..did you have any real "freak out " moments during labor?
After DD was born my nurse laughed at me because at one point I took off the oxygen meter that they had on my finger and threw it across the room. With the horrible back labor I was having the stupid deal on my finger was just too much lol!
She also told me that she had been punched, and even bit by women in labor
Re: If you went med free during/or before your pain meds kicked in..
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~DS Born! 2009~
~DD Born! 2013~
haha, it does feel that way, huh?
i didnt get to the hospital until i was 7cm and i didnt get to L&D until I was 9cm. I had to get an epi since it was twins (needed to be ready for emergency c-section) but i cant say I minded. it hurt! i said, "help me, help me" a lot.
Not too bad, but when the contractions really started to kick in and were 2 minutes apart, one of the nurses came back to admit me from triage after talking to my doctor on the phone (the doc on call at the practice, not mine). She told me he asked if I was "really in labor." It was a Saturday night. I said "no, go tell him I'm only sort of in labor and I'll come back later if it's an inconvenient time." She just sort of laughed nervously.
I also refused to lay down so they could hook me up to the monitors. I would really start to lose my sh*t when I was laying down during contractions! They hurt 1,000 times worse. After what seemed like the 10th time they had asked me to lay down I grabbed the stupid monitor and held it against my belly for them.
Proud mama to a boys- 6/17/09 - a girl 2/23/11- and a boy 8/20/12
I had a little spaz attack about the IV in my hand which was KILLING me because the nurses took their dislike of the MWs out on me (well, that's my theory anyway). I got a HUGE side eye from the nurse when she asked me if I planned on using the tub. (Well, she actually said, "You're not going in the tub are you?") Then she sighed about how I HAD to have an IV hook up "just in case" and that it COULD NOT get wet. So she taped and taped and taped...and it fricken HURT. At one point, during a big contraction, I yelled at her "THIS EFFING IV HURTS MORE THAN THIS CONTRACTION!"
But other than that it was all unicorns and sugar candies.
(maybe TMI)
My epi only worked for a grand total of about half an hour, and I had five failed cath's...After getting straight cath'ed three times the nurse said that they were going to 'just leave it', eventhough I was in screaming pain and couldn't breathe because of it. I told her I was going to rip the damn thing out myself if she didn't remove it. She ran off and got permission from the doc to remove it...which took half an hour. If I would've been able to reach between my legs, I probably would've took it out on my own.
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