Wonder how my babies got out then? I laughed between pushes.

haha I was laughing between pushes

I had something similar said to me when I was in labor. She told me she was going to wipe the smile off my face (was induced). When I got further into labor, and my contractions got on top of each other, she said “See? I TOLD you I’d wipe that smile off your face!”

All that pain and abuse only to have a C-section (cord around her neck 4 times).

My friend just had her baby a few days ago. She told me one of the nurses told her she was moving too much, and when she tried to sit up, the nurse actually tried to hold her down. Bitch almost got dropped… she had her fist clenched and ready to go, and her friend booted the nurse out.

So was I. I guess we just weren’t really in labor, huh ladies? LOL! These Drs really need to see natural un-pitocined labor sometime. Yeah its intense, but when you get a break between rushes it’s not so bad .

Am I really in labor if I’m able to tell Doctor Douchewaffle where to pound sand?

huh…Wonder how I was able to crack jokes between pushes then?

*We were discussing a new game called “fishing for Poop” In which Midwives would have to discover new and unique ways to clear out the birth pool! LOL It sounds gross now…but at the time we were all laughing about it!

Then why was one of my favorite nurses (for my 5th birth) telling jokes and making me laugh? She caught my baby with another nurse by the way within 2 hours of admitting me, so I suppose I wasn’t in labor???

Ha! Labor isn’t so bad when no one’s trying to blast your baby through your pelvis with pit! (and a well positioned baby helps too..) During ACTIVE labor I was thinking, geez, feel kinda silly for having my doula here.. she has nothin to do! It felt more like a social visit with my birth team at my home than anything serious. Just every few minutes there was a break in chatter for me to lean over my countertop and breathe through a ctx. It was lovely. just chatting and laughing, I don’t even remember about what. At one point I was still smiling about something well into a ctx, and at the end was like, “crap! I can still smile during a ctx! That must mean I have a long way to go?” Not long after, I was checked and a 7. That made me get a *little* nervous, because I was like, eeeek.. transition is right around the corner and it probably won’t be such a cake walk at that point A few minutes later I just settled into the tub in anticipation. At one point I was like, “dang, this is boring! We should break out a board game or a movie or something!”

Ahh, I assure you, it was, indeed, labor. With a 10lb baby. I hope any other babies I have give me such a gentle labor.

Oh, and before anyone hates me for having an easy labor..lol.. this was an HBAC. First was 2 days of transition-like, back labor hell. So I’ve experienced the other side! And, I was properly miserable during the 2 hours of pushing.

Well then, you aren’t really going to be my doc if you use “laughter between ctx” as a sign for “false labor”.

Labor and even delivery really aren’t bad at all if you’re not trying to intervene constantly! Until I was put on pitocin I was able to do anything between contractions. Walk, talk, joke, snooze a little. I guess I looked too comfy.

I guess I didn’t really give birth since I was cracking jokes while my son was crowning. Maybe my midwife didn’t really catch him since she was laughing? How far can we take this???

I was laughing on and off for most of my labor. Including when the head came out. I’ve got some great pics of me grinning from ear to ear with a baby half hanging out of me.

I’m sorry Doctor, but I can’t help but laugh when you say such ridiculous things.

Those 1-minute naps are the best sleep EVER. I have never ever slept so well in my life, or woken up feeling so refreshed. Man, I wish I could have a nap like that right now.

Add me to the list of those not in labor because I was laughing. Sometimes I laughed even during contractions, right up until maybe half an hour before my 4th daughter was born. I couldn’t help it- my husband and kids were hilarious.

Good thing I had a home birth, because mine would have been born between the house and the car (and we have an attached garage) if I’d followed this advice.

Oh, I’m not in labor? I’ll go home then and let you know when I’m not laughing anymore!

I’m part of the joking between contractions club too lol. Not with my first (hospital cytotec/pit induction), but with my new son (born at home) I was certain I was just beginning to get serious in my labor when my midwife checked me and said I was 9 lol. The whole labor was super easy until right before pushing and even then it still felt totally doable. AND it was backlabor. That’s the difference between a totally medicalized birth and one that is allowed to happen in it’s own time, supported by people who genuinely care about you as a person (and not just a patient).

Oh, yeah? Well, I guess the mom on this video who is laughing while pushing isn’t really in labor then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ50eX7JV48

oh, really… seems I didn’t get that memo!!! not only was I laughing in-between but I was following the conversations and “laughing in my head” during…

I had a similar nurse with my ds. I was not acting like she thought I should when in transition but I didn’t have pit and my 7yo and 4yo dd’s were in the room with me b/c my labor went so fast. I finally went off on her and told her that they needed to call MY doctor before her hour + set of rules and crap like 20 minutes of on my back monitoring, a cervical check, and an iv with a bag of fluids before she would turn it off and let me move. She was much more humble when my doctor was there 20 minutes later and it was obvious that he had just thrown on a pair of scrubs without showering or shaving. It was my first non induced labor too and the ctx were sooooo much easier until he got stuck and the pain on my hip bones was horrible and he had missing skin from rubbing on my hips when he emerged from the sun roof.

I was 16 when I had my first child. I went into labor, and assuming it would be much, much worse I called to the L&D prior to going in. The L&D nurse told me it wasn’t real labor since I was talking through my ctx and since they were so close it was wasn’t possible.

I waited another couple hours and finally went up to the hospital (nearly 45 minutes away). I arrived at 10cm and ready to push. My daughter was delivered 20 minutes later.

I guess I was never in “real labor” with my vaginal delivery then. I was fully able to chatter, chuckle, and even talk about next baby between contractions and even pushes when delivering my daughter.

Puhlease!

I was able to talk and laugh DURING contractions all throughout my labor (two words: hypnobirthing works), does that mean I was never in labor and my son doesn’t really exist?