How did your mama give birth to you? - Page 5

[Neldavi]

: (that is, vaginally in the hospital with demerol, definitely head down)
I recently saw my mother's birth record and it says that she got pitocin but she adamantly denies that ... . It was a pretty fast labor, maybe 4 or 5 hours (just like mine )

[mohmlet]

I'm the one c-section in the bunch. My mother's water broke, but I stubbornly refused to come out, and the pitocin wasn't doing a thing, so after a few days, they went ahead and removed me by force. (We believe that this foreshadowed my utter inability to drag myself out of bed in the mornings.)

My sister (1960) and brother (1976, VBAC) were both unmedicated heads down vaginal labors--long back labor with sis, and a quick 3 hour labor with bro. I think my brother was 70s style Lamaze.

[beanma]

my mom was knocked out (general anaesthesia i think) for me and my sibs. i'm the youngest b 1964, sis 1957, bro 1955. my MIL had twilight sleep for hers. i had an epi in the hospital with my first (scared, uninformed -- birth ctr with the second), but both my mom and MIL were there for a lot of it. it was the closest thing to natural birth they'd ever seen . my bro's sis had c-secs and his SIL was clamoring for drugs as soon as she got in the hospital door. my sis lived too far away for my mom to get there for the birth of her kids. she had drug free births at the hospital. i wish they could have been there for dd2's birth, but she came 17 minutes after we got to the birth ctr (3 minutes from our house), so it was just us :LOL.

[kate~mom]

my sister and i were both vaginal births with no induction or drugs. my mom did use an ob both times, though - and i am not sure about iv's and the like.

[SunRayeMomi]

Cord wrapped a bit, but by a midwife (I was first-born BTW, midwife for all three consecutive births thereafter as well)

[LoveChild421]

vaginally, head down, epidural, demerol, the works deep episiotomy and forceps

I've seen pictures of her holding me right after I was born and she looks bloated from the IV, white as a ghost, eyes barely open, and looks as if it's taking all the energy she has left just to smile and hold me

we both had 20 hour labors, the difference is I gave birth at home- in the pics of me and my son right after birth I look like I just went for a long run- sweaty and hair all messed up- but other than that my color is great, my eyes are full of energy and I don't look fatigued at all.

To me just comparing our after birth pics is the biggest reminder to me that homebirth was such a good choice!

[applejuice]

Originally Posted by LoveChild421

To me just comparing our after birth pics is the biggest reminder to me that homebirth was such a good choice!

As a child, seeing the mothers of my playmates come home after a week of rest in the hospital and seeing my own mother moments after birth, is also a good measure that homebirth IS a good choice.

[navygirl]

I was the only one that my mom had pain meds for and it was only because I was a forcep delivery. I didn't want to come out, I was perfectly happy and warm inside. I was the second and the biggest of 4 at 8 lb 8 oz everybody else was in the 6 and 7 lb range. My brother born in 82 was the only one tht my dad actually saw, it just wasn't done in our town when my mom had my sisters and I in '73, '75 and '77.

[hottmama]

I was a c-section after 27 hours of labor with no meds. The only indicator for a c-section was the length of labor, my mom's water "had been broken for too long" (since before labor started) and she was tired. My little sister was a unscheduled repeat c-section.
To this day my mom doesn't think she could have given birth vaginally.