Oh that's good to know, it seems that pregnant women shouldn't get told anything about their care and it must all be kept a mystery. Thankfully I didn't need any further gynae treatment as well.Yeah if someone has had gbs in prev pregnancies and baby was affected we offer abx anyway
You won't be sued for discrimination, plenty of women have reasons for requesting female Dr. I hate it when healthcare workers try and scare women into accepting things.
I had an elective c section at 36 weeks due to PPROM and baby remaining breech and have definitely been made to feel like I didn’t give birth “properly”After a traumatic induction and labour that resulted in an emergency section, my mother (who had 1 emergency section and then 2 electives) told me we weren't made for giving birth. When I said "But I did give birth" she said "Yeah but you know what I mean... properly"
We don't talk anymore.
I had an emergency c section with my first as he was back to back and stuck. I was told I 'didnt really give birth' or I was 'too posh to push'. Less than 18 months later I had my second who was born after about 10 minutes of pushing. Having had a caesarean and a natural birth I can honestly say in my personal experience natural was far easier in terms of recovery. I mean the main factor was I could actually walk after giving birth! C sections are hard work. People are nasty.I had an elective c section at 36 weeks due to PPROM and baby remaining breech and have definitely been made to feel like I didn’t give birth “properly”
People can be harsh fuckers, major surgery and 6 weeks recovery with a newborn is not easy.
I had this too!Not a horror story as such but I suffered with cholastasis in both of my pregnancies, you itch from head to toe 24/7. Your liver basically isn’t working and they get the baby out at 37 weeks due to risk of stillbirth. Being induced at 37 weeks isn’t great, your body just isn’t ready to be in labour. Takes days & days.
the bottom of the feet itching was the worst! I had it from 30 weeks both times so you can imagineI had this too!
I was quite lucky and was at 38 weeks. I knew on the weekend before he was born something wasn’t right and my husband nagged me to go get checked but I refused and said I’d see how I went (I didn’t wanna seem OTT, I know better now)
I remember sitting at my mums house scraping my feet on the floor because the itch was unbearable.
the next morning I found myself scratching my hands raw, i gave in, called maternity and went in and was induced straight away. I remember my mum coming with me and being horrifed when they said about stillbirth and she told me I would not be leaving until he was born
When I was being monitored then kept saying the machine was showing contractions and could I not feel anything?! I was like nope - not a thing, I was checked and I was about 2cm (had absolutely no idea) but when they burst my waters the next morning, by goddddd did I know about them then!
I felt like being induced really messed up my feelings of being ready to give birth - it was so out of my own hands, I didn’t get to my due date so I felt like I’d ‘got there’ and I was just like this is all waaaay too soon if that makes sense?
He was born 8 hours later though we did have the consultant in once or twice because they thought he had pooed, luckily he hadn’t but I do remember the look of terror on my husbands face when they told him when he was born he’d be take straight to the side because he might not cry.
I definitely had a good birth, but the fear of obstetric cholestasis again in another pregnancy really puts me off. I know I’d be induced earlier and likely to have it againI also found after I gave birth because my liver levels Didn’t sort themselves out my skin was AWFUL. Like acne everywhere. It really affected the first few months PP for me and my doctor didn’t even check my 6 week bloods to ensure my liver levels were ok
oh gosh that’s so high! It really puts me offthe bottom of the feet itching was the worst! I had it from 30 weeks both times so you can imaginethey told me because you’ve had it once it’s like 8/10 you’ll get it again. Twice was enough for me! X
Nothing until I started itching again. I think they just leave you to it and see if it happens again xoh gosh that’s so high! It really puts me offdid you have monitoring early on to check, how was it for your second pregnancy? x
It really isn't. I hyperstimulated from an hour after having a pessary in. They said my contractions at that time were of the frequency and intensity they'd expect from somebody who's ready to push. I was 2-3cm at the time.I had an elective c section at 36 weeks due to PPROM and baby remaining breech and have definitely been made to feel like I didn’t give birth “properly”
People can be harsh fuckers, major surgery and 6 weeks recovery with a newborn is not easy.
Hope your little one is doing well now.I genuinely thought I’d be more traumatised by my birth than I am. Considering when my baby came out I looked at my boyfriend and said “never again” but now I’m like “I wanna do it all again!”. Funny how you forget the pain ha.
I had a very straightforward pregnancy but my waters went unexpectedly at 36+4 on the Thursday before Christmas. Went to hospital and was admitted and told if I hadn’t gone into labour by the Sunday they’d induce me. Friday morning rolls around and the consultant tells me he’s sending me home to wait and see if I go into labour naturally but I’ll be booked in for an induction at 38 weeks because they don’t want me to go past then.
Saw my community midwife on Christmas Eve and she was very surprised I’d been sent home. I’m convinced they just didn’t want me in over Christmas.
30th Dec (induction day) arrives and still no sign of me going into labour naturally so I go into the hospital for 8.30am. Eventually given the pessary which did bring on quite a bit of pain. Get to about 11pm and I go to the toilet and realise it’s fallen out. Get checked by midwife who confirms it’s definitely gone. After speaking to a doctor they decide they’re gonna get me straight on the drip as I’m high risk due to my waters going over a week previously. My first midwife in the delivery suite was amazing. I managed a few hours just breathing (midwife didn’t think I was contracting properly because I was handling it so well but after feeling my tummy she confirmed I was). After a while i go onto the gas and air as I was getting lightheaded from the breathing. Gas and air helped with the pain but didn’t help with the lightheaded ness and made me thirsty so I was drinking loads of water which I ended up throwing back up after about 20 mins... but after that I felt fine! At around 4am my midwife goes on her break and another one sits in. I’m so tired by this point I decide I want an epidural (which surprised me as the thought of them makes me queasy). I 100000% regret that epidural. it didn’t completely take the pain away but made contractions a bit more bearable. my first midwife finishes her shift and my new one comes in. She was lovely but she missed so many things. They were due to check how dilated I was at 8.45 but about an hour-hour and a half beforehand I started feeling a huge pressure down below. Told midwife but she didn’t seem to know what that was?! Then the baby dropped off the monitor (now realise that was because she had dropped down ready to come out). Then I start shaking uncontrollably like I’m freezing but I wasn’t cold. Again midwife didn’t seem to know what was wrong with me. She then decides to check me early and realises I’m 10cm and ready to push. Which looking back I think that’s why I was shaking and had the huge pressure - because my body was telling me to push and I wasn’t. Unsurprisingly baby got stuck and I wasn’t pushing effectively at first so resulted in an episiotomy (with no anaesthetic because one of the doctors was all “she’s had an epidural so she won’t feel it” but let me tell you, I FELT it. That was the worst pain of the whole birth) and forceps. Baby then had to go to NICU as she was struggling to breathe. She had a pneumothorax and also an infection (probably from my waters going and being left for ages) and so we were to stay in hospital for 5 days while she had antibiotics. The day after she came back to the ward she ended up under a blue light for bad jaundice. After 24hours she was all good but that was also the day before she was due to finish her antibiotics and we’d be able to go home... the same day my blood pressure spiked and the midwives wanted me to stay in for monitoring so we were in for another few days. Spent a week in hospital in all.
Not great for someone with health anxiety!! But I got through it. We’re so much stronger than we realise.
She’s doing really well now thank you.Hope your little one is doing well now.
I had Epidurals with baby 1 and baby 2, and i had excessive shaking with both, it wasn’t until I had baby 3 that I was told it was a side effect of the epidural!
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