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Tub labor with epi in place?

TobieRoseTobieRose member
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Because the risk of emergency c-section is so much higher with twins, my OB (who is very pro natural birth) wants me to have an epidural line in place, even if we don't end up using it, so that I won't need general anesthesia in case of a cesaerian. It just now occurred to me that this might mean I can't labor in the tub ... does anyone know if that's the case? I will see my OB on Tuesday and can ask him then, but in the meantime I am wondering. 
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Re: Tub labor with epi in place?

  • mavgirl_73mavgirl_73 member
    At the hospitAl where I delivered our first they said no tub with epi line.

     

     

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  • iris427iris427 member
    I would think there would be a higher risk of infection.
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  • sschwegesschwege member
    I wonder if you could ask that the epi line be placed right before you start pushing?  That's probably the time where a c-section would be the most likely to happen right?  So maybe you labor in the tub until you are ready to push, then get the epi line?  Just a thought, I have no experience with this!
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  • TobieRoseTobieRose member
    edited November 2013
    Hmm, that is a good idea ... I will have to ask my doctor about it! 

    I was pretty sure that laboring in the water once it was in place was out of the question ... sigh. I am getting more anxious as the time approaches because I remember how much harder it was to manage the pain once I was at the hospital (my last birth was in another hospital, no laboring tubs or even really freedom of movement ...), and it seems that even many of the resources the hospital itself has won't be available to me. (Like the tubs.) :( That plus having to deliver in the OR freaks me out a bit. 

    On the one hand, I'm trying to be realistic that the med-free birth I want may not happen and to be okay with that ... but I worry that if I'm *too* accepting of it I won't have the resolve to try my darndest. 
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