Hi there, I am new to Mumsnet tonight. I have been going over and over my birth for well over a year now and would really like to hear what you all think.
I had a forceps delivery with my dd 16 months ago and I am still traumatised by the whole experience. I would be interested to here what other women's experience of forceps deliveries have been (I'm sure non of them good!). After 36 hours of regular contractions I had an epidural - oh what joy! Total pain relief. But when it came to the pushing stage (11 hours later!) the pain flooded back - (is this normal with an epidural?!) - this was a major shock to the system - understatement - no-one at the time had warned me that this would happen. I was on the ceiling with the shock and pain of it. After about 2 hours they decided to get my daughter out by forceps - Is it normal to not have any additional pain relief for a forceps delivery? I went through the roof with pain and was in absolute agony and totally lost control - I must have woken the whole hospital up with my screaming. I felt the episiotomy too. (Re: episiotomy - I remember clearly the doctor saying in reponse to my wailing, 'its just a little cut' in a very annoyed 'pull yourself together' tone). After dd was pulled out I sobbed my eyes out for about an hour (not joy I'm afraid). They found it very difficult to stitch me up as my body was just shaking so much (had to talk them into giving me some pain relief for the stitches). At the time I just felt like a huge wimp that should have been able to handle it. Afterwards, no medical staff offered to talk the birth through with me (I was too traumatised to ask) - so to this day I have no idea what really happened.
Sorry, was supposed to be a quick little post - I guess I needed to offload!
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Forceps delivery - who has had experience of?
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Halster · 22/11/2004 20:45
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