Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
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Posted by My OB said WHAT?!?.
“You Are Putting Limits On Your Labor…”
“You are putting limits on your labor. If you would let us give you the epidural, we could up the pitocin and move this along.” – OB to mother in labor.
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This from a representative of an institution that won’t “let” you go past 41 weeks, won’t “let” you have a VBAC in many cases, won’t “let” you deliver without being on the monitors 20 minutes out of each hour, won’t “let” you eat and drink during labor, won’t “let” you labor for more than 24 hours, won’t “let” you push for more than three hours, won’t “let” you labor at home with ruptured membranes, and in many cases won’t “let” you have a paid labor support expert, won’t “let” you labor in the tub…
But no, the mother’s the one putting limits on her labor. In Bizarro World.
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Kate, Ren's Mama had this to say,
Jan 17, 2012 @ 9:03 pm (Quote)
Sounds like you’re saying I can’t handle any more pit without pain meds. So what, exactly, would more pit do to my baby, who doesn’t really get the benefits (just the drawbacks) of the pain meds?
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Or you could turn the pit off and let my body do what God intended it to do. Just a thought.
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Julie had this to say,
Jan 17, 2012 @ 10:50 pm (Quote)
Mine.
I didn’t want the pitocin in the first place. They gave me it after it had been 24 hours since my water broke. Didn’t tell me they were putting it in (saw writting on bag and asked) and never told me they were increasing it. Or told me any possible side effects (but I already knew them, which is why I refused as long as I could).
Then as I was walking around (which was the last lap they let me do) the doctor asked me AGAIN to sign the papers for the epi. Said no AGAIN. She said first that they needed me to sign even if I didn’t want it incase there was an emergency. I told her if there was an emergency they didn’t need my signature if I was unconscious, they had my spouse. And to leave the papers in my room if it made her feel better, if an emergency arose and I was conscious, I could sign them in a second.
Then she told me that I was putting limits on my labour, and that if I had the epi they could up pitocin and have the baby out in no time. I told her she was right. I was putting limits on MY labour, and that was a limit I was not budging on.
She left to go to her clinic since I was only at 5cm, and not too long after I was at 10!
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Kate, Ren's mama Reply:
January 18th, 2012 at 10:52 am (Quote)
Go, mama!
And it’s amazing how you opened up as soon as the Epi-Nazi left 
Funny how the body knows these things…
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Why is speeding up labor past the point the mother’s body can endure supposed to be a *good* thing, anyway? Quite a few interventions in the cascade are like that – AROM, pitting to “augment” labor. And doctors seem open about saying so – “Let’s get this labor really going!”
The baby will be here when it’s here, doctor. Relax. If you can’t handle waiting, go down and prescribe yourself a Valium.
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Nope actually you are putting limits on my labour by insisting we move things along faster then my body needs to. Would be my response.
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Sarah Reply:
January 17th, 2012 at 6:19 pm Sarah(Quote)
My thoughts exactly.
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Angela Reply:
January 18th, 2012 at 6:36 am Angela(Quote)
Bingo!
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Veronica Reply:
January 18th, 2012 at 9:24 am Veronica(Quote)
I took the opposite approach, sayign she was right there are limits and this is one.
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