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How Did You Deliver?
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| Vaginal, Unmedicated |
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| Vaginal, Medicated |
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| Emergency C-Section |
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| Opted for C-Section |
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Total Votes : 32
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(last vote on : 1/7/2009 12:00:41 PM)
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/9/2008 8:43:31 PM
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Mom01
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I never got an epidural, they showed me the needle when I was about 7 months along and that sealed my decision. HUGE phobia of needles, I would rather have the hours of pain and I just hate taking medicine in general.
When they gave me the spinal before my c-sec, they numbed me first. Don't know what size needles they used for that. It was just a little stick though. Then, when they did the actual spinal what I felt was alot of pressure at my spine where he was sticking it in. It made my back bone ache, but it wasn't really all that bad.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/9/2008 8:54:39 PM
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manda59
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ORIGINAL: betterisoneday
I never got an epidural, they showed me the needle when I was about 7 months along and that sealed my decision. HUGE phobia of needles, I would rather have the hours of pain
You don't need to see the needle and you certainly don't feel it (as in pain, just general pressure which certainly doesn't feel like a needle going in).
I have a thing about needles, but all I do is make sure, when I need an injection, that I tell the nurse to make sure I don't see it.
Having had the hours of pain first time round (and nothing working), I so wanted an epidural second time round, even with my issues over needles/injections.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/10/2008 12:13:44 AM
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Roberta_
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Hi Mom01 and welcome!
I didn't vote in the poll because I've had four children. 1 and 2 were vaginal with no meds. #3 was an emergency c. #4 was VBAC with meds.
I can't have any more children, however, if I could and had a choice, I'd go for a vaginal birth again. The recovery from a C was more painful to me than the vaginal deliveries.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/10/2008 12:23:26 AM
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myka
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(((((small_creation))))) I'm sorry about your loss, too. I've had several miscarriages myself.
Okay, I've had an induced, w/o pain meds delivery, an all natural delivery, and an induced w/pain meds (epidural) delivery, all vaginal.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/18/2008 11:33:55 PM
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Mrs.X
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ORIGINAL: manda59
Having had the hours of pain first time round (and nothing working), I so wanted an epidural second time round, even with my issues over needles/injections.
Me too Manda. I really don't like needles (I used to always get really nervous and sweaty before the Red Cross people would stick me), but I remember the feeling, rather the lack of feeling after the epidural, and that was so much better. I mean seriously, who plays cards and watches TV and talks on the phone when they're in labor? I did.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/19/2008 8:17:28 AM
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macokjc
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I mean seriously, who plays cards and watches TV and talks on the phone when they're in labor? I did.
.....or read a book, or take a nap....Man, that was the best!
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 11/19/2008 8:25:34 AM
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momma_bee
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I watched TV, belly-ached that the Pitt-Penn State game wasn't on, and groused about the nurses making me walk...
I was walking a triangle from the bed - door - couch and the nurses wanted me to walk up and down the hall. I couldn't stand the thought of doing that again. They made me walk a few weeks earlier and every time I passed the nurses station, they would look up, expectantly, and I had no progress to report. I felt like I failed every time I walked passed so I wasn't doing it again.
They came into the room every so often and it seemed like they would catch me stopped to change channels or having a contraction, or turned to talk to Poppa and they ask me if I was walking or not. I know it helps advance labor, but really, I was tired and shouldn't I save some energy for delivery???
Last year, when they took my gall bladder, they wanted me to walk and I did the same thing - in the room with the door closed. This year, my dad was walking up and down the hall and I wasn't even comfortable walking with him. Weird.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 12/13/2008 12:23:43 PM
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danas_mom
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I voted 'emergency c-section' because that applies to two out of three of my deliveries. The third was an elective section because they didn't give me a choice.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 12/13/2008 2:08:07 PM
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Auben
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I voted vaginal, unmedicated births.
The first had added penicillin because he was 3.5 weeks early. I went into the hospital dialated at 7-8cm and continued to dialate without labor until my water was broken. Then I went straight from nothing to transition labor. I was moving too fast for pain medication (and I honestly didn't need it until it was too late).
#2-I was induced early because of where the cord was placed (low around the baby's head) and how fast my first labor went. We all agreed pitocin was better than cord prolapse. Since I did unmedicated the first time I thought it would work out okay here as well. Born an hour after water broken.
#3-late, unmedicated, turned (face up). Born 40 minutes after water broken.
#4-a week early, unmedicated, no problems. Born 45 minutes after water broken.
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RE: How Did You Deliver? - 12/24/2008 2:57:51 PM
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scbusf
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My DS was born vaginally, but with a vacuum. He had a hand on his face, and his head was turned a funny direction. He just wouldn't come out and my epidural wasn't working at that point. So they used the vacuum and I had lots of labial tearing.
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My dr broke my water at 5 cm and by the time I was at 6 cm, I'd been at the hospital for 9 hours and the contractions were every minute and a half. I was more than ready for an epidural by then 
It was still almost 6 more hours before our son was born, including almost 2 hours of pushing. I think I might have passed out long before that if I hadn't had the medication 
