My son, Kasen, was born on June 3 of this year. I remember
thinking that he was never going to come after being in labor for 17 hours. I
was terrified of having an emergency csection. I remember the process being
fairly easy other than the intense pain. I tried to make it without any pain
medication but did not last very long. I had read many articles about the
effects of epidurals later on in life and did not want to have one. Well I
ended up having an epidural but it had worn off by the time I delivered. I
remember very vividly once it was time to deliver the amount of people that
came into the delivery room. The doctors, nurses, and people from the NICU were
overwhelming. Overall giving birth to my son is an experience I will never
forget. I chose to share my own experience because I felt it was an overall
good experience.
I feel that some things during birth can impact the child. At the same time I also feel that some things happen for a reason.
I chose to read about births in Italy. In that part of the world if you want to have an epidural it has to be prebooked and they don’t have any other form of pain relief. There are many natural birthing centers. I find this very interesting. During my birth experience as soon as I said I wanted the epidural someone came. I can’t imagine having to prebook for the epidural. How would someone know when to make the appointment?
I looked at the birthing process in France and found that epidurals are freely given. In fact it is often strongly encouraged. On an interesting note the bed has to be booked in advance. Like epidurals in Italy I do not understand how this process would work since birth is generally not on a time schedule.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy to hear that the birth of your son was an overall good experience. Congratulations!
First off thank you for sharing. My cousin also had the same thoughts, she tried to go as long as she could without pain medication until the pain became unbearable and then she asked to have the epidural. She was in labor for quite some time prior to the epidural but after having it, it sped up her contractions. She was afraid that drugs would affect the baby in some way, but when assured it wouldn't she was ok with having it.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't imagine having a C-section, because I'm so afraid of knives and cuts. I'm happy that everything worked out in your favor.The birthing information about Italy was very interesting. It sounds kind of weird that you have to pre-book an epidural but we never know there may be a high birth rate in Italy.
ReplyDeleteThat's absurd lol. I did not have an epidural but after being started on pitocin for my induction I recieved analgesics to help with the contractions, I cannot imagine trying to do it without any help
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