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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“Ssshhhh…There Are Women Trying To Sleep Around Here.”
“Ssshhhhhh! There are women trying to SLEEP around here!” -Certified Nurse Midwive to a mother on pitocin and unmedicated.
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You know what kills me about comments like this..when I am with a doula client who is coping well, breathing through contractions and zoned out in “labor land”, that is usually when you get a noisy nurse or family member who tries to chat with her like it’s lunch time at the club!!! Hellooo, she doesn’t have an epidural and she needs to be left alone!
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StarkRavingMom had this to say,
Dec 6, 2009 @ 4:18 pm (Quote)
I was told something very similar too! Honestly, who tells a laboring mother to be quiet?
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Andy (Uk midwife) Reply:
December 9th, 2009 at 2:33 pm (Quote)
Some people scream and shout when they cut their finger, others grit their teeth and say nothing. If you are in the first group, then you will deal with labour by shouting at it. If you are in the second you will be quiet. If your way of dealing with pain is to shout and scream, then we do not have the right to tell you to shut up. If we do then we are not allowing you to deal with the pain, which is unfair. I personally don’t mind if women shout, scream, swear, whatever. I do tell women though, that the only thing they can do that WILL make me cross is to apologise afterwards. Women who make a big noise have nothing to apologise for. The woman who kept grabbing my throat and squeezing frightened me though. I was supporting her through an instrumental birth, and I had to keep reminding her that I wanted to see my children again…
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Ohhh, I remember being on pitocin unmedicated. My poor nurse just about panicked when it took an hour of that before the anesthesiologist came to do my epidural. But at least she didn’t scold me for screaming.
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