Pushing for First Time Mothers

[Beach Mama]

Oh Julie - thanks so much for your reply. Just found this thread again! Such a great article!

[Shanti]

What a brilliant article

[tippytoes]

Wow what an informative article! Thanks Julie! The female body is amazing!

Rach xx

[Karina]

Julie, I'm in Sydney.
What you said - about how half the time the hospital causes these problems because of the environment and all the people hanging around - I told my husband exactly the same thing quite a while ago and he just thinks "oh it was going to happen anyway, so its a good thing they were there". Even though the midwife told me to get into a position that was the worst possible position to give birth in (who gives birth with their head lower than their pelvis?? I was telling the midwife it didnt feel right, but she just said "of course it doesnt, youre in labour, its going to hurt" Stupid midwife!) So, really I reckon the midwife made it harder for me by not listening to me and prolonged my labour by at least 2 hours. It didnt help that my husband is one of those people who thinks birth is scary and that the midwife knows everything.

[Cassius2]

thank you so much for posting this article! what a great read! i too wished i had of read it while pregnant with DD1.

I disliked the way the staff were urging me to push constantly, when in reality i was only getting urges on the 2nd and 3rd waves of the contraction. i found pushing on the first, weaker urge wasted sooo much of my energy. in the end, i used a mirror so that at least i could focus on that instead of what they were saying. and then, when they told me to stop pushing i told them that they would have to tell my body that, cause i was no longer in charge of it! and DD came flying out at 100 miles an hour LOL!

I'll def read this article if i fall pg again!

[teddy]

great read

[Beth-n-Sara]

I'm so glad I read this.

Fantastic article

[Kailani]

Argh! I wish I had read this before I had DS. Although my labour and birth was completely fuss free - no drugs/intervention, 2.5 hours at a birth centre (thanks God), I was continually "pushed" by the midwives to push when I didn't feel the urge!! I believe that it really contributed to how sore I was down there for MONTHS after the birth.

Also, it's nice to know internals are not necessary to assess labour progress. I was told I had to have one to be allowed in the bath I had already had one and it was so painful I didn't dare have another one, so I didn't get a waterbirth like I had wanted

Great article!!

[madamerogers]

that is just the thing i needed to read julie- thank you

i too like tellytubby have a little fear of my second impending labour, but am glad to have come across your post

thankyou