Re: [ozmidwifery] Third time labours

[Janet Caulfield]

Rhonda, Its pretty widely appreciated especially where i work that women having third labours have the potential to take a while to settle into regular contractions, but when they do its usually a swift labour. Hope this helps Janet ----- Original Message ----- From: Judy Chapman To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:07 PM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Third time labours Rhonda, My 30 yr old son was my first CS and I was encouraged to wear a light panty girdle afterwards for a while to support the belly. Still used the same thing for my daughter 19 months later. I think it helps the pain a bit for a while but my sag in the skin is still not good. Even when I had lost weight I could not wear my bellydance skirt too low, would have rolled right under and looked yuk. Cheers Judy   From: "Rhonda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Third time labours Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 17:27:35 +1000 (AUS Eastern Standard Time) I have often wondered about tight clothing and support both before and after birth as all the articles I have read on liposuction have all said that the skin needs to b supported while it shrinks back and to help this they have firm clothing and special tight fitting garments to aid in the shrinking of the skin as the fat is removed and it has to shrink back. is this not the same when a baby is born - the skin has to shrink back in a short amount of time even if it has had a longer time to stretch. I wish someone had suggested this after my last baby - especially after a c/s. I am sure my sag" would not be so bad had I done something like that. Rhonda. -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 22:48:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] Third time labours My immediate thought would be that they may have a wide gap in their abdo muscles which instead of supporting the uterus allows it to drop into the gap when they are upright. Of course when they lie down the uterus falls back and on palp all feels OK. What happens though is that with the uterus too far forward the baby is not encouraged into the pelvis and hence no real stimulation of the cervix to encourage prostaglandin, or oxytocin production or provide mechanical dilatation. What to do is maybe encourage wearing of firm undies that support the abdo. (A woman told me the other day that when she had her babies in the sixties they were told to wear very firm underwear that supported the stomach muscles.) Sport nicks would be what I would suggest. Hope this helps and this is the sort of stuff we all hold in our heads but nobody gets around to writing down Andrea Quanchi On Sunday, July 20, 2003, at 01:04 AM, Ken Ward wrote: > We have recently had two women, third pregnancies, experiencing > difficult > spurious labours. They have come in, contracting 2/60, with what feels > like > good conts. But have gotten no where. Bubs head high, no dilatation, > just an > exhausted mum and very tired and puzzled support people. I have done a > search > on the net, but no research seems to have been done. Anecdotal evidence > suggests third pregnancies often fiddle around. Anyone have any > suggestions as > to why, and what can be done to support these women? Maureen. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. > Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe. > -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe. . Hot chart ringtones and polyphonics. Click here -- This mailing list is sponsored by ACE Graphics. Visit to subscribe or unsubscribe.