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These days there are a few options when giving birth to your pending bundle of joy. There is the traditional v-birth, a c-section, natural birth with no medication, home birth, or even a water birth. When giving birth or making the decision before your child was born what did you choose and why? If you had to do it all over again would you do it the same way?
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- kayceecat - August 29, 2009
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With my first child I had it all planned that I would have a v-birth and have medicine to take the edge off the pain. It did not go as planned as labor progressed so quickly that the doctor said I could not have any meds or it would slow things down.
With the second child I was just sure that it was going to be quick and easy. Yeah, right! I was set to be induced on day 14 after the due date but went into labor in the middle of the night before inducing. Labor was slow, very slow. By morning they gave me a spinal medication to take some of the pain away. About an hour later my doctor was doing his morning rounds in the hospital and stopped in to check on me and the next thing I know he was yelling to get some stirrups on the bed and said "We have to get this baby out right now!" I said, "Oh, I'm having a c-section?" He said, "No, you have cord prolapse and it will take an extra 2 minutes to prepfor a c-section. We do not have that kind of time." They numbed me from the armpits to my toes and did a big episiotomy as I was not fully dialated and then used forceps and pulled that baby on out.
I always thought your first birth was supposed to be the hardest and slowest. I guess that is not true all the time.
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- FamilyHost_Kristina - August 30, 2009
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With my first child I had it all planned that I would have a v-birth and have medicine to take the edge off the pain. It did not go as planned as labor progressed so quickly that the doctor said I could not have any meds or it would slow things down. With the second child I was just sure that it was going to be quick and easy. Yeah, right! I was set to be induced on day 14 after the due date but went into labor in the middle of the night before inducing. Labor was slow, very slow. By morning they gave me a spinal medication to take some of the pain away. About an hour later my doctor was doing his morning rounds in the hospital and stopped in to check on me and the next thing I know he was yelling to get some stirrups on the bed and said "We have to get this baby out right now!" I said, "Oh, I'm having a c-section?" He said, "No, you have cord prolapse and it will take an extra 2 minutes to prepfor a c-section. We do not have that kind of time." They numbed me from the armpits to my toes and did a big episiotomy as I was not fully dialated and then used forceps and pulled that baby on out. I always thought your first birth was supposed to be the hardest and slowest. I guess that is not true all the time.
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Wow the things we go through to have our babies. Good thing the doc caught that when he did.
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- kayceecat - September 02, 2009
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Wow the things we go through to have our babies. Good thing the doc caught that when he did.
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Yes, labor is the right word for what we go through in childbirth.
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- Giggles_all_day - September 08, 2009
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I have to say that I had my first one natural with no medication and not by choice! One of the nurses forgot to give it to me until it was too late. So when I was pregnant with my twins and was told one of them was breach, I just told them to knock me out and do whatever they had to do, lol.
If I had to do it again I would make sure I get my medication! :x
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- Helen-NotofTroy - September 09, 2009
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Both of my labors went as I wanted them to - v-births with epidurals. I had always thought I would have a third child and had really hoped to go all natural. But that didn't end up happening, which is fine. I'm very happy with how my childbirths went and would probably do them the same way.
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