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Childbirth

memorable childbirth

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mummytojames · 15/03/2004 23:52

what i mean by this is everyone remembers one thing dont matter how old there child gets about the labour you dot have to reply
but my question is whats he one thing that happened to you during or just before going into labour


mines easy telling the student midwife she didnt know what she was doing and the baby is coming now whether she liked it or not

what was yours? :0

i know im being nosey

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eidsvold · 16/03/2004 06:33

I was thinking on the way to the hospital how silly it was to be giving me a scan when dd was due in about 10 days. My dd was born by emergency casearean after a scan and doppler showed my placenta wasn't functioning the best. When they took me upstairs to the maternity ward - I was thinking that they would induce me and send me home. Finally after some monitoring when dd moved and they lost the heartbeat the surgeon said he was taking me to surgery now!!

All I could think was I had nothing with me - and that I needed to go to the bank, I could not possibly be going to theatre and having my baby now.

I also remember the midwife getting very cranky with the docs/anaethetist as they kept bursting into the cubicle whilst she was trying to put the catheter in. Finally she told them to have some decency and wait outside.

Finally as I was being wheeled into surgery, I couldn't make out dh amongst the uniformed figures... slight moment of panic but then I saw his face and felt much better.

And of course the epidural and then the whole bizarre surgery thing - chatting away as if having a cup of tea... discussing why I had come to the UK, was dd conceived in Japan and so on.

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lou33 · 16/03/2004 10:54

Don't know where to start.

The kitchen ceiling falling down the night before after upstairs flooded. Dh being ill with a tropical disease. Me telling him to call an ambulance, and him not believing I was in full labour, when I asked him why he wasn't calling, he said he was reading the paper! Finally convincing him to call an ambulance not a taxi by my waters breaking and starting to push while on the loo. The ambulance men arriving to tell me the head was crowning, and they couldn't move me. The fact I was suffocating with the gas and air mask on because they had forgotten to turn it on! The midwife arriving and taking it away just as they realised ( so I didn't get any ).

The dog trying to eat the afterbirth.
And that's only for dd1.

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luckymum · 16/03/2004 16:09

After having ds1, the midwife was stitching me up and she called to another midwife .........."Would you come and have a look at this, I'm not sure where this bit goes" Ouch!!

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SoupDragon · 16/03/2004 16:15

The pain.

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prettycandles · 16/03/2004 20:34

Being so thrilled with ds's birth, that I sent dh out to spread the news rather too soon - before ds had even been weighed!

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smellymelly · 16/03/2004 20:40

Being sick while pushing DS out, with my legs in stirrups and hitting the midwife with it who was standing at my 'feet' end !!!!!!!! Ha

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marlou · 16/03/2004 20:54

Being overjoyed when the midwife said I had not torn only grazed, but then stunned when she felt she needed to show my DP (he still can't believe he did as he was told and looked!!)

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The look on DP face when the midwife asked him to put a hat on my DS, he was ony a few mins old and she had dressed him and put on his nappy and thought the hat would be a simple task for the new first time dad!! It looked as though he was wrestling with my new son's head!!

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lou33 · 16/03/2004 21:03

Dh said he will never ever forget the sight and sound of the midwife going down to my nether regions with the episiotomy scissors. (Dd1 was being born at home, her heartbeat had disappeared and her head was facing the wrong way, so she had to come out pronto)

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twiglett · 16/03/2004 21:05

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lou33 · 16/03/2004 21:07

Lol, Twiglett. Sorry.Because dd1 was born at home accidentally, the midwife put the afterbirth in a bin liner, and the dog was going mad to get to it!

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smellymelly · 16/03/2004 21:12

YUK YUK YUK !!!!!!

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jmg · 16/03/2004 21:16

With DS as soon as he was born asking 'did I tear' (I'd had a big episiotomy with DD) and then peering up to see the midwives faces splattered with blood.

Yes! they said in unison.

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jessi · 17/03/2004 12:50

Lou33 that is so funny,you really made me laugh..I want to hear about your other ones now! From my 2 pretty horrid labours,one of the things that most sticks in my mind is being wheeled to the ward after having dd and the student midwife saying 'I just can't believe how different you are and look now you've had her!'

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CountessDracula · 17/03/2004 12:56

DH asking the midwife if I could have a brazilian when she was shaving me for me emergency c-section!

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CountessDracula · 17/03/2004 12:58

Oh and looking up and seeing the whole sheet in front of me soaked in blood and dh going green...
then waking up 12 hours later on ventilator in intensive care...

