Cycle 1 day 1. Who's with me? *update* It's a girl! Congrats baby_bray!!!

[television]

I get the feeling that pain meds are offered to you guys quite easy because when i had son i arrived at hospital when 7cm dilated i only got offered gas and air but it made me feel sick so just went with nothing, i will prob have g&a again but prob just when dilating not when baby is coming. Have any of you had an epidural?

 

[Twinkie210]

I have had an epidural and it was great! I know others didn't have the same results as me though

 

[mailcmm]

I had an epidural with my first 2. With my dd it was like a morphine drip so I had to push a button for more epidural and the machine that released the meds was broken so by the time my daughter came I felt everything. It was awful. Especially the tear and stitches. With my son it worked perfectly. This time with the csection I got a saddle block. Was numb from the breasts down. It was freaky like I was just a head but I felt nothing. Before I got my epidural with the first 2 I had nubane. That worked well too but wouldn't have been enough for labor.

Good luck bray.

 

[moter98]

i got the epi at 4cm. asked for it and had no problems getting it. it didn't fully work at first so had to wait about an hour to get that fixed, turns out i just needed an extra dose of it i guess to get it to work properly. it was great though. i felt nothing at all pushing baby out or the stitches. felt everything though for the retained placenta, not something i wanna do again. but that's not gonna happen this time i've decided.
i was all worried about being able to get the epi when i wanted it, but turns out i had zero problems getting it so was a worry i didn't even need to have.
i did have the nubane too before the manual removal of placenta but it did nothing except make me dizzy and groggy for a few hours, no pain relief for me

 

[Twinkie210]

I must edit and say that my silly nurse convinced me to not refill my epidural, "because sometimes if you can feel a little bit you can push more effectively". By the time my Dr. decided to do the forcept delivery I could feel pretty much every thing and it hurt like a B****! But I loved the epidural when I had it LOL.

I didn't mind the spinal that I got with my C-section. It did make me feel sick and I thought for sure I would throw up, but I managed to hold everything down. The part I didn't really like was having my arms strapped out to the side of me during the surgery. I didn't realize I would be strapped down and not be able to even touch the baby in the OR! The Nurse Anethesist had to wipe the tears from my eyes, which is weird.

 

[television]

no idea what this is nubane???

 

[moter98]

The drs said it woul help with the pain...didnt make a difference for me and only made those few hours after the birth a hazy blur. So much so I don't remember some of the things that were said or happened after baby was born

 

[Twinkie210]

I had stadol before my epidural and it was kind of funny. Like being drunk. It felt like the walls were spinning and I kept telling people the sam things over and over again, LOL. I could still feel the contractions, but just didn't care!

 

[BERDC99]

I could not imagine not having something for the pain of the contractions. Or even the pain I would have felt when the doctor stuck his arm in me up to his elbow to get my placenta.

 

[moter98]

I could not imagine not having something for the pain of the contractions. Or even the pain I would have felt when the doctor stuck his arm in me up to his elbow to get my placenta.

My epi had worn off for that retrieving placenta part and let me tell you, it's a pain I will never forget! I didn't know there could be that much pain and me and poor dh are traumatized for life. I'm just thankful that I had a blonde moment at the time and didnt realize exactly how they were gonna retrieve it, lol

 

[mailcmm]

Twinkie... I too felt nauseous but they gave me something and it worked. My anesthesiologist strapped me down but not to where I couldn't pull my hands out. They also let me touch Finn. That being said he is a very close friend of my sil who worked at the hospital and he came in on his vacation just to do my block. Lol good to know people. My dr is also friends with my bro and sil and delivered my niece. We will use him again next time if we decide to actually have another. Dh talks about trying next year in the early summer.i just want to get thru this lol.

 

[Twinkie210]

I told both my nurse in recovery and my nurse when I got transfered that I thought I was going to be sick and all they did was hand me that little bucket thing, LOL. I knew the pediatric nurse that took care of Liam in the OR, she is my SIL's best friend. She was my L&D nurse when I had Logan, so it was kind of neat she was there for both of my boys delivery. I also know another nurse who would check on me from time to time. I was in the hospital over the weekend though, so I think I got the worst of the nurses There was only one I liked.

 

[mailcmm]

My nurses were good. I was in over the weekend too. My anesthesiologist told me up front to let him know if I felt nauseous and that he could give me something to bring my BP up as that is what would cause that feeling... Low BP. I got sick almost immediately and he fixed it in seconds. By the end he gave me some more as I was feeling nauseous again. He was awesome. Lol

 

[baby_bray]

I consider myself *very* lucky, that if I need *anything what-so-ever*, but hubby and I know all the OBs and nurse anesthetists/anesthesiologists since we're both surgical technicians...
I only know one nurse up in L&D though...that thought is a little scary to me, but maybe that's not a bad thing. It's already alot of people that I already know that'll be all in my "business".
I already told my mother that she's not allowed to go "below the knees" and she is really thinking that she will be or that I won't care at the time. I'm pretty adamant about that rule. DH even got the red light, but he doesn't exactly want to see anyway, so I'm okay with that. We've both seen babies born every-which-way, I don't want him to see mine that way....that's fine.

 

[Twinkie210]

My Mom and sister both saw DS#1 born and believe me you lose all modesty during delivery. Both of them said it was the grossest thing they ever saw. They would have been in the room with DS#2, but couldn't since I had a c-section. However, neither would have looked again! LOL

 

[mailcmm]

Yeah I wouldn't even let my mom in the room. Dh saw the csection though. He did ok. I don't know what was happening below the curtain. Lol don't want to know. There is a reason they refer to it as the mystery of child birth and I plan to keep it that way. Now for the grossness.....

Placenta pills. Lol has anyone heard of these? And if you have and plan on using them I apologize if I have offended you but I just can fathom having my placenta dehydrated and made into pills so I can swallow it down.

 

[moter98]

Never heard of placenta pills. Sounds so gross.

Well, I am READY for baby. Pretty miserable here, don't remember this so soon with #1. Hope little one decides to come right at 37 weeks when he is full term. and his name is no longer Alexander. Dh changed his mind

 

[mailcmm]

Omg Moter! Changed his mind? How does he just change his mind? Men sheesh! What is his new name? I feel ya on the 37 wks. Wish Finn had come at 37 and spared me this recovery. Lol and placenta pills are nasty. But I guess better then the people who cook the placenta. Lol

 

[television]

retrieving your placenta whats that all about????? We just have injection for it to pass naturally. I think i had an easy time with ds just hope this 1 is the same.

 

[mailcmm]

I am sure all will be fine tv.

As for retrieving the placenta.... I believe, but Moter will be a better person to ask, that after the placenta has passed they check it to make sure it's intact. (That it all came out) if any is left behind it can make you very ill, life threatening too. So if its not all out sometimes they have to go up and make sure to get it all out.

So I am really starting to feel the exhaustion now. Lol Finn really doesn't wake much but I am so behind on sleep from before birth that I need a week to nap.