How long was your other half in labour.

Freefaller said:
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). .
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100% this. My wife's recovery after our son was horrendous. Apart from the pain after the epidural ran out, her wound seemed to be a constant battle of infection after infection. All whilst trying to be active and help our son with nappy changes etc when I had to go back to work.

The section was something we wanted to avoid, but our son had complications so it was a needs must scenario.

With our daughter it was touch and go if my wife could have a normal birth after the section (or a VBAC if I remember correctly) but like a trooper she managed it on just gas and air for relief. That afternoon my wife was fully mobile and able to walk.

Too posh to push? You would be nuts to think of anything but normal IMO unless you had to go the way of a section for medical reasons.
 
Two hours - lads breathing went funny they sped her up to surgery for emergency c section and the rest is history - lad in incubator for 5 days. Scary stuff.
 
Thanks for the input guys.
We are fairly certain of wanting to try for a natural birth if we are given the option and allowed to. Her sister has had 3 by way of section so she knows well the nuisance of the 6 weeks afterwards.
My Mrs has cerebral palsy, so we are full consultant lead throughout with more appointments and keeping an eye on her than you could possibly believe. Pregnancy has went spot on so far, she is good, baby is good but still believe we might not get the thumbs up for a natural birth due to her hips/pelvis issues. Absolutely not a case of too posh to push thankfully haha.
 
Freefaller said:
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).
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Who dreamt up this nonsense?

Bacteria from the birth canal, particularly GBS, is one of the biggest killers of newborns in the developed world.

There is some shocking advice in this thread. Surely too close to medical to continue?
 
Tunney said:
There's so much bad advice out there about child birth. Some of the things that our NCT instructor told us were deep into the realms of pseudoscience.
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Yup the wife took is to NCT and even though our lady was more balanced than most there is some utter guff in there.

The poster after the op that suggests going straight for a C-section the moment something goes wrong for instance. Any idea of the complications both in this pregnancy and future pregnancies? No? Why give terrible advice then?
 
Minstadave said:
Who dreamt up this nonsense?

Bacteria from the birth canal, particularly GBS, is one of the biggest killers of newborns in the developed world.

There is some shocking advice in this thread. Surely too close to medical to continue?
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It's what our antenatal and nct classes suggested. :shrug:

I can understand the advice though. Didn't they do a study showing allergies and immune system improvements of birth canal births vs c-sections? Not sure if that was told to us or shown - it feels like an eternity ago.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2075768-boost-c-section-babies-by-giving-them-vaginal-bacteria/

Here's one article - I'm sure there as as many refuting the evidence - but I think that's what our NCT class shared with us.

Here's a counter article:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/feb/24/vaginal-seeding-babies-born-c-section-infection-risk

Though both articles do agree that c-sections increased risk of asthma, allergies and food intolerance in later life due to a lack of ‘protective’ bacteria, regardless of whether you do it or not.


I'm not an expert at all - I'm just going by what we were told, and thought I'd bring it up as it was on topic.

Clearly you go with what works for you - and if you've had all the blood test or GBS tested you'll be given antibiotics anyway.

Just look after your wife/partner and support her no matter what.
 
Congrats,

My wife just had our first 3 months ago.

She got induced 2 weeks early as well due to the baby not growing much.

Started to be induced at about 4 o clock. Was at about 2cm dilated at 10pm when I went home. By 12pm she got taken down to the delivery suite and baby girl came about 30mins later. About 15mins after I got back to the hospital.
She managed it all on a little bit of gas and air.

I'm sure that it is not that easy for most women though.

My brothers wife on the other hand went to be induced and 3 days later the baby was here. Hence why I thought I would have plenty of time to worry before needing to be back at the hospital
 
Christ, my ex-wife had the 1st about 45 minutes after being induced, the second she was in labour somewhere between 30-45 minutes, having to deliver the kid on her own as nobody could get there in time.
 
2nd was about 5 hours, home birth.

First was much longer. Only 7 years ago, but hard to remember - was born at just gone midnight, and I reckon it must have started early morning. Let's say 16 hours.

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And congrats to the OP!
 
Not sure really. 4 hours if you count the time from admission to birth, but the (former) wife thinks she'd been having contractions 8 hours earlier, that we'd just dismissed as Braxton Hicks.
 
First one, 60hrs after being induced and then an emergency C-section. That was one hell of a bank holiday weekend.

Second one, elective c-section. No bother at all.
 
chroniclard said:
One benefit of a c-section is that ladybits are not wrecked.......:eek:
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A girl I work with said her husband looked down as they were stitching her up after the episiotomy and said "Oooh, that'll T-cut out", for which he received a Death Stare from the midwife.

My Mrs was in labour for 10 hours with the first, 8 for the second and just over 4 for the third.
 
Missus had labour pains that were manageable at home for about 18 hours, then when the hospital finally let us come down after calling 3 times in 24 hours, she was already fully dilated. Spent 4 hours in hospital before she went natural with only gas & air as she wasn't allowed the pethodin injection due to being so far along. Then spent about 10 hours chilling privately in a room at Coventry's Lucina Ward, can't praise them enough.
 
4 hours from the first twinge to birth. Actual labour was less than an hour. The hospital tried to send us home but the Mrs just kept saying it's about to happen :p

One's enough for now
 
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