Has anyone heard of this (labour related)

rosalie-lavender

splishsplash wrote: »

Maybe the mother had her labour chemically accelerated? She may have gone into labour, stalled, then had a drip put up to restart/intensify the contractions, thereby allowing the baby to, em, slide out?

I had to have my first labour chemically accelerated. Sadly he didn't just slip out, it took me another hour of pushing on top of the two I had already had.:eek:

System

rosalie-lavender wrote: »

I had to have my first labour chemically accelerated. Sadly he didn't just slip out, it took me another hour of pushing on top of the two I had already had.:eek:

My third pregnancy was chemically accelerated. Still blasted hurt though.

I wonder if she meant having the prostin gel? They gave me the prostin gel to induce my first. She shot out Still painful though.:(

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Accelerated? They're not racing cars. Although, going by some stories I've heard about small babies practically flying out with one contraction, I do wonder sometimes.


Augmented, I think, is the correct word.

coolcait

Maybe one of those tough situations where the friend genuinely believes that she was 'chemically removed' from her mother and that her mother was given a drug to 'get the baby to just slide out'.

You and your daughter (and MSE readers) can roll about laughing all we want. But, is it for any of us to tell the friend that her birth story is no more true than "the stork brought you", or "we found you in the cabbage patch"?

Adult women don't always share all the gory details of their birth stories with each other. So why would they share all of those details with their daughters? Especially when it's gory details like "yeah, you practically ripped me in two when you were born. etc etc" :eek:
I've had an extraordinarily easy birth , and a shockingly difficult, painful and stressful birth. To name two.

As a woman, I'd be more inclined to tell my daughter about the birth where the baby 'practically' slipped out, rather than the one where the very small delivery room seemed to be packed with medical professionals, and the baby was dragged out kicking (baby - thankfully) and screaming (me - wish I'd had a GA).

Soleil_lune

Toto wrote: »

I would be a very popular midwife if I could facilitate babies just slipping out. Not to mention very wealthy when I marketed that potion Perhaps I could follow it up with the snap instantly into size 6 jeans potion :rotfl:

Slipping back into a size 14 would be OK with me! :eek:

Re the OP. I have never heard of this before, but I am more concerned with your avatar having a CHRISTMAS THEME> Its only JUNE!:eek: (isn't it???)

Soleil_lune

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Accelerated? They're not racing cars. Although, going by some stories I've heard about small babies practically flying out with one contraction, I do wonder sometimes.

Maybe it's the brandy, but that made me PMSL! :rotfl:

aliasojo

coolcait wrote: »

You and your daughter (and MSE readers) can roll about laughing all we want. But, is it for any of us to tell the friend that her birth story is no more true than "the stork brought you", or "we found you in the cabbage patch"?

I just wish for once you would actually respond based only on what's written.

You have a knack for taking an innocent situation and turning it into something it's not.

Don't get me wrong, what you say seems reasonable enough on the surface, but when you really look at it, it's usually based on aspects which you add in, rather than what's there.

aliasojo

Soleil_lune wrote: »

Slipping back into a size 14 would be OK with me! :eek:

Re the OP. I have never heard of this before, but I am more concerned with your avatar having a CHRISTMAS THEME> Its only JUNE!:eek: (isn't it???)

I'm cutting back on my workload by not changing it. :rotfl:

Actually, it's been there all year, I couldn't find my usual 'through the year' plain one that I usually change back into after Xmas and I just never got round to looking for a new one.