Past due date and wanting to induce....thoughts?
Hi there....Jan 18th was my official due date and I am still pregnant. I have dilated to almost 2 cm for almost a month now! I have been trying everything to get labor going and obviously, nothing has worked. Special teas, walking, sex, etc-- NOTHING has helped :( I am at the point where I just want to induce labor, but my Dr. today said he wants to wait and see how it goes these next 7 days. I am soo ready to have this baby....has anyone else been in this situation? How did it turn out for you? Did you induce or did you wait it out?
Women who have delivered via C- Section?
I was glad they kept us in the hospital for 4 days... I needed to recover and have help with my newborn. Once you go home you will just want to sit/recline a lot because you will still be in pain for a few more days. 1 week post delivery walking around was easier, but it wasn't easy recovering with a newborn and a 16 month old toddler at home (thankfully my mother came and helped out for a week since my husband works). My son is 8 months old now and the scar is about 2.5 inches long at this point and lies flat just above my pubic bone (a little below my bikini line).
Gallbladder removal??????
Had mine out 12 years ago. Pain isn't as bad as giving birth, but it's up there right after surgery. Take the morphine they offer you and when they tell you it's time to get up and walk around, do it. Recovery was 2 weeks for the worst part and 6 weeks before I could lift anything. The first 3 days suck bigtime if you have it done with a scope because of the CO2 they pump into you. But I didn't even need VIcodin or anything, I just took regular Tylenol once I was home. Trust me, though, it's a LOT better than having gall bladder attacks, which I'm sure you've been having. Edit: I was in overnight is all. And if you had pancreatitis.....THAT is painful...you'll handle the gall bladder removal just fine.
Can i request/suggest/push/beg for a c-section?
=) i think i want a c-section. is there any way i can one, besides an emergency c-section? its my first and me and the hubby both kinda have big heads and my babys head is big on the ultrasound too, and im terrified of labor and mainly tearing....
If natural child birth is so painful why do most women opt for it? Instead why not go for cesarean delivery? What are the benefits and costs of natural childbirth?
As a co-founder of International Cesarean Awareness Network, a cesarean mother, and a natural birth mother, I feel that I am qualified to answer this question. I have given birth five times. My first birth was, basically, an unattended hospital birth. The hospital staff didn't think I was in actual labor, so they never called my doctor. He finally called the hospital to see if I had come in. He arrived after I had birthed my daughter. I tore extensively due to poor nutrition and poor positioning. My second child was born by emergency cesarean, weighing one ounce more than her sibling. The surgery went well, and my recovery was uneventful. However, it was six months before I felt back to normal physically.My third child was a VBAC-Vaginal Birth After Cesarean-in a hospital with a family physician. The labor was intense, but I was able to sleep between contractions. My baby was born in one push, and weighed 2 1/2 pounds more than her sisters. I only needed one stitch, and I felt back to normal physically in a week and a half.My last two children were born at home, with midwives attending. Both births were calm and easy, despite my last baby birthing face up. Both home birth babes were 2 pounds bigger than my first two babes. Natural, unmedicated, unmanaged birth is the safest, easiest, least painful way to birth a baby for over 90% of all women. Unfortunately, doctors and hospitals in the USA do not understand this. Doctors want to manage birth, make it faster, more efficient, more convenient. These goals may be helpful to the doctor. They are not helpful to the mother. Birth, in most cases, should not even be considered a medical procedure. It is a natural process, but a delicate one. Mothers cannot labor and birth easily if they are feeling unsafe. Hospitals are inherently scary places filled with beeping machines, gowned and gloved strangers and super germs. No wonder so many labors end up stalling, or even stopping. Which would you prefer-eating a meal of your choosing at your own pace, or having a feeding tube shoved down your throat and proper nutrition pumped directly into your stomach? The tube is very efficient, and the nutrition is more than adequate. I think we would all want the meal, though. Woman would do best birthing in a place of their own choosing, birthing at their own pace.