Whats your birth plan like?

p.s I did feel a bit as my epidural had worn off and I couldnt get a top up but it was more pain in my bum and head than anything else!!!

I'll have on my birth plan "line 'em up - I wanna try them all"
I've never even twisted my ankle so I have no idea what my pain threshold is. I'd like to start with natural, then progress to TENS then if that doesn't work... BRING ON THE DRUGS lol

Thinking of something else?

I got given pethidine last year whilst in hospital for a nasty infection...It made me vomit as soon as I had it!

Horrid stuff I think?

Apaarently they have NOS (laughing gas) too these days. I dont recall getting given this.

I also would like to have baby and if all is okay go straight home ASAP. I dont like the birthing Place at TGA Hosp and think I and the people who will be around
will be more comfortable at home. Not to mention it will be whole heap quieter. I remember my first night at North Shore was SOOOOO noisy. My last 2 nights at Birthcare were fantastic!!

I had no pain relief and i wont lie, it hurt so badly i tried to kill myself by drowning my head in the toilet.

BUT u might find u have a stronger pain threshold than me and be ok.

I had a bath, did nothing for me cept made the contractions come quicker, but again might be different for u.

What was good was i found i recovered so much faster than my friends who had epidurals, dunno if having no drugs had something to do with it

And i did want drugs btw, just ran out of time

Hi
I'd like to have no pain relief, except the gas. Mainly because friends who have gone through birth say that the recovery time is faster, Ive also 'heard' that an epidural can slow the process down and pethidene makes you sick and out if it. However, I have never had a baby before so Im not limiting my options going into it.

Im quite scared about it and Im not really sure about my pain threshhold, so Im just going to wait and see what happens.

I did it au natural both times and i wanted it that way - but i had them very very quickly getting to hospital in time to push each time and always say that if i had more than those few hours of that kinda pain i too would want to "line em up!" in terms of trying pain releif lolol. I had planned first time around to try water and breathing techniques and TENS (which of course you cannot use in water! unless you want a bit of a surprise) but jumped in the bath and stayed there, using deeeeeep breathing and that seemed to work - don't get me wrong it still HURT! but i felt like i could breathe really deeply and try to exhale out the pain. sounds dumb but worked. then i got checked by midwife at home and sped off to hospital to start pushing 15 mins later.. but being first time that took 2 hours till she was born.. Ayja was the same but things didn't work as well as last time with her - i got in the bath and it sped things up again reallllly fast, so i crawled out and Ayja was born half an hour after getting to hospital. i think staying upright/squatting in a nice deep bath full of hot water did the trick for me and gave me somehwere to rest my arms and take my weight too.

TENS can be good in early labour however it has a cumulative effect - that is, you have to put it on very early on for it to start to work as it works through stimulating your bodies own pain releif - endorphins which can take a fair amount of time. so you have to put it on early and many people think after 2 seconds "oh, it's not working" it doesn't work that way. you can't use it in water though so i guess it could be one or the other.

the entonox or gas is good to use to take the peaks off, but again does not take it all away, but gives you something else to focus on if that's what you need - it can make you feel a bit sick or woozy, and if you suck on it constantly you may have to be scraped off the ceiling! hope that helps.

Also Kelpa - since you only had about 25 mins pushing last time you will probably find that this time is extremely fast andusually the rest of labour time is halved as well asyour body learn to do 2 things at once - dilate and effece all at the same time. so go into it with a mindset that it's gonna take half the time

i remember Maria teling me the same thing and it came true. with Ayja, once we got up the hospital and they broke my waters i went from 7cm to 10 cm in only 10 mins and after only 10 mins of pushing there she was. (can i please say that quick was not better though, i think i screamed the place down a bit cos i felt out of control)

Just kind of off the subject and maybe TMI but did anyone else vomit during the early stages or was it just me? That was the worst part for me cause it didnt stop till I got the epi although 3 hours of pushing didnt help

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lolol, I did with Ayja cos i went from having contractions as long as a sneeze (and about as painful lol) which i had from 1am till about 3-ish gradually getting more painful but not too bad. then i got in the bath and bam, long strong REALLLLLY ouchy contractions on top of one another and i was verrrry sick. i got to the ospital and crawled the carpark and had to stop a few times to feed the gardens. once i got up there though I felt a bit better. I definately think it was shock.. everything kicked in so fast.