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treethel
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Is labor and delivery hard?
Posted: 11-06-07 13:03pm
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This Is My Last Month Baby Due Date Is
Nov. 22
is the labor hard
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PenguinsRus
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Posted: 11-06-07 13:48pm
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Nov 22 is thanksgiving! What a little
gift to be thankful for 
Labor varies from person to person. Have
you been taking classes that have helped
with breathing techniques and preparing
you for the birth?
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rosejackson
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Posted: 11-06-07 13:51pm
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i'm not going to lie to you, labour is
hard and it is painful but there are ways
to control the pain. the best thing to do
is go to your local birthing classes and
talk to your midwife. believe me, it is
all worth it in the end.  good luck
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Posted: 11-06-07 14:48pm
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Make sure you get an epidural! Mine
didn't work because I have an injury in my
spine, so I felt everything.
DO NOT DO THIS WITHOUT PAIN MEDICATION.
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 11-06-07 14:54pm
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Why make sure you have pain relief? Women
have been giving birth for millions of
years....
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Posted: 11-06-07 15:03pm
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| Dannzibelle
wrote: | | Why make sure you have pain
relief? Women have been giving birth for
millions of
years.... |
Why cure cancer? Pain relief has also
been around for millions of years, and it
has been used by women giving birth since
the beginning of human history. Why NOT
make the experience a little less
traumatic?
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 11-06-07 15:07pm
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This isn't a cancer debate. I do see your
point but saying to someone who is
obviously going to be worried about giving
birth soon to make sure they have pain
relief isn't really going to reassure them
that much. That's all i'm saying. And for
the record i had the pamergan injection
but unfortunatly i'm hypersensitive to
pain relief so it didn't do me much good.
Just make sure you keep moving around if
you can and do what you're comfortable
with, scream if you want to scream, stay
silent if you want to stay silent
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PenguinsRus
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Posted: 11-06-07 15:08pm
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I think the use of pain relief should be
in the hands of the mother. Some mothers
think a natural birth feels more
rewarding, and some worry about potential
harm to the baby (even though the risk is
very low, there is still a risk) because
of medication. Other mothers think pain
relief is a great option and makes the
process much easier. It just depends on
who you are and what you believe in.
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Posted: 11-07-07 14:42pm
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You have to weigh risk realistically. You
have a much higher risk of dying in a car
crash on the way to the hospital than you
do of anything going wrong with getting
pain relief.
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PenguinsRus
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Posted: 11-07-07 22:27pm
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I'm not saying pain relief is bad. I know
it is definitely a good option for many
people in labor. I'm more saying that it
should just be the choice of the
individual giving birth
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Posted: 11-07-07 23:23pm
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I got an epidural an hour before my
daughter was born. I had a 28 hour labor.
I won't lie, labor is a new kind of pain.
You have never felt pain like this in your
entire life. The best advice I can give
you is to stay as calm as possible,
breathe evenly, and don't worry about
what's coming next - focus on the present.
Each contraction is a wave that brings you
closer to the shore, and the pain will
pass.
If you feel like you need pain relief,
don't hesitate to ask. Try to keep an open
mind, though. You might surprise yourself
with how far you can go without it.
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Posted: 11-11-07 20:54pm
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pain relief has been around for ages,
asprin comes from tree bark for instance
so people used to chew it. but thanks to
evolution of medicine we dont have to
worry so much about it. ancient egyptians
are documented to have done open heart
surgery and many cultures have cut open
holes in peoples skulls to relieve
pressure to cure certain 'aliments'. quite
frankly, if i dont have to be awake and
feeling heart surgery than i dont want to
be, same with labor.
my first pregnancy i felt labour right
away, the second pregnancy i didnt feel
any contractions until i was 7 cm
dialated, then it snowballed. i live in a
rural community and it was on a weekend so
i had to get shipped to another hospital 3
hours away by ambulance while in full
labour, on bumpy highways while it was
snowing.... omg... it was horrible...
kindof like what a wish bone feels like i
would think. but every labour is
different, some women dont feel too much
of anything. just keep in mind that it
will end and you will forget alot of it.
and be prepared because some women poop
when they give birth, i didnt but i have
met 2 that have, so maybe dont film it...
up to you though. 
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Posted: 11-11-07 20:56pm
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i forgot...
the best thing you can do is keep an open
mind and dont get too set on any one thing
because so many things can happen and you
dont want to look back on that wonderful
time with disappointment. see it for what
it is, the best gift you could ever ask
for.
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 11-12-07 07:01am
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Yes do keep an open mind. I was dead set
on having no drugs at all so much so that
when my labour turned very complicated and
i was having convultions i was still
refusing pain relief, in the end they had
to get my mum to come to the hospital to
give them permission to give me it
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falafal4ever81
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Posted: 11-12-07 13:14pm
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whew.... thats freaky. i wanted to go pain
free too, but 8cm into dialation i was
singing a different song, lol.
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Posted: 12-28-07 01:30am
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the thing I don't understand about pain
medication is that it's NARCOTICS that
they use... don't doctors say NOT to use
anything like that? but it's okay when you
give birth? I just don't understand things
like that sometimes, that's why I'm going
to try my heart out doing it natural, I
hardly want an IV...
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Posted: 01-09-08 16:15pm
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It usually is more of a seditive that they
give you. Sometimes they may give you some
demerol. Reason is they do not want to
slow you labor or the babbies heart rate
down.
It veries for everyone of us. L & D
can be a beautiful experience. Yes, it is
painful but, it is a pain you forget the
moment it is over. I had two of my three
boys natural. Some have very long hard
labor and some have painless short like I
did with my third. Nevetheless, the end
result makes up for everything you will go
through when you look into those eyes. In
my day they did not have "Patossun" as a
induced diatlation method by IV drip like
they do now. Works so fast most of the
time. I remember this one time I wanted to
see a delivery and the last time I peeked
at the status board she was about 8cm.
Went for coffee real qiuick and got back
and she was in the delivery room. You
never seen someone scrub so fast in your
life. Wound up being a C-section anyways.
But, I did get to see a dilvery before I
left L & D as a tech.
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