Shanti0608 said:

DesireeNevermind said:

I love reading about this stuff and hearing my friends and family memeber's horror stories.

One of my aunts who has 3 kids had to have surgery because her pregnancies (each baby a 9.5 pounder) messed up her colon and bladder.

My girlfriend had induced labor because her baby was 2 weeks overdue I think but I remember her doctor saying that he felt babies should come out when they're ready and that most pregnancies should last 10 months not 9.

I've heard stories about the baby being in your ribs, lower belly, back, and off to the side. My other girlfriend always used to hit the left side of her belly because she said her daughter was always leaning to the left. As she neared her due date she said she could feel her daughters hair itching her. Sure enough when that child was born, she had the most beautiful, long and thick head of black hair.

Funny, the drs did not seem concerned about the induction not working for me. Even when I was 17 days overdue. They were still taking the sit back and wait approach. They kept me hooked to monitors to check that both of us were doing ok but still. I was the one that said, enough is enough. 60 hours of labour with nothing happening was enough for me.

Things vary so much from year to year and place to place it seems. When I was prego with noah and Daisy the doctor wanted me to wait until 2 weeks overdue to induce. Now they'll schedule you for an induction at 38 weeks if ya want.

Shanti0608 said:

DesireeNevermind said:

I love reading about this stuff and hearing my friends and family memeber's horror stories.

One of my aunts who has 3 kids had to have surgery because her pregnancies (each baby a 9.5 pounder) messed up her colon and bladder.

My girlfriend had induced labor because her baby was 2 weeks overdue I think but I remember her doctor saying that he felt babies should come out when they're ready and that most pregnancies should last 10 months not 9.

I've heard stories about the baby being in your ribs, lower belly, back, and off to the side. My other girlfriend always used to hit the left side of her belly because she said her daughter was always leaning to the left. As she neared her due date she said she could feel her daughters hair itching her. Sure enough when that child was born, she had the most beautiful, long and thick head of black hair.

Funny, the drs did not seem concerned about the induction not working for me. Even when I was 17 days overdue. They were still taking the sit back and wait approach. They kept me hooked to monitors to check that both of us were doing ok but still. I was the one that said, enough is enough. 60 hours of labour with nothing happening was enough for me.

so if you were already in labour, why did they need to keep trying to induce you?

did they break your waters for you? Or do they not do that in UK any more due to infection risk?

TotalANXiousNESS said:

paintedlady said:

I wasn't sick with her at all, I went full term with her and had her au natural. I birthed her so fast, the doctors didn't even get to get my papers ready. I got dressed in a gown sat on the bed, had a contraction, water sprayed out and Nia came barrelling out like lightning. Doctors were like

aking on its own and NO epidural, episiotomy etc. I was up and around after the doctor punched the shit outta my stomach. I am still looking for that doctor!

Wow. THIS is what I'm afraid of.

!!!

don't worry.... if it does happen. it'll be over before you can complain about it. I was lucky, I felt like I was gonna have her in the CAR!

So yeah, when I made it out of the elevator and in the labor and delivery unit I was like

then a nurse was like, "Relax, you'll be here a lonnngggg time". I showed her!

paintedlady said:

TotalANXiousNESS said:

Wow. THIS is what I'm afraid of.

!!!

don't worry.... if it does happen. it'll be over before you can complain about it. I was lucky, I felt like I was gonna have her in the CAR!

So yeah, when I made it out of the elevator and in the labor and delivery unit I was like

then a nurse was like, "Relax, you'll be here a lonnngggg time". I showed her!

when I went in, the midwife was stuffing around, looking for one of those big balls to sit on (like the one Dani locked in the bedroom)

and I'm like just check first

so I was fully dilated already

next thing she said was, to my mother in law, "have you got something ready for bub to wear when he comes out?" probably mainly because there were too many people in the room

and 20 minutes later we had baby Max

ZombieKitten said:

paintedlady said:

!!!

don't worry.... if it does happen. it'll be over before you can complain about it. I was lucky, I felt like I was gonna have her in the CAR!

