I mentioned that I had been promised a birthing tub to labor in and some receptionist chimed in with» You cant
have a water birth room with twins».
... we have a high water birth rate here, mostly because
we have this water birth room, which is available with tons of hot water and a big beautiful tub and so essentially if I get them in the room, I get them in the water, I'm listening to the baby, I shut the curtains around the tub, I turn the lights down and I just give them that hour, like 1 to 2 h of kind of privacy where I'm sneaking in to listen to the baby.
Not exact matches
I was so interested in
having a
water birth so any amount of travel was worth it to me with the end goal of birthing in what is known as The ABC
room (Alternative Birthing Center).
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!)
With the parents immersing the baby in warm
water, in a dimly lit
room immediately after
birth he believed the baby
would be calm and better adjusted to extra uterine life.
I may
have not so nicely snapped at her... but I got my
water birth room!
I also
had a tub in my
room - if you can do a natural
water labor /
birth that is highly recommended.