Family in the Delivery Room

[lizbud]

I love my family and my friends too but, I only wanted the Doc , Nurses
and most of all the anesthetic (near the end)

[Sevaede]

I recently heard that you, um, *mess* yourself during labor. If I ever did decide to have kids then I would probably just be alone. Maybe my MIL.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

I recently heard that you, um, *mess* yourself during labor.

My husband watched every second of Nathan's birth from the second my midwife said "I can see his head" until he was all the way out. After Nathan was born I asked Justin if I "messed myself" but he didn't know. He said That there was so much "stuff" (fluids and blood) coming out down there that he wouldn't have noticed if I did. He said too that they had pads and things under me that they changed after every push so anything that came out was only there for a very short time. He said that though it all sounds gross it's too incredible to be the least bit gross.

[sparks19]

I love my family and my friends too but, I only wanted the Doc , Nurses
and most of all the anesthetic (near the end)

AMEN to that.... I already had my consult so that they dont' have to ask any questions... they can just give me the drugs when I tell them to lol

[prechrswife]

I only had my hubby and the delivery team (doctor, L & D nurse, and baby nurse). The only extra person was a nursing student, and they did ask me before she came in. I would have been okay with my mom coming in, but once the pushing started, our baby arrived within half an hour, and it was early in the morning. My parents were still on the way to the hospital when she was born.

[DrKym]

had e1 there all 8 times

[Glacier]

I was with my sister when she had her first child. I even cut the cord. She didn't plan to have me there; Naomi was early and I just happened to be visiting when she went into labour. Her hubby was trying not to faint, so he was pretty much useless! Turned out he was pretty much useless at just about everything, but we didn't know that at the time!

[joycenalex]

... Her hubby was trying not to faint, so he was pretty much useless! Turned out he was pretty much useless at just about everything, but we didn't know that at the time!

yeah, but he did give you half the genetic material for a niece that you are crazy about as i recall. so some small early value as he peaked early

as for me, i never wanted kids, so i don't have any, however.....
many many years ago as a bottom of the rung xray tech, working midnights at my hospital, i had to do a film called a pelvimetry on a poor woman who was in hour 37 of labor. this was when ultrasound wasn't available 24/7. i got the 2 films and was running them in the darkroom when i heard the tenor of her screams change. i ran back into the xray room to find her student nurse trying to pull her back on to the stretcher screaming....the babys' head is here... from somewhere i got the strength to pull the student and patient over onto the cart, threw the door open and pushed the cart onto the waiting elevator ( i had locked it open when the patient came down from the floor) and hit the button. the doors closed and when they opened again all of us were in front of a small group of nurses and residents who jumped to the job at hand. i went back downstairs to continue my shaking. that night gave me a whole lotta resolve to never do anything like that again and to get off midnights as soon as possible.

[Marigold2]

I totally agree, and don't wake me up till the umbilical cord heals. I don't want anyone in the bathroom when I pee, same here.

I love my family and my friends too but, I only wanted the Doc , Nurses
and most of all the anesthetic (near the end)

[kallisto4529]

I was in the room when my nephew was born, I was only 19 and was terrified when my sister asked me to be her backup coach, her husband at the time was a you know what....anyway when I saw Timothy being born it was the most amazing and wonderful thing in the world, it was just my sister, me, the nurse and the dr, neither one of us would trade it for the world. I don't get everyone being in there at time of delivery, I would never have wanted that. For me I would have wanted just my husband, that is a very private and personal time for us.