first!



no.

Second.

Ditto.

I practiced concieving in a bath a few times.

I laboured in the bath but I was cold and didn't like to lie down, I was trying to claw my way out of the bath and the midwives were saying it was meant to be relaxing in there and for me it was anything but! If the bath was big as a swimming pool and I could stand up and hold the edge during contractions, I'd like it a whole lot better.

charlottegelin said:

exactly ... a walking bath/pool with a bar to hold onto during contractions !!

Mach said:

Nope...didnt know anything about them at the time

shayblackfeather said:

so you wernt in a birthing room @ Mission ??

Mach said:

NO...delivery room with my first
stayed in the room...guess it was a birthing room with my second.
never saw a tub or was offered...
BUT that could be because with both of my girls I never went into labor
had to be indused.

Mach said:

I always wanted to hang off something every contraction, so a raised bar option would be good too.

shayblackfeather said:

with Jess i was in this big ole birthing room ... with a big ole tub

i watched star treck and had a baby handed to me with a pointed ear like spok



the bath tub was kinda okay ... was in it for a while but you know me and HOT water/things

specially during labor ...like i wasnt hot enough working my ass off

hehehe



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charlottegelin said:

my birthing bed had a suspension bar you could use if you wanted...

i mostly walked the halls and would stop to hold onto the rail during contractions

i watched star treck and had a baby handed to me with a pointed ear like spok

WHAT????? What baby??
Im confused



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shayblackfeather said:

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Ummm hello ...JESS ...pointed elf ear child

* takes Shay's temp *

you have never noticed her ear ?

not as bad now as it was the 1st few yrs ...

I had my babies at home, with a doctor attending, but I really didn't want to try the bathtub birth. I don't know, it just didn't sound appealing to me .Long showers helped though.
I just helped coach a friend who used an exersize ball in the shower because her labor was slowing, the baby was born 30 minutes later. Don't know if it was sitting on the ball or the shower that helped more.
Her 12 year old daughter was there too and she says she never wants to have babies of her own but she seriously wants to be a midwife!!

shellyevon said:

I sat on the ball in the shower for about 3 hours

charlottegelin said:

They wanted to aend my friend home but she lives over an hour away from the hosital and no one wanted to take a chance on her not getting back in time. You just have to keep trying different things until you hit on the one that works for you. I like the bar to hang from idea,I liked to lean on the wall during contractions.

I read this as 'bath tub girths'.

I thought "why would you want to start a thread about that? You couldn't start a worse thread if you did something about celebrity names and genitals".