So yeah, when I made it out of the elevator and in the labor and delivery unit I was like

then a nurse was like, "Relax, you'll be here a lonnngggg time". I showed her!

when I went in, the midwife was stuffing around, looking for one of those big balls to sit on (like the one Dani locked in the bedroom)

and I'm like just check first

so I was fully dilated already

next thing she said was, to my mother in law, "have you got something ready for bub to wear when he comes out?" probably mainly because there were too many people in the room

and 20 minutes later we had baby Max

I just love it when they just shoot out like that! So precious!

Oh! I burst the blood vessels in my face while pushing so hard, so I had temporary freckles for two weeks after I had Nia.

ZombieKitten said:

Shanti0608 said:

Funny, the drs did not seem concerned about the induction not working for me. Even when I was 17 days overdue. They were still taking the sit back and wait approach. They kept me hooked to monitors to check that both of us were doing ok but still. I was the one that said, enough is enough. 60 hours of labour with nothing happening was enough for me.

so if you were already in labour, why did they need to keep trying to induce you?

did they break your waters for you? Or do they not do that in UK any more due to infection risk?

When they gave me the pill vaginally to induced labour, it started but never progressed past 1 centimeter. They could only adminster the pill every 8 hours. Every time a new shift came on, the next midwife thought she had the magic touch to break my waters. I think I had 4 different ones try.

No luck. Never went past 1 centimeter so my labour was not really intense but still uncomfortable. For the entire 60 hours I was in a huge room with other women coming in for inductions. The first night in there 2 women started going into hard labour about an hour after induction. I saw so many women come and go into their own rooms. It was very frustrating! I am not sure how long they would have let me spend in that room. They were so busy with all of the other deliveries that they kept forgetting that I was there. It was a bad time to be in the hospital having a baby, so many babies being delivered that were conceived over Christmas/winter time. It was insane!

Shanti0608 said:

ZombieKitten said:

so if you were already in labour, why did they need to keep trying to induce you?

did they break your waters for you? Or do they not do that in UK any more due to infection risk?

When they gave me the pill vaginally to induced labour, it started but never progressed past 1 centimeter. They could only adminster the pill every 8 hours. Every time a new shift came on, the next midwife thought she had the magic touch to break my waters. I think I had 4 different ones try.

No luck. Never went past 1 centimeter so my labour was not really intense but still uncomfortable. For the entire 60 hours I was in a huge room with other women coming in for inductions. The first night in there 2 women started going into hard labour about an hour after induction. I saw so many women come and go into their own rooms. It was very frustrating! I am not sure how long they would have let me spend in that room. They were so busy with all of the other deliveries that they kept forgetting that I was there. It was a bad time to be in the hospital having a baby, so many babies being delivered that were conceived over Christmas/winter time. It was insane!

ugh!!!!!

I had my own room throughout all my labouring etc

how awful!

ZombieKitten said:

Shanti0608 said:

When they gave me the pill vaginally to induced labour, it started but never progressed past 1 centimeter. They could only adminster the pill every 8 hours. Every time a new shift came on, the next midwife thought she had the magic touch to break my waters. I think I had 4 different ones try.

No luck. Never went past 1 centimeter so my labour was not really intense but still uncomfortable. For the entire 60 hours I was in a huge room with other women coming in for inductions. The first night in there 2 women started going into hard labour about an hour after induction. I saw so many women come and go into their own rooms. It was very frustrating! I am not sure how long they would have let me spend in that room. They were so busy with all of the other deliveries that they kept forgetting that I was there. It was a bad time to be in the hospital having a baby, so many babies being delivered that were conceived over Christmas/winter time. It was insane!

ugh!!!!!

I had my own room throughout all my labouring etc

how awful!

