Sentences with phrase «like epidural»

As we know, one intervention like Pitocin can lead to another intervention like an epidural, which could ultimately lead to a c - section.

«Our findings suggest that water birth is a reasonably safe option for low - risk women, especially when the risks associated with pharmacologic pain management, like epidural anesthesia, are considered.»

It sounds like the epidural did the trick for you — you may have transferred and ended up with the same outcome of epidural and vaginal birth.

It's rare these days to be given general anesthesia, except in the most extreme emergency situations or if you can't have regional pain relief (like an epidural or spinal block) for some reason.

The regional anesthesias, like an epidural, will block pain sensation in your abdomen and nearby parts.

I would like an epidural for pain relief.

I'll echo Brene Brown who admits that she thought faith would be like an epidural, taking away the pain, but instead there she found a midwife, whispering in her ears, «push, it's supposed to hurt a bit, you're almost there.»

A «birth plan» to me meant a privileged, hypersensitive woman being very loud about the fact that she knew better than the medical professionals who were only reluctantly present before going off to their golf game, obviously trying to prove that she was better than all those sheep moms who just went along with toxic, lazy - people procedures like epidurals and C - sections.

I like epidurals and then my other two, so my second baby and my twins were both cesarean.

Furthermore, I wanted to avoid pain management drugs and experience birth naturally to avoid risks to my laboring hormones, breastfeeding, and body associated with interventions like epidurals.

Not exact matches

You will want to google terms like «episiotomy» and «epidural.»

Although I did not have an epidural with either my daughter's hospital birth or my son's home birth, there was a point during my induced labor with my daughter that an option like this would have appealed to me (had I not had complications including low platelets that prevented me from getting an epidural anyway).

I would like to have a standard epidural.

I would like to have a mobile epidural.

You will also learn how to use positions with an epidural to help your labor progress, like how to use a peanut ball.

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!)

She described the feeling of getting an epidural, «It rushed through my body and I felt like I was having an orgasm, a very long one.

The more I read the more I realized that interventions like pitocin, fetal monitoring and epidurals could propel a mother into the operating room.

A 2012 study on the experience of first - time moms who gave birth with epidurals, for example, found that participants reported that the epidural felt like a big relief, and that it helped make their birth experience more tolerable.

If you are looking for a birth experience that includes information on having a birth with medication or an epidural, a one - day intensive class like BirthPrep 101 at Waddle n Swaddle will be effective.

So there is a benefit to delay getting an epidural if you feel like you absolutely can't give birth without one.

Several times I talked to my husband and let him know I would really like to have an epidural now.

Explore the options with your provider as to the use of a tub or shower, TENS unit, position changes, narcotics, and epidurals to decide which if any you may like to use.

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.

I often say epidurals are a tool in the tool box just like the birth ball.

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.

I got the epidural and within just a few minutes, the swelling was gone — just like the doctor said would happen.

I hadn't originally wanted pain relief (don't like what the drugs do to me), tried the epidural and it was an epic failure.

«I would like to heal emotionally from the fact I had an epidural when giving birth to my son.

You'd think someone like him would be able to stare down some L&D nurses if his wife doesn't want an epidural....

Higher likelihood of interventions like episiotomy, instrumental delivery, cs (and some outcomes that it seems only NCB zealots passionately care about like continuous monitoring, or epidurals).

What you will need to include is your name, your labor partner's name, your doctor's name, your doula's name (if you have one), and your baby's name (if decided already), your due date, things you would like during labour i.e. if you would like ice chips for nourishment or want to be coached when it's time to push, what you would like when it comes to pain relief, i.e. if you want an epidural or not, things that you would like to happen straight after the birth, i.e. your partner to cut the cord, if you want to hold the baby straight away or after they've been cleaned up, special requests if you need to have a C - section, concerns and fears and anything else.

There is nothing more aggravating after enduring labor, swelling up like a balloon from the epidural, and having nurses refuse you nipple soreness assistance than to have horrible, dry unmanageable hair for the remainder of your stay.

Your childbirth educator will also show you how to manage your contractions and use a variety of positions and other techniques like comfort measures, positioning in labor and more to stay more comfortable in early labor, perhaps before an epidural or IV pain medications are allowed.

Epidurals, like dehydration, can lower blood pressure.

As someone who was talked OUT OF an epidural even though I very much wanted one, I can say it's much worse when someone refused to listen to your very real request for an intervention then when they speak to you about an intervention like you are an adult making a decision based on facts.

Thankfully I haven't experienced this with my friends, but I do have a hard time connecting with new mothers because I live in a very crunchy area and I feel like me loving my epidural and only breastfeeding for 9 months would make me too «conventional» for them.

1 - Formula is not evil per se, but as Abbi wrote - should be used like you'd do with an epidural - when it's really needed.

But, I do know what it was like before I knew I was having a c - section, thinking that I wanted an epidural but not really knowing what that entailed or what other options were.

In truth, I think it's because with my previous baby, I had an epidural and so I only pushed 3 times with the 3 contractions so with this baby I felt like 3 pushes would do it.

Epidurals are a very safe procedure and do not have a direct impact on the baby like receiving intravenous or oral narcotics does.

With my second daughter, I was induced a week after my due date and I asked for an epidural as soon as the contractions became even a little bit painful (like I said, I don't like pain).

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.

If you are unsure about the choices you would like to make surrounding your birth options, or just want to know a little more when it comes to hospital birth practices, epidurals, c - sections, then The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer and Rhonda Wheeler is the book for you!

It seems most mothers are more concerned with having people around us who we like, who involve us in decisions, honor our preferences and support us through the process than the epidural rate, specifically.

(Can someone who had an epidural explain to me what it's like to want to chat during labor?

Like McCaffrey, she had hoped for a peaceful, easy delivery and hadn't decided either way about an epidural.

After weighing the pros and cons of home birth, we had decided we liked the idea, although I admit I was a little nervous about having no pain medication available (I had an epidural with the twins).

There is no way you will be able to move out of the bed with all of that, so opt out of the epidural if you don't like it.