Sentences with phrase «epidural because»

While transitioning an hour into labor I did sign to get an epidural because I thought with first baby this labor was going to last 12 hours and I couldn't take the pain for that long.

Some women are unable to choose epidural because of spinal injury and IV pain medications can be ruled out due to allergies or addition problems in the past.

Later, several people even speculated about whether I got an epidural because my provider pressured me, I was not allowed to labor at home, or I didn't get to relax in a whirlpool.

My mom has had two very easy births and one «sunny - side up» one where she got an epidural because she wasn't progressing due to the pain.

Women were sometimes disappointed not to have experienced an epidural because they were too advanced in labour.

He said the headache wasn't from the botched epidural because I wouldn't be able to sit up if it was.

I gave birth without an epidural because pain meds and anesthesia in the past has made me really sick and feel awful for days.

I've always thought I couldn't do it without an epidural because my pain tolerance is pathetic but after your story, I think I'm more open to trying to push through as long as possible.

Needing an epidural because you've been in physical agony for hours and you just can't take it anymore is traumatic — because you were in agony for hours, not because you got the epidural.

The contractions were very strong at this point and when I did get checked, the nurse asked me if I was planning on getting an epidural because if I was then it was too late!

I was determined not to have an epidural because I was more afraid of the epidural than the pain of child birth.

Good thing I had an epidural because otherwise I can not vouch for what I would have done in that hormonal state.

So you would be happier if doctors did not offer choices, but required all their patients to have epidurals because that's what they would want?

Not exact matches

I couldn't feed him right away, because they had topped up my epidural so much that I could barely speak or keep my eyes open.

This is good news because epidurals, despite having made labor more bearable for scores of women, have their pitfalls: they can lead to prolonged labor and an increase in vacuum and forceps deliveries.

This feeling that you were less of a woman because you had an epidural has simply got to stop.

I now recommend the book, «Natural Birth the Bradley Way» to all my pregnant friends, even those planning on an epidural, because it has by far the best descriptions of what to expect from labor that I found (had not come across Birthing from Within), as well as offering techniques for managing early labor which are helpful all the way through, or pre-epi if that's the option someone has chosen.

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.

Because my baby was presenting back to back and I was made to lie flat on my back for many hours, I felt completely unable to cope and accepted an epidural, which I have never regretted (though I realize it could have contributed to the many complications that later occurred).

Other pain relief methods exist, but the epidural is generally the preferred method because it presents the fewest risks to the baby while leaving the mother alert.

Is there an «informed consent» for women who enter a hospital to birth regarding Pitocin, AROM, epidurals, catheters, the 5:00 PM C Section because your provider wants to go home?

Had to get one because of my epidural.

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).

Drugs she needs mostly due to unnecessary interventions like induction... Because of the epidural, the woman hardly feels the contractions, contractions slow down, more drugs... which leads to more pain killers and many times to a c - section.

My birth was nothing like I had hoped, labored in bed on my back because they couldn't monitor the babies if I moved, had to have pitocin and later an epidural (I could stand the pitocin, it was the fact that no one does a breach delivery any more that, just in case Twin B didn't turn after Twin A was born), puking in the operating room because I couldn't even have a single drop of water on my tongue while laboring strapped down (talk about understanding what hell is like!)

Many women who have home births get transferred to a hospital anyway, usually because the labour is taking too long or because they need pain medication such as an epidural.

My daughter is alive because she had jaundice and I was so out of it dealing with a botched epidural which resulted in them tapping my spinal fluid.

So, after a 20 hour labour with pethidine and the stitch - up from hell (1 1/4 hours of stitching with a local anaesthetic that didn't work, and no epidural available because it was «out of hours» - women in that situation are not seen as a high priority for pain relief!)

My partner knew me well enough to know that I was refusing an epidural not because it's what I really wanted, but because it's what I thought I had to do.

Epidurals are not available in birth centers because these centers have a philosophy that natural childbirth is the best option and drugs can affect the fetus.

The idea of someone telling me I didn't bond as well with my babies because I had an epidural is offensive.

To those women who haven't really given birth because they've had a C - section, to those women who gave in to the pain and got an epidural, to anyone who doesn't understand that only breastfed babies are truly bonded to their mothers...

I had someone claim that my inability to initially bond with my child directly after he was born, was because I had an epidural and not a drug - free birth.

Of course they give in and get an epidural at the drop of a hat because they don't realize that there's a difference between good pain and bad pain.

She views epidurals as disempowering because they limit movement and sensation, yet there are many women who find them empowering because they eliminate pain.

My sister had a really rough recovery after her first birth because of the epidural (headache so severe she had to say flat on her back).

it's that it CONCENTRATES the crazy and turns into a contest to see who is the most hardcore - so maybe you are a reasonable person who is afraid of needles and would like to avoid an epidural, so you google unmedicated childbirth, and you find a message board, and before you know it, you're delivering your baby while swinging from a trapeze over a bed of knives because you trust birth that much and everyone else is a big fat poser.

Also, because contractions are so much more painful, the need for an epidural (anesthesia to numb the pelvic area) increases.

Some women have more trouble with this because of the epidural medications and numbing or because of damage done to the bladder with the bladder catheter.

Why do you conclude that her c - section was only necessary because of the induction and unsuccessful epidural?

And I think the reason epidurals can be a problem is because of midwives who insist pain is good for you.

This might as well have been written by a blogger at age of autism because the understanding of anything related to epidurals is just as poor as the understanding of science in general.

Even Rixa Freeze once said that the reason she gives birth at home is because she knows that if she were at a hospital she'd ask for an epidural, because, you know, that the absolute worse thing that can happen.

I want an epidural, but I know now that I don't want anything like Demerol because of the effect it had on me during my first daughter's birth.

-- Because labor may have progressed so much that getting an epidural just isn't a possibility.

A failed epidural (or the denial of an epidural is frightening to a mom in labor because many women hold on to the hope of an epidural to give sweet relief — physically and mentally.

I am strong because my epidural stopped working when it became time to push at 30 + plus hours, and I had all back labor with the baby posterior.

While I believe giving birth should be a natural experience (because of the number of unnecessary inductions for convenience, Pitocin augmentation that led to early epidural that ended with a C - S for failure to progress) I would have to say that the thought of an unassisted birth at home is the scariest thing I have heard lately.

I am Strong because I had two extremely intense contractions during the administering of the epidural, but managed to stay still enough with the help of my husband so as to not incur any nerve damage.

I am strong because after 32 hours of labor, I decided to get an epidural even though it was against my birth plan.