Birth, Natural or pain-killers? Options

[ashxx69xbaby]

unlike me i cant have kids at all... but ppl say that haven a kid w/no meds is better for ur kid but unless otherwise its up to you.

[cyb3r0ptik]

yes it's true that women have been giving birth since the dawn of time without pain killers...

but you know what?

my husband was 28" LONG when he was born... that's over 2 feet long... and was 12 pounds.

i'm getting the epidural.
i have 10 weeks left in this pregnancy, and i'm getting all the effin drugs i can.
there's no way on this earth i'm going to try to squeeze a watermelon sized body through my cookie without getting some relief.

when you're preggo, you get all the stories from every woman about every kid they've had. whether you want them or not. and one of the stories i hear on repeat (i work in a strip-club, so i have lots of them) is "i went natural with my first (insert number greater than two)... i had an epidural on my last one... i don't know why i didn't get the epidural with the others".

i know me. i'm a hardass when it comes to external pain. piercings, tattoos, cuts and gashes... but internal pain? i'm such a baby when it comes to tummy aches, headaches, or even simple gas cramps.
i remember what my period cramps were like, and omg i could have died. if i can't SEE what's causing the pain, i can't deal with it.

there's no way i'm going through this natural, unless by some unforeseen horrible circumstance i can NOT get drugs.
none.

[kayleighSTFU]

when i was pregnant my husband asked me this question and i told him i wanted every drug in the hospital

[*Villainess*]

thow some painkillers on this bitch.

[*Insurmountable*]

Whole package for me.. Perhaps in water


I was going to do the whole c-section thing because one of my dads friends that he works with wife had it twice and she said it was better until I heard other things so I guess I'm going with the natural way.

[cyb3r0ptik]

i'm opposed to C-section unless necessary, but that's a total vanity issue.. i'm 30 weeks (7.5 months) and no stretch marks (yet), and no indication of them so far.
i'd rather have a few stretchies than a scar across my belly.

brownsugar - LOL!!
but seriously, he's 23, and 6'8". he was 6'3" by the time he was 14 yrs old.


i'll say it again.
give me demoral or some kind of drug before i can get the epidural, and give me the intravenous (constant flow of) epidural. not that one shot in the back.. i want the IV that my body soaks up like a roll of toilet paper that fell in the sink.

[KissMe2408]

I would rather do it naturally in the hospital.

Even though it will hurt, i'm not really up for that needle in my spine. . . .

[cyb3r0ptik]

i'd rather have a quick poke in my spine that relieves the up and coming hours of pain coming from this kid being squeezed from my uterus out my cookie.

i dunno, the one just seems to waaaaaay out do the other.

[MissHygienic]

Once you get that baby started, being frightened by a needle will be the least of your worries. Epidural all the way. Childbirth gets so ugly.

[livwho]

My 24 year old sister works in the pre-mature ICU unit, so she sees pre-mature infants born everyday she goes to work.
She says that some of the pain the women experience is excruciating. She'd never want to do it natural.

[Becks539]

Okay I don't understand people who are all "OH MY GOD NEEDLES OUCH!! IM GOING NATURAL" if you wuss out over needles...have fun while your cervix dialates and you push out a baby whos head stretches your vagina 5 times (at least) its regular size. Oh and then there's the afterbirth of the placenta...

Oh and epidurals don't really negatively effect a baby. It causes the baby to be slightly more drowsy for a day or two than a baby born naturally.

Give me an epidural. It might hurt going in but it'll make the pain a helluva lot better. We watched extremly graphic birth videos in child development class (one part of a movie my teacher even turned away) and there's no way I'd go natural.