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no pain no gain

i had a pretty good pregnancy with no complications. at 39 weeks i went to the doctor and he said that it would be at least another 10 days before anything would happen. The next morning i was woken by a small wet patch. i had actualy thought i had wet myself because it was only a small amount of water. i rang my boyfriend coz he just gone out of town for work and told him that my waters might have broken he told me to ring the hospital which i did and they told me to come down for a test. they said my waters had broken and that i should just go home because usually people go into labour naturally within 24 hours of their waters breaking.

my waters broke slowly, i leaked all day and by the morning my tummy was soft and i was worried about the being no water. nothing had happened with in 24 hours so i had to go back to the hospital at 8:30am and i was enduced. they put an iv in and gave me something to bring on my contractions. it seemed to go on forever and the contractions where extremely intense but i still wasnt dialating.

at 3pm they checked and i was only 5-6 cms dialated and the pain only got worse. i didn have ne pain killers i only had a bit of gas. at about 4 i kept feeling something wierd and i kept yelling to the midwife that i needed to push, she just kept telling me i couldnt yet. at 5pm the doctor came in and my babies head was right there, i was right i did have to push after all.
then after 3 big pushes my daughter was born at 5:08pm.

my daughter is now 5 months old and is the joy of my life. i love watching her grow day by day

I Never want to go through Labor again

I was 27 years old when I got pregenant. I was actually pretty excited about it. I called my boyfriend at the time and told him. He was excited about it as well.

I had a very pleasant pregnancy. My boyfriend and I got married, and excitedly waited for the weeks to go by. When I was approximately 37 weeks, I didn't want to work any longer, and even joked when I left work on Friday, "Hey maybe this will be the weekend it will happen, and I won't be in on Monday" Well that Sunday, I wasn't really feeling all that well, I just kinda layed in the bed, but I couldn't sleep either. My husband had went out with a friend, around 4pm, and around 410pm, I started getting these pains in my back every couple of minutes.

After about a 1/2 an hour I called my doctor and he told me to come in. I finally found my husband and he came and picked me up and brought me to the hospital, and then that is when it all started going bad.

I had a group of 5 doctors, there was only 1 doctor I did not want, and guess who was on call the night!!!! The one doctor I did not want. Anyway, he hooks me up to see how I am doing. He checks me out, says I am about 1 cm, and my contractions are not that bad. So he went home, told the nurses to monitor me, and that he would come back at 10pm, and see how I was doing.

Well within the hour, I was falling over in pain, the nurses said since the doctor wan't there they could not give me anything. I kept begging and begging the nurses, I just didn't know what to do with myself. They had me walking around, I just kept leaning over in pain, I just couldn't take it. The back labor was like someone just stabbing me over and over in my back. The nurses claimed to keep calling the doctor but he said no medicine.

Finally at 10pm, the doctor came in, and checked me out, he said "Wow, I am going to say 10 cms" Everyone including my husband, just looked puzzled, and now seemed to understand that I was in pain. They all ran around setting up, and told me I couldn't have anything for the pain because it was too late. It took me about an hour to push my little guy out. I evidently ripped forward as well, so I had to take 3 stitches without novicane either. Needless to say, I swore never to have another baby.

I recently found out that I am pregnant again. My little guy is 2 years old, And all I keep thinking of, is how I can not make it through Labor again. I am really scared that I will have another awful experience. However this time I have found a new doctor and a new hospital, and I am hoping for the best.

Amanda

Advice anyone??

I have posted before with my first child's birth. I am now pregnant again and heave only been to the doc once so far. The doc I am seeing is not wanting to take my advice at all on how I should deliver my child. The first time I had toximia and didn't even remember what had happened to me let alone that I had had a child! It was an emergency c-section and the baby was taken from me in 5 minutes. The doc said that she had cut my uterus the right way so that next time I would be able to deliver vaginally if I chose to.

The doc does not want me to deliver vaginally. He syas that a VBAC (vaginal birth after c-section) is more risky. That there is a chance that my uterus could rupture during labor and that they might not have time to stop the bleeding and lose both of us. He said that there is a 1% chance that this could happen. 1% right not so much if you ask me. I came home and did my own research on the topic and found that there is actually a .5 - 1% chance of it happening. That it can also happen to people who have never had a c-section before. So basically my chances for getting toximia again are higher than the chance of a rupture to my uterus.

