MSE Pregnancy Club VI

honeypop

feelinggood wrote: »

Also - anyone have any thoughts or ideas about kneeling while in labour? Try as I might, I cannot seem to overcome my fear of the bed, and I'm tempted to ask them to get rid of it. Don't know if they'll allow that, and let me have a matress on the floor. Other option would be kneeling on the floor?

I've just finished a yoga in pregnancy course, where it focussed on alternative positions for labour and the birth, and the lady said not many people do just lay on the beds anymore, more popular positions are kneeling on the floor leaning on a chair with your forearms on the seat, kneeling on all fours, or kneeling leaning on the bed, or even standing/squatting against the wall. So kneeling is absolutely fine. They wouldn't let you put a mattress on the floor, but we were told if we wanted to not use the bed then to take something soft like a yoga/fitness mat and some pillows (that you don't mind getting dirty lol) so your knees can be comfy and the delivery staff normally have no problem with this at all.

Krystaltips

FG, they tend to have a selection of chairs and things in the delivery suite for you to make yourself comfy with, I doubt they'd remove the bed but there's nothing to stop you kneeling in front of a chair / birth ball etc if you want to...

tiamai_d

Shoptpdrop, sorry about the loss. You seem to be taking it well though which is good, but like feelie said, if you do need support later on its there for you.

Feelie, my friend gave birth on all fours/knees leaning against a chair/her OH, so you don't have to get on the bed if you don't want too.

My husband is a two faced fud. Seems like today is the day for me to be let down by everyone, and yes I am feeling sorry for myself, and yes, right now I hate him and guess what? He's went out. There's a suprise, when the going gets tough he gets going.

tarajayne

Shoppie, so sorry, please take care. X

Feelie, DD I had kneeling on the floor, DS I had laid on bed even though I asked not to be laid back but OH forgot. DD was much easier to push out!

weezl74

starbump wrote: »

We're not due till the 9th but I'm sooo keen for baby to come out soon. Any good tips to pass on? Old wives' tales, etc. OBG has promised to induce if I reeeally want to, which has taken the edge off desperation, but... I still want him out! Have tried: fresh pineapple, curry, raspberry leaf tea, "what caused this state", and walking for ages. Oh, and am still nursing baby #1 if that is relevant. I realise we are not overdue (and huge sympathies to anyone who is) but the bump isn't getting any smaller or lighter! Yes, I know I clearly have no patience...

castor oil, lobster, and nipple stimulation! The last two contain or release prostaglandins which is the chemical in semen which makes labour more likely to start. Goodness knows about the other one!

All the best with that, can you have yours on the 5th and I'll have mine on the 9th? Swapping due dates, that'd be good

Shoppie, sorry about that. thinking of you.

Tiamai, grrrrrrr :mad: female mafia support re: your OH. Mine insulted me in front of my parents today, went and had a cry!

shop-to-drop

Thanks everyone. I really am fine don't worry and don't stop chit chatting. I think the yoga birth sounds great. My second was born kneeling it did help. His waters only broke just as he was being pushed out so I think he had a nice cushioned birth. My husband enjoyed that birth too because he could see his little face as he was coming out. My other two I was on a drip so had to lie on my back which wasn't as much fun.

Thanks again for all the support.

redmel1621

Shoppie, sorry to hear your news:(

I was stuck on the bed with ds1 with 2 drips an epidural and heart monitor all sticking out of various parts of me...

ds2 I walked and walked, and then just leaned against dh and the bed when pushing, being more or less upright definitely helped him out:) I plan to 'walk this one out' too:D

Mel x

weezl74

redmel1621 wrote: »

ds2 I walked and walked, and then just leaned against dh and the bed when pushing, being more or less upright definitely helped him out:) I plan to 'walk this one out' too:D

Mel x

Hi Mel, hope you don't mind a bit of advice giving to a first timer like me ;), when you say walked and walked, d'you mean around the house and up and down stairs, or did you get your coat and go round the park? Just wondering how near home/hospital you felt you needed to be? Did you walk til your contractions made you think you were 4cm? What did you do when you had a strong one?

I'm sure these are all such naive questions that any non-first timers are now laughing at me!

Weezl x

astonsmummy

feelinggood wrote: »

I wonder if the pains are BH contractions. That is what the midwife said, but I don't get a hard, tight bump like I did in the beginning. I remember getting them occasionally earlier on (after sex ) and my bump would go very hard and tight. These feel just like period pains.

Also - anyone have any thoughts or ideas about kneeling while in labour? Try as I might, I cannot seem to overcome my fear of the bed, and I'm tempted to ask them to get rid of it. Don't know if they'll allow that, and let me have a matress on the floor. Other option would be kneeling on the floor?

I was told that the period like pains are just the stretching of the tummy, mines still quite tender to touch.
I gwt BH's all the bloody time it does me head in!

I was chatting to midwife and one of the positions that it recommended for SPD sufferers is kneeling on all fours so thats feesable, although i dunno about a matress on the floor!

Krystaltips

Weezl, I walked from the hospital to a shopping precinct just outside the town... The midwife went a bit white when we told her where we'd been, apparently she could of gotten in trouble if anything had happened to me because I'd been admitted... She never told me I couldn't leave the hospital... Oh and I had no idea how dilated I was at any point...

Apart from that, spent my labour on my knees on the bed leaning on a birth ball... Then went into the pool and leaned over the side... When it came to pushing I flipped over onto my back, don't know why... But Aimee tore her way out in 3 pushes...