MSE Pregnancy Club 28

jediquigley

Awww auntie pickle your birth story made me cry. You did extremely well to get so far on the hormone drip , I made it to 4cm before I had an epidural on the drip.

Your comment about was it all worth it. I can totally see where you are coming from. We didn't start thinking about a second till my little guy was a year and then waited till he was nearly two before we started trying. Time does heal and you do forget to a certain degree.

In the future you might want to use the birth afterthoughts service, basically a midwife will talk you through what happened during labour can be a way of closure for some people. I had a birth afterthoughts session only a few weeks ago and I found it helpful. I contacted the supervisor of midwfies at my local hospital to organise this.

wendz86

Good luck for today Janed! Hope all goes well.

Fingers crossed things get moving Jedi.

Claire_A87

Good luck Janed! Thinking of you

Aunty-Pickle

hope everything has gone smoothly for you janed and you're having cuddles with your baby by now

Claire_A87

Just read this and thought it was quite interesting:

http://undercovermidwife.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/paracetamol-and-labour.html?m=1

If for nothing else, that latent phase in labour isn't something that was even talked about in midwifery until very recently! I generally take stuff like this with a pinch of salt, but I'll probably be a bit more aware of being offered generic pills when labour starts up!

Aunty-Pickle

Claire_A87 wrote: »

Just read this and thought it was quite interesting:

http://undercovermidwife.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/paracetamol-and-labour.html?m=1

If for nothing else, that latent phase in labour isn't something that was even talked about in midwifery until very recently! I generally take stuff like this with a pinch of salt, but I'll probably be a bit more aware of being offered generic pills when labour starts up!

interesting - especially as I was having contractions for 9 days and was advised to take paracetamol!

Claire_A87

I read it and thought of you A-P! I did wonder whether you'd been advised to take it. Sorry I didn't see it sooner!

It's not just pregnancy though, paracetamol and ibuprofen are the quick fixes to everything these days...

wendz86

Hope we are all doing ok.

My last day at work tomorrow! My boss isn't in tomorrow so they decorated my desk and gave me cakes and flowers today and we went for lunch which was lovely.

Leaving early tomorrow as got my 36 week appointment.

wendz86

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Aunty-Pickle

claire - I think it's symptomatic of the whole westernised approach to a lot of things - birth included - where the emphasis is on a more controlled, medicalised environment as a whole.

wendz - how lovely! hope you enjoy your last day!