Clicky Poll - How were YOU born?

GraceInCA · February 2013

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courty625 · February 2013

I'm pretty sure she had an epidural. I was so big I cracked her tail bone. Please baby, don't pay me back for that one.

RissNRuss · February 2013

My mom was in back labor from 2 am until they decided I was a total brat and went in and harvested me at 10 pm. On top of being a few days late. Sorry Ma!

KacyChicago · February 2013

My Mom waited a little to long to get to the hospital with me ... I started crowning in the elevator with just my Dad and a nurse in there. So yeah, she says my birth was her easiest out of four. (Three natural, my youngest brother had to be delivered via emergency C-section.)

mamainVA2013 · February 2013

My mom was a rockstar--not only did she deliver me (and all three of my siblings) naturally, I was breech.

smithm24 · February 2013

Oh, I gave my mom a rough time. It was when they wouldn't let you up once they had you at the hospital. 26 hours with pitocin, no progression of her cervix. Finally talks the people into letting her walk across the room to the rocking chair. They check her in the bed, she's at 6. She gets up, walks to the chair, squats and tells the nurse she needs to check her.

Nurse checks and she's at 10. Asks for the epidural and the nurse said, "Oh no, no. You're past getting an epidural."

Fuzzy21 · February 2013

No idea.

Fun fact: My mom "thought" she was having a big baby boy.

She went into labor a month early and delivered a tiny 4lb baby girl. All was well. Doctor left....10 minutes later my mom asked the nurse what was wrong. Something was still happening. Surprise! Out came me, another 4lb girl!

What was expected to be a large boy turned out to be twin girls.

Now that's a surprise!

GraceInCA · February 2013

ShannonR7:
I said with an epidural but I'm pretty sure epidurals weren't as common back then. My mom got some drugs to help with the pain but I think it was like IM demerol or something like that , which is not used often anymore. Epidural seemed like the closest answer though.

I'm glad improvements have been made in the last 20-30 years regarding pain control!

Epidurals were widely used as far back as the late 60s/early 70s. The method was a little different than it is today, and they used to call them "spinals" or "caudal blocks" or "nerve blocks".

ChristyD6 · February 2013

My mom barely made it to the hospital with me. I think she had about an hour and a half from pulling in the parking lot to holding a baby girl. I don't think she had an epidural...but I'm not sure.

JinglesChic · February 2013

I was born within 20 minutes of my mom arriving at the hospital. She had irregular contractions all night, and for some reason decided to check herself. She said she couldn't feel her cervix so she woke up my dad and went to the hospital.

ConnieRob · February 2013

You'll like mine Grace...my Mom delivered me "doggy-style".

It was the only position she could be in where my heart rate didn't decline. If they had been able to get an anesthesiologist there in time I would have been a c-section but it was Thanksgiving day and the hospital was understaffed.

Faith7 · February 2013

I voted for "epidural" because that was the closest. Mom said they didn't have epidurals when I was born; she was given a "saddle block".

RedCherry1109 · February 2013

My Mom had all three of us by C-section and was knocked out.

adeller11 · February 2013

My mom had a saddle block with my older sister, and had a bad experience with it, so she went au natural with the rest of us, God bless her.

Rtjw · February 2013

RissNRuss:
My mom was in back labor from 2 am until they decided I was a total brat and went in and harvested me at 10 pm. On top of being a few days late. Sorry Ma!

Harvested! Love it, lol!

bumpuser8448316 · February 2013

I voted c-section. Technically I was a repeat c-section.

flerlgirl · February 2013

courty625:
I'm pretty sure she had an epidural. I was so big I cracked her tail bone. Please baby, don't pay me back for that one.

I weighed almost 11 pounds when I was born. Of course, I was also 3 WEEKS late. Gotta love the 80s.

Loriimagination · February 2013

My poor mom was in labor with me for 36 hours with no meds. Only to find out after all those hours that I was breech. Then she had a c-section. Needless to say, she was not happy with the Dr.

diana.filipi · February 2013

Cool picture for the post.

With my brother my mother was strapped down and had an old type of epidural which meant she had to lay flat and not raise her head for 8 hours after the birth.

She changed OBs for me. She had 5 miscarriages between my brother and I. I was born in 1974 before u/s. She had to have a circlage (sp) and was on strict bedrest with me for an incompetent cervix. She had me with no epidural at the hospital. I suspect I was a few weeks early as I was only 5lbs5oz at birth.

Luthien1015 · February 2013

I was born the usual way, head-butting my way down my mother's cervix 3 weeks early with a hole in my heart, a collapsed lung, and carrot-orange hair.

ShelleyBQ · February 2013

Fuzzy21:
No idea.

Fun fact: My mom "thought" she was having a big baby boy.

She went into labor a month early and delivered a tiny 4lb baby girl. All was well. Doctor left....10 minutes later my mom asked the nurse what was wrong. Something was still happening. Surprise! Out came me, another 4lb girl!

What was expected to be a large boy turned out to be twin girls.

Now that's a surprise!

What a surprise alright! But a great story.

ShelleyBQ · February 2013

I came several weeks early, and was my mom's "difficult" labor at 4 hours. She had some pain shot with my sister, but I'm pretty sure nothing with me. I REALLY hope I take after her (2 kids, one 6 lbs in 2 and a half hours, and one 4 lbs in 4 hours).

CCR630 · February 2013

Fuzzy21:
No idea.

Fun fact: My mom "thought" she was having a big baby boy.

She went into labor a month early and delivered a tiny 4lb baby girl. All was well. Doctor left....10 minutes later my mom asked the nurse what was wrong. Something was still happening. Surprise! Out came me, another 4lb girl!

What was expected to be a large boy turned out to be twin girls.

Now that's a surprise!

Oh man!! Thats crazy. What a great birth story though. lol

ehnasto · February 2013

Apparently epidurals weren't very common when I was born and they tried to give my mom Demoral. She reacts badly to narcotics, and when she had my sister she allowed them to give her Demoral and all she remembers is an 8 hour contraction because she would pass out between contractions. The dr's apparently gave her a hard time about an epidural and my dad finally had to step in and say if "you give this tiny lady (140lbs 9 months prego and 5' 3") the elephant sized epidural or you WILL regret it. NOW"

Go Dad!

tlafond82 · February 2013

ehnasto:
Apparently epidurals weren't very common when I was born and they tried to give my mom Demoral. She reacts badly to narcotics, and when she had my sister she allowed them to give her Demoral and all she remembers is an 8 hour contraction because she would pass out between contractions. The dr's apparently gave her a hard time about an epidural and my dad finally had to step in and say if "you give this tiny lady (140lbs 9 months prego and 5' 3") the elephant sized epidural or you WILL regret it. NOW"

Go Dad!

Yeahhhh, good for him!!

zurawsk5 · February 2013

I was more a special snowflake option - I was born in a hospital, but not without any medication (but no epidural). My mom had a horrible tooth infection, so they gave her some sort of oral pain medication.

I will take that over my sister's birth - in the middle of a snowstorm, very close to my dad delivering her in the car, she was born 10 minutes after they arrived at the hospital and then my mom almost bled to death. Thank goodness they made it to the hospital.

Luthy · February 2013

My mom was induced 2 weeks early since she had pre-e. She sat in the hospital for 4 days waiting for me to come. Then she went from 0 to pushing in 15 minutes, begged for an epidural and couldn't have one because it was too late, and the doctor made it into the room when I was already halfway out and screaming. I am a barrel of laughs!

(Then my little brother was 2 weeks late and 10+ lbs... she did manage to get an epi for him.)

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