CBB Exclusive: Chantal Kreviazuk's pregnancy column: Birthing plan and baby boy #3

In her final column, Canadian chanteuse Chantal Kreviazuk, 34, who is expecting her third son with hubby Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace on July 15th, chats about her plans for the delivery of her next baby. With the birth increasingly imminent (she is already 1 cm dilated and the doctor felt the baby's head last week), Chantal shares her thoughts on suffering pain and the way in which she wants to welcome her next son. The LA-based singer/songwriter is also mom to Rowan Michael, 4 ½, and Lucca Jon, 3. For many reasons, I am going to be open to a completely uninterrupted natural birth this time. As I type this, I am, I believe, potentially starting some labor. The nights have been presenting a lot of good "ripening" for me, and preparing my body for the big event. In the past, my births were not intervened until I was about 7 cm dilated. Coming from a really hospital-oriented background (I was in a motor vehicle accident at the age of 19, which sentenced me to a lot of pain/trauma and post operative care), I felt really comfortable with the whole idea of entrusting any health issues to the doctors and hospitals, as a result of the duration of time spent in hospitals, how much I was helped subsequent to my accident, and post op care, which seemed never ending. I have also had an ovary removed -- needless to say, between all of the hospital stays, my births, etc, I am quite happy in the hospital, with spinals and pain relief etc. A part of me has felt for a long time, regarding birth, that I have "suffered enough" due to my accident and all, and that the opportunity to have a civilized pain-free birthing experience was something that one should engage in, consider a privilege if not for the sole reason that we CAN have this!!! Wouldn't women all over the world without access to this progress and modernization be baffled by us refusing it? This birth and place in time for me is different. While I don't want to make marriages with fictitious futures, or put up any
	Published: 2008-06-24 Provider: Celebrity Baby Blog
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