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bek74 · Oct 6th, 2007, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Tilly

Bek you are a lucky cow, 45 minutes? mine was like 14 hours lol

Exactly. Who knows how I would have been if I was in labour that long.
14hrs with only Gas and Air is pretty amazing, my girlfriend had that before her Epi and said it did nothing for pain relief, it just made her tired and light headed.

I need to say , I luv looking at your bethanie's pic, she is soooooooooooooo adorable and her little chubby cheeks awwwwwwwwwwww.

Louise · Oct 6th, 2007, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by bek74

I had a 100% Natural birth with all three of my sons. I had heard to many cases when people had, had drugs and the babies heart rate had dropped and one thing led to another and have ended up having a c-section.

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I didnt have a section, but Nickys heartrate went from 145 to 55, so he was litterally dragged out of me at full force... I couldnt have done it without the epi tho...

Tilly · Oct 6th, 2007, 13:34 PM

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Originally Posted by bek74

Exactly. Who knows how I would have been if I was in labour that long.
14hrs with only Gas and Air is pretty amazing, my girlfriend had that before her Epi and said it did nothing for pain relief, it just made her tired and light headed.

I need to say , I luv looking at your bethanie's pic, she is soooooooooooooo adorable and her little chubby cheeks awwwwwwwwwwww.

Aww thank you. I thought gas and air was quite good, but as they say it only takes the edge off of the pain, it doesn't take it away. It def helped me cope a lot better though and I had a water birth so that was nice too!

Tezzy · Oct 6th, 2007, 16:36 PM

i just had gas and air with my son but my labour wasnt so bad... he was born 3 hours after my waters broke

princess2323 · Oct 6th, 2007, 18:36 PM

now u guys have me even more scared about this.===cause i;m planning on a natural birth but i dont want to be in pain for that many hours----------

bek74 · Oct 7th, 2007, 02:13 AM

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Originally Posted by princess2323

now u guys have me even more scared about this.===cause i;m planning on a natural birth but i dont want to be in pain for that many hours----------

You will be fine, and it is a gradual pain, it works its way up. Besides time flyes when your having fun.

You will do great Mate

Fay · Oct 8th, 2007, 11:57 AM

I suffered a 36 hour labour with Lauren and didnt have any pain relief until i was the full 10cm dilated. the pain wasnt that bad, I just kept pacing the hospital ward and had 3 baths. I eventually had the epi, and my midwife let me sleep for about half an hour. Toward the end, Laurens heart rate was all over the place so she was eventually yanked out with the forceps.It was all worth it in the end.

Mango · Oct 8th, 2007, 13:16 PM

I was really pushing for a c-section but since I have started taking my prenatal fitness classes, and reading your post, I have definitely changed my mind. From what I understand, the recovery is much much faster with a natural birth. I just hope I can cope, Still quite scared like Princess stated.

Yummy Mummy Nat · Oct 10th, 2007, 02:32 AM

You HAVE to keep an open mind! I wrote out a birth plan at 30 weeks, went through it with the midwife and kept it in my notes. It went out of the window when I went 11 days over, went in to be induced, was in labour for 22 hours, prolonged 2nd stage, failed forceps ending in a emergency section. I was in labour for 21 hours before I had the spinal block for the section and an hour before that I was given the gas & air so for 20 hours solid I coped with the pain with NO pain relief at all. It was HELL. I had no idea any of this was going to happen. No matter if i'd demanded this and that I wouldn't have been able to have it because of what happened. It IS a good idea having a birth plan but it can't be set in stone, no-one knows how events will turn out

Mango · Jan 4th, 2008, 12:53 PM

Any more natural birth stories! Need some encouragement for those of us "hoping" to do it without pain relief ...

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