Sentences with phrase «getting an epidural because»

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!

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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).

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

Because I had an epidural that was quite mild because I got it atBecause I had an epidural that was quite mild because I got it atbecause I got it at 10 +2.

We're not sure if her eyes are closed because she is trying to bear through a contraction or because the epidural has calmed them down and allowed her to sleep, but we definitely get a sense of the peace of the moment — and that just helps build the excitement.

Instead, due to high blood pressure, I was sent to triage on a Wednesday afternoon at 37 weeks, spent a night being monitored, then had a balloon put inside my cervix for 12 hours to «ripen» it, then received pitocin (and an epidural, because by that point I was too frightened of what getting my water broken would feel like), threw up numerous times, developed a fever, was informed that I might or might not be getting a C - section, eventually pushed for 45 minutes and then had my son, on a Friday night.

While I know there's a whole movement out there trying to shame moms who do get an epidural (which I call bullsh*t on, because mothers need to do what they feel is best for their body.

If you get an epidural, it's possible that your let down effect will be hindered because of the epidural interfering with the production of oxytocin.

At the 21 hour mark I got my epidural (I had been begging for the epidural since hour 8 or 9 but was told I couldn't have it because they didn't want to «stall» my labor... I was stuck at 3.5 cm for the entire 21 hours prior to receiving my epidural, to this day I don't understand why I had to suffer without pain medication, I was already failing to progress, what damage could an epidural have done?)

I had my husband read this because I wanted him to read that part about the epidural and when he got there he started gut laughing because he remembers that reaction too!

It may also be because epidurals numb the pelvic muscles and the vagina, so the brain doesn't get the message to send a super surge of oxytocin to get baby out.

Sometimes women who otherwise didn't plan on getting an epidural end up getting one because they can't handle the stronger, closer contractions, especially when they aren't able to move around fully.