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dolarabee
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 Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:49 am Post subject: Re: AAAAW GUYS!!!! |
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Glad you had a good time, Zee. Wow, lucky niece you've got. Always used as a punching bag? 
| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | | BTW do - when are you supposed to drop that kid? Aren't you getting like.... CLOSE????? |
I dropped her. Four weeks ago last Friday. And thank god for that; she was already nine days overbaked. 9lbs 2oz... anyone can remind me again why I went for a natural birth?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:34 am Post subject: Re: AAAAW GUYS!!!! |
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| dolarabee wrote: | | remind me again why I went for a natural birth? |
Because you hate big needles, remember?
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Congrats by the way on it.  |
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ZeeDrippyVessel
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject: Re: AAAAW GUYS!!!! |
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| dolarabee wrote: | | Glad you had a good time, Zee. Wow, lucky niece you've got. Always used as a punching bag? |
Uhm... she uses US as a punching bag.
| Quote: | | ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | | BTW do - when are you supposed to drop that kid? Aren't you getting like.... CLOSE????? |
9lbs 2oz... anyone can remind me again why I went for a natural birth?
do. |
You did what? My GOD woman! When I got to the hospital with mine - who was 5 days overdue - this SKINNY, SCRAWNY, blonde nurse with a voice to rival Minnie Ripperton's comes busting out with a wheelchair and says -
"Oh look, we're having a baby! Isn't that exciting! And what is YOUR name???"
My answer...
Epi-dural.
I still didn't get one for 5 hours and I have NEVER been so glad to see a BIG needle in my life!
(I hate needles, but I hate pain even more!)
Congrats!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:29 am Post subject: Re: AAAAW GUYS!!!! |
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| ZDVl wrote: | | Do wrote: | | ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | | BTW do - when are you supposed to drop that kid? Aren't you getting like.... CLOSE????? |
9lbs 2oz... anyone can remind me again why I went for a natural birth?
do. |
You did what? My GOD woman! When I got to the hospital with mine - who was 5 days overdue - this SKINNY, SCRAWNY, blonde nurse with a voice to rival Minnie Ripperton's comes busting out with a wheelchair and says -
"Oh look, we're having a baby! Isn't that exciting! And what is YOUR name???"
My answer...
Epi-dural.
I still didn't get one for 5 hours and I have NEVER been so glad to see a BIG needle in my life!
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Yes girls, very encouraging.  Knowing that my son will be a firm baby too, I am not sure when he will be born (still awaiting test results). Thank goodness that my hospital does support pain relieve and aim to make the mother very comfortable (well up until the final stage), so I am not stressing out about it just yet...
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dolarabee
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| ArtanisOrangeBlossom wrote: | | Congrats by the way on it. |
Cheers.
| ZeeDrippyVessel wrote: | | (I hate needles, but I hate pain even more!) |
"How would you rate the pain, ma'am? Say on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being the worst pain you can possibly imagine..."
Seen Spinal Tap, dick-o? A fucking eleven. (spinal tap - epidural - needle jammed in a spine... err)
Hmm, still, a foot-long, spag-size needle inserted in my spine while I'm trashing in pain? Nah. And that's probably why after this one, folks, I say like Frankie: "No more."
| Rhapsody wrote: | | Yes girls, very encouraging. |
Gee, Rhaps. Sorry. Keep in mind that every labour/birth is different, even for the same mother for a subsequent babe. And that said, everybody is different in terms of definition of pain or ability to cope with it.
| Rhapsody wrote: | | Knowing that my son will be a firm baby too, I am not sure when he will be born (still awaiting test results). Thank goodness that my hospital does support pain relieve and aim to make the mother very comfortable (well up until the final stage), so I am not stressing out about it just yet... |
Test results? I hope all is well. What are they testing for?
