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Seeking Recommendations for Prenatal Doctor/midwife.
They offer birthing balls, rockers, and showers in each of the rooms and the nurses suggested different positions and techniques for me to try during labor. ...
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- Hi J., Welcome to the area! Greater New Haven Obstetrics and Gynecology is the group that I used (and continue to use) when I had my daughter. It is a practice of...
- Hi J., I would highly recommend Dr. Randall Kaump of the Greater New Haven Ob/Gyn group in New Haven, Hamden, Orange, and Madison. My reason for Dr. Kaump over all th...
- Hi J., I just gave birth to my first child at Yale-New Haven hospital in April and we have the Yale Health Plan insurance. As far as I know the health plan will no...
How to Deal with Labor and Delivery
With my youngest his labor was only about 4 hours, and I walked the whole time, standing in the room, birthing ball, rockign chair, and I dialated very fast ...
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- I just had a baby boy in Auguest. He was my first also. I had been told by everyone how great an epidural was so after being in pain for a while i did get the epidural...
- I agree with the response listen to your body and be open to anything. Let the nurses know up front how you feel even if you aren't sure how that is. Both my boys ...
- I have had 2 babies and cannot even BEGIN to imagine doing it drug-free! I even got an epidural headache after the 1st one and still don't regret it. In my opinion, ...
Labor
Keep walking and moving, sitting on a birthing ball, and even better, sitting on the toilet. Sitting on the toilet in labor is perfect. ...
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- Your second child will be easier (usually)than the first one. You should get a Doula to help you with all the comfort measures we do:) You should also start preparing ...
- I'm with you sister, you'll do fine trust me. My daughter was nine when my son was born, he's now two. I went throught 40 hours of back labor with my daughter. My son ...
- Hi G.! There's no way to know exactly what your second birth will be like, so one of the best gifts you can give yourself right now is to allow yourself to accept you...
Castor Oil to Induce Labor
I am a birthing Doula, some of my client's say it works. I suggest walking,and using a birthing ball. I have my client's use the ball it encourages a ...
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- M., I don't know about Castor Oil, but I "walked" my girlfriend and myself into labor. I would just get out and walk 2-3 miles a day, at a slow pace of course and ...
- Hi M.. I have always heard that castor oil works and when I was pregnant, my midwife did advise us that it was an option, but it should be a last resort option becaus...
- I didn't try castor oil, but did try having sex (MANY times), survived the atmospheric change of Hurricane Wilma at 38 weeks, and had my membranes stripped... O-U-C-H!...
Having My 4 Year Old in Birthing Room
I guess I'm an odd ball too, but as beautiful the experience is, I am not sure I would want ... My advice, a birthing room is no place for small children. ...
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- My friend back in Michigan let her son and daughter go in when the last baby was born. Neither of them wanted anything to do with her after she was born. They said she...
- Hi! I agree with the response that you & your family must decide who will be present...not the midwife. I will also say that as a nurse & a mom, you need to prepare in...
- Hi C., My first thought is that this decision should be yours and not your midwife's. As a birthing woman, you need to be completely focused on the work that is invo...
Seeking Pregnancy Stories
I had made a Birthing Plan and was hoping to walk around during labor and use the Birthing Ball, which didn't happen. After that they had me strapped down ...
OB Doctor Recommendation - I Need a Referral!
She is very supportive of natural childbirth, using birth ball in the hospital, doula support, willing to deliver out of the bed, no epidural, etc. ...
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- I just moved here to the Austin area myself, but I had a wonderful OB/GYN in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I hated to leave him, but then he told me that his business part...
- Dr. Susan Orth at Oakwood Women's Center in Round Rock supports Natural Childbirth. I did a natural birth with her at Round Rock Hospital with my daughter and had a g...
- can recomend my OB as she is at Seton Northwest. Dr Brasher-Giles. One she has a set oftwins and just had another child. I found her through a friend. She is grate and...
Is It Common to Be Induced and Go Without a Epi?
I used most of the alternative ways to help reduce pain, like the tub, birthing ball, massage, etc. They also have pain medicine that just takes the edge ...
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- Studies show it is best to wait and let the baby decide when is the right time to be born. The baby is the one that initiates the labor in his or her own time. The b...
- I had all three natural 2 were induced and i did it natural
- I don't know how common it is.... but I was induced and I didn't have an epi. I was afraid it would make me immobile. I do know that being induced (getting the pitos...
Round Ligament Pain?
One of the best relief measures that I recommend is sitting on an exercise ball (also known as a Birth Ball). Anytime you are usually standing--sit on the ...
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- I had this with both of mine. Unfortunately it got worse as the pregnancies went on. With my son, it was so bad, by the time I had him(two months early) that I was lim...
- Hi K.--I am a Certified Nurse Midwife and hear this problem frequently. Just because it's normal--Common Discomfort of Pregnancy--doesn't mean you aren't still very u...
- Hello K., I am 37 weeks pregnant with my 3rd (can't believe it!) and this pregnancy has also seemed much more painful in many more 'odd' ways - even the kicking is mo...
Transverse at 36 Weeks
If you have an exercise ball or birth ball you can sit on that and also get on your knees and lean onto it. Good luck!!!!!!! Helpful? ...
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- Hi R., Yea, you're almost there! I'm sure your getting ready. Now you just need the baby to be ready:) Have you been to a chiropractor? I practice in Danville...
- My daughter was "head up" with her ankles by her ears at 36 weeks. (She had been head down at 6 months.) My doctor tried several times to turn her. He'd get about 6...
- Both my daughters were transverse, and I had c-sections for both. In fact, with my second daughter, I spent 5 weeks in hospital before her birth as the cord was below ...
