I'm bored... maybe we can start a girls only thead?

[Pebbles]

1st kid.. no meds... didn't scream didn't yell

2nd kid ... got petocin (make your laber harder) unmedicated.. screamed my head off

3rd kid got epidural... reminded myself every contraction how blessedly better it was compared to the 2nd labor LOL

Yoda...Peeps are really funny about nursing in public in Chicago.. even if your 'covered up". I did not run into this problem when i lived in NC.

[kevin]

Girls have cooties.

QED

[Miss Mary]

L & D stories - woohoo.....are we really going there? Before I reply!!! LOL

Mary

PS - you know any thread stating all girls, is just an invite for a few guys to barge in! It's like crashing a slumber party in HS.

[Pebbles]

LOL go there LOL yes.. if they get to have guy threads we get our 'girlie threads'

[Miss Mary]

Hey this is better than spilling the beans at a baby shower! You want to say something but you can't, b/c this is a first-time mother about to go into labor.

Wait is anyone pregnant here, for the first time? If so, stop reading!!! Go to your happy place.....

My SIL Shelly delivered all 3 of her kids naturally. Said it was just the most wonderful experience in the world. She was able to get down off the table, give her babies their first baths, carry them to her room. Well, she just glowed and glowed, talking like this. So when I became pregnant with Nina, I thought I wanted to go natural. Ha!!! Wrongo....big time.

Kid #1.....tried the natural thing. Until I was 4 cm and the OB doc's arm disappeared in me, up to his elbow. I kept scooting back on the table, he kept saying sit still! When he pulled his arm out and let out a big sigh - as to say lady you're getting on my last nerve - he asked how in the world was I was going to go natural? At this time I had been in labor a few hours and was giving everyone a hard time. I started crying, but I had this dream about going natural....Shelly said.....doc said having an epidural is a wonderful way to have a baby. All eyes were on me, imploring me to take the shot! I caved and within 30 minutes I was a happy camper. So much so that I said what he heck was I thinking here? I was crazy to even dream about going natural - looney! The first shot wore off so I did have a half hour of hard labor, fulled effaced and all. Before the Anethesnetist (sp?) could give me another. That was rough but I got thru it. Kept eyeing that shot sitting there ready to go on the tray and wanted to give it to myself...couldn't ya know though. He was busy in a blasted C-section at the time. You do not want to share these people with other patients during labor - let me tell you!

Kid #2 - I had it written on my chart - patient wants epidural. I told everyone that saw me - for paperwork, prep work, changing into gown, all the lovely stuff they do to you before delivery. My water had broken so this was it. I just kept saying my name is Mary....and I want an Epidural. In case anyone mixed me up with a patient going natural! After a while, they all began chuckling - we get it, we won't forget you get the shot!!! Well, when I got the shot I was hooked up to a drip machine, it would not wear off during labor. Yeah!

Two babies (sadly miscarriage years ago with first husband though) and those are my L & D stories. Never thought anything could top the hard, active labor I felt with my first baby, when my epidural wore off, but I was wrong. Had a colon resection for cancer 6 years ago and wow, that was so painful. 4 weeks of pain but again I did survive!

Next.....

Mary

PS - oh, Kid #1 was a 9 hour labor. Kid #2 was 6. Always thought if went for a third baby it would be a 3 hour labor. I got lucky in labor length times - both were somewhat short. Always thought it might have been b/c with both, my water broke and labor started up right away.

[MomH]

1st daughter ---48 hours of labor
2nd daughter ---46 hours of labor
3rd daughter ---12 hours of labor.

When I finally learned how it was done, I quit.[/quote]

[kevin]

You assume I am a guy because my name is Kevin and we have gender specific names. In reality I am a hermit crab.

[The Big Dog]

Hermit crabs don't have genders?

[Pebbles]

I peed on the doc with my second one.... oh and how she deserved it. She was mean and 'busy" and they needed to put that fetal monitor on the babies head and she knew I was in an unmedicated intense labor (the doc with the epidural was busy and by the time he came around i already had the baby) She was soooo inpatient she couldn't wait until my contraction ended.... NOOOO she was going to do it DURING one. Needless to say her hand hit where it shouldn't of and boom... did she get it. This was totally beyond my control and she knew she blundered LOL

She wasn't my reg doctor btw.. I had my baby 7 weeks early so was transported to a specialty hospital. And I'm really a nice patient (kept saying sorry about screaming after every contraction LOL) she was just in a foul mood.

[kevin]

Hermit crabs don't have genders?

They have sexes, not genders. [insert psychobabblology]

Guy means dude means man.

I figure a hermit crab is either male or female. I haven't been able to determine as I do not know how to check the sex of a hermit crab.

[MomH]

Yoda and Kevin -

Before you can discuss PMS you must start all of the following in the next 1 1/2 hours and continue for two or more days.

Drink enough beer, water, or other liquid to swell your abdominal area to half again its size.

Bang yourself in the head until you are blurry-eyed and have a headache from ----well.

Take uppers and downers, alternating between them every twenty minutes.

