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If you delivered twins vaginally...
What was your experience with baby B? Did he or she flip after A came out? Were they breech to begin with? Did your doctor have to go in a manipulate B into a better position? What was your experience like?
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Re: If you delivered twins vaginally...
Did you have an epidural? I'm starting to get freaked out at the prospect of a doctor sticking his arm up in me.
While you waited, did you have more contractions? Or did you just "hang out" and wait? Epidural?
I did not have an epidural, no pain meds of any kind. My doctor assured me that if we needed to do a c-section there would be time to put in a spinal, and he said even if I had an epidural that in the case of a true emergency I would still be put under general anesthesia. The pain of the version was intense, but no more intense than natural labor.
7/30/12 - B/G twins born at 33w4d due to PPROM
I waited till I was about 7cm to get the epi, so I could walk around and be in different positions.
Also, I should have mentioned this in my previous post but breech extraction is actually safer than a manual version (if the practitioner is experienced) so that might be something to consider:
https://rootbeertwins.blogspot.com/2010/04/what-if-baby-b-is-breech.html
Baby A was born at 9:44pm and Baby B was born at 12:02am. In that time we waited for contractions to start again. They monitored baby b with ultrasound. He remained head down but took his sweet time! We just hung out and waited. The doctors and nurses just chatted like it was any old day at work while I laid on the table in the OR on full display. I have my full birth story on my blog...LIS. A few posts back.
Boy/girl twins born at 37w1d and 37w2d
I giggled a little bit at this. I keep thinking that when baby A comes out, B is going to be thinking "Woah, where did all this room come from?" and then kind of starfish inside my ute lol.
Both babies started out head down. Baby B was having some trouble handling the contractions, so the doctor reached in and pulled him down after A was born. He was also trying to come out hands first, so the doctor pushed his hands back (earning him the nickname "Superman). He was born in the next push, 5 minutes after his brother.
This sounds awful, but I didn't feel it at all and had no idea the doctor had pulled him down until she told me.
I did continue to have contractions but I had an epidural so I couldn't necessarily feel them but the monitor would tell the drs. when I was having them & they would tell me to push or sometimes I would feel the urge to push on my own. As for what I did in the 25 between DS and DD, I just laid there on the bed with my feet all up in the stir-ups while the drs., nurses, and my DH conversated about everything under the sun....I know how crazy that sounds but at one point they were all joking around and what not...it made laying there much less uncomfortable and time went by quickly. I didn't even realize 25 mins. went by until they announced her time of birth.
The epidural, to me, was the best thing EVER!!!! I have had one now with all 3 births (DS, twins, DS), which were all vaginal and each time I made sure to get it in enough time. A word to the wise, if you plan on getting one don't wait til you really can't handle the pain b/c you don't know how dilated you are. My sister waited til she couldn't handle it any more and by then it was too late b/c she was 9cm and had no idea, she gave birth without drugs & she wasn't thrilled since her first son was with an epidural and the pain is completely different without an epidural.
Hi all, just getting back on after my crazy birth experience. As you may know I had a very unconventional birth on the side of the highway haha. At 36 weeks baby b had flipped head down but I'm not sure what he was before birth at 37 weeks. Obviously I had no epi and was literally holding baby A in while I waited for emt to arrive. So legs closed not at all in a birthing position. Baby A still managed to get out when they asked me to move out of the car. I was holding his head as I moved to the stretcher. I had about 2 or 3 more contraction after he was born and then was ready to deliver baby B. The ambulance pulled over and this time I had enough sense to open my legs haha. I barely felt baby B come out but he was smaller by a pound. After I asked if he was head down and the emt was like yes- which I should have known because I remember pushing his head out and then the rest of him.
So I had a vaginal unmediacated birth with zero dr intervention. It's not something I would recommend but I wonder how different it would have been if I was in the hospital (epi, sonograms, holding babies in place, etc).
my baby b flipped several times. I went in the hospital one morning and he was flipped into position then all progress stopped and I was sent home. Several hours later I went back to the hospital (around 1 a.m. the next morning) and he had flipped back breach. At 4:30 a.m. when my doc came in to do one last ultrasound before taking me back to deliver (because I really wanted vag delivery) he had flipped back into position...so you never know what you will get.
Good luck