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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 #61 of 89
10/6/05 at 9:47am
My mom was 17 and 3 weeks overdue. They gave her meds for induction, nothing happened, so they gave more. My heart nearly stopped and they did an emergency c-section. With my younger brother 11 years later, she tried again for vaginal, but after 2 weeks if being overdue and nothing giong on they tried induction again. When nothing happened, they c-sectioned. My youngest brother was a planned section. She breastfed all of us, and finally got to be present for a vaginal birth when I had Grace.

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post #62 of 89
10/6/05 at 9:51am
My mom did it all! lol
I was her first at 19, vaginally, head down, no pain meds. She said it was hard work, but bearable. She stayed out of the hospital and up walking for most of the labor because the hospital didn't let dads in the delivery room, and when she finally decided she needed to rest, it was time to push.
My brother was also vaginal, head down no pain meds, but he was a pitocin induction for leaking fluid. She said the pain from the pitocin contractions was a 12 on a scale of 1-10!
My first sister was an emergency c/s for undiagnosed placenta previa and maternal hemorrhage. She had general and a clasical incision because of the emergency.
She had hoped for a VBAC with my 2nd sister, but because of the incision, she went with an ERCS with epidural.
post #63 of 89
10/6/05 at 10:36am
I assume I was head down, I know my mum had lots of drugs though :
post #64 of 89
10/6/05 at 2:57pm
My mom had just married my dad and he took her from Germany to Texas (where he was stationed) She was in labor at an army hospital, only spoke German, and my dad was no where to be found. They gave her a spanish speaking doc and knocked her out with some pretty heavy drugs (she still remembers the pink poodles in the room better than giving birth to me :LOL ) She was scared and alone, and they kind of shoved her from room to room until they released her. Anyway, she had an epidural with my brother and she wants me to have one too. I told her she can't watch if she can't support my choices!
post #65 of 89
10/6/05 at 4:42pm
Both my brother and I were vaginal deliveries, head down, with pain meds. I was induced at 42 weeks. The ob (who is now my uncle by marriage) stripped her membranes at an appointment and sent her over to the hospital. By the time she checked in she had an order for a spinal. She told the nurse she didn't want drugs and was told that her doctor didn't do drug free deliveries, so she had a spinal. She went into labor on her own with my brother, although the ob put her on pitocin anyway to speed things up. I know she had pain meds, a spinal or maybe an epidural.

I asked the ob (dh's uncle) about the no drug-free delivery policy and he said it was true - he would refuse to deliver a patient who didn't want pain meds. He also refused to have dads in the delivery room and said it was one of the worst things to ever happen to obstetrics when they started letting dads in l&d. Crazy.
post #66 of 89
10/6/05 at 4:57pm
I was breach and mom had me without any drugs at all.
post #67 of 89
10/6/05 at 5:35pm
She had us both vaginally head down, no drugs. She often brags about how easy it was, gave me a hard time about having an epi with my first. She still thinks my body is defective since I needed the interventions (even though I have proven her wrong by having two homebirths) another issue, totally OT!

I think meds were common in those days, she claims it was rare to go totally natural. She was also the only one on the floor breastfeeding and I guess the nurses thought she was weird.
post #68 of 89
10/6/05 at 6:43pm
My mom had me using Lamaze back in 1973, and managed it with no drugs. My siblings were also all born vaginally, no drugs, using Lamaze techniques, and my sister was footling breech! My mom said they did not know till the doctor felt a foot instead of a head when she was ready to push!

She has been my inspiration to give it a try with no drugs when birthing my kids...of course if helps that I have had fast labors.
post #69 of 89
10/6/05 at 7:30pm
My mom gave birth to me in 1979, after 16 hours of labor. She had a little Demerol for pain, and as a result of hospital policy at the time (small-town hospital), they strapped her arms to the guardrails of the hospital bed. : She felt absolutely dehumanized by the experience, and resolved to go without ANY meds during my brother's birth. She did it, too, after only 7 hours of labor (though she had back labor the entire time, and said it was harder than with me).

