Third (or more) time moms -

Rstar120109 · July 2016

I'm on baby 3 here, first one, I had a smooth delivery no issues with epidural or anything. Second time I had a horrible anesthesiologist- it took him 4 tries to get the epidural in correctly (I actually heard the crunch when he scraped my spine on the third try) and then it didn't even work correctly! I only felt it on half my body and by the time I was ready to push I had almost all feeling back and felt the burning of the delivery and pushing! So now that baby 3 is due soon, (due on 9/1, but I feel like he will be early) I have been going constantly back and forth over whether or not I even want to TRY an epidural or attempt to go with as much of a non medicated birth as I can. I am by no means a "crunchy" mom, but with such the extreme difference I had I'm a little scared this time around, but also the fact that I didn't really feel contractions (I did need oxygen throughout the contractions though) just the burning of the pushing and actual delivery, I am slightly convinced that I can do it with no medicine I just might need oxygen for the delivery. I tried talking about it with my husband and he feels that I will try it but at the last minute be crying for the epidural, so no help from him really. I suppose my question is, have any of you tried and succeeded at a natural birth (in a hospital) after two medicated births?

ajn092 · July 2016

Rstar120109 said:

I'm on baby 3 here, first one, I had a smooth delivery no issues with epidural or anything. Second time I had a horrible anesthesiologist- it took him 4 tries to get the epidural in correctly (I actually heard the crunch when he scraped my spine on the third try) and then it didn't even work correctly! I only felt it on half my body and by the time I was ready to push I had almost all feeling back and felt the burning of the delivery and pushing! So now that baby 3 is due soon, (due on 9/1, but I feel like he will be early) I have been going constantly back and forth over whether or not I even want to TRY an epidural or attempt to go with as much of a non medicated birth as I can. I am by no means a "crunchy" mom, but with such the extreme difference I had I'm a little scared this time around, but also the fact that I didn't really feel contractions (I did need oxygen throughout the contractions though) just the burning of the pushing and actual delivery, I am slightly convinced that I can do it with no medicine I just might need oxygen for the delivery. I tried talking about it with my husband and he feels that I will try it but at the last minute be crying for the epidural, so no help from him really. I suppose my question is, have any of you tried and succeeded at a natural birth (in a hospital) after two medicated births?

This is a little too Dear Diary for me tonight. There is entire thread for Been There Done That Moms: Unmedicated Birth on page 3. I would recommend starting there before creating a duplicate post.

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