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"Circe" wrote FWIW, I *do* think that Jill's midwives suggestion that she "labor down" and their desire for the epidural to have worn off in the pushing stage makes sense from a practical POV, even if it wasn't what Jill wanted. I can agree with the practicality..but they should have told me ahead of time when I was giving them my birth plan and telling them how much I wanted pain relief during labor, not to be turned down etc! But oh well...each day that goes by the better I feel as I recover...now I am just so exhausted! |
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"Jennifer and Robert Howe" wrote in message hlink.net... Jill, I ended up pushing for 6 or 7 hours I can't remember so I can understand. that was too long to push I remember asking for a c-section like 2 hours into pushing. Jennifer You know, I was getting tempted to just lay back and let them do the c-section....and make it all over with, finally. I didn't know it at the time but the OB turned out to be amazingly good. But, I was so terrified of a C-section! I wanted to push as long as they'd let me. But.....4 hours was enough. (The OB said that too...he came running in, and said "This is enough! Let's get that baby." and..he did! bless him. |
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"PattyMomVA" wrote in message
I've always wondered about something with regards to pushing. With both babies, I felt the urge to push, as in I knew I was ready to, but I felt like I preferred not to. At that point, the contractions became much less painful. It felt like I wanted to just do nothing during a contraction and feel a little relief from having to deal with them for hours. (BTW, I had an epidural with DD and nothing with DS.) The nurse was telling me to push when I felt a contraction. Instead, I felt a contraction and didn't push. I just didn't want to. But, she figured this out by looking at the monitor, knowing I was having a contraction, so told me to push. I still wonder to this day if it might have been nicer to me and not unsafe for the baby to rest through a few contractions at that point and then push when I wanted to. Does this happen to other women? I think I know what you mean. When I got to the birth center and was examined, I was fully dilated. The nurse told me to go ahead and push when I felt the urge. I had been feeling a little "pushy" (I guess) and had feelings of weird pressure, but nothing involuntary or uncontrollable, like I hear others describe. I sat in a rocking chair for a while and talked to my DH and the other people that were there to help me. I felt very surreal and unreal (I was so shocked to be there fully dilated, I was in disbelief that I had really done it and was so close to the end!). After about 30 minutes or so of waiting for some big "urge" to strike me, I started pushing kind of experimentally, to see what would happen and then went from there (DS was born after a little over 1 hour of pushing. A lot of that being just "practice" pushing really). I did feel like pushing, but it wasn't as intense as I envisioned. What was incredibly and unexpectedly intense for me was the prolonged "ring of fire" I experienced. (that was what made me feel scared too and was when I came the closest to "freaking out" during my labor). Actually, those pushy feeling and pressure feelings, in hindsight, had begun while I was still laboring at home, but I didn't know how to label them other than to say that I had a "weird feeling." The feelings continued on the drive to the birth center and then kind of went on a hold a bit while I was mentally adjusting to being at the birth center and getting ready to push. Anyway, it just makes me wonder how long I had really been fully dilated and what would have happened if I had done something about those pushy feelings at home, instead of just ignoring them or brushing them off as weird feeling :-) -- Em mama to L-baby, almost 8 months old! |
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PattyMomVA wrote:
I've always wondered about something with regards to pushing. With both babies, I felt the urge to push, as in I knew I was ready to, but I felt like I preferred not to. At that point, the contractions became much less painful. It felt like I wanted to just do nothing during a contraction and feel a little relief from having to deal with them for hours. (BTW, I had an epidural with DD and nothing with DS.) The nurse was telling me to push when I felt a contraction. Instead, I felt a contraction and didn't push. I just didn't want to. But, she figured this out by looking at the monitor, knowing I was having a contraction, so told me to push. I still wonder to this day if it might have been nicer to me and not unsafe for the baby to rest through a few contractions at that point and then push when I wanted to. Does this happen to other women? Women left to their own devices often have a resting phase after they get to full dilation. It is just fine, and often a good idea, to allow her to wait until she wants to push. Of course, I wouldn't know from experience since I desperately wanted to push before I was fully dilated all three times ;-) Best wishes, Ericka |
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