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Best lens combo for baby shots at hospital

Started Aug 4, 2014 | Questions thread
Jonathan Brady
Jonathan Brady Veteran Member • Posts: 6,725
Re: Short stay

Timbukto wrote:

jitteringjr wrote:

With our 3rd, we were at the hospital for 22 hours including labor. The others were longer. A lot depends on what time the baby comes along.

i would just bring the 24 and 50.

Have no experience with that either...amazingly my wife has extremely short labors...the first was extremely short, the second was even shorter...the nurses were not even prepared for such a quick change in dilation, etc. For us its almost, go to the hospital, and baby comes 3 hours later...

You're incredibly lucky. My wife started having contractions Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. We went to the hospital 3 times due to contractions that were buckling her knees and making her gasp. Twice we were turned away as she wasn't dilated. The third time she still wasn't dilated and the nurse dilated her manually and admitted her. That was Thursday night around 10pm. They gave her pitocin (wish they hadn't) to speed things up and she was fully dilated by 2pm Friday afternoon and started pushing. A little after 5 they said she was going to have to have a C section.

This whole time, the baby's head was pressing against her spine which, to put it into perspective, my wife couldn't feel the contractions because the pain from the babies head was too much. They gave her an epidural which worked and numbed both sides, but wasn't strong enough to stop the pain no matter how much they gave her. They said if they gave more, she wouldn't be able to push.

So again... consider yourself EXTREMELY lucky. Not only because your wife didn't have to have a C section, but because she didn't have to endure 2.5 days of pain (and no sleep) that you couldn't take away. My wife mentions to people all the time that so many women say that all the pain of childbirth is forgotten when your baby arrives (or shortly thereafter), she says NOT FOR HER. She says she still remembers every excruciating moment. You just don't forget that kind of pain, no matter how much magic and love follows it.

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