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Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/23/2008 8:01:46 PM
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VisitorinWaiting
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I just thought about this again because ds2's birthday was Friday. He is 4 now. We have a 5 year old, a 4 year old, and a 2 year old. I can't think of anything unusual hubby did during the birthing of our first...he was very nervous and very excited. But during the birthing of our second, also done by a midwife at her home, while I'm in the middle of laboring, not pushing yet, but everything is "coming together," he decides to go take a shower. I look at him like he's crazy, his sisters do as well, but I say nothing as I have bigger things to worry about. I still don't know why he went to take a shower at that moment. He'd had a shower earlier that evening, I do believe. My water broke while he was in the shower. LOL Dd is our youngest, and I don't remember him doing anything unusual for that one either... I just wanted to see if anyone else had some unusual hubby experiences during child laboring/birth.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/23/2008 8:07:09 PM
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My mom never had a labor over 2.5 hours. With my sister, she gave birth in the hospital hallway, on a gurney...while my dad was eating her ice chips! I guess he thought they were his.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 8:01:20 AM
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I don't know that this is unusual, but the last half of my pushing the doctor kept mentioning c-section. I am getting mad and pushing away refusing to give in when I notice I no longer see my husband. My mom next to me, but no hubby. Then all of a sudden I saw him and the poor guy was pacing the floor in the back of the room. He was so worried about what was going to happen, but I have to say if my mom wouldn't have been there I would have been all alone. Hopefully things go smoother next time and there is no mention of a c-section.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 8:43:27 AM
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I think the only labor when he did anything unusual was with Rachel. She was born during finals week of his freshmen year in college, and he had been up a long time, so he slept on the couch while I labored. I finally woke him up when I got the point where I really needed him, though. I think he also studied for awhile, since he had an exam in the morning.
I do remember during Abby's labor that he went to take the kids to his mom's house and I wasn't sure he was going to make it back before she was born! He got there just in time, though.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 8:59:25 AM
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The most unusual thing to happened when I was in labor with my first. We lived out on a farm about 12 miles from the hospital. My husband, my Mother, & I came out to get in the car. My Mother put my suitcase in the car while my husband got into the back seat. She got into the car & they drove away without me. They went for several miles before they realised I was not with them. They did return to take me along also. I had several hour at the hospital before the baby was born so no harm was done except I never let them forget that they had forgotten me.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 10:57:59 AM
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My husband didn't do anything unusual during my labour. I could tell he was bored (17 hours from when we checked into the hospital) and I kept telling him to sleep but he wouldn't.
Actually, now I remember him playing the Nintendo DS a lot, but he put it down when I started pushing.
My mom said that during one birth (I can't remember if it was mine or my sisters) my dad went home to check the mail.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 11:26:32 AM
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The only unusual thing my husband did was cry...lol. I was having a very hard time and some complications, and when they came in after 36 hours of labor and said there was still no change, he cried. He couldn't stand seeing me in pain like that. I went a few more hours after that, but I have never seen a man so relieved as when they told him I needed a c-section. I remember saying I was sorry because it was going to cost a fortune(we were paying for the delivery ourselves) and he said "I don't care...I can't handle any more of this" Yea...should have been on MY end of things...lol!
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 11:52:37 AM
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Micah had worked the night before(8pm-6am) so he slept for the majority of the day after he got off work. He did stay up and sit with me until I got the epidural, but after that he either slept or played computer games. I suppose that is weird to some people but since I was in zero pain and just watching tv....
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 5:48:42 PM
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With the labor for my oldest hubby was in the Navy and he had been on duty for 48 hours. So I was watching I Love Lucy cause it was the only thing that would distract me from the pain and he was obviously trying to sleep since it was 3:30 and he actually asked me to turn off the TV and to stop crying he was trying to sleep.
With the youngest he was sleeping and I woke him up to tell him the baby was coming he got up and said does it have to be right now I'm sleeping.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 5:59:36 PM
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LOL ... my hubby has slept through all of my labours ... and it's not like they were long -- or at night ... we're talking about daytime hours here, and no more than 13 at the absolute most. He usually falls asleep soon after we arrive at the hospital, and wakes up about 30 minutes prior to me needing to push. With this one, we are planning a home birth ... so I've told him that just because it is his bed too, he doesn't get to hog it and sleep the whole time ... he has to play the role of the hospitable host for myself and my birth attendants!! LOL
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/24/2008 9:25:16 PM
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I fear that my labor will be spent with my husband working doing tech support since he is the sole IT guy at our hospital....  Every time we go anywhere people are asking him computer questions....
