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HoneybunsMa 
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 Posted: 05 October 2009 at 1:37pm |
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K I thought that if you lived out in howick area you had to birth at Botany am I wrong? I dunno cos my mw births outta Auck. And I live in Auck area. We will definitely be using her again when we go for our next baby so long as I aint living in Howick that is cos she won't go that far lol
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cuppatea
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Posted: 05 October 2009 at 1:57pm |
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I just had the hospital one, he was dreamy, or maybe I just thought he was dreamy cos he came to take my pain away. I had maybe 3-4 contractions whilst he was putting it in and then they just faded away and I was so happy. He even redid my IV for me cos I have wafty veins and my mw had had to put it in my elbow crease cos she couldn't get it in my hand (that's not a normal problem, I just have really sh*t veins and I was dehydrated which wasn't helping things).
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kellie
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Posted: 05 October 2009 at 4:51pm |
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The anaesthetist at waikato hospital was absolutely gorgeous.
I was fully against having an epi (was planning for a water birth and possibly using gas...LOL)
Ended up having the epi re inserted 4 times over a 20 hour time frame as it would suddenly stop working. One problem was being told to push with the contractions.. I couldn't feel them so that was hard to do.
Ended up having forceps though anyway.
Afterwards I felt really disorientated and disassociated though, I don't know if this is from so many epis, or over 40hours established labour. I have a feeling it was from the drugs though.
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caitlynsmygirl
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Posted: 05 October 2009 at 5:25pm |
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I am so having the epi.
And im ordering a hot anethesist to do it too .
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mummyofprinces
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Posted: 05 October 2009 at 6:17pm |
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LOL funny how we all think our drug man was gorgeous!!!! I did see mine 5 days later I still thought he was sexy! I put him on my list LOL.
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Emmecat
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Posted: 06 October 2009 at 8:34am |
lol mt epi man was def hot...even my mum and mw were flirting with him!!!  
I didn't care... I just wanted the drugs lol. And he was wonderful with those too...didn't hurt in the least and the dosage was just perfect! Could feel the contractions but they didn't hurt adn I gave birthtotally pain free. (although the after match was a different story!)
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Shezamumof3
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Posted: 06 October 2009 at 10:41am |
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I loved my epidural!!! I got when I had been in labour for 40 or so hours so i needed it badly lol.
It didnt work that well down my left side, but it still took a bulk of the pain away.
I ended up with an emergency C Section but I dont think it was from the epi, it was because I had a lip of cervix that wouldnt budge and Id been in labour too long and they didnt want Caden to be in there for any longer.
This time I had an elective C Section and had a spinal, the spinal was WAY better than the epi, it worked right away and i was numb in like 2 mins! and it worse off well after the op and i could feel my legs a few hours later, with my epi it took ages for me to feel my legs again.
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Bobbie
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Posted: 06 October 2009 at 11:41am |
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That's interesting Sheza - I've always wondered how Spinal blocks rate against Epi's.
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Epidural stories?
