Posted on 02/06/2010 7:50:37 PM PST by myknowledge
8 kids here - I’ve done it every which way - first w/ a male ob/gyn which was an absolute nightmare.
The next five were with mid-wives. As far as having to give birth without epideurals - that is the way to go.
My babies were so big they decided to start taking them early by inducing along with an epideural.
I did that with a female ob/gyn.
I had a monitor for the last birth. Maybe they didn't fuss over me because they were short labors. 5 or 6 hours.
I remember that. Entertaining if it wasn’t your experience. :-)
Like military care? I can’t knock the care I’ve gotten as a dependent with a couple of exceptions - 6-bed wards in maternity when my son was born. When our daughter was born, an hour after delivery they took me on a walking tour of the department to show me where the sheets were kept in case I wanted to change them.
Oh, and the run around we got when DH first joined and I was 5 months pregnant. I was supposed to get a Rhogam shot at 28 weeks so I called to arrange it. “Sorry, all appointments are booked for the next month. Call back in 30 days.” I told them I was supposed to receive this injection at 28 weeks, not 32 weeks, and their comment was “sorry.” Fortunately we had a few strings we could pull and I got the injection in a fairly timely fashion.
With Barack in charge, only the “chosen” will get appropriate care.
I doubt the Ward care is anything like military care. From reading articles in the Daily Mail Online, I get a scary picture from it. heh
oh yeah! They were good to me.
Set me up in the whirlpool in the beginning.
Warm blankets to help with the shakes.
I didn’t say I wasn’t in labor, I should have included that info. I was in labor for about 18 hours. I just didn’t go to the hospital until the last minute and I never had any Lamaze or such classes.
I heard horror stories about labor from family and so I was waiting for things to get really, really bad not realizing I was at the worst part already.
With my last one, my doctor never told me that it would be a natural birth until I was in hard labor. The nurses kept snerking between them about how I'd forgotten all my Lamaze tips. I'd never HAD any Lamaze classes. I finally got tired of it and said so. Then I asked about the epidural, they told me "We don't do that at this hospital". My reaction wasn't pretty. When the nurses finally got a clue that I'd had no idea it was a natural birth, they stopped being so nasty. It certainly could have been a better experience.
I didn't want to take Lamaze but it was a requirement if I wanted to forgo the scopolamine. (That was 35 years ago.)
I would have done much better had they said “The last part will hurt like hell, but it means you are almost done. Once the head pops out the pain is but a distant memory.” I ended up having a saddle block. Jekyll and Hyde. :-)
They wanted me to take a “refresher” with my second baby. I them to get a life. :-) He popped out with but one primal yell.
My third labor was the toughest, probably because I was 36. “Don't push? What the hell do you mean, don't push. You can shake hands with him.” The ER doctor delivered him.
You do but it’s not enough. Theres a window of time when a person with an HIV infection is infectious but their HIV test has not converted to positive. So the recommendation is to test the exposed person for 6 months to be sure.
When I was in labor with my first baby, a woman down the hall was alternately screaming obscenities then pleading “Sweet Jesus save me”.
With our second I bit my husband on the shoulder. I remember doing it but he says he doesn’t remember being bitten. Good husband, he’s a keeper.
I would say the poor laboring woman is the vulnerable one.
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I thought it was annoying. I buttoned my lip and pushed. Now that I’m older, I suspect that the woman wasn’t told giving birth HURTS. :-)
“If they’re not going to have an epidermal they need a leather strap to bite on.”
“Epidermal” refers to the outer, non vascular layer of skin. The word you’re looking for is “epidural.”
“He popped out with but one primal yell.”
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ROFLOL! Great description!
So medical personnel should just shut up and take it is that it? It’s okay to assault them?
220, 221, whatever it takes....
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