How was your birth experience?

[teal]

Definitely the best day of my life but my labour and birth were awful xx

 

[VieraSky]

I had back labor, and it lasted for 18 1/2 hours, i pushed for 2 1/2, they used forceps and ended up having to have a c-section. Then, most of the nurses who took care of me for the next couple of days were complete crap.

 

[mum22ttc#3]

I was lucky, I loved all 3 of my labours, all at 3 hours something.
1st was induced with pethadine and gas and air, 2nd was back to back labour with just gas and air and 3rd was 'normal way' labour with just gas and air.

 

[blhanson1]

x

 

[angel2010]

First of all I am very happy Carter came out healthy, but looking back I HATED everything about it! Nothing went the way I thought it would, I can't wait for my next one so I can have a re-do!

 

[VieraSky]

YES! I'm a diabetic and my nurses, especially the one on my last day there, obviously had no idea what the hell to do with one. If I had low blood sugar, they took half an hour to bring me anything with sugar in it. If I had high blood sugar it took them 45 minutes to bring me insulin!

ALSO! When this one nurse went to clean an area of my skin, she was going to use iodine.....I am ALLERGIC to iodine! >:I

 

[Lettuce]

For the ladies that had traumatic births...do you feel that there was anything that the hospital staff or you would do differently to make things less awful?

No, actually, the staff were excellent, what happened was unavoidable, and thanks totem me and my daughter are alive, and I have the chance to have another child someday. X

 

[angel2010]

For the ladies that had traumatic births...do you feel that there was anything that the hospital staff or you would do differently to make things less awful?

Yes, they could have included me in the decisions made. They didn't seem to take me into consideration at all. I also feel that they did not explain everything fully. And after it was all said and done, know one asked me how I felt about it or if I was okay emotionally. Also as far as breastfeeding I feel like they were too quick to tell me to try nipple shields and to use top-ups of formula. I know that it has to be very hard for lactation consultants to find a happy medium, but I feel like these things set me up for failure.

 

[cowboys angel]

For the ladies that had traumatic births...do you feel that there was anything that the hospital staff or you would do differently to make things less awful?

Hospital staff? No, they were excellent. I was a celebrity that week. Apparently it's not normal for babies to be born in their mother's sweatpants.

My OB on the other hand........she pissed me off.

 

[blhanson1]

Birthing a baby into your sweatpants?! Hell yes you should be treated as a celebrity!

 

[lucy_lu10]

I had a good experience.
Got to 5cm dilated without even knowing it (aka silent labour), water broke at 6am in the morning after a full night's sleep, 5 hours of labour with some gas & air, 2 hours of pushing, and my son was born! Got up and walked to my recovery room an hour or two later and my hospital had awesome food!! haha
Looking forward to the next one!

 

[carla92]

Loved every minute of it ! my midwife was eexcellent ! , 38 hours of active labour stayed at home 24 hours went to be checked was 4cms and said i would have to stay on the ward because delivery was full i said no ill go home, had two paracetmol went to sleep for nine hours lol, woke up at ten the next morning was at the hospital for 2.30 waters broke at ten to 5 and he was born at 6.29 only 19 minutes pushing no stitches or tears just a graze full natural birth not even gas and air would do it again in a minute

 

[Cat_pj]

I had a very good experience. Completely different to how I imagined it! I had wanted a very medicated birth, but now I'm SO proud of myself for just having G&A, and I had back to back labour. It was quick too. I'm so lucky I had an ideal birth (aside from posterior).

Can't believe how quickly I was discharged though! 3 hours after she was born I was out and it was sub-zero and 1am on a January night!!!

Next time I'd love to go for a home birth if my OH would let me!

 

[cowboys angel]

Birthing a baby into your sweatpants?! Hell yes you should be treated as a celebrity!

Haha. All week it was "Oh YOU'RE the one that gave birth in her pants!" "You had no epidural????" "That last scream you gave out stole everybody's nurses from their bedside..." "IN YOUR PANTS!?!?"

It was quite the experience. There was no medical staff in the room when my daughter was delivered, lol.

But I spent the week before she was born calling my OB daily and telling her that something was different, this baby was coming soon. She kept telling me to stop worrying, I still had over a month to go, she wasn't coming. I kept telling her no, this baby's coming soon. The DAY she was born, my OB told me I was over reacting and to go take a nap. We barely made it to the hospital in time, thus her being born in my sweatpants.

And 2 and a half months prior to that, she didn't believe me that I lost my mucus plug and told me to go back to bed, only for me to race to the hospital an hour later to stop labor.

Grrrrrrrr

 

[Charlie189]

My labour experience was hellish! Was induced due to pre-eclampsia, it took 48 hours and 4 pessarys to be able to break my waters, even then, they couldn't find my cervix for ages and the pain of the internals was about as bad as labour!!

She was back to back, and my contractions on the drip were all over the place, up and down like crazy, my blood pressure was far to high and they couldn't control it so i had to have an epidural. I was sick countless times during labour.

Then when i reached stage two, i pushed for an hour, and her heartrate was dropping because the cord was wrapped around her neck! She wasn't moving because she was facing the wrong way, so they preformed an episiotomy and she was born via ventouse delivery!
Then i was bleeding to much and it took them almost an hour to get it under control and stitch me up.

But it all worked out in the end and that's the most important thing.

 

[Black_Rose]

my birth was long and hard (30 hours which includes 6 hours of pushing). it was 100% back labor and baby was posterior. BUT it was the most divine experience of my life. It was an out of body experience and i can't wait to have that again!

 

[madcatwoman]

tramatising!. i replay it most days in my head. i was induced and went from 0-100%pain within 5 mins. LO in the end was presenting face 1st so no-one really knew what to do!