Posted on 06/06/2007 11:39:42 AM PDT by gobucks
If my experience was any indication, this is certainly the way to go. I go berserk when I get a shot, yet I was able to have my child without upsetting the entire maternity ward.
That's exactly right. My doctor basically told me I would be getting certain tests because of my age or he wouldn't be able to be my OB. He was about to retire from the OB part of it, and he didn't take any chances. With my last one, not that I would have chose it anyway, but he wasn't birthin' no breech babies.
When you’re a graveyard nut as I, you find out up close & personal just how often child and mother deaths happened.
.....and/or into genealogy.
Tell me about it. All I hear is how gynocologists are dropping the obstetrics part. Apparently being any doctor is bad enough, but being and obstetrician must be way beyond “the pale”. (My mom’s obstetrician - birthing me - dropped the ob part very early but continued on as gyn until his death some 25 years later.) I’m sure it’s because all the lib lawyers are “doing it for **the chiilllldrren**”.
Baby#1--I did the natural childbirth that was all the rage. Phooey!
Baby#2--I told the doc....slap the needle in. "Oh, are you sure? You are almost 7 cm dilated?".
Pfft..I rememebered how with #1, the docs at Tripler AMC had to use the vacuum thingy, and then the forceps (my son had a large cranium). With that in mind, I repeated to the docs at NMC San Diego....I want the epidural. Good thing, too. Daughter also had a large cranium, and they had to do the vacuum...and then the forceps. I was glad to have the epidural, and neither of us suffered because of it.
Like I read in an article—with every pregnancy they have two potential lawsuits.
People will sue over anything. I read on a pregnancy forum a couple of years back one woman question whether she should sue or not because the baby was much bigger than she was told it would be. Because of that, she tore. She was considering going after the doctor.
I had no drugs, but there were plenty of doctors and nurses right there to make sure nothing happened to my baby. I couldn’t take a chance with his life.
Ping to you my sweet!
And after. Definitely after.
The placenta previa case would have been a c-section anyway; however, they failed to note that it was a full placenta previa rather than a partial and she nearly lost my brother a week before they had originally scheduled the c-section.
The uterus perforation was during the clean-up for a miscarriage and was from the inside, with all the resulting complications, and she nearly died.
But I’m not attacking doctors, I want them around when I give birth! I’m just saying that I can sympathize a little bit with these home birth people. Not that much, but a little.
I didn't hesitate with my son, and same deal. Needle in, slept an hour, and four pushes later he arrived.
I would have said they want as little hassle as possible. Some doctors routinely induce labor so as to schedule events. Drugs are pushed because a pain-free, comfortable patient requires much less in bedside care. Who cares if the labor takes 5-6 hours? But if that labor lasts 6 hours and 30 seconds, off you go for a c-section.
I think women need to be free to make their own decisions here. My doctor was so interventionist with my first, telling me that if he wasn't born within 24 hours, that I would have a c-section, that I was completely uptight! That certainly didn't help my labor to progress and then, I wasn't even rushed off for a section anyway!
A friend of mine went the homebirth route because she wanted a VBAC and she couldn't find a doctor would agree. Now, I couldn't possibly have taken that risk but she felt confident that they could get to help if it were needed and was ready to accept any problems that may have occurred. The labor held no complications and the baby was perfectly healthy.
While I do agree that childbirth is not a disease, it is a not quite as simple, natural bodily function, such as deification or urination.
Women have managed childbirth alone, successfully.
But why any woman would intentionally plan to do so, will ever remain a mystery to me.
But I don’t understand why anyone sane would intentionally jump out of a perfectly good aircraft, either...
I would prefer to deliver my babies at home. Hospitals are for sick people.
Childbirth stories ping!
My first one was in some weird position, mostly sideways, so while labor progressed, he wasn’t going anywhere. C-section. How else was I supposed to deliver 9.5 lbs of sideways?
Second one, I immediately realized the difference between normal labor and the painless labor of my first one. I was having some very uncomfortable back labor and was offered (and accepted) a minimum of demerol midway through labor, supposedly just enough to ease things up a bit. Instead, all it did was make me sleepy. If I’d have known that I would have stayed med free, which would have been good bragging rights considering she weighed 9 lbs, lol.
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