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PostPosted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 11:21 pm


I hope she does well
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:20 am


childbirth is the easy part, especially if you keep in mind that it's "good" pain.

My first was born with epidural - long-ish labour, and I was induced, and found the pain difficult to manage. It made delivery a bit slower, but at the time, I was so exsauhsted I didn't care!

my second was "natural" as I only had gas and air, it was a much shorter delivery with very little intervention at all. (Infact I had to ask them to check me, as I started getting the urge to push, and assumed that after only 3 hours of labour, none of it amazingly painful it must be far too soon. They checked, I was only 7cm dilated, but 5 minutes later I was pushing, as they said to follow my bodies natural instincts. (great midwife I had!!)

Epidurals, like anything may cause a few problems, but nothing horrendous, and I certainly don't think they are wrong.

Good Luck to Blue Yuna, labour really isn't all that bad, you do forget all about the pain as soon as you are holding your beautiful baby in your arms. (The only thing that surrpised me was the colour of the ubilical cord... I didn't expect it to be so blue!)

laiquendai


corruption

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 4:05 pm


when i got my epi...the doctor said it would feel like i was being electocuted...and he wasn't kidding...it felt like liquid lightning spreading through my back...i never hollered so much in my life....but after it was over...oh boy...i was in heaven....no pain...even though the contraction pain wasn't that bad...but it was bad enough...fortunately...my labor (the actual pushing) was only like 20 min...so i was happy about mine...
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:07 pm


corruption
when i got my epi...the doctor said it would feel like i was being electocuted...and he wasn't kidding...it felt like liquid lightning spreading through my back...i never hollered so much in my life....but after it was over...oh boy...i was in heaven....no pain...even though the contraction pain wasn't that bad...but it was bad enough...fortunately...my labor (the actual pushing) was only like 20 min...so i was happy about mine...


Wow, it didn't hurt like that for me. sweatdrop

Tomoe_Gozen


Angelique~Yuna

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:47 pm


KristiElizabeth
Bleu~Yuna
well thanks for sharing all of your stories, i am going to be induced on the 27, and i still have no idea what exactly i'm goign to do and this is my first.........and i'm really scared.....


So that is this upcomming friday. Good Luck to you, and the little one about to come into the scary world. I have never gone though child labor myself either. I get to do that in the end of January.
in jan? wow, that's coming up soon, good luck to you!! are you hoping for a new year baby?
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 7:49 pm


Yamada Kiyoshi
You'll do fine. The easy part for me was actually the delivery.
thanks for the confidence.........i do appreciate you're support.......

Angelique~Yuna


Tomoe_Gozen

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:10 pm


Bleu~Yuna
Yamada Kiyoshi
You'll do fine. The easy part for me was actually the delivery.
thanks for the confidence.........i do appreciate you're support.......


You're welcome. Being pregnant was the hardest part for me because I spent so much time sick from either the pregnancy, bronchitis, or strep throat. sweatdrop
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:13 pm


laiquendai
childbirth is the easy part, especially if you keep in mind that it's "good" pain.

My first was born with epidural - long-ish labour, and I was induced, and found the pain difficult to manage. It made delivery a bit slower, but at the time, I was so exsauhsted I didn't care!

my second was "natural" as I only had gas and air, it was a much shorter delivery with very little intervention at all. (Infact I had to ask them to check me, as I started getting the urge to push, and assumed that after only 3 hours of labour, none of it amazingly painful it must be far too soon. They checked, I was only 7cm dilated, but 5 minutes later I was pushing, as they said to follow my bodies natural instincts. (great midwife I had!!)

Epidurals, like anything may cause a few problems, but nothing horrendous, and I certainly don't think they are wrong.

Good Luck to Blue Yuna, labour really isn't all that bad, you do forget all about the pain as soon as you are holding your beautiful baby in your arms. (The only thing that surrpised me was the colour of the ubilical cord... I didn't expect it to be so blue!)
thank you for your advice and story....i do appreciate it........i didn't know the umbilical cord will be blue, wow.....i thought it would be whittish and red........

Angelique~Yuna


Angelique~Yuna

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:15 pm


Glitter Girl
Bleu~Yuna
Yamada Kiyoshi
You'll do fine. The easy part for me was actually the delivery.
thanks for the confidence.........i do appreciate you're support.......


