1. Make sure it's not a "jungle down there". While you may not be able to see it, the nurses, your doctor, and your husband do. Not to mention the fact that your poor child could end up suffocating in it. If you don't know what I'm referring to, call Kendall. He can explain it to you in medical terminology.
2. Getting an epidural still looks traumatic. The needle looks huge. I'm sure I won't care if I actually want one though. I also noticed that in the "real life" situations they showed, all of the women who had epidurals were smiling afterwards. That alone sold me on one.
3. I know WAY more than the average person about this whole process. Having the desire to research it on the Internet and a husband who has a vast bank of knowledge on the subject have made me "too advanced" for portions of the class. I don't feel I gained anything from the morning session and learned very little except for 1 and 2 in the afternoon.
4. Don't mess with a pregnant lady's lunch time. The instructor decided she was going to cut our lunch time short by half an hour. I was not happy about this. I did not arrive back to the class until I was finished with my lunch and was NOT apologetic. I'm sorry, if the schedule says I get an hour for lunch and you try to cut it to 30 minutes including the time it takes to get lunch in a busy hospital cafeteria, all so you can go to a little kid's birthday party tomorrow, you shouldn't have agreed to teach the class.
5. I can't reiterate #1 enough. I'm still thinking about it. I may need to go get a machete now and start working on it. It may take a while.....
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Memories from the epidural:
Needle? WHAT needle? That anesthesiaologist(sp?)became my best friend in a matter of seconds. Plus I had the spinal, too. And I'm totally freaked out by needles. (Ask Allen about my rhogam shot...)
And never apologize for taking time to eat. Good girl!
#1 was in some baby article i read where the waxing lady didn't want to hurt the prego. That was until the prego informed her the birth was going to be well-attended and filmed. the waxing promptly began.
i had an epi too and it hurt. it hurt going in, it hurt being injected, and it left me with a "hot spot" that hurt like a (*%@!.
That hot spot taught me that life without pain medication is just plain stupid. If that hot spot had been my entire body i think i might have cried for 9 straight hours. GET THE SHOT.
So, if your belly sticking out too far for you to see down there, what the hell are you supposed to do?
Oh, and I would've done the same thing for #4. If someone tells me that I have a certain amount of time to eat, I'm going to plan accordingly. If they change it at the last minute, to bad for them.
I am a firm believer in the triming of the jungle. Good luck with that task.
I can't speak on the Epi. I know the full blown feelings of birth and guess that I'm glad I do. ;-) You'll do what's right for you!
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