I told the doc that I wanted to do the vaginal delivery because I missed everything the first time. He ended the conversation there saying that there was more time to discuss it later. It just didn't seem like he cared what I wanted to do. So I was wondering if anyone has had a VBAC before and how it went and what your opinion is on whether or not I should go though with it. If there was a 20% chance or something like that then I would be more skeptical, but .5-1% is not very high at all you know???

Tiffany

BEST DAY OF MY LIFE

MY HUSBAND JUST CAME HOME FROM A NIGHT SHIFT AND I DECIDED TO STAY IN BED FOR ALITTLE WHILE LONGER. AT ABOUT 08:45 GOT UP AND I WENT DOWN STAIRS TO HAVE A COFFEE. AS I WAS SITTING DOWN MY WATER BROKE AND I REALISED THAT I HAD TO CALL THE CLINIC

.I CALLED THEM AND THEY TOLD ME TO GET MY BAGS AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE CLINIC. I WOKE UP MY HUSBAND HAD A SHOWER AND WENT STRAIGHT TO THE CLINIC.ON ARRIVAL I WAS PUT ON A MACHINE SO THEY COULD SEE HOW FAR APART MY CONTRACTIONS WERE BUT APPARENTLY I DID NOT HAVE ANY AND MY CERVIX WAS ONLY 1CM.TECHNICAL PAINS WHERE GIVEN TO ME BUT NOTHING I DID NOT FEEL ANYTHING NOT EVEN ONE PAIN AND STILL MY CERVIX WAS 1CM.

FOR 6HOURS I WAS WAITING BUT NOTHING. EVERYTHING WAS THE SAME. I SUFFERED FROM BACK PAINS AS WELL DURING PREGNANCY.THE DOCTOR INVITED MY HUSBAND IN HIS OFFICE AND TOLD HIM THAT MY CERVIX WILL NOT OPEN AND A C-SECTION IS ADVISED TO BE DONE. APPARENTLY ALL THE FRUSTRATION I WAS GOING THROUGH. ALL I WANTED WAS TO END IT AND GIVE BIRTH. SO I AGREED FOR A C-SECTION WHICH I REGRET NOW.

AT 14:10 I WAS TAKEN TO THE THE DELIVERY ROOM FOR SURGERY AND AT 14:30 PM MY PRECIOUS BABY BOY WAS BORN. I WAS SO HAPPY THAT I COULDN'T BELIVE IT . IT WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY LIFE BUT BY NEXT BABY WITH BE DELIVERED WITH NORMAL BIRTH AND I CANT WAIT TO EXPERIENCE IT.

NOW MY BABY IS 13 MONTHS OLD AND I AM OVER THE MOON WITH HIM.

PENNY

the things woman go though

When I first found out I was pregnant, I was already just about a week shy of 3 months. All at home test said I wasn't but I knew I was. When I was 13 weeks I started not feeling good. I began throwing up 4-6 times a day, I lost 6 pounds before gaining any. Which isn't a very good thing I hear. So, I stopped vomitting at about 7 1/2 months. Well 2 weeks later I began passin out and going into the E.R. and would get sent to the maternity area for an I.V. of sugar water. Which took anywhere from 4-8 hours most times.
By the 4th week of that my doctor said that he was tired of this and no kidding so was I! So he was going to induce me the day I turned 38 weeks. That didn't go as planned. My husband and I was at the hospital with all of our family for 48 hours trying to have this baby. To make a long story short I went home and came back in the following week on a Thursday night to be induced again. They couldn't do anyhting then with a cervical pill because I was already contracting. So at 8:00 the next morning my water broke on it's own! I had an awesome delivery! I was in active labor for 9 hours with pain medication and was ready to push at 5:00 p.m. but couldn't because I had to wait on the doctor which was stuck in traffic. He got there at 7:00 and I had the baby at 7:07 p.m.
We named him Landon Tyler. He was 7lbs. 10 1/2 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. Today he is 14 months old!

PENNY