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Quoting Wolfskrieger:" I wish I had a mirror to see my son coming out lol weird I know..."

omg! I said I wanted to do that....and my SO told me it was weird. lol.....maybe I will do it with my second.

Quoting Christina Getty:" omg! I said I wanted to do that....and my SO told me it was weird. lol.....maybe I will do it with my second."

Do it, seriously, I loved it!

Quoting S&T+1:" If you could go back in time to when you were in labor with your LO(s) whats one thing you would tell yourself, do differently, or wish you would have known?"

Knowing now what I do. I would not have let them induce me.

If I could go back I wouldn't of run off to the hospital as soon as my water broke!
I sat around waiting for labor to start for 12 hours and they don't have anything to do in those rooms so it was really boring! If my water breaks at home with my next baby I'm staying home until I'm in actual pain!

I honestly wouldn't change a thing. I had pitocin to speed up my contractions but it didn't hurt a thing... I had my daughter 4 hours after my water broke (on it's own) after getting the pitocin. My water had broken an hour after they had put the IV in me. I also had gotten an epidural, which I'm sure I could have held out longer but I was tired, running on only one hour of sleep. After I got that I was ready to push a minute or so later. Took me only 15 minutes to push her out because I told the anesthesiologist to not give me too much to where I couldn't feel anything, he respected that I had said that. And, I didn't feel as if it was forced upon me either. It was my choice, and mine alone. So with that... I'd do it the same.

I would have told the RN to smurf off lol

I wish I wouldn't have gotten an epidural, my body wouldn't go with it and I could feel every single contraction with both labors.

I would have continued to refuse the Pitocin and opted out of the epidural.

I had 3 drug free natural births there's nothing I would change about the birth itself!

I wish for my 1st that I changed Midwife during my pregnancy as things she said and that were just out of line
eg: I was 40 weeks 4 days when I went into labour I got to that crying cant walk or talk stage and my SO rang her to say It's time, she annoyed we interrupted her watching the rugby game and when we arrived at Hospital she said Its probably nothing but I will check you any ways but be prepared to be sent home
Works out I was nearly 5cm and she couldn't send me home and I had my daughter 3 hours later! also she didn't help as much as she could of with advice and knowledge of breast feeding and I gave up not realising she was having a growth spurt instead I thought I didn't have enough to feed my DD!

My second wouldn't change a thing! Breastfeed til 11 and half months then only through nights til 12 and half months! Different Midwife who was fab and helped with breastfeeding everything awesome!

My Third Loved my midwife another awesome birth altho it was a bit longer and possibly harder But that was no fault to her, we were under alot of stress at the time moved house 10 days before I had DS he was stunned at birth blue and not really moving it seemed it took forever to hear him cry but would of been a couple of mins lol
Basically we lived and worked on a farm, for someone who I thought was my best friend she miscarried and I didn't the bigger I got the worse things got, She only knew I was pregnant no info on DD etc she started getting nasty with my SO at work so did her Partner who was my SO boss and it all Smurfed up from there, My SO got to the stage it wasn't worth trying anymore and we decided together to move back to town an hour away! so did so at 38 weeks pregnant then it was job finding and getting back on our feet as well as have our DS!
so yeah things were tough we are now just over a year after and things are pretty great  

So if I could of changed anything with my 3rd it would of been to get out of the hostile farm situation alot sooner rather than thinking she's grieving and making up excuses for her behaviour

I wish I wouldn't of had high blood pressure from 30weeks until I was induced because of it at 40weeks 5days. I labored fine without extreme pain until 7cm, then I didn't dilate for 2 hours, then my blood pressure spiked. They would not let me leave my bed AT ALL. I was not allowed to move or do anything to help dilate anymore and it was time for a c-section. I fought them on it and said let me try the epidural first, got the epidural was 9cm almost immediately after it was placed. They turned it off and I was pushing within an hour. 5 minutes and my daughter was out. But then she wouldn't breastfeed for the first day..

I still got a healthy baby girl out of it, but nothing worked out the way I planned it.

Oh and even though DH took pictures, I wish I would of recorded the birth! Might sound weird to some, but there was so much going on that DH had to tell me a lot of the story the day after I gave birth.

I wish my daughter hadn't passed meconium so I could have my waterbirth, I wish I hadn't then decided on an epidural as it didn't work anyway!, I wish i'd known I was alergic to lignocaine (worst hour of my life not being able to hold my little on as I had to have a nebuliser and steroids for the reaction), I wish I'd had less gas and air so I could remember things more clearly. Still without doubt the best day of my life and something I hope I get to experience again  

I wish I would have known that the nurse was going to give me too much Pitocin and almost kill my daughter. I would have told her to smurf off and get someone new.

I wish I would have known that I could have refused being induced and that the epidural might not work...

Quoting Adora Pallisco:" i would have changed my doctor he was so stupid and wouldnt listen when i said my son was to big for ... [snip!] ... i would have ate so much more if i had known i would be in active labor for 21 hours i was so hungry by the time it was done"

I wouldve eaten more too! I was in active labor for about 22hrs and was starving the whole time :/

slap the doctor when he said they won't take me in cause I was a 3.5cm and get an epi