The hospital I went to support pain relief as well. It's just me; I went with the birth centre, which is part of the hospital. The centre is run by midwives and it's aimed at women wanting natural or home births (but would rather be close to a doctor in case). That means no drug or medical intervention unless something goes wrong, or you change your mind once in the middle of it. Then they can wheel you to the delivery suite and you can get an epi or whatever rocks your boat. They're also offering water births, which was my big interest. I wasn't stressed or worried much about the labour either. And frankly, it went rather well considering the size of Lil' Byte and that I didn't have anything to block the pain. I found the hardest to cope with was how long it took. The pain you can take, I think... it's just for how long, you know? You're literally without sleep for thirty-six hours straight and then they give you the baby and you have to feed it every two hours. Not getting any rest there either and every muscle in your body protests and aches. I really didn't anticipate that. And right now what's killing me it's mostly all the little things post partum. It never ends, it seems, while your body is trying to get over the experience and back to what it once was. (Will it ever?)
So, hey, don't mind my whinges much. You might have a wonderful labour and birth. A friend of mine gave birth a few weeks before me and it took her twenty-five minutes and one push. She didn't even make it to the ambulance. Three days later she was right as rain, not having had to strain like some other moms for ten-plus hours.
Keep us posted, heh. How much longer before you're due?
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| Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2005 8:39 am Post subject: |
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| Do wrote: | | Rhapsody wrote: | | Yes girls, very encouraging. |
Gee, Rhaps. Sorry. Keep in mind that every labour/birth is different, even for the same mother for a subsequent babe. And that said, everybody is different in terms of definition of pain or ability to cope with it. |
I know, but I am well aware I can bravely say now I will go without it, but you never know when the moment gets there. Just trying to remain realistic.
| Do wrote: | | Rhapsody wrote: | | Knowing that my son will be a firm baby too, I am not sure when he will be born (still awaiting test results). Thank goodness that my hospital does support pain relieve and aim to make the mother very comfortable (well up until the final stage), so I am not stressing out about it just yet... |
Test results? I hope all is well. What are they testing for? |
Pregnancy diabetes. My kid has either taken in ent draught or is a 'sugar' baby, since it plunged ahead in growth. Week 33 now, for him his growth will be between 35-38 weeks (belly/head)). My belly kinda exploded since I quit working. But my husband is quite tall and was a huge baby himself.. but I was just a tiny weeny baby (and born too early). It might be nothing. Just keeping that smile on my face.
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The hospital I went to support pain relief as well. It's just me; I went with the birth centre, which is part of the hospital. The centre is run by midwives and it's aimed at women wanting natural or home births (but would rather be close to a doctor in case). That means no drug or medical intervention unless something goes wrong, or you change your mind once in the middle of it. Then they can wheel you to the delivery suite and you can get an epi or whatever rocks your boat. They're also offering water births, which was my big interest. |
They don't allow and support the consequences of water births over here. I knew quite early in my pregnancy I would deliver in the hospital, given my medical history and such. But now I've been placed under supervision of a gynecologist now, so my midwife might not even be around at all 
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I wasn't stressed or worried much about the labour either. And frankly, it went rather well considering the size of Lil' Byte and that I didn't have anything to block the pain. I found the hardest to cope with was how long it took. The pain you can take, I think... it's just for how long, you know? You're literally without sleep for thirty-six hours straight and then they give you the baby and you have to feed it every two hours. |
Well they do tell over here (it might differ from country) you once the water breaks or the contractions start to get as much as sleep as possible. Only when you have a dilation of 3 cm-4cm they might declare the birth has started. Depending on what will happen with bouncy Tigger here, we have to leave as soon as the water breaks or just follow the normal procedure to get to the hospital when we are allowed todo so.
| do wrote: | | Not getting any rest there either and every muscle in your body protests and aches. I really didn't anticipate that. And right now what's killing me it's mostly all the little things post partum. It never ends, it seems, while your body is trying to get over the experience and back to what it once was. (Will it ever?) |
They say 9 months But just take it easy.
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Keep us posted, heh. How much longer before you're due?
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End of January... give or take. Unless they got my due date all wrong, then halfway January.
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