Sentences with phrase «everyone about my epidurals»

While I totally support pregnant people making informed choices and when possible, consenting to medical procedures (when safe for both them and their babies)-- and I think it's horrible when people feel pressured into procedures they don't want — I want to tell everyone about my epidurals.

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And then I wound up begging for an epidural, grateful for the rest it gave me and the fuzzy headedness that kept me from panicking when everyone in the room got very quiet and serious about the signs of distress from the babe my belly.

During those three weeks I was told by everyone (except for the hospital lactation consultants, they were very supportive and repeatedly told me that I was doing a great job and that feeding my son was more important than breastfeeding him) who knew about my supply issues that I should be pumping more, that I just needed to put him to the breast more often, that it was because I gave him a paci, that it was because I had an epidural, that whatever I do, I should NOT supplement.

Apparently, being pregnant also makes you a prime candidate for hearing everyone else's birth story, because by time my due date rolled around in September, I had heard about episiotomies, c - sections, epidurals gone wrong, tearing, vomiting and every other birth complication from family, friends, and random women in the grocery store and library.