I received it I was pushing 2 hours later and then 40 minutes later I was holding our little girl. I fought the contractions and just wasn't progressing without it. I have prepared myself a bit more this time (though honestly not much) in the event there isn't time for an epidural or if it doesn't work but I very very much enjoyed the pushing portion of labor and loved that I felt pressure but not pain and it was an amazing way for me to bring her into the world. I feel like I truly got to actually enjoy it verses cursing being in labor. 
So today I'm thankful for at least the possibly of an epidural :)
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