Comments on: Labor Rant

By: domestic extraordinaire

domestic extraordinaire — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:57:32 +0000

with both girls I had natural childbirth. What I didn’t like was the nursing staff with my 2nd one trying to push the drugs on me, like I hadn’t already had one kid without using drugs.

By: allison

allison — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 03:34:57 +0000

I know nothing about any of what you mentioned other than I have a million questions about everything regarding child birth. Lots of them. I often ask my pregnant friends so if my time ever comes, I won’t be incredibly surprised.

My friends that have gone through it will share stories. Like the “Holy I didn’t know THAT would happen.”

My mom was drug-free way back in 1983 when she had me. Granted, things were different, but she said it wasn’t anything terrible that she couldn’t handle.

By: Angella

Angella — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:07:21 +0000

I am the same as you – I was willing to get an epidural if need be, but wanted to try it naturally.

Graham got stuck and they thought I’d have to have a C-section, so I had a full spinal at the end before the forceps got him out. Because of how huge he was (9/12 on his due date), I was induced 10 days early with the other two.

Apart from the induction, I was drug-free and breathed through it all. I’m in no way a Superwoman – my body just does well with labor and delivery.

Looking forward to hear how your next one goes.

By: Kate (kakaty)

Kate (kakaty) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:31:53 +0000

@Jess – from what I’ve read on your blog, I know that you will research every option to death, just like I did. Being informed is huge…I went to our hospital’s birthing class (which after having read and discussed so much with my Doc was kind of lame) and I couldn’t BELEIVE how many women said they wanted an epidural but were shocked and repulsed when they learned it went in your spine. I wanted to smack them – take some control over your health care choices!

@Sourire11 – wow, such a good point to make about being flexible in how you hope things go…you never know what is going to happen during labor and having at least some idea as to options and alternatives can make a huge difference.

By: Sourire11

Sourire11 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:13:43 +0000

GREAT post. I went in thinking I would take things as they come. I ended up getting an epidural b/c more than anything else they told me I would sleep afterwards and I hadn’t slept in days at this point. Well the epidural didn’t work. They placed it wrong. So I did 9 hours of back labor w/ no pain relief and no ability to get out of the bed b/c of the non-working epidural. So to all of those people saying that all you need to know is E-P-I-D-U-R-A-L what happens if it doesn’t work? It’s never a bad idea to be educated and flexible.