Comments on: Childbirth preparation class

By: Barrett Laurie

Barrett Laurie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:44:16 +0000

Erica- You have a great blog here! I have a friend who is having her first baby in September! I am going to send her to your blog! You have some great info and lots of resources! Keep up the great posts! Take care!

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:36:21 +0000

Email or Blog Comment, either is fine. You don’t have to confine yourself to short comments on the blog I know someone else that was young and went all natural. She also had the focal point and compared to the deliveries her mother had hers went pretty quick. That does make me wonder if age has something to do with it. I also know another person that said the stuff they give you to ease the pain didn’t work for her either, so I’m thinking if the natural stuff is just too much for me I’ll do the epidural. Thank goodness they will do that later than they used to! I still don’t plan to have anyone else in the room aside from Kurt – thankfully he doesn’t watch golf – I’m in trouble if there’s a motorcycle race on though.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:50:10 +0000

Hey, just a quick note- I had my first kiddo all natural, beacause I didn’t have a choice, and it was quick and somewhat painful but I didn’t yell and make a bunch of noise and I think concentrating on a focal point helped.(I think being fairly young helped also) My water broke on it’s own too.The Dr. had to break it with my next two.When I had my daughter my dad could hear me yelling from the waiting room.They said I was too far along for an epidural, (although I’ve recently seen people get them at that point now)but gave me something to ease the pain- didn’t work.It made me tired between contractions.It didn’t help that it was Christmas and my husband, male Dr. and male nurse were all watching golf on the tv at one point.Thank you to my mom and mom-in-law for having some female help. )She was by far my most painful. And with my last son I had an epidural.It was great.It did take longer though, for the delivery and to get up and moving afterwards.I never had to have an internal monitor- just the ones they strap around you, and I never had to have a catheter either.I did have an IV with all of them, not sure if I had a choice.It does seem gross when the baby first come out, but you’re so relieved it’s over you really don’t even think about it.You just grab them without thinking.Well I guess I should have just e-mailed you.This isn’t a very quick note.Just thought I’d share some info.Bye-Rhonda