Anybody got any good delivery room stories??
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Dan Murphy
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Hey, is Amanda feeling okay, Shep???
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You sure you're done??? I was thinking the same thing myself that Dan didOriginally posted by shep
SHE IS FINE..
We're done...lol...
Ahhh, delivery room stories.
Well, I guess mine is a good story, after the fact, anyway.
Instead of being the encouraging spouse that I had ordered, DH it seems thought he was the doctor for the birth of my first son. I ended up having to have a C-section, and DH for some reason found that facinating. Apparently he had always wanted to see an operation being performed.
I got a blow by blow description of what was happening ("OMG, honey, they've taken out all your parts and they are laying on a table!" 
) The doctors had to tell him more than once that he was in the way, and finally ended up yelling at him to go up with me and they'd let him know when they needed him. LOL. I've forgiven him since.
The second child I had the warning of what he was like, so he knew ahead of time that any talk of my body parts and where they were during the operation was a no-no. He was in charge of the video camera. Unfortunately, this was not his forte either.
When playing back the videotape a few days afterwards, you see me in labor and in pain, then you see the doctor saying "its a boy!", then you see my relatives one day after the fact. Don't ask me what he was doing with the camera, something about the fact that he was reviewing it to see that it came out o.k. and forgot to fast forward it to the end, so the whole thing is bits and pieces of things that are unimportant, but no video of the actual baby being born.
Good thing I love him so much anyway.
Well, I guess mine is a good story, after the fact, anyway.
Instead of being the encouraging spouse that I had ordered, DH it seems thought he was the doctor for the birth of my first son. I ended up having to have a C-section, and DH for some reason found that facinating. Apparently he had always wanted to see an operation being performed.
I got a blow by blow description of what was happening ("OMG, honey, they've taken out all your parts and they are laying on a table!" ) The doctors had to tell him more than once that he was in the way, and finally ended up yelling at him to go up with me and they'd let him know when they needed him. LOL. I've forgiven him since.The second child I had the warning of what he was like, so he knew ahead of time that any talk of my body parts and where they were during the operation was a no-no. He was in charge of the video camera. Unfortunately, this was not his forte either.
When playing back the videotape a few days afterwards, you see me in labor and in pain, then you see the doctor saying "its a boy!", then you see my relatives one day after the fact. Don't ask me what he was doing with the camera, something about the fact that he was reviewing it to see that it came out o.k. and forgot to fast forward it to the end, so the whole thing is bits and pieces of things that are unimportant, but no video of the actual baby being born.
Good thing I love him so much anyway.
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My h almost passed out when the nurse took 10 minutes to put an iv in me. 
During the transition period, I told everyone I was done and going home. I don't remember what my reasoning was. lol
When I was in labor, the first time, everything was going like it should. We were watching Solid Gold and most of the hospital staff was in there watching it too.
I was wondering too shep.
During the transition period, I told everyone I was done and going home. I don't remember what my reasoning was. lol
When I was in labor, the first time, everything was going like it should. We were watching Solid Gold and most of the hospital staff was in there watching it too.
I was wondering too shep.
I had several mishaps some funny one not so funny.
This was with my third child. Can't believe I'm gonna tell about this one, LOL. Had the enema, all went well, went to the restroom to take care of business. Ran out of toilet paper, took the toilet paper thing off and had to stand up to get another roll of toilet paper, the thing that holds the toilet paper slipped out of my hand and went right in the toilet. Well you know how it is after an enema you just have to continue on. Unfortunately I couldn't flush the toilet it would have over flowed. I called a nurse and told her what had happened and warned her not to open the bathroom door, LOL. She laughed and said they have to call maintenance all the time because they drop their beepers in there alot, ewww. Maintenance came and boy was he mad. hehe. cant say I blamed him.
After I had my son I was ready to have my tubes tied. They helped me on another bed to take me into surgery. I kept trying to tell them that there was something in the crack of my rearend. They said, oh it's probably the sheet all rolled up I said no there is something there. They ignored me. I get into the surgery room and they put me on another bed. A nurse looks down and said, there's my pen and puts it back in her pocket, eww.
