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I LOVE GIVING BIRTH

I have 2 kids they are 2 and 3. When I gave birth they were the best days of my life.... I was so nervous hearing about the pain I would be in. But I had no pain just an epidural...oh my gosh it makes having a baby so fun and enjoyable...

Honestly, why would someone have a baby without one? You just lay there and relax sleep and laugh enjoy every contraction knowing it would be sooner and sooner until you can push.... so finally they notice you are 10 cm dilated so they say push you do. And there is the baby-sitting on your chest! Easy pain free and fun!

So much fun that I am having my 3 yr old come in and enjoy the birth of her new sibling in 7 months! Get an epidural...so you can enjoy the birth of your baby with no pain!

MARNI

first birth

I woke up with small stomach pains early in the morning but didn’t really think anything of them. By the afternoon they were getting stronger so me and my partner called my mum up and she came down hoping something would happen.

By tea time that night nothing was progressing so we went for a walk around the block then I drank two tablespoons of castor oil followed by a hot bath, within the hour my contractions were 5 mins apart so we headed into hospital where they admitted me. My labour was long and hard with terrible back pain (Baby in posterior position). I tried the shower, gas, water injections, and epidural which doctor attempted three times and only got one side of my body to no avail.

15 hours later at 9:15 in the morning I gave birth to my beautiful baby girl, Holly weighing 9 pound 10 0z, I had to be cut as she was so big and had a lot of stitches and tearing but she is a month old today and I have nearly fully recovered and love being a young mum at 19.

People ask me would I do it again, the answer’s definitely yes!


keisha

37 weeks with a breech

I’m 37 weeks with my first child. My husband and I are going to have a girl, which we plan on naming Phaedra. At 34 weeks she decided to become breech. My doctor wasn't worried at that point and figured she would turn on her own soon. At my 36-week appointment he finally told me I might have to have a scheduled c-section since she was still breech. I don't have the option of him manually turning her since the placenta is right over her head. So I am now 37 weeks and 3 days with a scheduled c-section for June 5th.

My pregnancy has gone smoothly except for morning sickness and a mild case of a UTI. With not having anything serious during this time I feel lucky still even though she is breech. I’m glad I have had the time to read up on what to expect during a c-section. It has given me time to mentally prepare for it and to know what I may be losing compared to a vaginal birth. Other than what I am expecting now and how I look at a c-section I don't know how I emotionally will be afterwards but I hope I will be well enough to take care of my child.

I think every woman should prepare herself for a c-section even if it doesn't seem present when you go into labor. You never know what to expect when in labor and most of the horror stories I’ve read had to do with women who did not prepare for it mentally and were set on a vaginal delivery.


LaRae

My Beautiful Pregnancy and Baby Boy

The week before Easter 2005, my cousin and I ate a Denny's restaurant and I told her I just couldn't be pregnant for Easter. I got home and went to bed. I woke up with a sharp pain shooting across my belly. I waited for another, to show I was in labor, but it didn't come, so I went back to sleep.

A half hour later, another pain went across my belly. I got up, called my best friend, my cousin and my sister. I started cleaning the house and packing a bag. I kept calling my son's father, but he wasn't answering his line. I called 17 times before he answered!

He got up, walked his dog and came to pick me up. My contractions weren't moving any faster, so we walked his neighborhood. They still weren't moving, so we lay across the bed and he performed nipple stimulation for four hours. Finally at 6:30 that evening we went to the hospital. I'd decided not to have any pain medicine, but after an hour, I was exhausted, so I used the code we'd come up with to get an epidural.

Well, my OB/GYN wouldn't hear of it. She gave me a shot of Stadol, which did nothing but put me to sleep. The pain was still intense. Finally, at 9:27pm, my 7lb, 2oz bundle of joy was finally born. IT’S A BOY!!!!


Charmanne

First time birth

I was 17 when I started dating this guy that I had known since I was about 13 or 14 but never talked to. We finally stared talking when we met at my job. On June 7th we started dating then on August 6th I took a home pregnancy test and found out I was pregnant.

I went to the doctor about a week or two later and she confirmed I was about 6 weeks pregnant. The guy I was dating was 20 and I was 17. He was happy and scared of course who wouldn’t be and I was also happy but scared. On January 31st I turned 18 and he turned 21. We had decided to get married and set the date for Feb. 17th. I was 7 months pregnant on our wedding day.

My aunt works as a Labor and delivery nurse and was almost begging me to let her be my nurse so I agreed to deliver at the hospital she worked at. She recommended an OBGYN she was friends with and I started seeing her. She was a very nice doctor, my aunt and my doctor talked and decided to have a social induction. My due date was April 13th. I went into the hospital April 18th at 8:00 PM with no contractions and was only dilated 1cm.

First thing my aunt did was gave me an IV around 9 or 10 Pm. Everything was going so slow since I wasn’t even in labor and had no pain. At 2 or 3 in the morning my aunt came in and told me they were going to insert a Foley bulb into my cervix to help me dilate but first they were going to give me an epidural because they are painful after the epidural. She gave me a cathedral then the doctor came in to insert the bulb. Still no contractions pain or anything but I had an epidural.

Once the bulb came out I was at 5 cm. After the bulb came out they gave me an IV with pitocin to start contractions after that I dilated about 1 cm every hour and was in pain. Around 10 or 11 that morning I was in so much pain my aunt went and got the doc to give me so medicine but he refused to. Some time the next morning I was stuck on 7 for hours the doc came in broke my water and that deff. speed things up. My aunt checked me at about 3:15 and said I was 9.5 centimeters and we would be pushing in about 15-30 mins so my mom went down to get some food.

About 5 mins after she checked me I was having contractions almost in the 100's so she checked me again and said we are ready to push. I was freaking out because my mom wasn’t even in the room. My hubby kept trying to calm me down but I was in so much pain. My mom finally came in the room after I called her screaming I’m getting ready to push. My aunt turned my epidural off because it was empty and to me it felt like it wore off.

I had it at 2 in the morning and now its 4 the next day the doctor even said before he gave me the epidural it may ware off because they last about 12 hours. Well anyway my beautiful little girl was born April 19th at 4:19 PM weighing 7 pounds 11.2 oz and 20.5 inches long. She will be 1 month in 3 days it doesn’t even feel like its been one month.


stephanie