Birth Expectations and How They Affect Labor
Have you ever heard the term "confirmation bias"? Confirmation bias is a type of selective thinking that causes you to notice and look for what confirms your beliefs, and to ignore or undervalue those things that contradict your beliefs. For example, from the time women are born they are told labor is painful and most birth stories that are shared over the years are those that enforce the idea that labor is painful. Our brain then begins to tune into things that confirm our
