General Chat

I followed the ambulance to the mat unit on my motorbike, when OH was booked in I was told Right Father youve done your bit, go home and ring in in the morning!!

None of this mamby pamby holding hands stuff for us men then.............!!!

We were tough in those days!!
LOL

First one 10lb 4oz, ten days late, induced, gas and air and stitches, 7 hours. Bearable.

Second one was 6 weeks early, 7lb 6 oz and in the wrong position, her back was to by back. If I put the medical name for it I will probably get RR'd. It's Face to P...s. this was not a great experience as the shoulders were width ways!! Gas and Air and more stitches. Can't remember how long a lot of starting and stopping. Both were girls

Wow Tenerife Son 10LB 4oz >>>>>>>>runs off to get you medal

OH could not understand why I cried when I heard weight of g.son 10lbs 3 oz - his mother 5' 2" and 7 stone!!!

Tenerife - I do admire you!!!!!! <3

Mersey I remember it well. If the second one, who was 7lb 6oz hadn't been six weeks early she would probably have been about the same.

Back in the days I was a sight size 10/12. Had very large babies. My second son born in Africa was just over 5kg. What a drama, a Ventouse vacuum & stitches.
Was literally paralized for 3 days - took two docs and two nurses to force me to walk again.
My friend who came to help me the whole week, recently told my son and now it is his party piece when anybody is talking about having babies.

ChrisofWessex. At least I'm tall so there was more space than there probably was for your grandson

My great grandmother gave birth to triplets - one of whom was my grandfather. I can't begin to imagine how that was for her :-0

pain free labour was sadly not my experience........23 hours with the first and the so called* easier* second one....30 hrs..............*shudders*.

My sister managed to do it in 5 hrs as did my mother !!!!.....where did i go wrong !!!!

I feel it was very much against my human rights to give birth the way I did - can I get compensation? I couldn't sit down for weeks

mine too !!! If you manage to get a result with it Ann do let me know......I'll shove my claim in post haste lol

My eldest daughter, her labour seemed to go on forever.. could hear her yelling when I arrived at the maternity unit entrance and I still had to go a long a corridor etc to her. All those ante-natal classes that we had to drive way out to were a bit of a waste.

My younger daughter went with her to all the classes, she really enjoyed it cause she was in the blokes group. So when my daughter had to give up on the push bit and have a caesarian the midwife said to me who will go with her and I said my younger daughter she has done the support for her.

So younger one has to tell older one what is going on ... in the middle of it the doctor said to the nurse about his golfing stroke etc... and so my younger daughter said, he is injecting, he is using scalpel, he is now talking about sporting activities and his social life... and older one got the giggles and then it was all over.

Persie


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over 24 hours, but mainly frontal thigh pains

no gas, air or any pain relief

OH was there, and rubbed his hands almost raw massaging my thighs every time I got the pains

Family doctor was supposed to deliver, but he called in a gynecologist after 24 hours

sent for Xray .............. wheeled through a large area of the General part of the hospital from maternity to Xray Department

Xray showed I have a lump or bump on the inside of my tail bone (coccyx) that the baby would never have got past.

down to operating theatre for a cesarean ................ under full anaesthetic (1974)


little girl, 7 lbs

She was sent to Intensive Care for 24 hours, which was standard procedure in those days, and we were then in hospital for 10 days.

OH was in the ward with me when they brought the baby from the IC nursery ............... and he gave her her first feed ( bottle obviously!)


One and only child :-D

If men had to give birth, I feel sure we would have found an easier method. I always remember in RAF Ely hospital a woman came in, went behind a curtain and moaned a little bit and then the sound of a baby crying.

Very unfortunately, not my wife who was in next cubicle. Son appeared many hours later. He was 8lbs 6oz and OH was 5'3" and just over 7 stones. She was never keen on having a third :-S :-S

Why has have post been RR ?


1st was delivered @ 27 wkks I was very ill and it was decided then the baby had to be delivered I remember nothing till I woke up 5 days later and was told I had a very poory son but a good weight @ 2lb 7and half oz .


2nd didnt really realise I was in labour just had really bad back ache and my legs hurt and then I got stomach cramps I thought I had food poisioning he was born 4 hrs later but took me and an hour and half to push him out.


3rd 6 hours labour the baby then got in to distress and her heart rate stopped the DR sternly told me I had to do exactly as I was told 3 mins later my daughter was born


I am very proud I have 3 healthy children ( all grown up) :-D

Hayley whoever did does not have the backbone to own up!

I have my own thoughts...................

I see i've been RR'd too.

How rediculous is that!

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Absolutely crazy!!!

What did your post say PricklyHolly?

Wonder if it is the same person - surely there could not be two?

So scared did not have any children for 11 yrs. then

3 children 22 months between each, all born 38 weeks, all born on a Sunday all with a 2 in their birth date..

Must have been one of the lucky ones found it the easiest and best experience of my life, wish I started sooner would have had 3 more.

Carol :-D