WOW! Just WOW!!

[not_nadine]

She did the mid-wife birth. Nice. But she also practiced hypnotherapy.

It seemed to have worked.

Baby came.

Everyone else was like:

I was coach. During it I was like:

 

[GNTLGNT]

She did the mid-wife birth. Nice. But she also practiced hypnotherapy.

It seemed to have worked.

Baby came.

Everyone else was like:

I was coach. During it I was like:

 

[not_nadine]

Yeah, I got all PITH on ya. Could not find the words.

 

[FlakeNoir]

I had 2 midwife (water) births, one of them at home and 2 doctor (& midwife) births. I had one shot of pethidine with my first labour (forceps delivery) and decided after that I didn't want to have pain relief again for labour... it made me feel sleepy and I couldn't get on top of the pain with it. I didn't have pain relief for the other labours.
First labour was 12-13 hrs. Second baby was a posterior labour and was about 10 hrs. Third baby was a water birth at home and was about 4 hours.
Fourth baby was a water birth in hospital and he took 3 days to get here from waters breaking. (he was 4 weeks early and probably not in the right position) Once labour ramped up with him though, it was about a 5 hour labour.

Watching the video of that lady, I kept calling out to the screen... "undo her seatbelt!" and then after he was born it was, "put that baby against your skin!"

 

[Neesy]

I was there for the birth of both of my nieces.

My sister is an alien. She gave birth like a cat.

This

This is me! (There was no screaming and gnashing (nashing?) of teeth)... I realize I am in the minority here, but honestly it was not a big deal. I don't want to offend anyone who was in labour for three days, etc.

p.s. Re: that video - if my husband tried to make a video like that on the way to the hospital I would either smash the camera or throw it out the window!

Listen to the guy - he sounds so condescending to her (ars*hole!)

 

[Neesy]

I had 2 midwife (water) births, one of them at home and 2 doctor (& midwife) births. I had one shot of pethidine with my first labour (forceps delivery) and decided after that I didn't want to have pain relief again for labour... it made me feel sleepy and I couldn't get on top of the pain with it. I didn't have pain relief for the other labours.
First labour was 12-13 hrs. Second baby was a posterior labour and was about 10 hrs. Third baby was a water birth at home and was about 4 hours.
Fourth baby was a water birth in hospital and he took 3 days to get here from waters breaking. (he was 4 weeks early and probably not in the right position) Once labour ramped up with him though, it was about a 5 hour labour.

Watching the video of that lady, I kept calling out to the screen... "undo her seatbelt!" and then after he was born it was, "put that baby against your skin!"

Oh dear - I am just reading this now (the part about the 3 days to get here)

Sorry Flake - I honestly had not seen this one yet before I started typing - what a 'coincidence'. Kinda weird, actually (could not find a ghostie so that is what those two white things are representing!)

 

[Spideyman]

Both of mine were home births un medicated. Labor was 5 hours with the first/ 3 with the second. Each weighed in at 8lbs 3oz. Guess I consider both easy births.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Oh dear - I am just reading this now (the part about the 3 days to get here)

Sorry Flake - I honestly had not seen this one yet before I started typing - what a 'coincidence'. Kinda weird, actually (could not find a ghostie so that is what those two white things are representing!)

No worries at all Neese, it wasn't really a big deal (aside from a lack of sleep) that he took 3 days from when the waters broke, real labour itself was only about 5 hrs.

 

[stacy270]

Ok,so the only thing I could think when I watched this the other day was.....who is filming this and why? I mean if the driver is filming shouldn't he be more concerned with oh I don't know.....DRIVING! And if he were to pull over shouldn't he then be concerned with ......His wife and NEWBORN! The fact that this was filmed seems a bit fishy to me.

 

[Riot87]

Lol thats crazy

i had both mine at the hospital.

 

[hipmamajen]

I was there for the births of all three of my kids. ...but I guess that's a different story. LOL!

This is what I was thinking!!! All hail Lepplady, she got to the joke first.

 

[hipmamajen]

I was there for the birth of both of my nieces.

My sister is an alien. She gave birth like a cat.

In a box in the closet? (Sorry, I can't stop myself today....)

What do you mean, like really naturally? Quick and easy?

If anyone described how I give birth, I'm pretty sure they'd liken me to something loud and angry. A drunken sailor?

 

[hipmamajen]

My first birth I cried through. Actual tears of sorrow. We were delivering 16 weeks early and they told me the baby would likely be dead before she hit free air, or die soon after. She's 20 now and doing great!

My second birth I was very screamy. Much salty vocabulary was spewed into the air that long evening! You would scream too if you saw how much ripping went on. Forceps birth, so many stitches they didn't keep count. It's because of their fine work I have different openings for pee and poop and babies to come out of, which is nothing to sneeze at. (Now, sneezing is a whole different story....)

