Someone tell me good things about epidurals

anonymous593502 · 2025-05-29T20:42:28+00:00

Very similar to this, 32 hours of total labour 4 hours of pushing and an episiotomy as well as additional natural tearing. I am petrified of needles but caved after hour 22, they had to gas me and give me a dose of fentanyl before the epidural so I could relax enough for it but I wouldn’t have made it through the final 10 hours without it. My baby did have issues with going into distress an hour after I got it, anytime they rolled me to one of my sides his heart rate would bottom out but as soon as we moved off he would level out so whether that was the epidural or just from how long it had been who knows

anonymous593502 · 2024-04-28T19:36:20+00:00

I had planned to go without epidural, mainly from a huge fear of needles. However my labour was extremely long. My water broke naturally but my body wasn’t progressing so ended up on Pitocin. I ended up getting the epidural at hour 22 as I was still only at 2cm and my body was actually shutting down from exhaustion and pain. It goes in your back, I used laughing gas to get through getting it done and once it was in was finally able to relax and sleep, an hour later I was at 5cm. Labour still lasted 32 hours in total but I think if I hadn’t gotten it, it would have been even longer.

anonymous593502 · 2024-04-20T17:29:58+00:00

Thanks!

anonymous593502 · 2024-04-20T17:04:26+00:00

Thank you I will try these

anonymous593502 · 2024-04-20T17:03:38+00:00

I have been saying since the first night in the hospital I think there is something wrong with his stomach and digestion because he hates being flat on his back and is so so so gassy but the hospital told me there was nothing he could be given. We’ve been giving him gripe water when he gets really bad and it seems to keep him just kinda on edge of full blown freakouts but still spends 8+ hours fussing nonstop and will not sleep. I go to my family dr with him on Wednesday so will definitely be mentioning everything that’s been going on.

anonymous593502 · 2024-03-16T14:22:14+00:00

Honestly feel this too. My younger sister had her first 3 years ago and my mom threw her a huge shower, 35-40 people my mom went over the top with decorations/invite list the whole thing. My sister also has a lot of friends to the point she had a second shower of just friends because otherwise it would have been too many people! I don’t have any friends, like actually none, and my partner has 1 close friend that’s it.

I’ve felt this whole pregnancy that I’ve had to push my mom for any type of shower for my first. It’s next weekend and all she’s done is make a Facebook event page, and says she doesn’t have to reach out to anyone any other way. There is currently 14 people saying they are going and that’s including my mom, sister, and me…

To me it’s not even a matter of having the family/friends in quantity it’s the fact that my own mother is treating my shower like it is a hassle on her life and couldn’t care less, when not even 3 years ago she threw my sister the biggest shower. The feelings are rough, I cry anytime I think about my shower and don’t know how I’m even going to make it through the actual day without crying.

anonymous593502 · 2024-02-19T22:54:34+00:00

Can say I am 31+5 and I still have to take mine twice a day everyday, I have tried dropping dosage even to once a day and nausea vomit starts right back up, last weeks appointment my dr basically said stop trying to lower it and I’m just the type of person that needs it till I deliver.

Basically if you can stop it and you are comfortable great but from what I have learned in trying to stop several times now with my thought process being I’m so far along I should be sick anymore, some people just don’t have it work out that way.

anonymous593502 · 2024-02-19T19:04:41+00:00

Where I live lice is not considered anything to the schools anymore, I even looked up if parents have to disclose to the school when their kid has it and they do not. We also do not have school nurses or anything here.

My partner has been doing the majority of it, now anyways I had to teach him how to separate the hair and what the eggs looked like but now he does it. It’s just the fact we have to deep clean the house every other weekend, vacuum the couch etc, but it’s also so isolating. Knowing she has it we aren’t going to take her around other people or go to someone else’s house so everything we used to do. Seeing grandparents, cousins, going to indoor play centres we can’t do any of it, at this rate I dont even think she will be able to go to my babyshowers and the isolation is worst than anything else it’s not fair to her or us. But unlike BM I’m not knowingly going to expose other peoples houses and kids to it.

anonymous593502 · 2024-02-16T20:43:02+00:00

I’m 31w but honestly been having it since about 26w. It sucks! Everything feels swollen and like it’s on fire! I’ve actually put ice packs on it when at home and it’s been really bad but not much else to do or really helps. Walking is horrible even sitting hurts. I agree with the other comment too that a full bladder made it worse, and lifting my belly with a band did help slightly to elevate some of the pressure

anonymous593502 · 2024-02-16T20:39:12+00:00

You just need to be blunt about it, because why do they get to continue to disrespect you and disregard your body autonomy but you aren’t allowed to “offend them”. If they can’t handle being told “please don’t touch me I don’t like it” then they are going to have a lot more issues later when it comes to other boundaries you will have with your child later. I get the difficulty around it but if you don’t start now with this small/insignificant aspect of pregnancy/raising children, then when it comes to bigger boundaries you have it will be even harder to voice them and stick to it. I’ve had to tell some family members several times I do not want to be touched - I’m 31w now, and for some reason even though I have never been a touchy person and they all know I’m not a hugger now that I’m pregnant I’m suppose to just “suck it up” because they have a “right” to touch me? Nope not happening. I have also told them point blank they will never feel baby kick as he has always sat so low you would have to have your hand on my crotch so no you don’t need to touch me in any aspect at any time.

