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Nettle Soup posted:Final verdict: epidurals are magic. Modern medicine is awesome and you should take full advantage of it if you can. Complete gamechanger, inventor deserves a public holiday in their honour. Maybe two. Three if we can swing it. Congratulations!
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May 27, 2025 23:54
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Nettle Soup posted:Final verdict: epidurals are magic. Modern medicine is awesome and you should take full advantage of it if you can. Complete gamechanger, inventor deserves a public holiday in their honour. Maybe two. Three if we can swing it. This is all totally accurate and true. Also, congrats!
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May 27, 2025 23:56
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Nettle Soup posted:Final verdict: epidurals are magic. Modern medicine is awesome and you should take full advantage of it if you can. Complete gamechanger, inventor deserves a public holiday in their honour. Maybe two. Three if we can swing it. Congratulations!!! The epidural was the best choice I ever made, no glory in suffering if you don't want to. See you over in the parenting thread 
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May 28, 2025 00:17
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my wife wanted to resist the epidural as much as possible, but maybe an hour in we broke the emergency glass and went for it and while i wasn't the pregnant one, it was night and day yeah. magical stuff i did lol that they made me sit on a stool in the corner behind a curtain while they inserted it though. which is fine, i didn't need to see that, it was just funny going into time out for a little while the medical professionals took over helping. i thought i was doing pretty good with what i had to offer, personally
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May 28, 2025 01:43
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I ended up with two epidural births (one induction, one spontaneous) and one no-epidural induction birth. In the latter things went too fast between water breaking and pushing, anesthesia couldn’t place it quickly/accurately enough and I just said f it after a couple attempts. Epidural births were way more chill, but I spent longer in the later stages of labor. With the no epidural I feel like my contractions were decently mild until the water broke- I think I would feel differently about the lack of pain meds if 7-10cm had gone slower or pushing took longer, but it was very quick and I didn’t get much time to dwell on it. I felt like I physically recovered much quicker from that birth, but I also don’t know if the epidural played a role in that, as births are all quite varied and a lot is outside of your control. Overall, I’m glad I went in with a preference for an epidural but had also considered how I would manage pain without it because lol life is chaos.
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May 28, 2025 12:08
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I wanted to try without, then they did a check and said "congrats, you're almost 2cm dilated"and I decided gently caress that, gently caress this, gently caress trying the alternatives, give me the good drugs. I did take a drip of paracetamol but who knows if it did anything. I could move and feel my feet mostly normally, but felt nothing pain-wise after it went in, right up until they started me on the oxytocin for pushing. Initially went in on the 20th for a final routine ultrasound and the doctor said they were only 2.7kg, instead of the 3.1 estimated at the last scan two weeks before. She measured 3 times. So I got to stay there and be induced 3 days early. It took 2 days for the pills to take, then my waters broke at 3am on the 23rd, which was the due date anyway. Epidural went in somewhere around 9am and it was over at 20:15ish after 15 minutes of pushing. There was some drama because they wete facing in a very awkward direction, wouldn't move, had crapped in the water, and every now and again a contraction would drop the heartrate to 50, but baby came out crying, perfect, and 3.1kg after all. We'll see about the the parenting thread, I'm very aware of oversharing things that will live on the internet forever. Nettle Soup fucked around with this message at 14:21 on May 28, 2025 |
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