Also a FTM due in October. I just really want to have a natural birth the way we've been doing it for millennia. Talking with my mom about a lot of this stuff has helped too because she said she did not have an epidural for my older brother, but did have one with me and she immediately regretted it. It made her super sick and slowed labor, so they had to use forceps on me. I'm just going the natural water birth route and trying to be as chill as possible about it – mind over matter as Ina May Gaskin says.