This one wasn't funny: After my son was born they forgot to put a bracelet on me. When they brought my son to me they would not let me have him because they said he might not be mine. I just wanted to cry. It took several hours before they figured out he was mine and finally brought him back. I kept asking my dh and dd's if that looked like the same baby they saw after delivery. My dd's told me to chill that it was him. I kept thinking that I would take him home and have to give him back to someone else later.
This was with my third child. Can't believe I'm gonna tell about this one, LOL. Had the enema, all went well, went to the restroom to take care of business. Ran out of toilet paper, took the toilet paper thing off and had to stand up to get another roll of toilet paper, the thing that holds the toilet paper slipped out of my hand and went right in the toilet. Well you know how it is after an enema you just have to continue on. Unfortunately I couldn't flush the toilet it would have over flowed. I called a nurse and told her what had happened and warned her not to open the bathroom door, LOL. She laughed and said they have to call maintenance all the time because they drop their beepers in there alot, ewww. Maintenance came and boy was he mad. hehe. cant say I blamed him.
After I had my son I was ready to have my tubes tied. They helped me on another bed to take me into surgery. I kept trying to tell them that there was something in the crack of my rearend. They said, oh it's probably the sheet all rolled up I said no there is something there. They ignored me. I get into the surgery room and they put me on another bed. A nurse looks down and said, there's my pen and puts it back in her pocket, eww.
This one wasn't funny: After my son was born they forgot to put a bracelet on me. When they brought my son to me they would not let me have him because they said he might not be mine. I just wanted to cry. It took several hours before they figured out he was mine and finally brought him back. I kept asking my dh and dd's if that looked like the same baby they saw after delivery. My dd's told me to chill that it was him. I kept thinking that I would take him home and have to give him back to someone else later.
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When I had DD#1, I was in a teaching hospital. Now, I understand that these interns are there to learn, but I DO feel that they might of needed a tad more training!! I'll explain....after being induced and several hours passing, they tell me that labor "isn't working"....the baby doesn't want to drop! This rather large woman viterally yells "I'll get this baby to drop!!" (there are about 7 interns in the room watching! ) She proceeds to lay across my chest/upper abdomon and squeeze me like a tube of toothpaste
As she is doing this, there is another intern sitting on the foot of the bed, ATTEMPTING to attach the scalp clip to the baby's head to monitor her better. DH is sitting on the window sill laughing over this whole ordeal! 
As the nurse is trying to do the scalp clip, I almost trying to back out of her way she was causing SO much discomfort!!(thank goodness I already had the epidural!) After her 3rd or 4th attempt, a light bulb goes off in her head...she asks "Doesn't this thing have an applicator??" Here, she was trying to get her HAND to reach the baby's head!!!
OUCH!!
I'll explain....after being induced and several hours passing, they tell me that labor "isn't working"....the baby doesn't want to drop! This rather large woman viterally yells "I'll get this baby to drop!!" (there are about 7 interns in the room watching! ) She proceeds to lay across my chest/upper abdomon and squeeze me like a tube of toothpaste As she is doing this, there is another intern sitting on the foot of the bed, ATTEMPTING to attach the scalp clip to the baby's head to monitor her better. DH is sitting on the window sill laughing over this whole ordeal! As the nurse is trying to do the scalp clip, I almost trying to back out of her way she was causing SO much discomfort!!(thank goodness I already had the epidural!) After her 3rd or 4th attempt, a light bulb goes off in her head...she asks "Doesn't this thing have an applicator??" Here, she was trying to get her HAND to reach the baby's head!!! OUCH!!
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Originally posted by shep
DW got mad at me for talking to the nurse...
Excuse me, I am having a baby here...
