Sentences with phrase «getting an epidural in»

If there are any problems, it's easier for your antenatal team to deliver your babies quickly if you've already got an epidural in place.

In the past, if you were having twins, a premature baby, a breech baby, or a posterior baby, it would be recommended that you get an epidural in case of an emergency.

Not exact matches

«I feel sore,» Dufner told reporters ahead of the tournament and after getting an epidural a week ago for what he called an arthritic, degenerative condition that began bothering him in April at Augusta.

I made the decision to not get an epidural early in my pregnancy, and was shocked at how many people told me I'd change my mind, or laughed in my face, or told me I didn't have to be a martyr.

However, even having done that, I still came away with an impression that babies are born in hospitals and you should get the epidural.

I just assumed that I would give birth in a hospital and I just assumed I would get an epidural.

With my first, I had problems during labor (don't get me started) that resulted in an epidural (I wasn't progressing and couldn't relax enough to let my body do its job; the epidural worked, I was pushing within 15 minutes of receiving it).

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.

Some birthing people will experience a sudden drop in their blood pressure after getting the epidural, resulting in oxygen and other medicines» being administered.

I caved and got an epidural which ended up being an accidental spinal, that was supposed to wear off in 1 hour... fast forward 4 hours later, the spinal was finally wearing off and I was trying to crawl off the bed in pain..

Or perhaps a friend or family member has called your decisions to give birth in a hospital, use an obstetrician and get an epidural into question, claiming that you'll change what you want when you read what she recommends.

Families planning medication or a cesarean may feel, «Why bother to learn about positions and movements in labor if I'm getting an epidural / C - section?»

She decided not to get an epidural and is instead getting medication in her IV line to take the edge off the pain.

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.

Youre stuck on your back with monitors strapped on which makes labor even more painful, so you get the epidural which makes labor slow, so you get the Pitocin which can cause stress in the baby, so you end up with a C - section.

Meaning: If you get an epidural, the medication will be measurable in your baby's blood within 10 minutes.

I loved having an epidural so much, in fact, that when I got pregnant with my fourth baby, there was no questioning it: I'd have the epidural again.

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.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

In neither instance did my labor slow, in fact, with # 2 I was 4 centimeters dilated when I got the epidural and delivered 3 hours lateIn neither instance did my labor slow, in fact, with # 2 I was 4 centimeters dilated when I got the epidural and delivered 3 hours latein fact, with # 2 I was 4 centimeters dilated when I got the epidural and delivered 3 hours later.

How about a woman who decides to get an epidural after 10 + agonizing hours — would she have come through the experience trauma free if only she had continued to be in excruciating pain for another several hours?

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.

or «get the epidural when you walk in the door».

Epidurals cut off the hormonal communication between mother and baby during labor and the baby gets in trouble.

Speaking from experience, I was firmly in the «no way am I getting an epidural» camp thanks to a fear of needles.

I was traumatized by my epidural and so will never get one again, but it hasn't turned me off birthing in a hospital.

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.

I'm hoping to go natural next time, but not opposed to getting the epidural again if I'm in a similar situation.

we don't really get in arguments about epidurals or midwives.....

On the other hand, if you want the option of getting an epidural, or you're very anxious about something going wrong during labor and delivery and don't want to chance having to transfer to a hospital, you'll want to be in a hospital from the get - go.

My secret birth plan had entailed starting contractions at home around 40 weeks, laboring in my house for awhile, going to the hospital, getting an epidural, pushing for a little bit and having a baby, probably all within a span of 24 — 36 hours.

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

«We get more nasty letters that we didn't have time to put in the epidural.»

It's also worth considering that once you get the epidural, you'll most likely be unable to roam around freely, even with a so - called «walking epidural,» a low - dose epidural that allows for some movement in the legs.

In fact, if you want an idea of what pushing without an epidural feels like, pooping is the closest you're going to get.

When you add in the other reasons not to get an epidural such as slowing labor, the risk of c - section is greater when you receive an epidural.

But with the help of birthing classes, you can learn about natural methods for pain relief, such as breathing techniques, massage and acupuncture — and get a more informed idea as to whether an epidural is your first choice, last resort or something in between.

Some women find it helpful to get into different positions to help guide the baby down the canal, and an epidural prevents you from being in any other positions.

Recently the Journal of Human Lactation posted an article based off of a research study done to prove how birth practices do in fact effect the initial birth weight of the baby, and if the mother has had an induction, a cesarean birth, or an epidural longer then 6 hours, the additional fluids passed into her will in turn get passed into the baby, thus resulting in a «false» birth weight.

An epidural can not block the release of oxytocin as oxytocin is required for uterine contractions and you wouldn't be getting an epidural if you weren't in labor alreadying having uterine contractions and the delivery of the baby itself results in oxytocin release.

Moms dead set on having a natural birth end up with C - sections, and moms who swear by the epidurals don't make it to the hospital in time to get one.

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.

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.

Shaarei Tzedek requires an IV line in your arm, but they only give you fluids if you want an epidural (in my case, I asked for the epidural, so I got the fluids, but I gave birth so quickly that they never took out the IV or got me the epidural.

Only after reading here and other places for several months have I gotten to a place where I can say that I will gladly have my baby in the hospital and get an epidural if I should happen to have another child.

If mom has gotten an epidural she is probably not in much pain anymore, which means she is just laying in the bed waiting for this baby to come.

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.

With Pitocin, we've got contractions more intense, so even if the mom was planning on having a natural birth, we often end up with an epidural, so now we have the epidural meds in the mom's system, therefor also in baby.

The other big thing that happens with Pitocin, and the same is true for epidurals and caesarean sections, is that we have a mom who is also getting a lot of IV fluid, and we have new research that tells us that with all of the extra fluid the mom is getting, some if it will go in the baby.