Birth stories from your mothers

[Josephine_Beth]

My mum has been telling me stories of when she was pregnant with me and then my brother and some of them sound like comdey scenes, others, horror films and then the genera; 'awwww films'

It seems that step by step, I've been experiencing the same as my mu each month, I mean with things such as eczema getting worse, swollan ankles worse or starting and this problem with my pelvic bone.

Then the stories of her going into labour started. With me, she was taken to the hospital by our neighbour, she sat on 7 towels, she tells me but none saved that poor car seat

With my brother, she went into an ambulance but it happened so quickly, the paramedics made her stand up all the way, as they were affraid my brother would pop out from waters breaking to giving birth with him was something like 4hrs, with me, it was 6hrs or something.

Is it me, or when our mum's tell us these stories, their faces light up?

 

[little*red]

dontyou just love hearing people horror labour stories. youd thinkpeople would like to keep a pregnant woman calm and not scare the living daylights out of her.
Although saying that my labour was almost exactly the same as all my mums labours .

 

[fynemum]

thats so true..... I have heard my mum's stories too....
*** but can i just say... my FIRST Labour/Born which was 17 years ago today...(Happy Birthday Lewis ) Was a dream....

Waters broke...felt a pop in the back of my neck then a wee flood....no smell, nice and clean water too BTW.
Nice easy labour....... only 27 minutes
No pain... no pain relief either... not needed,
3 maybe 4 pushes later.... and hello baby...

" so NO horror there "

Just remember, Cool & Calm, breath, and let nature do the work for you..... not your mum's horror stories...... Cool & Calm....... remember the NICE Stories.... Lv Yvonne xx

 

[Squiglet]

My mum's favorite frase when I was bad growing up was... "I spent 7 and a half months in hospital to have you so you better show me some respect!!!!" Which is true, as the consultants wouldn't let her leave as she had a high risk pregnancy, and boy did she never let me forget...

My mum loves scaring me with her birth tales, and she doesn't talk to me in the matter of pain...no she's more insidious.. The baby she had before me was "miscarried" at 24 weeks (it was considered a miscarriage 30 years ago before 28weeks) and I'm about that stage now, she she likes telling me that story at the moment...

Then she had placenta previa with me, which is what I had but thankfully, my placenta has started to move up and is only on the edge of my cervix...but she likes telling me of the time, when she nearly lost me at 26 weeks, because the placenta started to come away...

Then there was my sister Sheena, who sadly died from a congenital disease and she likes to tell me about that pregnancy too, how she much more quiet than me
yada yada yada...

I think I would be happy with a good old fashioned Labour horror story!!!

What's worse is, I heard all this when I was growing up, when I was pregnant with my daughter, after I gave birth...WHY do I need to hear it again...??? When we announced to our families (both there at the same time) that I was expecting, both mothers decided to go into great detail about all their labours, telling me stuff as if I had never experienced anything like it in my life.... despite the fact there was a very tall, blonde, 7 year old (at the time) sitting at the end of the table proved otherwise .. What was even more funny, was my labour with my DD was far more terrifying....

Then there was the GF of a friend of my DH who kept telling me I would understand the pain of labour, the love of a baby, and what pregnancy was really like, when we got round to having our first child... Excuse me??? So my daughter is just the will of the Ori I suppose...

This is why I don't tell pregnant women my labour story, I think it's unfair...

 

[Kylie1007]

My mum seemed to have fairly quick labours -- she had to be induced with me (she reckons I'd still be there if they hadn't induced me! lol) as I was 2 weeks late but once that was done at 9am I was born around half 2 in the aftenoon. With my bro she got twinges at 2pm and had him at 10 in the evening. Hope it's the same with me!

She did agree with the fact that a lot of the midwives suggest that you stand or keep moving because she was told "Stay on the bed MOTHER!" by the midwives in those days rather than encouraging her to keep moving.