Oh Erin, I have one of those and my ex was also. I so totally understand where you are comming from. Those people have brains that are wired so differently from normal people. BUT during my labor with Jake, I remember my ex husband and my mom talked for the longest time. I was tired so I slept but I was in that in between type sleep where I could hear things that were going on, but couldn't bring myself to open my eyes until the doc came in and broke my water. Then there was no sleeping. I just remember that Jake was here within about 45 minutes to an hour of them breaking my water.
As for my current husband, he was bored and kept asking if he really needed to be there with me the whole time. (I was being induced) I was dying for a movie, and I had videos but the hospital didn't have a VCR to play them in so I asked him to go home and get them since we didn't know how long I would be there. He did, but by the time he came back, one of the nurses brought me a tv with a VCR and I watched Anne of Green Gables. He was not happy with my choice of movies, but it didn't matter because when I was 4cm the doc broke my water and Kali was here within half an hour of that.
When I had Kay, my husband knew better than to ask me if he really needed to be there and was the perfect coach, husband and dad the entire time.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/25/2008 2:35:29 PM
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Will's a nervous eater. While I was in labor with my first, he actually ate three dinners. Family would come to see us and offer to take him down to the cafeteria for dinner or bring him something from a drive through... needless to say, I don't think he ate at all the next day.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/25/2008 2:52:09 PM
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OH i had forgotten about the counting during pushing with the first one the nurse had to take over cause he would go 1 2 oh honey this is so cool you should see this 3 4 etc....
He also like watching the fetal monitor and say OK honey this will hurt a little.
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/25/2008 2:55:14 PM
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My husband did the same as yours, VisitorinWaiting; except he went HOME to shower. The doctor broke my water and said, well..we are going to have a baby today. My husband thought that meant LATER in the day so he went home to shower. My sister called him later and told him if he wanted to see his child come into the world he had better get himself back to the hospital immediately. He made it just in time.
After our son was born, he has that weird looking white stuff on him that some newborns have. My husband asked the doctor, "That stuff is going to come off, isn't it?"
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/25/2008 5:25:27 PM
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My hubby left to get fast food and he sneaked feeding it to me when no one was around. Like he actually held the burger when I took bites so we wouldn't get busted. Then when a nurse came in, she kinda gave him a look like it was rude that he was eating in front of me when I hadn't eaten in like 20 hours LOL! She asked me if it bothered me that he was eating (in her "I'm your nurse and it's my job to destroy anyone who bothers you" voice), and I said no. Hehee!
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/25/2008 9:50:52 PM
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I think that's part of what killed me with Will eating three dinners during Marshall's labor. He was our first and we were very much in the "Obey-the-Nurses-even-if-it-seems-silly" phase. I was STARVING and he'd eaten so much he felt sick!
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/26/2008 5:20:20 PM
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Talking about food in labour ... I'm so glad I used a midwife with #4 and have her again with #5 ... if you use an OB around here, once you are at the hospital, everything is off limits except ice chips ... and if the pitocin is started, ice chips are a no-no too. With a midwife, they tell ya to fully stock a cooler and haul it in with ya "The fuller the cooler, the shorter the labour".
Funny thing with #4 ... dh forgot to grab the cooler, so midwife told him he needed to make it up to me, since I hadn't yet had breakfast (water broke at 5am) ... sent him to McD's for a breakfast meal for me, and told him as penance, he could have the ice chips ... LOL!!! (He got himself a meal as well, but the look on the midwife's face was priceless when she was 'scolding' him!!!)
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RE: Unusual things hubby did while you were in labor... - 7/26/2008 8:08:08 PM
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Talking about food in labour ... I'm so glad I used a midwife with #4 and have her again with #5 ... if you use an OB around here, once you are at the hospital, everything is off limits except ice chips ... and if the pitocin is started, ice chips are a no-no too. With a midwife, they tell ya to fully stock a cooler and haul it in with ya "The fuller the cooler, the shorter the labour".
Funny thing with #4 ... dh forgot to grab the cooler, so midwife told him he needed to make it up to me, since I hadn't yet had breakfast (water broke at 5am) ... sent him to McD's for a breakfast meal for me, and told him as penance, he could have the ice chips ... LOL!!! (He got himself a meal as well, but the look on the midwife's face was priceless when she was 'scolding' him!!!)
This is funny Kara. You mentioned not being able to have ice chips once they started the pitocin. Yikes! When they gave me pitocin, everything escalated so quickly that I didn't even have time to think about hunger or thirst. With each contraction, I was saying with my breathing, "I hate pitocin, I hate pitocin, I hate pitocin." I went from about a 4 on the pain scale to a 10 in a matter of seconds after that stuff got started. Wow. (BTW, I had the first two at the midwife's house, and the third one in the hospital only because we moved to another state and didn't want to try to find a midwife that we liked and trusted in a state where we knew no one!)
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