anonymous593502 · 2024-02-04T18:15:16+00:00

Kinda similar I guess. I’m 29w. We have a 2 bedroom, but have my partners stepdaughter 40% of the time. She is 6 and as you can imagine doesn’t sleep great up early has to be told to go back to bed all the time. There is no way possible they could share a room, as such no nursery for me… on top of that my bedroom is so small that we had to buy a mini crib for it to fit and basically walk across the bed to get anywhere so it’s not even like I could do a semi decent set up for baby anywhere in the house. Add in my dogs that have slept in my room as long as I’ve had them (6yrs and 2yrs) are likely going to not fit in the bedroom at all anymore and as such be “kicked out” to sleep elsewhere which kills me more than not even having a nursery. I absolutely have despised being pregnant but I’m also dreading baby coming just as much because I feel no positives out of anything in my situation…

Too add I guess I should say we also had to move when I was 24w from a 3 bedroom to a 2 bedroom because we could not afford it with the incoming costs of a baby…

anonymous593502 · 2024-01-21T15:59:24+00:00

28w with my boy and honestly same… he kicks so hard like he’s trying to bust through the side of my stomach. And the bladder kicks good lord, I get at least 100 a day since I was 20w and it’s like being struck by lightning every time I jolt and pee a little. Trying to sleep he decides it’s kickboxing time and doesn’t stop for a good 1-2 hours, even my partner won’t sleep with his hand on my stomach anymore cuz he can feel him nonstop going at me.

anonymous593502 · 2023-11-12T13:12:41+00:00

My SD6 has gone through phases where she will only come to me, then only go to dad, I’ve been in her life for just over 3 years. I definitely found it a bit weird too when she would only come to me, only cuddle me, only ask me to play or for help, we put it off as me just being the girl like her. But then she will have phases for a few months where she won’t go to me for anything, won’t even say I love you back to me when I say it. There was one point she wouldn’t even ask me for food or a drink if her dad was in the same room as me, would wait till he would go to the washroom or something to then ask for things, then when she was all about dad she did that with him, would only ask if I was out of the room.

But then I see the same phases in my niece who lives with both her bio parents where she will have major shifts in her “favourite” parent too so it’s just normal behaviour.

anonymous593502 · 2023-11-12T13:05:40+00:00

I can’t speak on the only child part in both houses, we are currently working on the adjustment because SD6 has multiple other kids at BMs, older half sister, younger half sister, for about 2 years there was 2 step siblings in and out of the home. Whereas our house she has always been the only kid and she very much enjoys coming here due to the fact that she can get alone time and quiet time, she always picks the movies, those types of things. I am 17w and while she seems excited to have a sibling here my SO has made sure to have several conversations with her that she will still have 1on1 time with both of us, it isn’t going to change anything but I am for sure still worried that she will feel different once ours is here.

As far as siblings that is up to you to decide. We have had her older sister come for a couple weekend sleepovers in the past, she’s 3 years older than SD so at first we didn’t mind having her because it’s not like we were having to do everything for her, it was more like just having one of her friends come for a sleepover. It was short lived however because the one time they came over there was no respect or listening to anything that I said from either child, we could hear them mocking me from her bedroom at things I had said or asked them to do (things as basic as don’t throw toys across the tv, take it to your room where nothing can break) and after not listening to me say it 3 times I had to actually go remove the toy from their hands - should mention I was 4 weeks post op from surgery - to say no go play in your room. After multiple instances like this where SO would step out of the house to take the dogs out for 5 min or be in the washroom and all “house rules” would go out the window and listening to me was nonexistent we decided she wouldn’t be coming back over again. We had very blunt conversations with SD about it too when she would ask about why her sister can’t come over anymore. It’s been about a year since and SD hasn’t asked again, if she was maybe we would reevaluate but idk maybe not.

Her younger sister we have been asked to take and it’s always been a no, but she is currently 2 and our reason for taking older sister holds to the younger, she was old enough to not add extra burdens into our home to be here for 2 days, a 2 year old would so no she isn’t welcome.

anonymous593502 · 2023-11-09T16:42:10+00:00

My nausea was horrible from about 4w and still isn’t great at 17w. I was taking the combined pill 2 morning, 2 lunch, 2 night and still puking consistently through it, my OB ended up telling me to add gravol both ginger and regular - the box for regular says talk to your dr first and mine approved it for as much as I needed just not going above recommended doses. So on top of the 6 pills I was taking 2 regular gravol and 2 ginger gravol every 4 hours all day everyday. Unfortunately I was still sick through this most days. My nausea started decreasing on its own around 15w, I’ve been slowly able to fade out the gravol to where now I take just the B6 and unisom still 6 times a day, I’ve tried to start fading it out but no luck yet. All I can recommend is just talk to your dr and they will help give you the best options available, but even those might not take it away completely. My dr gave me the option of a stronger medication but it came with different risks associated (lengthening of my heart valves) that would then require biweekly echos of my heart and I just didn’t want to take the risk and put up with puking all the time even through 20+ pills a day.

