This might make for some excitement...

KKWISC

I was thinking about a water birth but honestly it sounds really icky. So like first off you have like 10 people watching your vag in a pool and then after the baby your just wadding around with a bunch of ick. And doesn't the water get cold??

I just can't get past the details. 

Also home births. How in the hell do you get that out of the sheets, mattress, carpet??? Like use shout?

FishNchips1

actually at home births alot of people are more prepared than just birthing on their sheets. they get special padding to absorb any liquids.

as for water births. they arent that icky. have you done research?

mrs.mulrine

KKWISC:

I was thinking about a water birth but honestly it sounds really icky. So like first off you have like 10 people watching your vag in a pool and then after the baby your just wadding around with a bunch of ick. And doesn't the water get cold??

I just can't get past the details. 

Also home births. How in the hell do you get that out of the sheets, mattress, carpet??? Like use shout?

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, that is priceless! But I totally am on the same thought pattern as you for water birth, it seems so... dirty. hahah I dont think I'd be able to scrub my skin enough, especially if I pooped in the pool. hahahaha. 

*speedracer*

why would there be 10 people there?

i've heard the tubs feel heavenly.  i'd do it if our hospital allowed it.

KKWISC

I didn't know there was special padding and such.

I've done some research for water births, but I just can't get past sitting in water with all of the blood, fluid etc. I don't think any amount of research will get my head past it. 

I know many people love these techniques, I just can't see myself doing either. 

*speedracer*

it's pretty hard to avoid the goo and blood and whatnot when you're the one creating it, regardless of how you give birth. then once that's all over, you'll be up to your eyeballs in baby fluids and poop.  good times!

MrsAmyB

KKWISC:

I didn't know there was special padding and such.

I've done some research for water births, but I just can't get past sitting in water with all of the blood, fluid etc. I don't think any amount of research will get my head past it. 

I know many people love these techniques, I just can't see myself doing either. 

It actually doesn't sound like you did much research at all.  You typically don't get in until after your water breaks.   And when the baby is born, you aren't just sitting around in the fluids for a long period of time.  I'm not sure if you've experienced childbirth or not, but the blood part comes immediately after birth, which is about the time you would get out. 

If you did any research on home births, you'll find that they aren't as messy as most would think.

emily0829

MrsAmyB:

KKWISC:

I didn't know there was special padding and such.

I've done some research for water births, but I just can't get past sitting in water with all of the blood, fluid etc. I don't think any amount of research will get my head past it. 

I know many people love these techniques, I just can't see myself doing either. 

It actually doesn't sound like you did much research at all.  You typically don't get in until after your water breaks.   And when the baby is born, you aren't just sitting around in the fluids for a long period of time.  I'm not sure if you've experienced childbirth or not, but the blood part comes immediately after birth, which is about the time you would get out. 

If you did any research on home births, you'll find that they aren't as messy as most would think.

I think she was just saying that she wouldn't want to be in the tub with the fluid, even if it wasn't blood. Some people aren't hip with taking baths period, because you're basically laying in your own dirt. 

Maybe it was her attempt at being funny on this very boring bump night. 

AmandaJane1

hahahaha yeah those thoughts have crossed my mind too, but i would still try a water birth if my hospital allowed it.  i'd just shower and scrub real well after- but the poop thing still freaks me out a bit. if i ever get the chance to do a water birth, i just won't think about it. 

with a home birth, i don't know what we'd do with our pets. we live in an apartment so its close quarters, and our neighbors aren't really the animal types. my dog likes to "help" with everything, and if we locked him in the kitchen he'd freak out because he'd hear everything going on but not be able to investigate (he is a big chicken). i don't think i want my dog all up in my business...

Halen0804

I really wanted to do a water birth.  I talked to my dr about it and she urged me not to (initially I was a little p*ssed about this).  She said you are sitting in all of the fluids that come out.  I asked about just laboring in it.  Dr said that many of the women she has worked with enjoy the shower and find that just as soothing if not more so during labor.  I do love long showers more than baths and the hospital rooms have showers in them.  So, after thinking about it, I am not going to do the water birth.  I still am really going to try hard to go natural while keeping in mind things happen that may prevent that. 

mysticporter

I have no problem if other people want a water birth (or a home birth), but I'm with you on not wanting either.  There's several bigger reasons, but a minor one is a personal ick/convenience factor.  I *have* given birth, and I was very happy that the nurses could whisk the bed pads away and in a few minutes have me all cleaned up rather than having to get out of a tub and clean and dry my entire body.  I was sore, I was tired, I was happy to just be able to lay back and enjoy DD.  Plus, being in the hospital they continued to be there to handle bed pads during the worst of the post-partum discharge, so I didn't have to worry if a pad leaked about cleaning my own sheets.

It's minor, but I would call it a plus. To each their own.

PlainandTall

I am really not understanding this fear of fluids... like what- the amniotic fluid? The fluid that has cradled and cushioned your beautiful baby completly surrounded in quiet warmth for months?  ...and it goes out of your body mixes with bath water and turns into poison?  Geeze.