dustbunny responded June 17, 2008 at 6:28AM

  dishing the dirt, cleaning the chaos

oh, boy. the classes didn't do squat for my "plan"-
I did one w/out pain medication but lots of pitocin..then two with epidurals. I had a GREAT experience on the epidural. I was relaxed, happy and everything went well.

  rockergirrl responded June 17, 2008 at 7:31AM

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I took a childbirth class and educated myself like crazy on birthing because it was important to me to have a natural childbirth with little intervention if possible. I had a midwife and birthed in a hospital. I had short labors for both of my births so I didn't even have the option for medication if I wanted it.

  newby123 responded June 17, 2008 at 1:40PM

  

I planned on getting an epidural from day one. I am no hero and I consider myself a wimp when it comes to pain. On the day of my sons delivery I was induced at 9am. By noon I was having regular contractions that were increasing in frequency to about 2min apart. I held off on the epidural because I wanted to be able to walk around, go to the bathroom on my own, take baths etc...I held out until 6pm. What finally made me ask for the epidural was on my last walk around the halls I heard this woman moaning. She sounded like she was dying...it scared me enough to say I don't want to get there give me the epi...My son wasn't born until 1154pm that night. I was relaxed, laughing and excited the entire time.

  RainbowDash responded July 11, 2008 at 4:00PM

  They're cute when they're alseep!

Oh yeah they made it clear it was our choice, and gave us knowledge about options.

  EugenS responded September 15, 2008 at 2:13PM

  

My wife and I have talked about this, and the epidural is a must. I don't want her to be in a lot of pain.