There are problems using the bath, firstly it is right next to DS's room, so if it is night time and he has managed to stay asleep, I would risk waking him, also, the bath isn't deep enough to cover my belly, so I wouldn't get the effect of it anyway. And the midwife needs to have enough room to get the dopler thing on me and to check everything else, I don't think the bath would give enough room for all of that.
The pethidine and G&A just made me completely out of it. I had the pethidine and I don't remember anything else accept the pain and the lack of control of anything I was doing, I know I can't control the contractions, but I was screaming with every contraction, and then thinking why am I screaming? It isn't that bad, but I just couldn't get out of the almost rythmatic screaming fits!! I hated it, the G&A, I am not sure exactly what that did, but when I put the mask down so I could start pushing, everything just seemed so much clearer and I remember it all. I know most people would rather forget, but I hate not knowing what I said, what I did, I don't know how or when my waters went, I don't remember asking for or having an epidural, I don't remember the afterbirth, which must mean I don't remember some of the first minutes of DS's life. I just don't want to find myself in the same situation after this birth.
And on top of that the pethidine made DS really dopey and limp when he was born, I'd spent the last nine months watching the births on Discovery, all the babies came out wailing and pink, and he was just silent and didn't move, and it scared the shit out of us both! It was only when they put him on the cold scales about an hour after he was born that he started crying! I don't know if it effects the heart rate or anything, but I am not risking it again!