You're welcome. Being pregnant was the hardest part for me because I spent so much time sick from either the pregnancy, bronchitis, or strep throat. sweatdrop
oh wow, that would really be horrible to be sick your entire pregnancy, i'm lucky i wasn't sick that much..........i just have to stay away from chinese food and mexican food.........i'm so sorry.......
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:47 pm


*grabs the soap box and jumps on it*

This isn't really a rant, but you did push it aside for us to use. Anyway....

With my first daughter, the birth was completely natural. And I'm NOT kidding. I had felt what HAD to be contractions, but since they were no where near eachother, nor uniform (5min here, 20min there, 30sec over there....) the doctor sent me home. I get home, take a nap, wake up for dinner with the strongest urge to pee I'd ever had in my life. Go to the bathroom, water breaks. Walk from the bathroom to the bedroom and by the time I got there, my daughters' head was poking out. Honestly it was painless, but still disturbing. So I had my first one at home with no help from medication. Unless you count the two Tylenol I took before my nap.

Then comes my second daughter. The year before I met my second (and only) husband I had suffered severe back trauma. I got shoved into a metal kitchen counter at work and there was severe swelling around my spine and I now have a couple of screwed up disks. I honestly didn't know I was dialating with my second until I went to my 39 week check up and found out I was already 3cm along. So off to the hospital we went. Everything was fine until they broke my water, and then it started coming bad!!! I have a surprisingly high pain tolerance (burnt my arm one day at work and didn't notice till it blistered), so it started worrying my husband when each contraction made me cry. Again the contractions weren't uniform or consistant. My hubby didn't know weather to be pissed at the doctor for breaking my water, or crying with me since he hates to see me in pain. So more for him than me, I got the epidural. It was niiiiiiiice. I had one that I could self dose. Only got 4 doses an hour though. Even then it didn't prevent me from feeling the pushing sensation so I had no issues there. About 2 hours after getting the epidural I went to the delivery room, and 5 min. from there I had a beautiful little girl in my arms.

I don't get why people (especially those WITHOUT kids), seem to think it's some sort of hellish sin to get some kind of medication while giving birth. If you have an excellent doctor and an even better anesthesiologist, things go smoothly with no risk to you or your child. In the end it all depends on the doctors' attention span. So tell those who think your getting an epidural is the ultimate sin to stuff it! It's not their child, their body, nor their decision. If your decision to get an epidural doesn't bother you, it shouldn't bother them. Like I said, your choice, not theirs! Nuff said.

*gets off the soapbox and pushes it to the next person*

Illiana_Galean


Tomoe_Gozen

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:04 pm


They wouldn't except me until I was 4 centimeters. I also had to have my water broken. I was doing fine until they did that. I'm glad I asked for an epidural. It hurt so bad. crying
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:13 pm


Glitter Girl
They wouldn't except me until I was 4 centimeters. I also had to have my water broken. I was doing fine until they did that. I'm glad I asked for an epidural. It hurt so bad. crying

That sucks! I got lucky though, it was an hour drive to the hospital and my dr. figured that I'd be dialated enough by the time I got there. He paid attention to my medical history, and sure enough, by the time we got there I was at 7cm.

Illiana_Galean


Tomoe_Gozen

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:22 pm


Yeah, I was crying the night before because they brought me in and I screamed a the doctor who measured me because it just hurt so bad and he was touching where the pain was coming from. He looked at me like I was crazy, but they sent me home because I wasn't dialated enough because I would be more comfortable at home. I got no sleep that night. I was so tired I would pass out between contractions. sweatdrop

My mom told me she hates epidurals because doctors think that they can cut and put stitches in and what ever, but they forget that you're going to feel it after the epidural wears off. My mom's labor with me was so long that I was almost a c-section. That and they know. I was given medication for the pain after my delivery. A lot of it actually.
PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:33 pm


I've gotten lucky then, because I've never had to get cut nor have I torn. Vicodin land is fun though.

Illiana_Galean


Tomoe_Gozen

PostPosted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 9:42 pm


Illiana_Galean
I've gotten lucky then, because I've never had to get cut nor have I torn. Vicodin land is fun though.


I tore when during the very last part of the delivery. I felt it, but I didn't quite feel it. I didn't even feel the stitches he gave me really. I only really pushed for 45 mins and it had taken me 4 hours to go from 4 centimeters to 10. They said that it was fast. sweatdrop I know nothing about that though.
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