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Mikala has a very optimistic idea of what it's like to give birth. Real moms give her the ugly truth.

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00:00I'm hoping and planning for an orgasm birth.
00:03So it's basically like you come a million times and then a baby comes out.
00:12I'm looking at the way other women are doing it and I've sort of decided, not for me.
00:17I had a really brutal childbirth.
00:19I've had two children and the first one I always say broke me.
00:24I really think I'm just, I'm going to die and this baby's going to die and this is all going
00:28to end up horribly.
00:30So I want to make sure that these four hours are, you know, something I really experienced.
00:36I mean, I was in labor for 26 hours.
00:38It was also three days long.
00:40Not worried about tearing because I have a very meaty nether region.
00:43She had her hands in my vagina, literally tearing it open.
00:51I think my labor is going to be like a hard yoga class.
00:56You know, like Bikram in the summer.
00:58Rivers of blood.
00:59It was so intense and so painful that I forgot that I was there to have a baby.
01:04I just wanted everything to be over.
01:06Get out of me now.
01:09You can't really imagine the pain until it starts happening and you're like, what the fuck?
01:14That's not, wait, wait, wait.
01:17I want to change my mind.
01:18I'm not ready for this.
01:20You also like give birth to a thing called a placenta, which looks like a stingray.
01:25I'm definitely eating my placenta.
01:26Yeah, we have a blanket we're going to bring them home in.
01:28It's a beautiful shambori.
01:31It's sort of like a tie-dye technique that they do in Japan and it does match my home-going
01:37kimono,
01:37which is different than my birth kimono.
01:40I'm actually packing a total of four kimonos.
01:43You become an animal.
01:44I was an animal.
01:45I'm not worried about shitting during birth because, to be totally honest, I haven't
01:49shit myself in years.
01:52Year.
01:53Year.
01:53Year.
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