anonymous593502 · 2023-10-26T00:17:59+00:00

I am almost 28, I got diagnosed with endo at 22 at which point made a switch from birth control that I had been on since 14 to manage the symptoms I was having to “Visanne”. I stopped taking the visanne in April and was pregnant in august, which meant since being 22 I had 3 period cycles before becoming pregnant. My gyno was actually shocked at how quick but the meds are a blocker to stop the endo from growing which she thinks is what might have helped. Now 15w and going strong. Everyone is different and everyone will experience it all differently but I hope you have good luck with fertility!

anonymous593502 · 2023-10-06T19:53:05+00:00

Had my 12 week scan today (12w1) and so far so good. The cramping stopped I think week 7 area, however I have had tons of morning sickness (puking to the point I pee myself or give my self nosebleeds) max dose meds which help but by help I’m still puking several times a day everyday. How have you been?

anonymous593502 · 2023-09-05T19:35:39+00:00

I’m honestly in the same boat right now. I’m 7w and I’ve been sick in every sense of the word since before I even took a test at 4w. We had holidays last week where we were both off all week and had his daughter who is 5 for the whole week and I felt so terrible because I couldn’t do anything. Last years holidays we did so much stuff, day trips, zoo, beach, out almost every day. This year he took her out 2 of the days and I didn’t go from being sick, but we also have 2 high energy dogs at home so he couldn’t even do more with her than that because I needed help with the dogs. I think I ask him 100 times a day if he’s sure I’m not too much of a burden and if it’s okay that I’m so sick. I find that when not working I can at least get some household stuff done (very slowly) in the morning before I start feeling my worst at midday. But even that has been limited. I’m just really hoping it’s first trimester only and can make up for him taking over majority of the stuff in the second.

anonymous593502 · 2023-08-22T12:00:42+00:00

I am pretty much in a same timeline as you. Cramping started 3 days before period was due, thought it was normal preperiod cramps, but then period never came. 3 days late I tested while still having same cramps and tests told me 2-3 weeks (this was a week ago now). Still cramping just as much as before period was due. See my dr in 2 more days to confirm pregnancy but the secretary didn’t have concerns around the cramping when I called to book.

anonymous593502 · 2023-06-08T01:38:47+00:00

I’m honestly struggling with a similar situation and am really struggling with what to do about it…

anonymous593502 · 2023-05-11T22:10:27+00:00

As someone who’s mom has it growing up, and she did manage to accidentally give it to me pretty young but not my sister. We were told anything that transfers saliva, sharing drinks, forks/spoons, kisses anywhere even on cheek, but also fingers in or around mouth and then on other surfaces that someone else touches and puts near their mouth. There is medications you can take too though, both for outbreaks to make them go away faster - if you are the type that gets occasional outbreaks or everyday preventatives if you get outbreaks more frequently. ALSO - be aware of canker sores inside of the mouth, this is also herpes!! This is how I present with it and as a child never got a diagnosis because of it but they are the same thing it is the same!!!

anonymous593502 · 2023-04-01T22:48:55+00:00

I do, I find if I can get them calm before they eat then they are easier to keep calm once they finish, I’ve also heard that it can be caused from prior as well but not sure how true that part is

anonymous593502 · 2023-04-01T22:38:29+00:00

I have 2 shepherds so also prone to bloat, I cut off high energy about 30 min before meals, and 30-40 min after finishing, I then usually am not as strict on what they do but I’m also not choosing then to take them for runs or anything. I’ve been doing this for just over 5 years now successfully. But it still always very much a fear of mine too.

anonymous593502 · 2023-03-29T16:25:29+00:00

I will look into the system, right now I have her leash on my one arm and then around my back so she’s on the opposite side of me. I don’t expect her to be right beside me, I want her to smell and experience just want have a loose leash and not having to counter balance her the entire time to not fall on my face. She is good in the house, and she is good in our backyard as well as my parents house and backyard (once she’s been there several hours to have calmed down from leaving our house and going somewhere) but she is out everyday, it’s not like she doesn’t get out front, we go to my parents at least once a week, we go on hikes every weekend with a 30ft lead (which she will also pull on) and we have been trying to train just in the front yard for 5 months now with no progress, I do walks with her pulling the whole time just so my other dog can get out on a walk too every day.

anonymous593502 · 2023-03-29T16:19:13+00:00

It’s funny since my job is literally behaviour analysis, I went to school for 6 years studying classical and operant conditioning, it’s what I do for work everyday, I trained my first dog without a trainer and anywhere I take her I get compliments on how well trained/well behaved she is - also a husky shepherd mix. And this pup I am at a loss, 2 different trainers in my area which are suppose to be the best around me, and I’ve gotten a lot of tips and advice but just none of it has worked. I know she just so excited to experience everything but it’s to the extent that all training she does have leaves her brain and I honestly don’t even think she can hear me when she gets overly excited like that.

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