It was awful. The first night hearing women going into labour and screaming. I was thinking, damn, I hope I do not have to go through that being in a room full of women.

Phil slept on a bean bag on the floor beside my bed. My mom had to be taken back to our house after the first day, there was no room for her to stay with us. So she was in a foreign country sitting on her own waiting for her only grandchild.

Once we decided, thanks to help from Predoms wife who is an OB/GYN to go for the C-section and stop delyaing something that wasn't happening, they prepped me at 9 am and I did not get in to have the surgery until 9pm.

The whole experience was stressful and was so far from the home birth I had planned for.

I think if I had my own room, I might have been less anxious and more relaxed and the experience might have been different.

Who knows.

Shanti0608 said:

ZombieKitten said:

ugh!!!!!

I had my own room throughout all my labouring etc

how awful!

It was awful. The first night hearing women going into labour and screaming. I was thinking, damn, I hope I do not have to go through that being in a room full of women.

Phil slept on a bean bag on the floor beside my bed. My mom had to be taken back to our house after the first day, there was no room for her to stay with us. So she was in a foreign country sitting on her own waiting for her only grandchild.

Once we decided, thanks to help from Predoms wife who is an OB/GYN to go for the C-section and stop delyaing something that wasn't happening, they prepped me at 9 am and I did not get in to have the surgery until 9pm.

The whole experience was stressful and was so far from the home birth I had planned for.

I think if I had my own room, I might have been less anxious and more relaxed and the experience might have been different.

Who knows.

when I had Oscar, my mum was with me for the first 26 hours, then when they announced surgery, they told her nothing, just sorry she couldn't come in, so she was out in the corridor crying

ZombieKitten said:

Shanti0608 said:

It was awful. The first night hearing women going into labour and screaming. I was thinking, damn, I hope I do not have to go through that being in a room full of women.

Phil slept on a bean bag on the floor beside my bed. My mom had to be taken back to our house after the first day, there was no room for her to stay with us. So she was in a foreign country sitting on her own waiting for her only grandchild.

Once we decided, thanks to help from Predoms wife who is an OB/GYN to go for the C-section and stop delyaing something that wasn't happening, they prepped me at 9 am and I did not get in to have the surgery until 9pm.

The whole experience was stressful and was so far from the home birth I had planned for.

I think if I had my own room, I might have been less anxious and more relaxed and the experience might have been different.

Who knows.

when I had Oscar, my mum was with me for the first 26 hours, then when they announced surgery, they told her nothing, just sorry she couldn't come in, so she was out in the corridor crying

Luckily, my sister in law went to our house and picked my mom up so they could see Selden once I was out of surgery and was in my own room finally.

That only lasted a few hours. By 1:30 am, I was wheeled into another room with a bunch of other women and babies.

I am so glad that I was able to get up in the morning and get myself to the bathroom so they knew that I did not need to stay too long.

I had him on a Saturday and was home Monday early evening. The girl next to me had a sick baby with liver problems and had to sleep with the lamp on all night for his jaundice.

Finally, the day we were leaving, they moved the baby into the sick ward and turned the damn light off.

I would have been home earlier but we waited the entire day for the dr to come and look at him for five seconds to make sure he looked ok and release us.

Shanti0608 said:

ZombieKitten said:

when I had Oscar, my mum was with me for the first 26 hours, then when they announced surgery, they told her nothing, just sorry she couldn't come in, so she was out in the corridor crying

Luckily, my sister in law went to our house and picked my mom up so they could see Selden once I was out of surgery and was in my own room finally.

That only lasted a few hours. By 1:30 am, I was wheeled into another room with a bunch of other women and babies.

I am so glad that I was able to get up in the morning and get myself to the bathroom so they knew that I did not need to stay too long.

I had him on a Saturday and was home Monday early evening. The girl next to me had a sick baby with liver problems and had to sleep with the lamp on all night for his jaundice.

