Re: [ozmidwifery] Third time labours

[Justine Caines]

Title: Re: [ozmidwifery] Third time labours

Hey Rhonda

With the support of an IPM, I’d say it would be 3rd time lucky.  As someone who has jumped some hurdles I can’t say enough  about that trust!

Anyway you need to decide and be ready.

Justine

Well, I really guess I don''t know what I would expect - first was an emergency c/s at 27 weeks due to sever PE (one contraction after 5 lots of prostin which actually swelled and burnt my vagina - lovely!)
The second I refused induction with prostin (any guess as to why I may have been worried about it?!) and so was deemed as being agressive and at 42 weeks had 24 hours labour and abuse by doctors and finally caved in to the pressure and had another c/s.  
If I do have another it will have to be a home birth - too bloody scared to go to a dr or anywhere near a hospital.
 
So it is a rather frightening prospect - don't know if I am up to the challenge.
Just keep telling myself that it has to be third time lucky.  LOL
 
Rhonda
 
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Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:01:11
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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
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From: Judy Chapman <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
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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"
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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.
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Date: Sunday, July 20, 2003 22:48:55
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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.
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