For those of you who have already given birth and paid the hospital bill... out of curiosity (and I know this amount varies), how much does an epidural cost? I've got a pretty high tolerance for pain, and I want to try to go without an epidural. Of course, if the pain is just too unbearable I'd...

hello all :-) it seems that i'm blowing up, apparently! i have NSTs every tuesday and friday and at this past appointment, the receptionist told me that i've gotten a lot bigger since friday. somehow, neither my boyfriend nor i have noticed it. when i told my mom, she noticed it, haha. it's getting ...

I believe I mentioned in another post, my husband is in his maternity rotation of nursing school. since all of our babies were born at home, I don't know much about hospital birth, and am learning a lot from what he tells me. yesterday he saw an epidural insertion, and described it in his journal. I...

So it all started at about 11 o clock Saturday night, I decided to drink 2 tablespoons on castor oil to see if this would actually work, ended up falling asleep after. I woke up at about 2 am with mild contractions(bothersome enough so that I couldn't sleep). They started about 15 minutes apart then...

So, on Monday Feb 2nd, like I said before the doctor wanted to induce me. I decided to go ahead with it because I trust that my doctor knows what she's doing and talking about when she said that it was time. Me and my parents went to the hospital at 7:30am. I signed a few papers, and ...

  Baby Ava has arrived! She came on January 28th, 8 days early. She was 6 pound 3 ounces.  Here is the story. On the 27th, the doctor stripped my membranes (without actually asking). That night, I started to get immense back pain, but I thought it was just the normal pain I'd bee...

ok i am 4 days post partum. and feeling really crappy. I tore 4th degree. and am soooo sore and exhausted i feel like i havent slept for weeks. but now i suddenly on and off am getting this headache on the right side of my head that goes where my temple is, down my head and sometimes behind my eye. ...

Thursday i went in for the swelling and was hospitalized and induced since my blood pressure kept fluctuating alot. I was induced around 3:30pm. All was good, just felt like PMS.They broke my water around 6pm and contraction began to really really really hurt and were one right after another.even th...

I just have to share my excitement. I had my 35 week appointment today and everything went very well. (With the exception of waiting an hour to be seen, but that's normal. Ugh.) My doctor came in and immediately asked if I had any questions, which I did. I asked her if she could tell what posit...

Just a warning: If stories of induction or ones that involve AROM, epidurals, and pitocin bother you, then feel free to skip this. So I failed to go into labor naturally before 5:30 Thursday morning, though I did continue to have contractions throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. My husband and I pulled...