Go to the bathroom really, really often.

Induce the beginning pains of an appendicitis attack (not fair going to the hospital.)

Go to the bathroom really, really often. Not that is not a mistake

Gain 5 to 7 pounds.

If, and only if, you complete all these requirements will you be allowed to discuss PMS. It is what a good number of these lovely young women go thru each month (thank goodness, I'm old. )

Discussing birth has another whole set of requirements.

[Pebbles]

Hermit crabs don't have genders?

They have sexes, not genders. [insert psychobabblology]

Guy means dude means man.

I figure a hermit crab is either male or female. I haven't been able to determine as I do not know how to check the sex of a hermit crab.

Maybe your not a hermit crab... maybe your a triop!!

[kevin]

Yoda and Kevin -

Before you can discuss PMS you must start all of the following in the next 1 1/2 hours and continue for two or more days.

Drink enough beer, water, or other liquid to swell your abdominal area to half again its size.

Bang yourself in the head until you are blurry-eyed and have a headache from ----well.

Take uppers and downers, alternating between them every twenty minutes.

Go to the bathroom really, really often.

Induce the beginning pains of an appendicitis attack (not fair going to the hospital.)

Go to the bathroom really, really often. Not that is not a mistake

Gain 5 to 7 pounds.

If, and only if, you complete all these requirements will you be allowed to discuss PMS. It is what a good number of these lovely young women go thru each month (thank goodness, I'm old. )

Discussing birth has another whole set of requirements.

Damn I'm glad I didn't bring sin into the world.

*runs away self preservation kicks in*

[Pebbles]

Yoda and Kevin -

Before you can discuss PMS you must start all of the following in the next 1 1/2 hours and continue for two or more days.

Drink enough beer, water, or other liquid to swell your abdominal area to half again its size.

Bang yourself in the head until you are blurry-eyed and have a headache from ----well.

Take uppers and downers, alternating between them every twenty minutes.

Go to the bathroom really, really often.

Induce the beginning pains of an appendicitis attack (not fair going to the hospital.)

Go to the bathroom really, really often. Not that is not a mistake

Gain 5 to 7 pounds.

If, and only if, you complete all these requirements will you be allowed to discuss PMS. It is what a good number of these lovely young women go thru each month (thank goodness, I'm old. )

Discussing birth has another whole set of requirements.

I must concur!

[The Big Dog]

Hermit crabs don't have genders?

They have sexes, not genders. [insert psychobabblology]

Guy means dude means man.

I figure a hermit crab is either male or female. I haven't been able to determine as I do not know how to check the sex of a hermit crab.

Maybe your not a hermit crab... maybe your a triop!!

Do triops have sexes or genders or whatever?

[kevin]

Triops look funny. I do not look funny. Here I am,

http://www.silvercrowcreations.com/Imag ... tLarge.jpg

only with a bit of crab mixed in

[Pebbles]

Triops look funny. I do not look funny. Here I am,

http://www.silvercrowcreations.com/Imag ... tLarge.jpg

only with a bit of crab mixed in

They are hermaphrodites

Pebbles

[The Big Dog]

Triops look funny. I do not look funny. Here I am,

http://www.silvercrowcreations.com/Imag ... tLarge.jpg

only with a bit of crab mixed in

They are hermaphrodites

Pebbles

Well, would Kevin theoretically be eligible for the PMS discussion then?

[southerngale]

Yoda and Kevin -

Before you can discuss PMS you must start all of the following in the next 1 1/2 hours and continue for two or more days.

Drink enough beer, water, or other liquid to swell your abdominal area to half again its size.

Bang yourself in the head until you are blurry-eyed and have a headache from ----well.

Take uppers and downers, alternating between them every twenty minutes.

Go to the bathroom really, really often.

Induce the beginning pains of an appendicitis attack (not fair going to the hospital.)

Go to the bathroom really, really often. Not that is not a mistake

Gain 5 to 7 pounds.

If, and only if, you complete all these requirements will you be allowed to discuss PMS. It is what a good number of these lovely young women go thru each month (thank goodness, I'm old. )

Discussing birth has another whole set of requirements.

[pojo]

Yoda and Kevin -

Before you can discuss PMS you must start all of the following in the next 1 1/2 hours and continue for two or more days.

Drink enough beer, water, or other liquid to swell your abdominal area to half again its size.

Bang yourself in the head until you are blurry-eyed and have a headache from ----well.

Take uppers and downers, alternating between them every twenty minutes.

Go to the bathroom really, really often.

Induce the beginning pains of an appendicitis attack (not fair going to the hospital.)

Go to the bathroom really, really often. Not that is not a mistake

Gain 5 to 7 pounds.

If, and only if, you complete all these requirements will you be allowed to discuss PMS. It is what a good number of these lovely young women go thru each month (thank goodness, I'm old. )

Discussing birth has another whole set of requirements.

LOL Ain't that the truth!!! If only Pamperin or Midol worked! Get Flexeril for PMS pain... works wonders!

Sorry, haven't had any kids yet.