tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347936600448086267.post403351567364296921..comments2011-10-21T11:51:18.976-04:00Comments on Life As a Threesome: InsanityMonkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04315605805512487339noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6347936600448086267.post-83983234859019718832010-09-08T11:09:26.119-04:002010-09-08T11:09:26.119-04:00great rant :) I felt mostly the same way before Lu...great rant :) I felt mostly the same way before Lucia was born. People kept telling me:<br />-you won't be able to stand it the last month of pregnancy!<br />-you'll be huge and miserable<br />-you won't be able to handle the pain of labor without pain meds<br />-BLAH BLAH BLAH<br /><br />Here's what I learned, I DID love pregnancy, execept for the HEARTBURN that almost killed me. I WAS miserable at the end, BUT only at the very very end, like the last week. And I was only miserable at night because I had really bad sciatic pain. I loved it anyway!<br /><br />You WILL be able to handle the pain of labor, duh of course you can. Many of my friends who got epidurals told me the pain was IMPOSSIBLE that I would die without an epidural and all that good stuff. Well here's the thing, most of those friends (I found out later) got the epidural at like 3 cm dilated, or after 3 hours of really "bad" pain and that's what they considered "excrutiating" and untolerable. I can't say I didn't do it without pain meds, because at 9 1/2 centimeters dilated I caved in and got an epidural. Why? Because I had labored for over 12 hours at home and had taken all the pain I wanted to take at that point, and because it got EXCRUTATING at that point and I turned into a an anxious crying mess! <br />My water hadn't broken btw so the doctor had to break it for me, and warned me that all hell would break loose. Well I was already a crazy woman because I had gone so far w/out pain meds, and as soon as she broke my water, I thought the world was ending. I begged for the epidural like a big baby and had the baby not 30 minutes later! So the moral of the story is, you CAN do it w/out pain meds because I basically did, until the end. And had I know the baby would have been born so soon after I had my water broken I would NOT have gotten the epidural. Though it only numbed 1/2 my body btw!<br /><br />So, all those women who told me "you can't handle the pain" it'll be terrible, they were wrong because they only "handled" probably 1/4 of the pain I felt since they didn't even get that far in their labor w/out an epidural! I mean I'm pretty sure I felt WAY more pain than my one friend who got the epidural at like 3 cm dilated. I lasted until 9 1/2 and ALMOST did it w/out pain meds and you can TOTALLY do it, just don't go crazy like I did!<br /><br /><br />And finally what I learned was, yes you won't sleep the same again, but who cares? you have a beautiful baby to stare at all day :)<br /><br />Good luck and I can't wait to hear about your labor!Claudiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00373749387321286284noreply@blogger.com