In a PEOPLE exclusive sneak peek at Monday’sCounting On, audiences get a behind-the-scenes look as Jinger, 24, and her husbandJeremy Vuoloprepared to welcomelittle Felicityinto the world. During the episode, the pair visits a birth center in San Antonio, where they meet with their midwife, Alisa, to discuss the upcoming delivery and her initial plans to have a natural birth.
“A birth center is, we like to say, the step down between hospital and home. What we provide here at he birth center is a home-like setting, but the really nice thing is the proximity to the hospital,” Alisa tells the couple.
Although Jinger’s mother and some of her sisters had homebirths— “My mom and sisters have had long labors,” she shares — she admittedly doesn’t “feel comfortable” with going that route for her daughter’s delivery.
“My mom and quite a few of my sisters have done home births and for me, I don’t feel comfortable with it. I think I feel safer being in a birth center where they have a lot more things that you would need for care and also being closer to a really good hospital,” Jinger explains.
Adds Jeremy, 31: “One of the factors for why we chose a birthing center — and specifically the one we chose — is because it is literally a minute away from multiple hospitals: a children’s hospital and two others. And so if there’s any complication whatsoever, we’ve pretty much got immediate care.”
Choosing the birthing center meant that Jinger would not be administered any medications during the labor — something that she was initially willing and wanting to do.
“I’m good with natural childbirth. I mean, at this point I will say that,” she shares. “I mean, it’s a good thing to hold me to it because there’s no option of it.”
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“When it was time to push, it seemed like everything just went so fast,” she said. “It was really, really good. It wasn’t what I expected it to be, of course because I had an epidural. I was expecting a lot more difficulty with that, but I was grateful, everything went really quick.”
Counting Onairs Mondays (9 p.m. ET) on TLC.
source: people.com