LOL.........with me it was DH focusing all his attention on all the equipment, especially the fetal heart monitor..........(he's an engineer...always the same on any hospital trip
)Took some swearing on my part to get his attention back
I had an emergency C-section with DS8. Because my blood was not clotting, they thought I was going to have excessive bleeding. When we got into the OR, my DH figured out that he could see the c-section by way of the reflection in the OR. So, he kept watching and watching. The doctors were concerned about what he might see, so they kept lowering and lowering the table. DH didn't give up. He still watched and watched. Eventually the doctors got a bit miffed and had the nurse move some equipment in front of the window to block the reflection. Guess DH was so busy trying to see what was going on, that's why he turned off the video camera when DS came out. Before that, he was filming the floor!
After DS was born, they gave me a shot of morphine (maybe) when they started closing me up. I started going off into la-la land and talking about some really strange things. Actually, I was babyproofing as I was laying there. I started talking about cutting up hot dogs into small pieces, putting those little non-skid decorative things onto the bottom of the tub, covering outlets. I remember the nurse commenting that she's heard a lot of things in the delivery room but not the things I was talking about.
With DS3, another emergency c-section at 2 am in the morning. I was so tired out, I could have fallen asleep. My doctor commented back to me that I was in the middle of having a baby, I wasn't going to be sleeping nights for a long time!!
The doctor then asked if I wanted to have my tubes tied -- I was like, HELLO, where have you been all of these years. Both of my babies were IVF babies so there was absolutely no need to have my tubes tied. Guess my doctor forgot about that part!!
After DS was born, they gave me a shot of morphine (maybe) when they started closing me up. I started going off into la-la land and talking about some really strange things. Actually, I was babyproofing as I was laying there. I started talking about cutting up hot dogs into small pieces, putting those little non-skid decorative things onto the bottom of the tub, covering outlets. I remember the nurse commenting that she's heard a lot of things in the delivery room but not the things I was talking about.
With DS3, another emergency c-section at 2 am in the morning. I was so tired out, I could have fallen asleep. My doctor commented back to me that I was in the middle of having a baby, I wasn't going to be sleeping nights for a long time!!
The doctor then asked if I wanted to have my tubes tied -- I was like, HELLO, where have you been all of these years. Both of my babies were IVF babies so there was absolutely no need to have my tubes tied. Guess my doctor forgot about that part!!
When I was pregnant with our first child, we did not know the sex of the baby. When I delivered, DH says "Say hello to Troy Robert" (the name we had picked out for a boy.) The nurse was like "That doesn't look like a boy to me!" Meanwhile I'm just yelling "What is it!!" It was a girl, DH saw the umbilical cord between her legs! Now that's any guy's wishful thinking!!
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When I had my first child @ 19yo it was a very confusing & scary experience as, in addition to my young age, it went very quickly (a little over an hour from the time I went into labor) & the baby was big - over 9lbs.
Altho I would've liked to have had SOME type of privacy (limiting it to the dr., nurses & my husb.) my mother told her temple congregation & immed. her rabbi came up to see me & walked RIGHT INTO the delivery room while I was still there being sewn up (after episiotomy) to offer me his 'congratulations'. Believe me, I could've done without it at THAT particular moment!
(I didn't even attend the temple!)
Altho I would've liked to have had SOME type of privacy (limiting it to the dr., nurses & my husb.) my mother told her temple congregation & immed. her rabbi came up to see me & walked RIGHT INTO the delivery room while I was still there being sewn up (after episiotomy) to offer me his 'congratulations'. Believe me, I could've done without it at THAT particular moment!
(I didn't even attend the temple!)
This is more of a post-partum story. I had rooming in with my first child, and I was breastfeeding. If I was nursing when the delivery OB came in to see me, he would turn red and tell me he'd be back later! I couldn't believe, after the prenatal visits and delivery, that he was embarrased by a flash of breast!!! (or thought I would be!) I think every mother will agree that your modesty has flown out the window at that point, and it takes awhile to get it back.
