Pregnancy Forum - to Push Or Not to Push?

melissa_20 wrote:

kia_breizzze wrote:

it's gonna have to be something deadly serious to ever make me give birth on a bed on my back

so how do you plan on giving birth kia?

it's gonna be a water birth come hell or high water and if I have to do it at home in the bat tub so be it Twisted Evil

no, my local hospital support water births and have some fantastic birthing pools.

When water birthing you are encouraged to kneel or squat using the side of the pool for support. The water supports your muscles and takes the weight off you as well.

If water birthing wasn't available my second choice would be using a birthing ball, crouching, kneeling, squatting.
Arching your back when pushing puts things in a better alignment.

And given that I take pain better than I take pain meds it'll be drug free. Nothing scares the bee jeezus out of me more than the idea of some cowboy sticking a potentially paralysing needle into my back - uh huh no way not on this earth.

I've learnt to completely control migraines with breathing I can actually stop a migraine from coming on by breathing through it.
I've lived and walked with a ruptured uterus for 4 weeks (including working full time) and not taken pain meds. When techincally, if you listen to the hospital staff, they were suprised I was walking unaided let alone not dead. And i'd classed that pain as a 3-4 on a scale of 1-10.
I've quit drinking and smoking at the same time and never used any assistance.

I've got a strong determined focus and once I decide something it takes heaven and hell to sway me.

I'm not hard, in fact for minor pain i'm a wimp, but my brain for some reason doesn't register major pain, hence with complete wound dehisience and having to have my wound packed daily I never used pain meds because I didn't feel I needed them and I don't feel they help.

I've had morphine a few times and to be honest it has no effect on pain for me - so if it doesn't work I can't justify taking it.

I'm guessing it's part of a chemical imbalance in my brain where I don't register or feel real pain.

Steve has come to realise now, that if a pain is bad enough to have me crying (pain I call a 2-3) is actually an 8-9 and if i'm in too much pain to cry (pain I call 3-4) it's well over a 10.

I've trapped nerves in my shoulder, tore my rotator cuff muscle and twisted ribs in a horseriding accident, i've had bones in my hand broken when a horse trod on my hand and simply refused meds because most pain I can control with breathing.