MSE Pregnancy Club 20

delain

Well it's me posting again

I had a voucher in an email, for thornton's, and I know how much PG ladies love chocolate so I'm posting it here.

Free Premium Collection 473g (worth £11.99) when you spend £10 code BMVC

Free Ultimate Indulgence (worth £24.99) when you spend £25 code EMVC

Hope this helps someone

tinkwings

Purple I am so sorry for your loss sending you all the love in the world xoxo

chickywiggle

Ohh PP I am SOOO sorry, I hope you get lots of love and support to see you through this time.

spaghetti_monster wrote: »

Hi ladies,

The room seemed nice - they have gym balls, birthing stool, rope available.

sorry i had to laugh.....:rotfl::rotfl:...... what are you supposed to do with the rope in labour?? I certainly didn't feel up to skipping around the room.... hanging myself maybe. or is it to tie around babies feet to evict them??

annibee

Sorry for your loss purple.... I hope you are surrounded by love and support at this time.

Congrats on the new babys born Sophie and any others I missed

Im so fed up at the moment everythings just getting on top of me and to make matters worse all the usual high stress times just happen to be happening all at once! Pregnancy, stressfull job, redundancy of oh and now threatened redundancy for me, a load of work needed doing on both the car and the house as neither are performing how they should be, family issues including one very ill member, a open uni course thats proving more difficult than it needs to be and generally feeling ill........ phew

now my sad little moan is over please excuse me while i go scream then cry

Hope eveyone else, bumps and babys are doing well and feeling good. xx

DueMarch11

Y'know I can't for the life of me think what on earth you would use a rope for lol

chickywiggle

OHHH I have been enligtened with a google search

Birthing Rope Revolutionizing Labor, Delivery
North Carolina Nurse Invents Birthing Rope
Newlin Archinal

POSTED: 4:20 p.m. EDT August 1, 2003
UPDATED: 4:45 p.m. EDT August 1, 2003

PITTSBURGH -- Any woman who has given birth knows how difficult labor can be.


Now a nurse has found a way to revolutionize labor and delivery that can cut that pushing time to
minutes.


It's called the Benson Birthing Rope and was invented by Shirley Benson, a labor and delivery nurse
in North Carolina.


The mom pulls on the rope when she pushes.


"It takes the pushing from your face where you would normally push and puts it in your pelvic area.
It isolates the growing muscle," Benson said.


The rope is 5 feet long and made of a soft, manmade fiber with a specially-sized knot for the mom to
hold on to.

Stacey Gardner remembers how hard pushing was when she had her first child.


"It's really hard to concentrate and it's really hard to you know to make sure your pushing --
especially when you have an epidural cause you can't feel anything," Gardner said.


When Gardner was in labor with her second child, she started using the rope when she was fully
dilated -- after about eight hours.


The rope went on her wrist and the nurse held the other end.


The nurse managed the pushes.


"Don't try to pull yourself up in the bed -- just pull on the knot and undouble it," Benson said.


While Gardner was pulling, her pelvic muscles were pushing and the pushes were much more effective.


The hospital says no one has pushed more than 45 minutes using the rope, instead of the typical two
to three hours.



Also this rope means doctors almost never need a vacuum extractor.


Gardner pushed through only two contractions and on the third -- after just six minutes of pushing
-- a healthy baby girl was born.


Right now, the Benson Birthing Rope is being used at several hospitals in North Carolina, but it is
gaining exposure nationwide.

Evansangel

We have a similar thing to the rope, but its more of a hard plastic loop shaped thing. But you pull on it to help push, as the mw demonstrated lol

iceicebaby

Ooo I quite like the idea of that rope now I have read about it. Wonder if I can request one for when I give birth.

chickywiggle

iceicebaby wrote: »

Ooo I quite like the idea of that rope now I have read about it. Wonder if I can request one for when I give birth.

me too - tho i can think of better places to attach it then the nurses wrist!!

gratefulforhelp_2

Why was the woman lying down on the bed?