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I like this topic. I see it was started a while ago but hope you don't mind if I add some things. I'll probably get too detailed!

I have a lot of worst parts. Almost every part was my worst part! Never using this hospital again!

The best part was actually in the beginning when I was in control and could move around and do my breathing.

Then the IV came. I had to have it because of my heart and possibly needing antibiotics. I could still move but it wasn't comfortable. Then I was feeling a bit queasy and asked if I could have anything for it. It's a hospital so I figure they have some kind of anti nausea medication. They said yes, so I thought oh, great!

Before I know it, they stick some kind of medicine in my IV , without me getting a chance to ask what it is. They tell me it will help me relax. I instantly get dizzy and can't even sit up or stand up. My nausea got worse. They told me it was normal. They were lying bitches.. giving me meds I didn't want or need. I guess they thought they needed to calm me down because I was worried about throwing up. Ugh.

So after that, I wasn't in control. I couldn't move. I got really sleepy from the meds, but still felt full pain. Dizziness and passing out do not help you control your labor pains. It was awful. So after a while I had to give in and get an epidural, which is something I had wanted to avoid. I slept for a while after that.

Then, they decided it was taking too long, so they let my epidural run out. It was coming time to push and I felt everything instantly with no build up.. plus still dizzy and sleepy. I pushed for 3 hours, with back labor.. it was horrible. Suddenly I felt the ring of fire.. you know.. it was horrible to me to, and then my doctor cut me without asking first. I felt it and heard it. Like a rubber band. Im still not over that, but thats another story.... And then my lovely baby was born.

Other things to add are a doctor who thought I had a c-section because she failed to check my chart, and the nurses who left my catheter in for 3 days.

the worst part was my labor, with the crappy diluted epidural they gave me i got NO rest whatsoever, and i felt all the contractions, i was so exhausted, and in so much pain (i was having HORRIBLE back labor and i was so uncomfortable and screaming from all my contractions)... 13 hours of nearly nonstop pain

best part, getting to hold my son for the first time and looking at that precious face and watching the gleam in my hubby's eyes.

MysticFawn: Seriously I just gave birth on the 24th of December to my second. I had high intervention labor the first time and have a SLEW of things to b***h about.

This time I did a hospital delivery with Certified Nurse Midwives and about the only thing I have to complain about was this ONE nurse who just sorta hovered and was always touching and adjusting this or that. Though she had a bad start having to be the nurse who asked me the huge a** list of questions. She wasn't horrible or anything, just annoying. I was always asking her to wait a damn minute to adjust something as I went through the next contraction.

Oh and the first nurse we got when we were moved down to the Recovery room. She was a b***h. But we only had her for like an hour.

I was happy with the small amount of Nubain I requested to help me get some sleep, I was happy with the delivery, and the prescence of the Midwife, and the rest of the hospital staff was 100 percent supportive and nice.

I was in labor for nearly a week... It was insanely painful, and I barely got any sleep.
By the time the contractions were painful and close enough to go to the hospital, I could barely walk. I got in there and got put in my room, and they stuck me with an IV. Missing the vein not once. Not twice. THREE TIMES! (I still have the bruise, nearly a month after birth). Then my contractions started getting weird. I would have regular LARGE, PIANFUL ones, but in between those I had small ones. I eventually broke down crying.
They gave me some nubain, which made me very very tired, but it didn't last long. The pain came back.
Finally I got my epidural, and I was able to try and sleep... Save for the fact that the nurse came in every few minutes...
But, when the first nurse went off shift, I got my labor class teacher as a nurse!
Then I starting vomitting. I must have thrown up 10 times before delivery, and once during delivery.
But I didn't have that much pain, and only pushed for 40 minutes, so that was good.

Well let's see..the first time, I started having small contractions on Saturday, and didn't need to go to the hospital until late Sunday night, they hooked all that crap up to me, didn't say a single WORD to me, and left the room...after about half an hour of lying there, not knowing what was going on, I ripped all the monitor s**t off, got off the bed & told hubby to get a doctor in there pronto, I was NOT staying at that hospital. So the doctor finally came in, gave me a pill that was supposed to ease the contractions...lying b***h, I think she gave me pitosin. We were on our way home, and the contractions got a lot worse. eek I tried to relax when we got home, hubby laid down (it's about 3 am by this time) and by 5, just as he was drifting off, I woke him & we went to a different hospital, closer to the house, and where I knew about half of the nurses because of going to school with their kids. smile I had an IV and an epidural, wasn't nauseous, did pretty good. Slept off & on throughout the day, went into hard labor around 5:30-6 that evening, they had to break my water and I had to have an episiotomy. at 7:13pm I delivered my 9 pound 11 ounce 21 inches long baby boy. smile

Second pregnancy, I wanted a C-section, because I was scared to deliver another large baby, but I had a moron for a doctor that time (same hospital as the first one the first time scream ) and he didn't want to do a C-section. When I was 2 days past my due date, he decided to induce, since he was worried about my health and hers if I went much longer.
So, at 5 am I'm getting that damned pitosin again, back in the hospital I hate. She's breach (sideways not posterior) and I sit there in labor and intense pain for hours. I told them I didn't want any students in the room, and yet when they went to break my water, there was this nursing student who kept trying to force my leg up higher....I nearly kicked her & told them to stop, that they were hurting my legs. around 2 in the afternoon, the moron decided to do an emergency C-section. (dumbass, didn't I ask for a C-section in the first place??? ) She was 9 pounds 2 ounces, 21 3/4 inches long.

This time, I have a good doctor, and have already been in one of the labor & delivery rooms at the hospital I'll be going to (false alarm the night before New Year's Eve, I had a UTI that was causing an "irritable uterus" making it feel like I was having contractions). And, we've already scheduled the C-section for March 2nd. My actual due date is March 12th.
This little guy is very active, and is going to be just about the same size as the other two, by the way I'm feeling, and the new stretch marks on my belly. wink

Hope this wasn't TMI. xd

My worst part of labor was being told after about 48hrs that i had to have a c-section. If it wasn't for all the drugs i was on i probably would have cried. My fiancee was there with me through the whole thing. he never slept till after i was in my private room.

The best part happened 10 days later when i got to hold my little girl for the first time up in Nicu at Children's hospital.

Worst - the 7 days of pro-dromal labor. Hard, painful contractions, but no change in the cervix. They gave me morphine every night so I could sleep. The morphine shots were pretty evil, too.

Best - That last push, and then having your baby in your arms.

The worst:

I also had prodromal labor, in my case for 10 days. We were staying in a hotel at the time, and I spent most of it taking walks or sitting in a hot bath/shower to try to ease the contractions. I still couldn't sleep, though.


The best:

Pushing after I could feel her crown. It hurt, but it was a pretty ecstatic experience for me, and I felt absolutely wonderful afterward.