Denise, i think we have all looked after 'labouring' or birthing women who do not experience pain as anyone else would know it. i destinctly remember one woman who walked into my labour unit at 8cm with a few 'aches' (very mild suprapubic discomfort with contactions which had benn 15 minly, and became 5minly on arrival at hospital. she was a multi and figured this was labour because of the regularity. if she had been asleep she would have most likely slept through them. even her birthing didn't bother her much, although i agree that she couldn;t have slept through that
love Bethany -----Original Message----- From: Denise Hynd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 20 June 2003 13:13 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Dear Rhonda when the cervix is fully open the subsequent contractions will involuntarily push the baby out without extra voluntary effort from the woman whetehr awake or asleep!I love the stories of women who sleep through labour naturally?? Denise ----- Original Message ----- From: Rhonda To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 6:16 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Hmm - Thank you all so much. Very interesting. I would have thought that it would have created problems with bonding and feeding etc - however they probably promoted bottle feeding too?? I would expect that there would also have been problems with tearing and rupture etc - just thinking that the woman would have no control or feeling and so would not really know when to push etc and so it would interfere with the natural process. Just my thoughts on it. Anyone know why it stopped - I guess it was because of problems but there would no doubt have been some sort of catalyst to stop it? Thanks Again Rhonda -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 23:01:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Queen Voctoria started it. Well, they experimented on her and it was she that advocated how wonderful it was! ----- Original Message ----- From: Rhonda To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 7:19 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] twilight delivery - or twilight baby? Hi, all of you knowledgable women, I was talking to a friend today who said that her sister in law who was born in the 1940's claims to be a "twilight baby"? Apparently her mother - who has passed away now and cannot explain the reason - had her first child as a natural delivery - the second was this weird delivery where she went into hospital on her due day not in labour - got put to sleep and then woke up having delivered the baby vaginally while asleep or in twilight! The next two were normal, natural births. Does anyone know about this practice - obviously not done now days - i presume! She was curious about how it was done and why it may have been done. Any ideas? Regards Rhonda. ____________________________________________________ IncrediMail - Email has finally evolved - Click Here
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