I think she said she wanted to tear naturally rather than be cut. I would have imagined that wanting to tear "naturally" would lead to worse ripping and tearing than a controlled cut. maybe someone can help clarify is tearing naturally something that many women opt for or was that just melanie trying to avoid something just because it's a medical intervention?
It all depends. I had a third degree tear and apart from the first 2-3 days which was awful I healed very quickly and I was very happy with my recovery. I am not sure with episiotomy but I would guess again it depends on the woman but she had a postpartum haemorrhage so again it depends. I know of women who had a third degree tear like myself but their recovery was longer.I think she said she wanted to tear naturally rather than be cut. I would have imagined that wanting to tear "naturally" would lead to worse ripping and tearing than a controlled cut. maybe someone can help clarify is tearing naturally something that many women opt for or was that just melanie trying to avoid something just because it's a medical intervention?
she was in active labour and the worst thing about it was a catheter? duck off
I had a catheter put in before my c-section and it is incredibly unpleasant. But there’s absolutely no way I’d have been in control of my bladder after I had the spinal. You feel nothing from the chest down.She's already had the spinal at this stage though how would she have felt it going in ? didn't she say the doctor that rammed his hand in checked for the baby's head and then reached for the forceps and the baby was born 2 mins later? on another post she said she's mid contraction and he's putting the catheter in and out and she'd underlined in her birth plan she has mild vaginismus....how would she even have felt the contractions let alone anything else once she had the spinal..her time frame is skewed..she was in active labour and the worst thing about it was a catheter? duck off
well in that case she has a HIGHLY strong tolerance to drugs. I was off my cake
I could have protested to something, but BEG? Nah. I had a room full of people - some I’ve worked with before on various rotations over the years seeing my vag and my baby being removed and I didn’t give a tit. The room could have been burning and I’d have been fine with it. she thinks people have short memories.I had an epidural with my first child I laboured for a long time before it and I never felt a thing after I got it only the ring of fire moment before he was born the midwives were telling me when the contraction was so i knew when to push you have certain sensations but deff not what's she's describing? ...I wouldn't have went back to work in your casewell in that case she has a HIGHLY strong tolerance to drugs. I was off my cake
either she has the best tolerance to drugs known to mankind, whoever gave her the spinal did a bad job or she’s lying.
edit:vaginismus? But she talks about dildos and vaginal sex back when that’s what her channel was about. Piss off
(joke)yeah I heard that you have the ring of fire moment. I didn’t even notice them take my son out. God bless sectionsI had an epidural with my first child I laboured for a long time before it and I never felt a thing after I got it only the ring of fire moment before he was born the midwives were telling me when the contraction was so i knew when to push you have certain sensations but deff not what's she's describing? ...I wouldn't have went back to work in your case
god bless medicine. I’d love for people like her to look at the statistics of mothers dying in childbirth before medical intervention. I suppose they conveniently leave it out of the superwoman course she was on. it’s fine I don’t see them much now. We’re all high enough up the chain that we’ve picked what we’re going to be consultants in so we don’t overlap. Unless I’m having a baby or they need liver help. I’d probably never look them in the eye again 
she also says on the vid it was the midwife put the catheter in but on her comments she said he ( meaning doc?) 
......let's hope they stay off the hard stuff then Exactly...there's that saying about flight procedures and protocols being written in blood, as mistakes leading to previous accidents heavily inform them. Grim as it is, there's a bit of an overlap there with medical protocols. I don't know how obstetricians do it - it's such a litigious, high stakes field but with mostly relatively healthy and well patients, some of whom therefore feel entitled to regard healthcare professionals with huge suspicion. It unsettles me to think of all the people in Melanie's comments who are now inspired to refuse or delay vital interventions in order to stick it to those meddling doctors who are obviously just trying to rush women through their births to keep them in their place (/to prevent the baby developing a devastating hypoxic ischaemic injury?)
I was thinking that. Who wants to be lily and James potter for Halloween?!
Not even Lily and James, Lily and Voldemort
he ended up as Voldemort but she saidshe wanted him to be James - unless she was joking but I doubt it. They were Christine and the Phantom last year. Weird idea of couples costumes...Not even Lily and James, Lily and Voldemort
Completely agree with your conclusion.
