Sentences with phrase «before getting an epidural»

With my first and fourth I had a c - section, both of which were determined necessary before I got an epidural.

Thankfully, my husband had returned from the bookstore right before I got my epidural and he was holding my shoulders as I was receiving it.

«I caught myself writing a sentence like, «I wanted to go as long as possible before getting the epidural.»

So there's a few things we have to do before you get an epidural.

It is no longer true that you need to wait till 4 cm of dilation before getting an epidural.

In the moment, it really helped to have someone encouraging me to try one more thing before getting an epidural.

Not exact matches

I'm certainly not saying that epidurals don't have their place or that nobody should have one, but I think one should educate one's self before taking on the risks that are involved in receiving one and not get it just because that's what «everybody» does.

Narrator: If your goal is a drug - free childbirth or you want to ease labor pain naturally before getting numbed with an epidural, moving and trying different birthing positions can help you come closer to having the birth experience you want.

Rupturing your membranes also puts you on a clock, has a greater chance of cord prolapse meaning emergency, increases your risk of infection and takes away your baby's buffer to the strong contractions caused by Pitocin, your epidural can slow labor, making you unable to move and / or push effectively, doesn't allow for proper fetal descent, you will most likely have a catheter placed to your bladder, increasing risk of bladder infections, and if all else fails, at 5PM, you will have a C / S at 5PM before your baby gets too tired or sick to continue laboring (because the doctor is tired of waiting).

I got the epidural right before getting induced and slept for ten hours waking up only to facebook.

Plenty of research now demonstrates that epidurals do not slow down labor even if you get on before 3 cm.

Even morphine given in an epidural may cause the baby to be unwilling to nurse or latch on, since medication from an epidural definitely does get into the mother's blood, and thus into the baby before he is born.

The first thing she said when she got to the hospital — before telling them her name — was, «I want an epidural.»

I had already gone through 25 hours of labour before finally getting an epidural, but the pain during each feed was excruciating and only ended when he stopped feeding.

Streicher opted for «zero pain» in her own pregnancy and planned to get an epidural even before her first contraction.

With my second child, I got an epidural as soon as I got to the hospital, but it wore off before it was time to push and I delivered without medication.

Remember, there are no epidurals in home births so in addition to the transport and evaluation / explanation at the hospital — they can't operate before they even know what's going on — they also need to call the anesthesiologist, have him / her evaluate the situation and get me appropriately anesthesized.

For my first, I got a room 2 hours before delivery and never got an epidural despite having been in the hospital for 6 hours before delivery.

My delivery did not go at all as planned (wanted natural but was pressured into getting an epidural, which failed, they gavebme a 2nd one before checking to see he was crowning!

Keep her story in mind before you decide whether or not to get an epidural!