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[PeanutBean]

Oh well that's good. Did they realise she was in that position? Probably hoping all those changes would help her reposition. Of course babies can be born that way perfectly way, just tends to be more painful for Mum and increased chance of tearing.

 

[xdaniellexpx]

they neva noticed untill she was crowing they were saying o shes very bauldy o dear thats an eyebrow i did have 17 stiches but it neva hurt after wired i no xx

 

[PeanutBean]

It sounds to me like they did the right thing though, to get you moving about and keep at it. Given that you managed it I guess 4 hours was ok really! Perhaps you were jsut pushing before your body was ready at the start, even if you wer dilated. Or it might've been about helping the baby through and just harder work for your body and so taking longer.

 

[xdaniellexpx]

i think so i actucally loved eveymin of my labour it was very relaxed n chilled yep it was hard but i wuddnt of changed it well i wudda loved oh there but thats a wholeeeee new storeyxx

 

[PeanutBean]

I'm really looking forward to getting to feel all that this time! Call me mad but the thrill of feeling the baby moving down and out, wow!

 

[xdaniellexpx]

yep i loved it i just listend to my body i only had 1 injection of diamorphine and that was at 8am and she wasnt born till 4,22 so i was pritty proud of my self i would do it all again today if i had 2 x

 

[winegums]

I don't understand why people thought that was a bad forceps delivery? they are usually muchhhh worse because it's an emergency situation and they have to get the baby out asap so the doctors is puffing and panting and pulling and sweating but yesterdays was quite slow and relaxed as it wasnt an emergency

Danielle your birth sounds fab!

 

[PeanutBean]

I don't understand why people thought that was a bad forceps delivery? they are usually muchhhh worse because it's an emergency situation and they have to get the baby out asap so the doctors is puffing and panting and pulling and sweating but yesterdays was quite slow and relaxed as it wasnt an emergency

Danielle your birth sounds fab!

It seems to me that a lot of people didn't really know anything about forceps delivery so I guess it can be quite shocking to see for the first time.

 

[rosie272]

I was watching last night but totally missed the forceps part!
Must've went to the loo...
I had a ventouse delivery as well, but forceps were never mentioned - thank god now going with what I've read on here
The girl across from me in the ward had a forceps baby and she was distraught that her relatives were coming and she didn't want them to take photos because of the state of her baba's face - and I must admit the poor wee soul had really bad bruising - black and blue- all around his face and his head had big dents in it. It was quite shocking to see - I really felt for her They seem really barbaric

 

[xdaniellexpx]

i just dont agree with it at all after seeing it

 

[Harveysmum369]

I don't understand why people thought that was a bad forceps delivery? they are usually muchhhh worse because it's an emergency situation and they have to get the baby out asap so the doctors is puffing and panting and pulling and sweating but yesterdays was quite slow and relaxed as it wasnt an emergency

Danielle your birth sounds fab!

I guess it because you don't see it from that point of view...and I know for me I still had a big belly in the way so I couldn't see what was going on.

It did look brutal..mine wasn't an emergency..xxx

 

[winegums]

I guess so peanut... forceps are nasty! I had NO FORCEPS NO MATTER WHAT on my sons birthplan lol

That's one thing that's really worrying me in case i end up being induced this time, more risk of interventions happening!

 

[PeanutBean]

How far over are you winegums? You can always refuse induction in favour of monitoring of placental health and fluid levels etc.

I'm having homebirth. No way am I letting the hospital get their hands on me again. Two years I've spent going through the process of blaming myself and convincing myself they may have saved our lives; analysing the birth and starting to ask questions about why certain decisions were made; discovering that many things that happened were not standard or even good practice and there was a total failure to mention any options for me at all. Two years of being depressed and unable to remember the birth of my gorgeous boy without getting into a total state. No way hose!

 

[winegums]

they booked me in for induction for tomorrow (11 days over due) which i agreed to at the time as i thought i'd go into labour by then lol! but i haven't so today i phoned and cancelled it... going in for an appointment with my consultant on thurs so will discuss what i want to do.

I had planned a homebirth as we lived 5 minutes away from the hospital but now we have moved and i live too far from the nearest hospital to feel comfortable as it's a vbac and i know that uterine rupture is a TINY risk but not one i'm particulary willing to take being this far away from a hospital...

With my son i had a planned home birth with birth pool set up hypnobirthing classes etc... then ended up with a c section at 39+3 as they suddenly realised he had been breech all along. i said i wanted to carry on and deliver vaginally but they convinced me that he would get stuck and die if i didn't have a section!!!!!!!!!!!!! i was so upset and panicked at the time i just agreed to the section......... so i totally get where you're coming from about having a shit birth / blaming yourself etc. they accidently gave me too many drugs in my section as well and i wasn't properly awake for HOURS afterwards and they sent my OH home and i woke up to realise my son had been alone in the plastic cot near my bed for hours without even a cuddle from me or anything, i'm in tears now just writing this it breaks my heart every time i remember it and think of him just born and laying there alone... if only i had stuck to my guns and not caved in when they wanted me to have a section

 

[aob1013]

winegums

I feel the same, in my head at the time when they said induction (i was 33+6) i wish i had said i would have rather stayed in hospital admitted and ridden out the rest of my pregnancy instead of being forced into the induction... induction was horrid, i needed an epi then an emergency section .. awful awful .. never again

 

[PeanutBean]

winegums. It's so hard and this is why I get so cross. I know I am biased because of my experience but SO many women have similar experiences and so many of those could have been positive had they been treated in a different way. I openly admit to being militant about this so if that offends some people I'm sorry but there is a huge problem in the way we treat birth in this country, in the way we treat women. It's better than the states by all accounts but it's far from perfect. With the right MW it can go so well, with the wrong one it can be an emotional scar for years causing PND and allsorts on top of the physical scars. I just don't think it's good enough. Anyway, good on you for cancelling your induction. Are you trying methods to bring labour on? Women over in natural birthing keep singing the praises of walking on uneven ground! I hope you go into labour before you feel an induction is necessary.

Happy 6 months Leni! Love your new avatar aob.

 

[winegums]

Yeh have you seen my thread in natural birthing on ways to naturally get your body ready lol! Tbh one of the reasons that spurred me on to follow my dream and become a midwife was the awful midwives during my last pregnancy... Luckily the midwives at this other hospital seem much better...

Xxx

 

[PeanutBean]

lol I don't recall it! I do read most threads there. Maybe I skimmed but as I went two weeks early last time I'm assuming I won't need these tips!

 

[Scamp]

Catching up on the last two episodes
x

 

[rosie272]

Aw I love Mondays at 9