What scared you most during labor?

BitterOldHag · October 2009

I had no idea there could be so much blood when my water broke.It looked like a massacre in my living room and I thought I was going to bleed out before DH got home to take me to the hospital.

Nicole Williams · October 2009

The amount of blood scared me too. The doc had to break my water for me, but I was bleeding a ton well before that. It was so scary, I thought something was wrong.

lovesazzie · October 2009

I was really scared about the car ride and kept putting it off. The anticipation was worse than the actual ride though.

katypresson · October 2009

Having to have a c/section. But I did...and it wasn't bad AT ALL! Not what I had in mind anyways.

katie_cj · October 2009

The pushing. There was such a sense of urgency when I was pushing, the OB was even telling me to push when I wasn't having contractions. I was barely pushing for 5 minutes when they decided to get the vacuum. I found out afterwards that Jacob's heartrate was dropping pretty significantly during each contraction.

thatgirlang · October 2009

The feeling that I was going to explode when they told me not to push but I really really needed to. I was scared not to push but I was also scared to push, if that makes sense!

mrsolsenk12 · October 2009

The un-medicated portion of my labor (i went from 5cm-10cm in a hour before my epidural). Also my c-section scared me as well.

josswhedon · October 2009

after my water broke but before the epidural I was shaking uncontrolably... I didn't know that was normal but it scared me!

DNK777 · October 2009

I've always had borderline low blood pressure, but there were a few times when the blood pressure monitor would go off and the nurses would come running in. Also when DD's heart started dropping and they were rushing me to the OR. They did my epidural before putting me on the operating table and I was so scared they were going to drop me.

BigIsland07 · October 2009

When DS's heart rate dropped to 50 beats a minute. Oxygen mask fixed it, but still scared the heck out of me.

Ambabyh · October 2009

#1 the feeling of the meds running through my body #2 when they gave me oxygen, they didn't say why from one second to the next I had an oxygen mask on

MrsWanee · October 2009

nothing really scared me. i was surprised at how long my water broke for, and how bad the contractions felt.... i guess i was blessed with a pretty easy labor and delivery (about 6 1/2 hrs all together).

MrsWanee · October 2009

josswhedon:
after my water broke but before the epidural I was shaking uncontrolably... I didn't know that was normal but it scared me!

oh this actually. i shook a lot in between the two too.

MattysGirl81 · October 2009

The prospect of maybe having a c/s. Thankfully I didn't need to!

Eburke1986 · October 2009

I lost my first pregnancy at 8 months, so when I was told DD was coming 5 weeks early I honestly was only scared about something going wrong and losing her. Morbid I know. I'm already a paranoid person and a bit of a pessimist so I tend to expect the worse in things.

robbie3982 · October 2009

I wasn't scared during L&D. I was pretty terrified before I went into labor that something would go wrong or that the Dr. and nurses wouldn't be supportive of my med-free birth plan. They were all awesome though.

MrsDough527 · October 2009

Nothing scared me during labor, it was after I had a scare. I was shaking uncontrollably because I had blood pooling in my uterus.

orion09 · October 2009

when DD and my blood pressure was sky rocketing during contractions and they were considering doing an emergency c-section because they thought she couldn't survive the rest of labor and i was very close to having a stroke or heart attack.....

but in good news...everything worked out... but it was very scary

mrs.k 07 · October 2009

The first contraction after the dr. broke my water. Up until that point my contrax didn't hurt at all and I had a med-free delivery so the pain I felt during that contraction made me cry it hurt so bad!

cupcake_queen · October 2009

I was scared to be induced for the first time. It ended up being a pretty mellow labor and delivery.

Shlei · October 2009

What scared me was when my OB kept telling me, "Ok I'm giving you 30 minutes and if you are still having problems pushing you'll have to get a C-section" I did not want a C section. My problem was that LO was looking up and had kept getting stuck behind my pelvic bone.

borc0080 · October 2009

1. Finding out I needed to be induced almost 6 weeks early for pre-e.

2. My doctor saying we needed to do a c-section after 11 hours of unmedicated pitocin labor.

3. The overwhelming need to push that came with the next contraction. No c-section after all - DD had other plans!

4. The placenta being stuck and my doctor pulling it out in pieces - finally dedcided on an emergency D & C.

5. Shaking violently on the way to the operating room.

mavilabride · October 2009

Besides the health of the baby: The placenta. I honestly didn't know it looked like that lol. I was shocked.

mandolynn81 · October 2009

i wa scared after all that time in labor i was not goinh to be able to push her out, that i would need a c/s

Erin5849 · October 2009

When they told me DS heart rate was dropping while I was pushing, and that if I didn't get him out soon, they wanted to use the vacuum.

flutiefrostie · October 2009

The doctor screaming at me to stop pushing because DS turned sideways. Immediately after, the fact that he was blue and limp.

Chrysallys · October 2009

That I wasn't able to stop myself from pushing at 6cm. I felt so out of control from that point on until I was pushing for real. The urge was stronger than anything I could have imagined.

DoubleDiamond · October 2009

Pushing scared the crap out of me.

water-fairy · October 2009

Nothing really *scared* me... but I was shocked at how much I was shaking after they broke my water.

judochop · October 2009

katie_cj@hotmail.com:
The pushing. There was such a sense of urgency when I was pushing, the OB was even telling me to push when I wasn't having contractions. I was barely pushing for 5 minutes when they decided to get the vacuum. I found out afterwards that Jacob's heartrate was dropping pretty significantly during each contraction.

This exactly. One set of pushes and I had an oxygen mask which kept me from being able to hear everything the doctor and nurses said. She used the vacuum for the next four pushes, then she cut me and he was out...all I saw were his little feet and they were so blue. I was so scared until I heard him cry. Remembering it gives me a mini panic attack even now.

poopteen · October 2009

I was scared of the epidural, until I had it. I was convinced that I'd sneeze or twitch and be paralyzed forever, but then... sweet relief.

DrsgChik99 · October 2009

I was scared of the pushing part, and I was also scared of having a c-section. I ended up going natural using hypnobabies, but that pushing part still scared me -

I figured I would have gotten an epi by the end, but things were going so well I didn't want to stall my labor and start an intervention chain of events.

And yes, I thought I was gonna die. LOL! But I feel great now, so I guess I would do it again.

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