hypnobirthing

[elady25]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "kjirstem" 
<stonehenge.orders at v...> wrote:
> 
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Heidi Tandy <heidi at h...> 
wrote:
>  
> > This go-round, I expect induction because last time, I went so 
fast, 
> > this time there's concern I wouldn't get to the hospital in time 
so 
> > hypnobirthing, here I come!
> 
> kjirstem:
> 
> Thumbs up on hypnobirthing!  I slept through most of labor thanks to
> that.  Sleeping through labor is far preferable to walking through
> labor (in my limited experience).

Didn't hypnobirth, but I did watch Sandra Bullock movies all day.

I was technically in labor with my daughter for, get this, a whole 
week.  I must have gone to the hospital four times, but it just 
wouldn't progress, so finally they induced me, one day before I would 
have been induced anyway.  I never knew it was possible to have 
contractions five minutes apart for a whole week!  They confirmed it 
wasn't prelabor, but they didn't want to do much until I was more 
dilated.

With my son, my water broke.  I labored on my own for nine hours, 
after which I was at a 1, so on with the pitiocen.

The one cool thing with my girl was that after a week of labor, I 
made it to a 4, so I got my epidural right after they started the 
pitocen drip.  I didn't feel anything until it was time to push.

imamommy
who'll leave natural births to those of you who have labors lasting 
less than 18 hours and babies smaller than 8 lbs, because I don't.