Watching a baby story....

Re: Watching a baby story....

• eli2012

  August 2012

  Just saw this myself! What a terrible way to spend the first two weeks of your child's life! Sick and in and out of the hospital;  and  then to come home with terrible baby blues she said....sure makes you wonder if the baby blues had to do with not being healthy and around her baby as much as you're designed to...

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• MrsB51609

  August 2012

  this makes me wonder... I had an induction and two epidurals with my first.  I hoped to have an unmedicated birth, but the pitocin was killing me, and DS was just not ready to come (at only 39 weeks).  I ended up with a terrible headache around 36 hours or so after giving birth.  The anesthesiologist did whatever "tests" they do, and determined it wasn't related to the two epidurals (or the extreme difficulty they had in placing the first one that failed anyway), but a sinus infection.  After a week or so of antibiotics, the headache started improving, so I never thought it might be something else.  I've had them before, and the pain was similar, but it always seemed really coincidential.  I had terrible baby blues, and I think probably some PPD, several rounds of thrush/yeast, and a high needs baby turned spirited toddler.

  I still believe that all of these factors are related.  We are planning a home birth this time, to hopefully avoid all of the complications and problems.  It's just so sad how doctors and the medical community don't see the link.

   big brother 5/30/10  *  cp 4/27/12  *  little sister 2/25/13

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• beh3e

  August 2012

  I saw that too!  Seriously, it's not hard for me to find some compelling reasons to not have the epidural.  Brain swelling?  Chronic back problems?  Migraines?  No thank you. 

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• ccleary1313

  August 2012

  Ugh, I can't watch that show anymore! Some of the things the doctors and nurses say make me want to slap them. And everytime there is a mom that wants a natural birth, has a midwife, or wants a homebirth/waterbirth, they make it seem like the most painful and difficult labor ever, it's almost like the show is "pro pain med". I finally just stopped watching it, after YEARS of watching almost everyday.

  I saw a few episodes of the "One born every minute" show too, and that equally peeved me off.

   I had an epidural with my son, and while at the time I LOVED not feeling anything, I totally could have done it without and had a WAY better recovery. Way better. Not to mention I was already prone to migraines and cluster migraines before having a baby, and that got worse afterwards.

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• KSullivan100

  August 2012

  My mother recently had an epidural for a hip replacement surgery.  She complained of an odd "headache like" sensation before being released from the hopsital.  Three days later (at home) a physical therapist noticed she could not properly lift her head.  They called an ambulance and took her back to the hospital.  She had leaking spinal fluid from the epidural and required a "clotting" treatment and three days of bedrest in a hopsital bed.

  

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