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For those with outside babies - was labour what you expected?

StefanieprStefaniepr member
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Mine was NOT!  With DS, my water broke at about 2am, I started having contractions about an hour later and we left for the hospital at around 7am.  I finally got the epi around noon and delivered DS at 9:30 at night.  It was a long day with a lot of waiting in between.

This time, I felt my first contraction at 3:50pm and they progressed VERY quickly.  I got to the hospital an hour later and literally had my LO in my arms at 5:19.  No time for an epi, no time to even hook up the fetal monitor, and no time to call our parents to say we were on our way to the hospital.  The OB on call literally made it into the room to catch the baby as she came out. 

That one was a little too close for comfort.  Literally.

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  • theseawordtheseaword member
    The labor itself went better than I expected. It was short and I was able to go med free. After labor threw me for a loop. I had an internal tear that needed surgery so I wasn't able to nurse/do skin to skin like I planned. Then by the time I was released from surgery, they had taken my son due to fluid in his lungs/low oxygen so I still couldn't hold him. All worth it though, as he's home now and perfect. 


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  • rissa_nrissa_n
    Not at all. My labor w/ dd was very straightforward & linear - it started, contrax got closer together/stronger incrementally, etc.& it was 13 hours from 1st ctx to holding dd. this time I was miserable with irregular but fairly strong ctx for almost 24 hours before it was time to go to hospital, & another 5 hours till ds was born.  I was completely exhausted & it made labor & pushing that much harder. Since this was my 2nd  i expected it to be faster than my first, not longer & harder!
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  • Samiantha101Samiantha101 member

    I just delivered about 14 hours ago. I didn't know what to expect, so to answer your, no it want what I had expected. It was horribly painful until I got my epi. After that, it was smooth sailing. I pushed my 8.39 lb baby out in 26 minutes. It was GREAT! Definitely not what I expected! 

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  • brideofscowboybrideofscowboy member
    It was way better than I expected. I had a successful VBAC. My first L&D experiences doesn't even come close to being as great.
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  • acbfreireacbfreire member
    Not what I expected. My water broke, but I had to get pitocin after 7h. Then I got the epidural. Finally, almost 19h later the baby alignment was not correct, so I ended up with a c-section...
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  • strawberrytreestrawberrytree member
    Not what I expected- way better! I was so worried about not knowing exactly when to go to the hospital, but luckily my water broke so that made it a no-brainer and labour actually started while I was being monitored. I went natural and found the contractions much easier to deal with with than what I had built up in my head. Pushing was painful- LO spent half an hour crowning- but I just kept telling myself that every push brought my baby a little bit closer to me. 

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  • JessieCupcakeJessieCupcake member

    Not what I expected. I thought I would be numb from the epi during the entire thing but my doc said I needed to feel the contractions to push effectively. Pushing him out was the hardest thing I have ever done and I felt all the pain.

    Also I did not expect the hormone crash after delivery. I was a sobbing mess up until a few days ago. Everything was making me cry. It's getting a lot better now though. 

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  • daisy080187daisy080187 member
    Mine actually went a lot smoother than expected...for me I heard all those horror stories from ppl I knew & than the internet & tv..I was petrified... I had to get induced...(which I figured would happen), but the gave me 1 dose of meds in my cervix & 5 hrs later my water broke on its own (completely shocked me, dr was planning on breakin it for me in the am), & after about 7 hours of pitocin, I was at 3 cm.. & 30 min later LO heart rate started dropping a little, they tried to reposition me 2x & with no luck decided to check me one more time & I was at a 10! (Family wasn't even there so DH had to jump on the phone to get both our parents to the hospital!) & I only pushed for 30 minutes & he was out...I was suppose to be at the hospital at 3pm tuesday to be admitted & between that process & cervix meds & next am the pitocin all in total I was in the hospital 24 hrs by the time LO arrived! I figured since he was my 1st & being induced it was going to be a very very long & hard process & it was actually very easy & went really smoothly!!
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  • ManiMani

    Lurker here. I just had my baby yesterday and it was so much better. I went fast labor started at midnight. My contractions picked up at 3:30am  to every 5 mins i tried to wait home for as long as possible. I went to the hospital at 5 am.  I had my water manually broken at around 9:30 am and then I gave birth naturally at 9:47 am.  

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  • claudiaudiaclaudiaudia member

    We went to the hospital right after my water broke because we knew we didn't have much time.

    This labour was definitely different...I had very strong but irregular contractions, and I never felt the transition that everyone talks about. I had painful contractions, then about five really strong ones, then my body was pushing her out with no break in between. No transition, just all GO-GO-GO! I definitely appreciate the recovery after a med-free labour, though! 

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  • BRBR member
    I knew I was having a c-section, but the whole process was not exactly what I expected.  The epidural was the worst part because they couldn't find the right spot to stick it and it was long and painful.  The c-section itself was not bad, but I was surprised as to the extent I felt pulling and tugging.  Recovery was a little harder then I expected.  I read so much and watched so many shows, but the bottom line is...you never know what it's going to be like until it happens to you.  And everyone's experiences are way different.
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  • thatoneredheadthatoneredhead member

    It was miserable but only because I had a bad reaction to meds. It didnt hurt as bad as I thought it would. And pushing was exhausting but not painful.

    I was really surprised how much worse healing was than the actual labor.

     

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  • courtfsucourtfsu
    imagethatoneredhead:

    It was miserable but only because I had a bad reaction to meds. It didnt hurt as bad as I thought it would. And pushing was exhausting but not painful.

    I was really surprised how much worse healing was than the actual labor.

     

    Exactly!  Everybody warns you about labor, but no one warns you about recovery.

    This was my second labor and it went better than expected.  I was able to go med free again and was really in no/very little pain until the very end (9-10 cm and pushing-ow).  Because I went to the hospital so much sooner this time, I was able to labor in a much more controlled way.  The only part that stunk was that I had high BP spikes and they put me on magnesium for 24 hours which makes you feel pretty crappy.  Other than that it was great.

    Recovery is going better than it did with DS, but it is still worse than labor in my opinion.

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  • lizzybeanlizzybean member

    I had to be induced at 38w5d due to pre-e, so the start of labour was not what I expected at all. But I was able to labour naturally after my induction so I did get what I wanted out of my labour experience.

    I didn't really know what to expect, but it my speedy dilation from transition to outside baby was definitely the most intense experience of my life. Still today, I dont think I could describe it!! I think it honestly hurt more than I expected to, but Im not really sure what I was expecting...

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  • drbethcdrbethc member
    Definitely not what I expected...The labor itself was painful and was relieved quickly with the epi..Pushing seemed like a breeze..The main thing that was not expected was all of the medical residents that were coming into my room and making decisions for medical interventions. I surely did not expect the cord wrapped around LO's neck and was relieved when my OB finally got to the hospital and took over. Overall, I didn't expect it to have gone as quickly as it did.
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