I believe hearing about my mother's experiences giving birth was a big part of my initial interest in pregnancy and childbirth, and my later decision to become a midwife.
post #70 of 89
10/6/05 at 7:33pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by jillmamma
my sister was footling breech! My mom said they did not know till the doctor felt a foot instead of a head when she was ready to push!
My grandmother (mother's mother) had a similar experience with her first (of 8) births . . . although I think my aunt may have been a frank breech instead of a footling. And she gave birth vaginally--a first-timer and all!
post #71 of 89
10/6/05 at 7:50pm
My mom had all 4 of us vaginally, head down with no pain meds. First two induced via AROM, but no pitocin. The 4 of us were born between 1975 and late 1980. Mom says she didn't take any Lamaze or Bradley classes either.

I think it may have helped that she delivered us in a hospital founded by an osteopath though.
post #72 of 89
10/6/05 at 8:26pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pandora114
70's style lamaze really got you breathin so much you almost hyperventalated

Wooohooo HEEEEEE woooohooo heeeeee wooooohooo heeee
That is correct.

That is why they recommended a brown paper bag to take to the hospital to relieve it. :
post #73 of 89
10/7/05 at 3:54am
I was born by c-section in 1983. My mom was 19, and had pre-e when she was 7 months along. I weighed less than 3 lbs, and was in the NICU for 3 months. I think mom also said something about having an inverted uterus, and her uterine walls being "thinner" than is normal. (?) My sister was born 4 years later by planned c-section. She was 2 weeks early, and weighed 9 lb, 11 oz.
post #74 of 89
10/7/05 at 1:57pm
I was born at home! The only kid I knew growing up who was. It's funny that as kids, my group found it very important to anounce what hospital they were born in...I had to form my own highly exclusive club! :LOL
post #75 of 89
10/7/05 at 2:10pm
I was an emergency c-section--prolapse cord. Poor mom hadn't had any pain medication during labor, so they knocked her out during the c-section. She said it was terrible because they wouldn't let her hold me until she could feel her legs, but they gave her so many drugs that it took forever. I was her first baby. When my bro was born, they gave her an c-section as well but the pain medication didn't work at all! Yikes!!!!
post #76 of 89
10/7/05 at 3:00pm
1970. My mom's water broke an whole 7 days before I was born. She said it was no big deal back then. 4 days after the water broke, they gave her some pitocin pills (?) but it didn't work, so they sent her back home. I was born 3 days later, after a 12 hr labor or so.

My mom still talks about how pointy my head was. She was 28 yrs old.

My mom bf'd me for 5 months, which was a long time back then. The "recipe" for artificial formula was whole milk, corn syrup and water. Yuck.
post #77 of 89
10/7/05 at 5:03pm
My mom said she had me vaginally with no pain medication, they offered but she told them no. She had my brother by c-section 10 1/2 months later.

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post #78 of 89
10/8/05 at 4:49am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Frigga
I was born at home! The only kid I knew growing up who was. It's funny that as kids, my group found it very important to anounce what hospital they were born in...I had to form my own highly exclusive club! :LOL
Me too.

My classmates thought I was really weird.

I was born in 1954, so in the early 1960s, I was a real

When I had my own children, I felt alone, but cool since I knew on a very real level that I was absolutely correct and I ignored everyone who did not agree with me.
post #79 of 89
10/8/05 at 5:02am
I was born in a birth center. It was actually the doctors house. He and his wife ran the birth center. My mom got there at 9 cm and the dr and his wife got out of the bed and changed the sheets and an hour later I was born on lime green floral sheets. LOL

My 2 brothers were born in birth centers too (different ones) and my last brother that died at birth was born in a hospital (cord choked him.)
post #80 of 89
10/8/05 at 10:49am
vaginally in a hospital with demerol. I was head down as far as I know.
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