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Poll Results: How did your birth mama give birth to you?

 
  • 45% (102)
    vaginally, head down, no pain killing drugs
  • 32% (72)
    vaginally, head down, with pain killing drugs
  • 0% (2)
    vaginally, breach, no pain killing drugs
  • 1% (3)
    vaginally, breach, with pain killing drugs
  • 15% (34)
    cesarian
  • 0% (0)
    I don't know
  • 4% (9)
    vaginally, no other details known
222 Total Votes  
post #21 of 89
10/2/05 at 2:11pm
I was a breech vaginal delivery, and I think my mom had a saddle block. Her next baby was also breech vag delivery...but only 2 of her 5 were breech -- the other three were reg head down, vag deliveries.

ETA: We were both frank breeches.

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post #22 of 89
10/2/05 at 2:17pm
I was a :home2:
post #23 of 89
10/2/05 at 2:18pm
I was a c-section due to my mothers health. She has some aneurisms in the brain, and if she is stressed, or doing hard labour (birth or work, that is...), she can get seriously ill.
post #24 of 89
10/2/05 at 2:19pm
Her two other children were vaginal, normal births, head down. But she regrets that now, and wish all were c-sect because it was "so much better and so easy to recover"...
post #25 of 89
10/2/05 at 2:22pm
Cesarean. My brother had been a cesarean, so no VBAC..she had a vertical incision in 1963. She had all three of us by section.

On the other hand, she also breastfed all three of us...and she was the only one on the ward (30 moms!) doing so with my brother. She had to fight constantly with the nurses to be "allowed". ARRGH!
post #26 of 89
10/2/05 at 3:34pm
it was in 1955, and my mom eventually had a spinal and I was born head down via forceps

remembered my own birth during the birth of our 3rd . felt this incredible pressure on the sides of my head and a cord around the neck..... talked to my mom after this memory and sure enough....
post #27 of 89
10/2/05 at 3:43pm
My mom gave birth to me (I was #1) vaginally, in the hospital, with a spinal at the recommendation of her step-mother and they used forcepts. She hated the spinal.

She birthed #2 in the hospital, no pain meds and #3 in the hospital, no pain meds and induced at 43 weeks.

Each time she waited to go to the hospital until she had to, and was given a nice deep episiotomy. Each time she was subjecting to shaving. She always wanted a homebirth but honestly didn't know people still did that!
post #28 of 89
10/2/05 at 3:45pm
I wish I could answer for DH too. My mom had to c/s with me and my sis. She labored with me drug-free until they decided my head was too big for her pelvis...took an x-ray and everything. Whether or not another position may have helped though is unknown!!

MIL had DS1 vaginally (drug free?), DH breech vaginal (drug free? I think), and DD breech c/s bc the new Dr. just didn't deliver vaginal breech!!
post #29 of 89
10/2/05 at 3:52pm
I'll mention my MIL too!

She gave birth six times... each time she knocked herself with ether and didn't know how the kids came out, except that they gave her an episiotomy all six times. Her first grandson was the first time she'd seen a "new" newborn baby as it was hours after each of her births before she saw her baby.
post #30 of 89
10/2/05 at 5:52pm
My mom had 5 kids. Had a saddle block w/ one and a shot of something w/ one. She always told me to go without the drugs cuz recovery is so much better when you have a natural birth.

She had me, her 2nd, natural, head down, vag. In fact, I came so fast the nure was holding her legs together b/c she had to push before the doc got there. It's a wonder I'm not brain damaged.
post #31 of 89
10/2/05 at 6:43pm
i was my moms third and i came fast. she says now that she wishes she had stayed home.. i was crowning when they arrived at the hospital (the car broke down on a bridge on the way to the hospital and she didnt think they would make it.. :LOL) the nurses didn't believe her till she lifted up her skirt and showed them the top of my head. i think i was born 5 minutes and 1 push later. they took me home a few hours laterr.
post #32 of 89
10/2/05 at 7:00pm
Mom had a combination C-section and hysterectomy with me-kind of unusual. I was the product of a failed tubal ligation(sp?) and mom was about 40, so the doctors didnt want to take any more chances. Mom got pregnant on every type of birth control! :LOL
post #33 of 89
10/2/05 at 7:35pm
My mother got to the hospital and they told her because she was young and it was her first it would be quit awhile. She was bored and anxious and talking up a storm so they said she needed to calm down so they gave her "something" and within the hour I was born. She was so groggy and missed holding me right aftaer birth. So when both my children were born first in the hospital and second at home she was right there with me.
post #34 of 89
10/2/05 at 9:10pm
My mom was 20 when she had me in 1971. Her doctor decided to induce her because he was going on vacation. It was a very long labor (duh!) and they gave her a saddle block. Something went wrong with the block and it creeped up into her lungs... she could barely breathe. It also gave her a spinal headache that lasted a week. She was miserable.

4 years later with my sister, she thought she had plenty of time before going to the hospital. When she got to the hospital she said, "OK, I'll have that epidural now" the Dr. said "Uh, too late! It's time to push!".

Such a difference, if you wait until you are actually IN LABOR, to try to have a baby!
post #35 of 89
10/2/05 at 9:18pm
in 1972, my mom had me. she asked for no pain meds and they ignored her and gave them anyway. i was head down. my dad wasn't allowed in the room at all.

i was a very very sleepy baby, probably due to meds. my mom nursed me for 8 months.
post #36 of 89
10/2/05 at 10:04pm
At home naturally.
post #37 of 89
10/2/05 at 10:15pm
head down, with drugs, but I don't know how much. She went to the hospital at 11:30, they called my dad off the field (he was a Marine) and I was born at 12:18...so for a first birth, I guess that wasn't too bad. I was only 5 lb 2 oz cuz my mother smoked heavily, and drank. My brother was 5 lb 8 then we had a stillborn brother(cord accident) and my sister was 2 months early and 3 lb 8 oz...abrupted placenta , so an emergency section. She was very impressed with my 8 lbers! especially having the last ones at home! RIP, Mom....
post #38 of 89
10/3/05 at 12:28am
C-section - I was a double-footling breech and I don't think anyone involved considered a vaginal birth. She told me that ultrasounds were still fairly new then ('74); she had one near the end of the pregnancy and the tech completely scared her to death because the tech couldn't figure out what she was seeing and kept printing endless pictures & scowling & humphing.
post #39 of 89
10/3/05 at 12:59am
Vaginal, head down, epidural.
post #40 of 89
10/3/05 at 1:03am
vaginally, head down, no pain killing drugs - Lamaze 1977 - First non-medicated birth in the history of the hospital (small Florida town)
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