It turns out that pregnancy effects my eyesight and i'm in need of a new script, this did happen with my previous pregnancy and I did get new glasses but only to find out after birth that my script changed again, I have tried contacts and love the 30 day long wear ones thinking this may be a better option then getting new glasses again.
So finally to my question my eyes are bad without glasses and contacts and i would need them to see new baby when i have her just wondering if anyone else had given birth with contacts in or if you think its not a good idea? I know the cornea stretches during the pushing and sometimes there is a chance it may get behind the eyeball has anyone ever herd of this?
Thanks in advance
contacts can't get behind the eyeball. its not possible. im not sure about what to wear during birth. i would just worry with contacts that you would leave them in too long or forget to take them out.
Lol well i feel silly, i had always thought they could what a relief and i wear the 30 day long wear ones because i have trouble putting them in and getting them out.
I wore contacts the first and second time round (30day extended wear ones) because I had my eyesight change temporarily for those two pregnancies. Not an issue. I did take them out durin one of the labours, but that was because I had irritated my eye somehow, and I just wore my old (not quite right) perscrition glasses - wasn't really an issue not seeing properly, as I was kinda focused on other things at the time.
while my eyes didn't change during pg, I used to wear both the extended 30 day contacts and glasses. Sometime around the time of falling pg (maybe during the year before) I was swapped to the daily lenses by my eye specialist. During labour, I went in wearing glasses (didn't want to have to worry about contacts and removing them as I wasn't sure how long it'd take) and ended up removing them and not really seeing much for most of the last 3 hours - didn't bother me. Actually I think it actually helped - I couldn't see the clock to worry about how long I'd been there for. I'm very short sighted (can't see the lines on my hands unless their nearing at my nose type of short sighted )
Leckert, my eyesight sounds very similar to yours.
Ive had been deciding what to do. The other day I decided to go in wearing my contacts but take my glasses in just incase they irritate me or I need a C-sect. I know your not allowed to wear contacts during major sugreries because they can stick to your eye or roll up under the eye lid.
I wore my contacts but took glasses with me in case I went into a 'get my contacts out' frenzy. As it was, I think I used eyedrops after I'd been in the water and my eyes were dry, but otherwise, I was too focussed on what was going on to think about taking them out. Now that I think about it, I have no idea what happened to them LOL
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