I'm due to give birth to DC2 in 3 weeks time, and I'm vaguely sketching out my birth plan.
With DS, I went in with an open mind, had G&A, then decided to go for an epidural - by the time they'd found the anaesthetist and got me all wired up I'd started pushing, so I wasn't allowed it. Then, my midwife decided that I wasn't "concentrating" with G&A, so took it off me for the 2 hours of pushing that produced what turned out to be a back to back DS.
I want to have some degree of control over my pain relief, but I really don't want an epidural if I can help it. Are pethidine and G&A the only options?
What have peoples' experiences of pethidine been? Would you recommend it?
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Pain relief for DC2
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Naetha · 02/11/2009 21:04
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