Giving Birth

I've already done it twice naturally with no pain drugs. I would still chose natural. Unless if there is a health issue I don't see any reason as to why anyone would need a c section.
Damn right its going to hurt. That's what happens when you get pregnant.
 
and in all honesty, the pain isnt like anything else. yes it hurts, but not in the way you think. its really hard to describe. but the moment the baby is out, it completely vanishes! with a csection, the pain is there till you heal not only on the outside, but inside as well!!

now with an episiotomy....i think that hurt worse than the actual birth!! those 2 weeks were horrible for me!! i still didnt take any pain meds that were prescribed to me! hello! i just gave birth 100% natural! i dont need pain meds for a few stitches! even though it hurt, i still didnt need them. that and i was BF
 
This is always a hotly debated issue where I'm from.

Here, we have a severly 'money hungry' private health sector where OBGYNs will tell women pretty much anything to convince them that they won't be able to birth naturally. From scare stories about damage to your lower end, to telling a LOT of women that their babies are too big to birth. The health insurance company we belong to reports that 72% of births they pay for are c-sections. It's shocking!

Either way, we opted not to use a OBGYN, and picked a (inferior in some people's opinion) midwife to handle our births instead. As a result, I got the natural, drug-free deliveries I wanted both times.
 
I gave birth naturally with no drugs (well I had one to speed the placenta etc coming out after I'd given birth to Imogen) and I found it was painful but I could manage it until the baby crowned. OH MY GOD that hurt (and Zorak took that as his cue to finally get to the hospital) and the stitches afterwards were pretty bad. I can remember the stitches more than the actual labour.
But I can also remember how ace the midwives were. They were joking around and made me feel somewhat at ease. They had a bet going between themselves as to whether Zorak would ever arrive :D

There was tearing but I didn't mind. I was more scared of the scissors the midwife was wielding. I'd rather tear than be cut because she was just stood there at the end of the bed looking at me and opening and closing the scissors in the air. I felt like I was in a horror movie and about to be massacred. :willy_nilly::willy_nilly:
It wouldn't have been so bad if she'd just gotten them and put them down ready for if she needed to use them!

I wouldn't want to have a C-Section unless for medical reasons. Cos I was a teenage mum, I wasn't allowed to go far past my due date. Two days past my due date (7th September), my midwife was going to try and induce me. Then if that didn't work, I was to go to hospital and get my waters broken and properly induced but if I didn't go into labour fast enough, I was to have C-Section 9th September (I believe my midwife said I had a midmorning C-Section booked).
But Imogen couldn't wait and decided to come 3 days early.
 
zirconaz said:
Why induce if a baby is overdue? I've always wondered that.
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A variety of reasons http://www.babycenter.com/0_inducing-labor_173.bc

For me it was because I was 17 and they were worried that my pelvis would not be big enough to push a baby out of if I went too far over my due date. WHO guidelines state that women under 16 may have pelvic bones and birth canals that are underdeveloped and are immature and this needs to be taken into account.

And being young, there are lots of risks attached to trying to give birth naturally when the pelvis is not big enough because the baby may get stuck. Problems afterwards range from severe incontinence for life to death of the mother and/or baby. That's why out of 20+ teenager mothers I know, only me and one other girl gave birth naturally and we were older and more developed (17 and 18 respectively). I was 3½ months off my 18th birthday but if I'd been closer to 16 than 18, chances are, I would have been given a C-Section rather than risk a natural birth.
 
Natural birth definatley, I had both my kids natural birth first one with drugs that didnt work until after i had him and the second drug free.

It hurts like a mofo BUT in saying that once it was over it was over and looking at my new born was the most amazing feeling that made all the pain go away.

I have a few friends that have gone c section and they say its the worst thing they could have done, there is more healing time involved with a c section and it is at times hard to hold your baby or do normal things you would normally do as you cannot rip the stitches.
 
kate88 said:
If you had to make a choice between a natural birth or a C-section what would you pick?

If there were no medical reason/complications, you could give birth naturally but you had the option of a c-section, would you take it?

I have a very strong opinion about this, but I think I'll wait to hear what ya'll have to say as I don't want to offend anyone.

This is following a discussion with a group of my girlfriends
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I chose natural / no medication child birth but agreed that if there were complications that I would under-go a C-section, etc. To make a long story short, there were some serious complications, in fact at one point they were getting me ready for an emergency C-section but it never happend; I ended up giving birth (naturally) to a healthy, 12 pound / 23 inches long, baby girl.:)
 
i never have any problem with the C- section hearing all this is new to me i didn't even had
any stitches i mean the last in layer was with some kind of plastic holding it
and after about 2 weeks it was like i never had any surgery ... i could move and do everything even from before but only was harder to get up and sit down i was doing everything myself

anyway i went to most with out any drugs only been give 2 or 3 times gas actually didn't make any pain less
and told then no need it lol
my English was bad i knew not that much so what ever other had put on the papers so i had nothing lol anyway
i don't find the C-section bad.. and if my son was not breech still i will had a big problem still

only is i find it weird is how come they didn't know that my son never turn i had so many ultrasound as they thought something wrong with the baby as my tummy was not growing much so they did send me few times to check
i never wore any maternity clothes i went to a more baggy clothes the same size i was :D
 
Butterfly said:
This is always a hotly debated issue where I'm from.

Here, we have a severly 'money hungry' private health sector where OBGYNs will tell women pretty much anything to convince them that they won't be able to birth naturally. From scare stories about damage to your lower end, to telling a LOT of women that their babies are too big to birth. The health insurance company we belong to reports that 72% of births they pay for are c-sections. It's shocking!

Either way, we opted not to use a OBGYN, and picked a (inferior in some people's opinion) midwife to handle our births instead. As a result, I got the natural, drug-free deliveries I wanted both times.
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if we were to every have another one (most likely no) id choose to not use an OBGYN and go with a midwife/dula. the experience is just so much more calming and relaxing and personal.



i was wondering this lastnight.......do insurance companies pay for opted csections? its a major surgery thats done for no medically necessary reason. IMO, i dont think they should. but i have a feeling that they'll lie about why they had a csection just to get covered kwim?
 
KLD1019 said:
.do insurance companies pay for opted csections? its a major surgery thats done for no medically necessary reason. IMO, i dont think they should. but i have a feeling that they'll lie about why they had a csection just to get covered kwim?
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That is the case here.
Technically our health insurance doesn't pay for elective c-sections, but the OBGYNs just give a reason like the baby being too big or the mother going too long overdue (which to some doctors is within a day of duedate). No one argues with a doctor.
 
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