Birth number three was only 45 minutes after birth number 2. In between Twin A and Twin B they got my epidural sorted out and I was feeling no pain. Because Twin A had excavated a tunnel an elephant could pass through, and I had pain meds on board, I was blissed out. The doc asked if I felt okay to push with the medication flowing and I said, "Oh yeah. Hey, you can just walk in there and get her if you want!" He didn't, at least not that I'm aware of. I was still snippy with the doctors and nurses, though, because they kept yelling at me to "Push!" Really? I thought we were here to take our SATs. Duh!

Birth number 4 was pretty quiet because I really "got" the whole process finally. Imagine heaving out the biggest, most satisfying dump of your entire life. That's what it felt like! He didn't even stop at the shoulders like most babies, he came out all in one big squirt, and my midwife sort of caught him midair. That's how he's continued to go through life, headfirst with no regard for consequences.

Birth number 5 was just yakkety yakkety yak. I pushed for two hours, got nowhere, and ended up in the OR getting a c-section. Then I started to bleed out in the recovery room, and nearly died. Apparently you wouldn't have known it from my behavior, though, because I just kept up a monologue the whole time. I don't remember most of it, so I'm sure there were drugs involved, but since that's what I tend to do when no one else is keeping up a conversation anyway, I'm sure it was mostly just me. The midwife said afterwards that it was like trying to perform lifesaving procedures on a crazy drunk person.

They explained to me later that night that things had been pretty dicey, and that I'd lost over half my blood volume. I did know there were some issues, just from the behavior of the personnel, but between the drugs and I'm sure being in shock, it didn't really hit me at the time.

To be honest, I didn't REALLY start to understand that ohmygodicouldhavediiiiied until a couple of years later. Obviously I knew it had been serious, but it also just seemed like a quirky part of my ongoing story. Of course something like that would happen, crazy s**t like that ALWAYS happens to me!

I didn't really grasp the enormity of it because that's kind of a hard concept to really get your brain around. I'm JEN, I'm the main character in The Jen Show! You can't get rid of me, what would all the other characters do? All of the characters in The Jen Show, by definition, interact with Jen. We can't stop production and put those people and their families on the street!

So yeah, I get it now....

 

[Lepplady]

My first birth I cried through. Actual tears of sorrow. We were delivering 16 weeks early and they told me the baby would likely be dead before she hit free air, or die soon after. She's 20 now and doing great!

My second birth I was very screamy. Much salty vocabulary was spewed into the air that long evening! You would scream too if you saw how much ripping went on. Forceps birth, so many stitches they didn't keep count. It's because of their fine work I have different openings for pee and poop and babies to come out of, which is nothing to sneeze at. (Now, sneezing is a whole different story....)

Birth number three was only 45 minutes after birth number 2. In between Twin A and Twin B they got my epidural sorted out and I was feeling no pain. Because Twin A had excavated a tunnel an elephant could pass through, and I had pain meds on board, I was blissed out. The doc asked if I felt okay to push with the medication flowing and I said, "Oh yeah. Hey, you can just walk in there and get her if you want!" He didn't, at least not that I'm aware of. I was still snippy with the doctors and nurses, though, because they kept yelling at me to "Push!" Really? I thought we were here to take our SATs. Duh!

Birth number 4 was pretty quiet because I really "got" the whole process finally. Imagine heaving out the biggest, most satisfying dump of your entire life. That's what it felt like! He didn't even stop at the shoulders like most babies, he came out all in one big squirt, and my midwife sort of caught him midair. That's how he's continued to go through life, headfirst with no regard for consequences.

Birth number 5 was just yakkety yakkety yak. I pushed for two hours, got nowhere, and ended up in the OR getting a c-section. Then I started to bleed out in the recovery room, and nearly died. Apparently you wouldn't have known it from my behavior, though, because I just kept up a monologue the whole time. I don't remember most of it, so I'm sure there were drugs involved, but since that's what I tend to do when no one else is keeping up a conversation anyway, I'm sure it was mostly just me. The midwife said afterwards that it was like trying to perform lifesaving procedures on a crazy drunk person.

They explained to me later that night that things had been pretty dicey, and that I'd lost over half my blood volume. I did know there were some issues, just from the behavior of the personnel, but between the drugs and I'm sure being in shock, it didn't really hit me at the time.

To be honest, I didn't REALLY start to understand that ohmygodicouldhavediiiiied until a couple of years later. Obviously I knew it had been serious, but it also just seemed like a quirky part of my ongoing story. Of course something like that would happen, crazy s**t like that ALWAYS happens to me!

I didn't really grasp the enormity of it because that's kind of a hard concept to really get your brain around. I'm JEN, I'm the main character in The Jen Show! You can't get rid of me, what would all the other characters do? All of the characters in The Jen Show, by definition, interact with Jen. We can't stop production and put those people and their families on the street!

So yeah, I get it now....

Never underestimate a premie We were six month babies. The doctor told our mother that we looked like skinned rats and wouldn't live the night. I'd like to look that guy up. Here I still am, 50 years later, still kickin.

 

[not_nadine]

I remember when you went through that Jen. You were kind enough to keep us updated. It was that Babybonecrusher that did it to ya.

 

[hipmamajen]

Yeah, his Aunties and Uncles at the SKMB kept the fires burning for us.

He will turn 3 on 8/8, can you believe it?