Comments on: Birth Day! http://turtlecountry.info/baby/?p=71 A Brave New World: My Pregnancy Journey Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:23:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Becca http://turtlecountry.info/baby/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-146 Becca Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:23:16 +0000 http://turtlecountry.info/baby/?p=71#comment-146 Well bless you for being able to do it without drugs. I'm a wuss and had no desire to show my "womanhood" Isadora turned sideways sometime during labor, so I had to have a C-section. Would have had to had a Epidural no matter what I wanted. My doctor said she was a 7 pound baby and I have 6 pound hips. Well bless you for being able to do it without drugs. I’m a wuss and had no desire to show my “womanhood” Isadora turned sideways sometime during labor, so I had to have a C-section. Would have had to had a Epidural no matter what I wanted. My doctor said she was a 7 pound baby and I have 6 pound hips.

]]> By: Shelley http://turtlecountry.info/baby/?p=71&cpage=1#comment-128 Shelley Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:01:48 +0000 http://turtlecountry.info/baby/?p=71#comment-128 There is so such thing as "Bad Hypnobirther". There's a reason it's called Labor and Delivery...and each labor is different. You can try ahead of time to put all kinds of systems in place to manage it, deal with it, or put it in this nice square little box. However, when it hits and you have to go thru it - it's a whole new ballgame. I think you did fabulous! Also, there are plenty of babies who score 9/10 on apgars when Mom's have had some help via medication. As an PB/GYN once told me "You don't get a gold star, and they don't announce your name over the loudspeaker for going without". You know I've had 3 kids, the first without pain management and the second/third with - and I can tell you that I was more aware, more involved and actually able to enjoy the process the last two times. There is so such thing as “Bad Hypnobirther”. There’s a reason it’s called Labor and Delivery…and each labor is different. You can try ahead of time to put all kinds of systems in place to manage it, deal with it, or put it in this nice square little box. However, when it hits and you have to go thru it – it’s a whole new ballgame. I think you did fabulous! Also, there are plenty of babies who score 9/10 on apgars when Mom’s have had some help via medication. As an PB/GYN once told me “You don’t get a gold star, and they don’t announce your name over the loudspeaker for going without”.

You know I’ve had 3 kids, the first without pain management and the second/third with – and I can tell you that I was more aware, more involved and actually able to enjoy the process the last two times.

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