Share your labour experience
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Talk about screaming…
My 3rd was at TMC and their walls are just so thin.
I had a 16 hour ahead of me. Feeling nervous because I can’t have a epidural and it was my 1st natural delivery. Totally confined to bed due to drip. I could hear other mummies giving birth in the other rooms,etc… The worst was a lady who was screaming in mandarin (this seems drama but it’s true)… "Wo bu yao sheng le AHHHHHHHHHHH!" many times. I always feel that it’s too late to change your mind at that stage so just do it.
Though I am "experienced" but hearing her screams was really scary for me. -
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I could hear other mummies giving birth in the other rooms,etc... The worst was a lady who was screaming in mandarin (this seems drama but it's true)... \"Wo bu yao sheng le AHHHHHHHHHHH!\" many times.
:rotflmao: That's really funny. Hee...lucky mine not at TMC, else everyone can hear liao. I didn't hear any screaming for both my deliveries so probably the walls are quite thick and solid over at Mt Alvernia.
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Mine. Both labour are at TMC.
1st baby - No real pain but cervical plug dropped out and I went to gynae to check and he told me 1-2 cm dilated asked me to admit hospital the next morning at 7am. Then, put me on 1 bottle of drip in the birth room. Felt the pain gradually and hubby kept asking me to breathe properly. I didn’t op of epidual despite of the intense pain. I followed the gynae instruction and was on gas mask. Felt so tired and goggy and no more strength to push. Gynae decided to vaccumm him. When I saw him, his head was enlongated. I could feel doctor snip me twice and saw him sew on me. Dun feel pain cos I have already feel so painful already.
2nd baby - The night before gave birth, my cervical plug dropped and feel the contraction slightly. Gynae checked on me before when I visited him morning and I was 1cm dilated. I could fall asleep as the pain gone off that night. Then, the next morning, my pain came again but I could still bear it. Just feel like passing motion so went toilet but nothing. The contraction became stronger and stronger and I was having my dinner. I quickly took a quick bath cos cannot bath for 2 weeks after gave birth. I told my hubby that I the pain was getting intense and feel anytime can give birth. So, my hubby grab my bag and call a cab rushing to TMC. Then, nurse checked on me when in waiting room. She told me I was 8cm dilate and she quickly prepared birth room. The nurse rush for gynae and I was in great pain already and I told them I feel baby is coming out anytime. But nurse asked me to hold and wait for gynae to arrive. But how to hold? II also never op for epidural and only ask them to give me gas mask. And when gynae arrive he quickly helped me and I gave birth within 1 hour. This time 1 snip and saw him sew on me again!
Sorry for my long-winded. -
My two kids are natural birth with no epidural.Maybe trying to be tough, as always tell myself, the older generation no need, why should I need…thus go thr it despite gynae says epidural is better.
DD,after six hours of labour pain, she arrived.
DS, hubby not in town, I arrived hospital, within 15 mins, I delivered.
All in all, contraction is worst than giving birth. -
[quote]I believe that the strong desire and willingness to go thru so much pain for the baby could just be a natural but primitive motherly instinct. However over times, it has also become a transformational and perhaps even sacificial ritual that \"promotes\" girls to mothers. Hence, the strong urge in my wife to complete the ritual. WHat do you mothers think?[/quote]
Given the chance, I dont want to go through the horror again. When the gynae told me to check in to the hospital at night for my 2nd delivery, I immediately called up my girl friend and started sobbing. On the way to hospital, the feeling of dread started sinking in cause the long labour pain was still fresh in my mind.
I should opt for epidural but my dainty mum was telling me there is no need too cause she \"mrs dainty\" is strong enough to endure the pain :faint:
I dont have anything except laughing gas which doctor asked me to ease off the use cause I wont have any strength if I used too much. The pain was simply very very raw.
heutismeintag, nothing great about having pains for hours.
Sunflower wrote [quote]Finally get to experience it for the 3rd child when it was all natural. You can feel the gynae sewing (in and out) but it's not excruciating pain. I realised that's just not the most painful moment. We had experienced so much more prior to that, that the sewing is actually manageable. [/quote]Totally agree. Not that I have 3 childrens. But the excrutiating pain is the part of labour. Once the baby is out, nothing feels as painful. However, during the first delivery, when I saw the gynae picking up her needle & about to sew, I actually ask \"Hey! What are you doing?\" My hands were
already trying to reach out in protest. -
Realised that almost all posts ended with an apology for long post.
Goes to show that after all these years, mommies still remembers all the details of each birth.
:udawoman: to all mommies who delivered without epidural.
I m very thankful to the wonderful midwife who attended to me and her advise on epidural
to help me coped with the contractions to enable a smooth and relatively quick delivery.
My sis is of small build and she had quite a long delivery as bb is 1 week overdue and big (3.6kg)
My sis was 44 kg b4 preg and 65kg just b4 birth. My BIL almost :faint: during delivery and
he is the one who say no more, factory close becos it was too traumatic for him :laugh: -
One interesting observation is that though we still remember what happened. But we cannot remember the "pain" that well.
There’s some saying that women are forgetful. They forget the pain of childbirth after a while and would go for it again… -
I am those kind who will not scream like hell when I am in pain. While having contractions, I kept very quiet and closed my eyes to stay calm. However, hubby kept talking to me to check I was ok until I really had to shut him up. I shouted at him, "How can I talk so much when I’m in pain!". Felt really sorry that he gotto be my "chu qi tong" ! But then, that’s what hubby is for, right? hahaha.
I wonder if any daddies here had their wives screamed at them, bit them, squeezed their arm etc etc while in labour, just like those shown in the dramas? -
Read in The New Paper yesterday that there’re people who actually post their birth procedure online on YouTube! The Singapore couple cited reasons such as to share their birth experience with others and also to "store" it so that when their child grows up and ask how he was born, they could just refer him to YouTube!
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sunflower:
Read in The New Paper yesterday that there're people who actually post their birth procedure online on YouTube! The Singapore couple cited reasons such as to share their birth experience with others and also to \"store\" it so that when their child grows up and ask how he was born, they could just refer him to YouTube!
Few months after my C-section, discussed with DH about it and we wondered what I've went thru under the knife so he downloaded some videos from YouTube for 'reference'. It's really scary watching them! At least I had an idea how many layers are cut and stitched back. :!:
Most videos I've watched are the Ang Mohs.
You mean surgeons/docs/hospitals in S'pore allow parents to video the birth procedure (natural & C-section)?
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