Dannzibelle
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Starting a Birth Plan
Posted: 01-01-07 16:40pm
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I've been thining about my birth plan
recently, pain relief, place etc is it way
to early to start planning the birth or
should I just write things down as I think
off them? Just wondering what you guys
did thanks
danni x
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Kia
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Posted: 01-01-07 16:41pm
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Ohh i've got a web plan somewhere that I
found for it - let me go look where it
is.
Basically you fill in loads of questions
and it gives you your birth plan to print
off - it covers everything 
here's one clicky
clicky
if you google "birth plan" it brings up
quite a few.
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 01-01-07 16:45pm
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Thank you kia i've just had a few thoughts
recently and wondered how soon everyone
else started planning
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:05pm
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I didnt plan I just go with da flow...
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:07pm
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So did you not state anything what you
wanted just went with how you felt when it
was actually happening? I'm not going to
make a long one just a few points
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oh_mommy
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:12pm
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Pretty much yes..... I never wrote
anything down, all I wanted was shawn with
me, thats all I really cared about...
When its actually happening its alot
differnt then u expect, I didnt want an
epidural, but when hard labour hit I kept
saying I wanted it, I didnt care about a
lil prick in the back anymore...
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:14pm
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I think i'll just tell whoever it is when
I go to hospital that I only ant dom with
me no other family, i'm going to
breastfeed and to hold off pain relief for
as long as poss and try to stick to gas
and air
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Kia
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:15pm
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A lot of people don't but I sure will.
I have a lot of specifics that I do not
want - I really really do not want
un-needful medical intervention.
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Dannzibelle
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:17pm
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| kia_breizzze
wrote: | a lot of people don't but I
sure will.
I have a lot of specifics that I do not
want - I really really do not want
un-needful medical
intervention. |
i'm the same as you kia I don't want pain
relief unless it really does get
unbearable, and really really don't want a
c section unless it is absulutly
neccessery because one of our lives is at
risk
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Posted: 01-01-07 17:23pm
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That was really helpfull kia thank you
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Posted: 01-01-07 18:17pm
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I didn't have a plan at all. I just went
in thinking i'd go with it and ask for an
epidural when and if I needed one. I
ended up with a c-section though after 14
hours of hard labor, there was no avoiding
it.
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Posted: 01-01-07 18:31pm
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I didn't have a plan either - I figured I
would just go with the flow and see what
happened. My intentions were to try
without pain relief but once my
contractions really kicked in I was glad
of the gas and air and the pethidine.
Still bloody hurt though! 
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Posted: 01-01-07 19:58pm
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| purestgreen
wrote: | | i didn't have a plan either
- I figured I would just go with the flow
and see what happened. My intentions
were to try without pain relief but once
my contractions really kicked in I was
glad of the gas and air and the pethidine.
Still bloody hurt though! |
same here.... And the ripping dosnt help
the pain at all lol...
Gah, I was so happy once I saw reese thou,
even thou I had a weird feeling down there
cause the doc was stiching me up...
Weirdest feeling ever!
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Kia
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Posted: 01-01-07 20:06pm
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Now y'see gas and air is like a major
no-no for me.
It is the most disgusting foul stuff ever
invented and i'm much happier to deal with
the pain than taste that crap - which I
decided tastes like eating your own vomit
after a night on the cider 
and then as well morphine does not help me
with pain in the slightest, but it does
make me do bright green projectile
vomitting (the anti-emetic they like to
give with it to stop you puking - makes me
puke more).
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Posted: 01-03-07 02:27am
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Kia, demerol and phenergan would probably
work for you. I don't think theyreally
use gas very often in the .U.S. I don't
know why but that just doesn't sound safe.
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Kia
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Posted: 01-03-07 05:25am
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| laurensentourage
wrote: | | kia, demerol and phenergan
would probably work for you. I don't
think theyreally use gas very often in the
.U.S. I don't know why but that just
doesn't sound safe. |
i hate pain relief
opiates just don't agree with me at all.
I've used breathing and water as pain
relief for many things including migraine
and for the pain I was in when my uterus
ruptured.
Which is why I know I want to be able to
labour and give birth in water, I hate
people near me, so I know I want as little
medical intervention as possible.
And I know I do not want to be in a
hospital bed on my back lol
i picture soft lighting, steve and my mom
in there during the labour but just my mom
when I give birth.
And we'll talk crap the whole time.
If I want further pain relief i'll take
accupressure first.
I'm so used to background noise at home,
that in a hospital or birth center it'd
probably be too quiet so i'd take along
someting like the "woman" cd or shakira,
something that can be played low just to
take the edge of the lack of normal noise.
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