opinions about my labor please - Page 2

[star*mora]

first
second - we didn't have the same labour or birth but i can totally empathize - i have had 2 emergency cesarian births. and we both do similar work which is facilitating the body in self healing so there is a degree of irony in having surgical birth

ds1 was a preemie - footling/kneeling - unexplained - very fast and cut and out. i blamed myself...was it my age (i was 35 with him), was it something i did or didn't do...slow emotional healing - a quantum touch treatment flushed a lot of the guilt but not the memories...very bad ppd for over a year.

ds2 - 36.5wks and uterine rupture started - he was in a perfect position for vaginal birth but it didn't matter because with my uterus tearing his birth was surrounded with crash carts and a huge nicu team (somehow we didn't need it). i am sad i didn't get to have a vaginal birth, very sad but this time i am not blaming myself

i did a past life regression too (via a crystal treatment) when i was 5mths pregnant with ds2- i had similar fears to you (i was married for over 8yrs before having ds1 and got pregnant immediately when we tried, but was so afraid). i did die in childbirth in a past life and potentially could have if i didn't have the cesarian.

i think it's all linked but this time i feel grateful for the surgical birth and that ds2 came early enough that i had to be in a hospital. sometimes a surgical birth has to happen...you did EVERYTHING to try for a vaginal birth. don't put yourself through the anguish i did - i find it made me even more connected to my work.

love and forgive your body - you are here for your family

[joyakshi]

thanks Star*Mora. sorry to hear of your scary experiences.
I am really scared of uterine rupture now that I've had a c-section. We are not planning #2 but I am already paranoid that *what if* I get pg and have to worry about that...

Interesting about your past life regression. I agree that surgical birth can sometimes really be the life saver it is intended to be, and not just an easy way out as it often seems.

It's great we are all here this time round to be moms and enjoy our babies!

[joyakshi]

update on bone pain

I just went to the chiropractor because since my labor, I have not been able to straighten my left leg when in front in 5th position. It felt like my leg was too long or pushed out.
Turns out, the femur had been pushed out and rotated forward. This explains the terrible bone pain I had in my left hip socket/ileum during labor. I think the baby was pushing my leg out of its socket, and really grinding the inside of my ileum in the process.

the picture in the link below shows right where I had my pain - where the baby's forehead is in this picture is where I felt the ileum pain, and you can see that it would affect the hip socket and the head of the femur too. and my baby was facing my left side, at station -3 and asynclitic, so that makes sense.
http://atyourcervix.blogspot.com/200...-in-labor.html

interesting to have a structural explanation for the bone pain I had in labor. I wonder if my sacrum being rotated forward on the right was pushing her into my left hip and not allowing her to engage or drop???

btw- how do you update the thread subject line???

[Friendlee]

That's fascinating! I'm pretty sure that's about where my pain was located as well. (Although, I don't have the explanation you have for it). I say "pretty sure" and not positively sure because I was so delerious with pain that it's very fuzzy. I kept having to lie on my side and stick my leg straight up into the air in attempt to open that area and make room I guess. It's just the position I had to take - though it didn't relieve the pain in any way.

I'm glad the chiropractor found a reason for the bone pain. Hopefully preventative chiropractic care during pregnancy could prevent the bone pain next time if you go for a vbac?

P.S. I went to the chiropractor up until the week of my birth and I'm surprised I had such hip issues during labor. Did you go to the chiropractor the whole time or just post partum? (I'm sorry if you've already answered this).

[joyakshi]

I went once, to a Webster tech. chiro to help turn my breech baby. She just hurt me and didn't help at all so I never went back. she really hurt my right sacrum and pubic symphysis (I had/have PSD), and also my mid back which hurt til I went to a different chiro yesterday...

Originally Posted by Friendlee

P.S. I went to the chiropractor up until the week of my birth and I'm surprised I had such hip issues during labor. Did you go to the chiropractor the whole time or just post partum? (I'm sorry if you've already answered this).