How long was your other half in labour.

We are consultant lead just now (first pregnancy) and I think we are essentially going to be asked whether we want a section or not.... As opposed to them telling us what they suggest! :(

Would all of you who have been through this jump at the chance to have a section scheduled if offered or would you and your other half's take the chance of natural birth if it was possible? In proper limbo about this.
 
Well, if you ask my mrs she would say that she would take a c-section any day of the week. However you have the bear in mind that with a c-section your wife will be unable to do much for a few weeks after the birth.
 
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Regy53 said:
Our twins came via c section

You (male) sit in the corner of this huge room like a spare tool while your Mrs is sat on a operating table on her own as about 15 people rush around her , must be a very scary thing not only for her but for her thinking about their children.

I will never forget how brave my mrs was that day, a lot braver than I would have thought

Incidently when finished and put in the cool down room thingy we heard some bird giving it the beans as her baby was comming , kind of made me happy about the c section, our kids were breached so had no choice but it was all done with in a very short period of time

I came home that night grabbed myself a beer and shed some man tears .. emotional day

Good luck buddy
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My experience of the c-section wasn't like that at all, in my case (twice) I sat by my wife's head and held her hand for the whole procedure. Then when baby was born, I helped to hold the baby to her chest whilst they stitched her up.
 
ci_newman said:
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My experience of the c-section wasn't like that at all, in my case (twice) I sat by my wife's head and held her hand for the whole procedure. Then when baby was born, I helped to hold the baby to her chest whilst they stitched her up.
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Wife had 2 c sections, not really any choice. My experience was a mixture of both of the above. :p
 
xdcx said:
We are consultant lead just now (first pregnancy) and I think we are essentially going to be asked whether we want a section or not.... As opposed to them telling us what they suggest! :(

Would all of you who have been through this jump at the chance to have a section scheduled if offered or would you and your other half's take the chance of natural birth if it was possible? In proper limbo about this.
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My wife wanted a natural birth 100% - she didn't even want (and neither did she have) an epidural. The only c-section she'd have if it was an emergency.

A C-section is major surgery, and the recovery takes months (and seeing a few of our friends who had them I'd have to agree). Also the process of a natural birth does add a lot of health benefits to the child. As gross as it sounds, if you do have a c-section make sure you ask for a bacterial swap (basically getting bacteria from the birthing canal and ensuring your child gets exposed/swabbed in it).

However everyone is different - I can't imagine what childbirth is like, so I can see why women would want surgery - but you end up in pain either way... As long as you're there for her, support her, and do everything you can to make things as easy as possible, it helps.
 
ci_newman said:
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My experience of the c-section wasn't like that at all, in my case (twice) I sat by my wife's head and held her hand for the whole procedure. Then when baby was born, I helped to hold the baby to her chest whilst they stitched her up.
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sorry they did after a while let me over with her but i still fell like a spare part, once they were out and happy they invited me along to the front of the room where i could see them, i did turn around and saw my mrs all opened up, soon turned back lol
 
Started feeling early contractions around 7pm, went to hospital at 2am, waters broke at 6am, baby born at 6.20am. :eek:
 
My wife went in to be induced at 2pm on Sunday and by 2am she was still less than 1cm. I went home as we thought it would be a very slow process but I got a call at 3am to rush back.

She went from 1cm to 10cm in about an hour and her waters only broke at that point. Our daughter was then born at 6:55am.

It was probably the scariest experience of my life as she was born 'flat' and was whisked away to be given oxygen.
 
About eight hours for the first, seven or so for the second. Both labours triggered by sex, haha.

First time she woke me at 1am saying it has been going since about 11. Daughter 1 was born about 6:50am. I don't think she had much in the way of pain relief, she just walked round the labour room while I timed the contractions. It has been super hot, bit of a heatwave, but luckily we'd had rain the day before so it had cooled down a bit. Things got sketchy at the end when daughter's heart rate started dropping so she had to go hammer and tongs at the end which led to some tearing and stitches which wasn't at all good news. It turned out daughter had got her umbilical cord wrapped round her wrist so was getting stuck, which could have turned very nasty. She stayed in hospital a couple of nights as she felt dreadful, those were not good times.

Second time she woke me up about midnight all matter of fact like "yep, it's happening". Mother in law came down to mind daughter 1, we went to hospital, bish bash bosh, daughter 2 arrived about 6am. No drama at all that time. We were home within a matter of hours.

It's funny how you make all these birth plans with music and the water pool birth thing and then it's nothing like that, it's just your mrs looking a right state, grunting and having a dump right there on the bed.
 
garnett said:
Ah ****. Best of luck. My view is the moment anything starts going different (induction/sweep/etc), demand a c-section (which you're perfectly entitled to do).

From my (admittedly limited, anecdotal) experience it's going to end up being a c-section, and you avoid all the unpleasantness in between.

We've been lucky in that our two have been fairly straightforward natural births, but our 3rd's due in October and that's our agreed plan of action.

How come your gf's been induced early? Is the baby looking big?
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This is becoming more of a problem with the google generation, patients thinking they know better than a doctor who has spent 5-10 years training and weighing up your situation with what they think is best.
Demand nothing.

Good luck OP!
 
just over 24hrs in total. into hospital about 8am on the thursday, little lady born 09:26 on the friday. though 'only' about 8 of that was 'pushing', mid wife was a moron and spent most of the time chatting to me as she discovered we'd lived 2 doors apart while she had been studying. doc came in about 6am had a look then tore strips off the mid wife as the baby was basically stuck - she was too big to come out!! so emergency C-section it was. I sat by my wifes head for almost all (apart from pre op) the procedure. wife then had a week in hospital with temperature spikes before she passed the lump of placenta they had missed.....was a fun week.

Freefaller said:
Women are amazing.
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they most certainly are, given all my other half went through I figured that the 1 would be enough but nope she now wants another - our little lady turned 2 yesterday. women really are amazing.
 
Update: I have a new son, contractions continued through the night, at 730 this morning the midwife broke her waters and 30 minutes later he shot out all 7lbs of him all this on just gas and air and paracetamol. Mother and baby doing great so great they want to send us home.:)
 
danoliver1 said:
Update: I have a new son, contractions continued through the night, at 730 this morning the midwife broke her waters and 30 minutes later he shot out all 7lbs of him. Mother and baby doing great so great they want to send us home.:)
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Congratulations! :D
 
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