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nutcracker · 17/03/2004 13:00

When i had my dd1 by section i was expecting me and dp to cry, but wasn't quite expecting the doctor to cry. He was a junior doc of some sort i think and hadn't been present at a birth before. He cried more than we did.

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Marina · 17/03/2004 13:04

My c-section was elective but I was so clueless I forgot to shave beforehand. Dh and I were left in this boiling hot room with this tiny, manky, pink plastic hospital razor and I was so nervous and het up I asked him to do it. We didn't bother to lock the door as no-one had been near us for two hours. As soon as he got down to business, on his knees, the door flew open and in walked the surgeon, an SHO, the anaesthetist, my midwife, a Care Assistant for DH and the porter to take me to theatre.
Lou, that is some story. I nearly spat sandwich over my computer screen

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Northerner · 17/03/2004 13:07

The doctor saying 'I'm going to have to perform an epiosiotomy. Do you know what that is?'

Before I had chance to answer, dh chipped in 'Yes, I've read Miriam Stoppard!'

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Thomcat · 17/03/2004 13:26
  • shit that castor oil worked quickly!


- DP saying 'well we'll go if you want but they'll only send us straight back home again (I was fully dilated on arrival at hospital!)

- being absolutley certain that there was no way I was lying down on that bed to be examined or give birth, it was all happening standing up

- thinking - OMG - she looks as if she's got Down's syndrome and having it confirmed with a 'yes, she does' by the midwife

- thinking - oh **/, I was going to have a water birth!
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kaz33 · 17/03/2004 13:32

DS2 - the consultant saying - "hes got blonde hair, push"

  • DP being told off for his over forceful encouragment
  • telling DP to have a nap during labour

    DS1 - being so excited I was in labour staying up all night watching TV, timing my contractions ( it was a long labour )
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oliveoil · 17/03/2004 13:38

Lying in the operating theatre looking up at bright lights thinking how the f**k did I end up here.

And me coming round later and dh saying we have a lovely baby girl, do you want to hold her and me saying, drowsily, no.

Says he will remind her of that when she is older, the pig.

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Freddiecat · 17/03/2004 13:47

Struggling to put my knickers back ON after my waters had been broken and giggling hysterically because I wasn't quite sure why I was doing that because I knew only Daphne in Neighbours could give birth with her knickers on. (had just had gas and air)

Not actually remembering when my knickers did come off.

Beforehand - telling DP I didn't want to have any discussion about it if I did a poo when pushing.

Afterwards - DP telling me (excitedly!!) that I had done a poo when pushing (I did know actually).

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Tommy · 17/03/2004 14:09

Waters breaking and then doing a huge poo before I had taken my knickers off. I was worried that it had all gone on the midwife's shoes but then I saw her the next day and she had the same ones on so I guess it hadn't

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lou33 · 17/03/2004 14:11

Dd2 this time. After packing to travel home by boat train after being at my sister's for Christmas (37 weeks pg), I was sitting in the kitchen having a large bailey's, and felt a big "clunk", like dd2 had fallen out of her sac. Went to investigate leakage, to be met with full on top range contractions starting every 3 mins. Trying to get onto the brand new bed we had been sleeping on, and worrying I was going to wreck it by gushing everywhere. Asking my mum, who was with us, if she could get me a drink. Would I like a hot or cold one she asked. Cold I said,between gritted teeth in agony, so off she popped , only to come back almost immediately asking if I wanted ice! I DON'T CARE i screamed.

Sister and bil came home from their evening out to find me about to pop, called their gp who refused to come out. Called an ambulance, who arrived and carted me off. Grabbed the gas and air, but it was frozen, so wouldn't work (none for me again!). Apparently the ambulance was hurtling through Dublin as fast as possible while I am screaming that dd2 was coming, while the paramedics are telling me she isn't. Being unloaded at the hospital yelling that I still had my tights on, and she was coming into my tights! Got inside and she came out 3 mins later. Total labour 1 hr 40 mins.

Calling my mum to say dd2 had been born, for her to burst into tears and say "who is it"?

The non stop blinking dd2 did because of the harsh lights, made her look like mr magoo.


I still have 2 more birth stories .

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monkeygirl · 17/03/2004 14:15

As soon as dd1 was born she was handed to dh and immediately did a huge black poo all over his shirt and trousers.

Looking in the mirror just after having given birth and going hysterical because every vein in my face had burst with pushing so hard for 1.5 hours (I thought I was permanently disfigured cos no-one told me such things happened).

Having my legs in stirrups and a handsome young doctor staring up my nether regions for over 2 hours stitching me up cos my dd had torn me in several places internally.

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