Finally, the day we were leaving, they moved the baby into the sick ward and turned the damn light off.

I would have been home earlier but we waited the entire day for the dr to come and look at him for five seconds to make sure he looked ok and release us.

look at you you have your own horror stories to tell now!

I remember not sleeping from Saturday through to next Thursday night. I'd dropped off to sleep that day, but my room mate had a deaf grandma who came in shouting, and Leo got so angry he called the sister in and demanded we be discharged and they wasted no time I was BAWLING!!!!!

ZombieKitten said:

Shanti0608 said:

Luckily, my sister in law went to our house and picked my mom up so they could see Selden once I was out of surgery and was in my own room finally.

That only lasted a few hours. By 1:30 am, I was wheeled into another room with a bunch of other women and babies.

I am so glad that I was able to get up in the morning and get myself to the bathroom so they knew that I did not need to stay too long.

I had him on a Saturday and was home Monday early evening. The girl next to me had a sick baby with liver problems and had to sleep with the lamp on all night for his jaundice.

Finally, the day we were leaving, they moved the baby into the sick ward and turned the damn light off.

I would have been home earlier but we waited the entire day for the dr to come and look at him for five seconds to make sure he looked ok and release us.

look at you you have your own horror stories to tell now!

I remember not sleeping from Saturday through to next Thursday night. I'd dropped off to sleep that day, but my room mate had a deaf grandma who came in shouting, and Leo got so angry he called the sister in and demanded we be discharged and they wasted no time I was BAWLING!!!!!

I sure do. There have been stories in the papers the past year about the hospital that I gave birth in. Talking about how ill equipped it is to handle so many births and how short staffed they are.

I hope it is better now.

It was crazy being in a room with 7 other women and 8 other babies, one poor girl had twins. When one baby would start crying, it would set the rest of them off.

No sleep for anyone.

Shanti0608 said:

ZombieKitten said:

look at you you have your own horror stories to tell now!

I remember not sleeping from Saturday through to next Thursday night. I'd dropped off to sleep that day, but my room mate had a deaf grandma who came in shouting, and Leo got so angry he called the sister in and demanded we be discharged and they wasted no time I was BAWLING!!!!!

I sure do. There have been stories in the papers the past year about the hospital that I gave birth in. Talking about how ill equipped it is to handle so many births and how short staffed they are.

I hope it is better now.

It was crazy being in a room with 7 other women and 8 other babies, one poor girl had twins. When one baby would start crying, it would set the rest of them off.

No sleep for anyone.

seriously, having babies all in together is the dumbest idea EVER!

ZombieKitten said:

Shanti0608 said:

I sure do. There have been stories in the papers the past year about the hospital that I gave birth in. Talking about how ill equipped it is to handle so many births and how short staffed they are.

I hope it is better now.

It was crazy being in a room with 7 other women and 8 other babies, one poor girl had twins. When one baby would start crying, it would set the rest of them off.

No sleep for anyone.

seriously, having babies all in together is the dumbest idea EVER!

I wouldn't say that but I must say that once was enough for me.

Shanti0608 said:

ZombieKitten said:

seriously, having babies all in together is the dumbest idea EVER!

I wouldn't say that but I must say that once was enough for me.

I would, the only mothers that slept in the hospital when I had Max was the mother of 6 having her 7th, she SNORED so loud even if there were no babies nobody else could sleep!

ZombieKitten said:

Shanti0608 said:

I wouldn't say that but I must say that once was enough for me.

I would, the only mothers that slept in the hospital when I had Max was the mother of 6 having her 7th, she SNORED so loud even if there were no babies nobody else could sleep!

I did the classic misread on your reply. I read it like you meant having babies is the dumbest idea. I misunderstand the all together part.

I agree, you should not have a bunch of newborns and mom all together in the same damn room.

Seems silly but it is how they do it here for some reason.

I don't understand but I guess it is one downside to the NHS.