I had rooming in with my first child, and I was breastfeeding. If I was nursing when the delivery OB came in to see me, he would turn red and tell me he'd be back later! I couldn't believe, after the prenatal visits and delivery, that he was embarrased by a flash of breast!!! (or thought I would be!) I think every mother will agree that your modesty has flown out the window at that point, and it takes awhile to get it back. 
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I have several...for my 2nd child, after giving birth to a 10 lb. 8 oz baby the first time around, the dr. says to the nurse.."Watch her carefully. She's gonna go fast." Then they all went off to watch Bruce Jenner win the decathlon in the Olympics. Well, baby crowned and no one was there. Dr. came running in screaming.." I thought I told you to watch her??!! This baby's gonna be born in a hallway!" Which she nearly was, made it into delivery by about 30 seconds. My 9 y/o dd was born quite quickly, in about 3 1/2 hrs. So, when I was first induced, my dh called everyone in the family to tell them what was happening. I guess no one thought I would go so fast. The cord had just been cut, when the phone rang. The nurse answered it and says..."Oh it's for you." and gives me the phone. It's my dh's brother!! My newborn let out a squawk and he almost died of mortification. Said to me "Oh. It looks like you're pretty busy. I'll call back." and hung up. At this point the anesthesiologist, who was about the age of Dougie Howser, walked in and says..."Looks like you won't be needing the final part of your epidural, will you?" WAnted to kill him.
I ended up with a c-section, too. It seems like forever after the baby is born that they are stitching you up! LOL! I kept watching my dr. stitch away...well, I couldn't see much. Greg had gone over to the corner to be with Daniel while they checked him up. He was just walking over with Daniel when we both heard the nurse or assistant ask how its going...my dr. said not very well. Oh MY God!!!! We both just froze and Greg asked what was wrong. Turned out my dr. loves needlework and was working on a project in her free time that wasn't going well. ROFLOL!!!!! That is NOT something you want to hear when you are numb, on a table, all opened up.
Thankfully it wasn't about me.
Thankfully it wasn't about me.
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Both of my kids were born really fast. The first was born a little over an hours after the first contraction....we had gotten to the hospital, gone up to labor and delivery and my husband had gone down to formally check me in. He got a call to hurry back if he wanted to see his baby born! My brother in law is a physician, and was on staff there. We'd seen him on our way in, and just after delivering I heard his voice out in the hall saying that they must have made a mistake, I'd just gotten there. They wouldn't let him in, so he sent a nurse that was a friend to make sure that they hadn't made an error.
With my second child, having had to change ob-gyns because my first group didn't want me....they don't work out of the hospitals closer to my home....my husband was so nervous about not making it to the hospital that I wound up driving there! Went in pretty close to the first HINT of a contraction so they thought we'd be there for a while. Wrong. Fifteen minutes after settling in the room I told the nurse that she should get the doctor. She told me it would be a while before we needed the doctor (patronizing nurses shouldn't be in labor and delivery) so I suggested that she check to be sure. Haven't seen a nurse move quite that fast in a while! She stuck her head out the door and hollered for the doc. We were done around 15 minutes later, and the doctor "yelled" at me...turned out his wife was going to make him attend a charity event, and he'd been hoping we were his ticket out of it.
Fun trip back in time....the "baby" turns 18 in little more than a week!
With my second child, having had to change ob-gyns because my first group didn't want me....they don't work out of the hospitals closer to my home....my husband was so nervous about not making it to the hospital that I wound up driving there! Went in pretty close to the first HINT of a contraction so they thought we'd be there for a while. Wrong. Fifteen minutes after settling in the room I told the nurse that she should get the doctor. She told me it would be a while before we needed the doctor (patronizing nurses shouldn't be in labor and delivery) so I suggested that she check to be sure. Haven't seen a nurse move quite that fast in a while! She stuck her head out the door and hollered for the doc. We were done around 15 minutes later, and the doctor "yelled" at me...turned out his wife was going to make him attend a charity event, and he'd been hoping we were his ticket out of it.
Fun trip back in time....the "baby" turns 18 in little more than a week!
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