Dalton wants to be a midwife when she grows up

[Ali]

I just think that is so cool.

[hamamelis]

That is really cool!

[Storymama]

That is super cool - good for her! I hope to add a fifth year of midwifery studies to my (hoped for!) program, she can come study with me if she needs a preceptor site :loveit:.

[Anne]

That is super cool - good for her! I hope to add a fifth year of midwifery studies to my (hoped for!) program, she can come study with me if she needs a preceptor site :loveit:.

Oh wow, wouldn't that be cool.

That's awesome, Ali!

[Brenda]

I just think that is so cool.

:thumbsup: Great career goal, Dalton!

[Kerry]

Do you/she ever watch "House of Babies" on Discovery Health?

I wonder why EVERY SINGLE woman on that show has a waterbirth? I personally LOVE laboring in the water, but don't care for the idea of birthing in the water, and they do it completely opposite.

[collier]

I personally LOVE laboring in the water, but don't care for the idea of birthing in the water, and they do it completely opposite.

Off topic, but Kerry, are you going to be able to labor in water when you give birth this time? What is your set up going to be like?

Best!

[Kerry]

Off topic, but Kerry, are you going to be able to labor in water when you give birth this time? What is your set up going to be like?

Best!

No. :( We only have showers, and they won't let me bring in a labor tub (not enough room in the LDR rooms). In 2009 we're going to have a new OB unit and those units will have tubs, though. I'll probably want to go into the shower at some point, but I can't imagine standing in the shower is going to be as relaxing as lying in a tub of warm water.

[lunita]

Do you/she ever watch "House of Babies" on Discovery Health?

I wonder why EVERY SINGLE woman on that show has a waterbirth? I personally LOVE laboring in the water, but don't care for the idea of birthing in the water, and they do it completely opposite.

Do they just get in when it is time to push?

I think the worst part of my labor with Maia was getting out of the tub in transition...I think they had me get up because my body temperature was rising too much? I find it very difficult to walk when I am very close to pushing. The pain is so intense that I need to focus every fiber of my being on relaxing or it gets so that I'm totally out of control and unable to focus. This is why when I had Lucia, I stood by the bed and pushed her out. I was NOT going to try to climb into the bed at that moment in time and I told the midwife she was just going to have to help me catch her right there. Anyway, moving me out of the tub when very close to pushing was very very difficult and not something I would want to try again. Once in there, I think I'd stay put.

One of the midwives in our practice was very big on the research, and I remember her showing me statistics about decreased tearing and maybe a shorter pushing period (?) when babies were born IN the tub. Sorry I don't remember the details, but I do remember it being a convincing argument for having the baby in the water (the actual gritty details of being in the tub with all of the birth fluids kind of icks me out now that I think about it, though)

[collier]

No. :( We only have showers, and they won't let me bring in a labor tub (not enough room in the LDR rooms). In 2009 we're going to have a new OB unit and those units will have tubs, though. I'll probably want to go into the shower at some point, but I can't imagine standing in the shower is going to be as relaxing as lying in a tub of warm water.

That's a shame. I guess you could just ask that baby of yours to wait until 2009. Sort of like an elephant's gestational period. Seems reasonable to me. :)

But, seriously, I am sorry for that. :( There is no way that could be as relaxing as laying. Would be nice if they had both options.

Best!

[lunita]

No. :( We only have showers, and they won't let me bring in a labor tub (not enough room in the LDR rooms). In 2009 we're going to have a new OB unit and those units will have tubs, though. I'll probably want to go into the shower at some point, but I can't imagine standing in the shower is going to be as relaxing as lying in a tub of warm water.

If the shower handles can be taken down and used as a wand (the hospital where I had Amanda was this way, and it had a massage setting), it can be really nice on the lower back. I spent a lot of that labor in the shower

[Kerry]

Do they just get in when it is time to push?

It's hard to say due to editing, but that's how it always appears. They show them laboring in the room, and the only time they show them in the tub is when they're pushing. They never show them doing first stage in the tub.

[Tracy]

Do your showers have the stools in them Kerry? When I had Joshua the shower had a stool in it and while it wasn't as comfy as a tub, it helped that I could sit down and have the water pour over me.

[Kerry]

Yes, there are shower chairs, and removable shower heads.

[hamamelis]

Do your showers have the stools in them Kerry? When I had Joshua the shower had a stool in it and while it wasn't as comfy as a tub, it helped that I could sit down and have the water pour over me.

That's where I spent most of my labor with M- it wasn't until I was closer to pushing that I moved to the tub.

[laurata]

One of the midwives in our practice was very big on the research, and I remember her showing me statistics about decreased tearing and maybe a shorter pushing period (?) when babies were born IN the tub. Sorry I don't remember the details, but I do remember it being a convincing argument for having the baby in the water (the actual gritty details of being in the tub with all of the birth fluids kind of icks me out now that I think about it, though)

Well, my 11#er was waterborn, and the pushing phase w/ him was longer than my littlest, but shorter than my malpositioned 9 1/2#er. And I didn't tear, though I did have road rash from hell. :shocked: I kinda agree about the gritty details. Dh made me get out so he could drain and refill the tub when I freaked over pushing involuntarily and passing a bit of silty ickiness. :gross: I wasn't in transition anymore, I don't think, but it sure sucked. I'm glad our hot water heater was so good!

[Bickery]

Responding to no one in particular :) but I didn't enjoy being in the tub both times I tried (at home and then at hospital) during my first labor. I did the shower both places during my second labor and it was wonderful! (And then after not being able to sit down in the car or in a wheelchair on the way up to L&D, I chose to birth more or less lying down :3eyes:

[Nirinjan]

No. :( We only have showers, and they won't let me bring in a labor tub (not enough room in the LDR rooms). In 2009 we're going to have a new OB unit and those units will have tubs, though. I'll probably want to go into the shower at some point, but I can't imagine standing in the shower is going to be as relaxing as lying in a tub of warm water.

I love love loved the shower when I was in labor with my third. It was better than the tub we had set up in the living room for parts of the labor. My doula put the birth ball in the shower (it was a big stall shower not a tub shower) and I sat on it while DH sprayed me with the handheld shower. It was really great!

[Annamarie]

I had really really bad butt/back labor and the hardness of them didn't really do much to help me get into a good position. I planned to birth in the water again and my midwife was on board with doing that. I did end up getting out (probably during transition when I couldn't be still) and laid down on my side never to move until he was born.