Weird thing about labor/delivery

Re: Weird thing about labor/delivery

• KateLouise member

  April 2015

  Yeah I agree it is weird delivering the body (although they don't suction baby or get you to stop here in NZ, they just focus on you getting baby out in whichever way it suits you). 

  
  

  Part of what's weird for me is that even after the baby is all out, there is still the umbilical cord coming out of you, which feels strange.

  
  

  Plus delivering the placenta is also a weird sensation, and takes a surprising effort (although maybe I'm just done with pushing after baby is out and so any amount of effort feels like too much effort after that)

  
  Elizabeth 5yrs old Jane 3yrs old

  
  

  
  
  

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• supersarah77 member

  April 2015

  I didn't have to pause with Dd either and I'm in the states. She just came all the way out in one push and went directly skin-to-skin.. They suctioned and wiped her off while she was on my chest. I think because it was one quick motion the body didnt strike me as odd, but she definitely slid right out after her head was out and I could feel all the bumps of her shoulders, arms, etc.!
  
  And I agree, feeling the umbilical cord against my leg while she was on my chest was weird. And the placenta squishing out like super slippery jello. It was kinda gross and surprisingly large.

  Me: 38, DH: 35

  

  
  

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• jcdorsey74 member

  April 2015

  I had an epidural with both and I vividly remember the weird sensation of the body coming out...such a strange, suction/vacuum sensation.

  

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• niknak1208 member

  April 2015

  I had an epidural but I do remember the difference in how it felt.  It is kind of gross when you think about it. lol  DH never ever looks and I'm ok with that. I've never looked either aside from what I can see at the head of the bed of course!  My biggest issue is always just feeling gross. I cannot stand feeling dirty like that so it drives me nuts to sit in mess like that. When my son was born in 2008, my water broke on it's own as I was laying in the hospital bed.  I just remember it draining for what seemed like forever!!  My mom and DH were there with me and I kept making my mom get me clean towels.  Because I had feeling all oozy and gross! It just drives me nuts!!  When they first admitted me.. of course it was my first baby so I was nervous and scared and in pain and they were taking me to my room and had me walk and I had blood dripping down my right leg.  And they were like ok you can just lay here and the doctor will be in.. I said umm no I need to clean my leg first and change my socks. lol  

  

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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• cneiding member

  April 2015

  KateLouise said:

  
  

  
  

  Plus delivering the placenta is also a weird sensation, and takes a surprising effort (although maybe I'm just done with pushing after baby is out and so any amount of effort feels like too much effort after that)

  See for me I am always surprized it feels like delivering the placenta takes very little effort.  Like I only have to sort of 1/2 push and it comes out...I always thought it felt odd too.  Large like.  But I never actually saw it until my 3rd child.  Then it was sitting right next to me in a bowl after delivery.  My midwife examined it and brought to the nurse's attention some calcification which caught my attention/made me look.  I was shocked how much bigger it was than I expected.  Then I was always trying to figure out where was that all pregnancy...seems the baby would take up so much room how did all that fit in there too! 
  

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• cneiding member

  April 2015

  I have always been told to stop after the head.  I have had several different drs and midwifes deliver me, too.  I have had a couple births with meconium so those they always stop you to get a good suction.  Not sure what they did exactly the other times.  I assumed just clean out the nose mouth etc.  I never looked or tried to see or anything.  Maybe it was just to get the baby positioned good, get a grip on it etc.  I have those large babies so maybe that has something to do with it...they get ready to ease out the shoulders should they need help or something? 
  
  I never noticed the cord, either.  FUnny story with that, however.  When I had my 4th I had to do so at a special trauma center hospital with a high level NICU due to an ultrasound with the wrong diagnosis of fluid on the baby's brain done earlier that day at my regular hospital....ANyways besides the dr I was given, of course I had never been there, met etc, a student Dr who was doing his first day of deliveries was assigned to me.  I was actually his first delivery he did.  When the baby came out the real Dr told the student "now place him on this mother's stomach".  The student had the baby in arms and attempted to walk around the bed to bring the baby to me...while the umbilical cord was still attached.  Of course he couldn't.  Not enough cord there.  He looked at the Dr puzzled...and she irritated said "NO, over top". I felt like I was in a sitcom.
  

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