**DNK777**

Barneso

Why did they make you get a foley catheter?

 

This.is.my.biggest.fear.

MrsRebecca

What is a foley catheter?

Barneso

MrsRebecca:

What is a foley catheter?

The one that goes in your urethra.

MrsRebecca

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

What is a foley catheter?

The one that goes in your urethra.

Forgive me for sounding dumb but...as opposed to....?

Barneso

MrsRebecca:

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

What is a foley catheter?

The one that goes in your urethra.

Forgive me for sounding dumb but...as opposed to....?

Not sounding dumb...

Well, a catheter, is technically just "a flexible or rigid hollow tube employed to drain fluids from body cavities."  Not necessarily specifically for the elimination of urine.

When they give you an epidural, for example, rather than having to come in everytime you need more medication and have to insert the needle and find the right spot again, they just inject the medicine into a "Catheter" that they leave in your back throughout your labor.

MrsRebecca

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

What is a foley catheter?

The one that goes in your urethra.

Forgive me for sounding dumb but...as opposed to....?

Not sounding dumb...

Well, a catheter, is technically just "a flexible or rigid hollow tube employed to drain fluids from body cavities."  Not necessarily specifically for the elimination of urine.

When they give you an epidural, for example, rather than having to come in everytime you need more medication and have to insert the needle and find the right spot again, they just inject the medicine into a "Catheter" that they leave in your back throughout your labor.

So a foley cath is not the norm?

Barneso

MrsRebecca:

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

What is a foley catheter?

The one that goes in your urethra.

Forgive me for sounding dumb but...as opposed to....?

Not sounding dumb...

Well, a catheter, is technically just "a flexible or rigid hollow tube employed to drain fluids from body cavities."  Not necessarily specifically for the elimination of urine.

When they give you an epidural, for example, rather than having to come in everytime you need more medication and have to insert the needle and find the right spot again, they just inject the medicine into a "Catheter" that they leave in your back throughout your labor.

So a foley cath is not the norm?

You mean.... is it normal to have one during labor?

As far as I'm aware, you normally do not get one during labor unless you are going to have a C-Section.  In which case, they give you the epidural first so you wouldn't feel the pain from the catheter.

MrsRebecca

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

kimbarnes83:

MrsRebecca:

What is a foley catheter?

The one that goes in your urethra.

Forgive me for sounding dumb but...as opposed to....?

Not sounding dumb...

Well, a catheter, is technically just "a flexible or rigid hollow tube employed to drain fluids from body cavities."  Not necessarily specifically for the elimination of urine.

When they give you an epidural, for example, rather than having to come in everytime you need more medication and have to insert the needle and find the right spot again, they just inject the medicine into a "Catheter" that they leave in your back throughout your labor.

So a foley cath is not the norm?

You mean.... is it normal to have one during labor?

As far as I'm aware, you normally do not get one during labor unless you are going to have a C-Section.  In which case, they give you the epidural first so you wouldn't feel the pain from the catheter.

Oh, I see. Thanks.

DNK777

This is a catheter that goes in the cervix.  It's a little balloon thing.  They put it in then fill it up with air to put pressure on the cervix since my labor wasn't progressing.

I did have to get a regular catheter later on before my c-section, but that didn't hurt at all.  It kind of stung when I peed after they took it out for a day or too, but nothing too bad.

Barneso

DNK777:

This is a catheter that goes in the cervix.  It's a little balloon thing.  They put it in then fill it up with air to put pressure on the cervix since my labor wasn't progressing.

I did have to get a regular catheter later on before my c-section, but that didn't hurt at all.  It kind of stung when I peed after they took it out for a day or too, but nothing too bad.

Okay. MrsRebecca. I was totally talking out of my ass, apparently.

Thought foley catheter was urethra-specific.

DNK777

While I was in labor I was able to get up and go to the bathroom.  Even after my epi I could still get up and go although I had to take the iv and the epi iv with me.  I started having trouble with my heartrate and they made me use a bed pan after that.

DNK777

kimbarnes83:

DNK777:

This is a catheter that goes in the cervix.  It's a little balloon thing.  They put it in then fill it up with air to put pressure on the cervix since my labor wasn't progressing.

I did have to get a regular catheter later on before my c-section, but that didn't hurt at all.  It kind of stung when I peed after they took it out for a day or too, but nothing too bad.

Okay. MrsRebecca. I was totally talking out of my ass, apparently.

Thought foley catheter was urethra-specific.

Apparently they are called the same thing.  I actually had no idea since the doctors called it a foley and the other just catheter, but they are both foley catheters.