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Originally Posted by Bigtime
No need to apologize, I was just presenting the view from the guys side of that. I don't want to end up in the doghouse before the baby is even born!
My wife and I did talk about all of that stuff months before the due date, she wanted to try and keep the birth as natural as possible. Perhaps a little gas or something at the most to help with the pain, well that all went out the window when the gas made her vomit, a few minutes after that she was asking for the epidural and we were in business.
I was impressed watching the doctor come in and set that epidural up in mere minutes. Dude earns his paycheque with skills like that.
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Yeah I did the same thing. We had been going to some classes before our son was born and had decided between the 2 of us that I would try (try) to go as long as possible without meds as I could (silly broad). Well I ended up being 10 days overdue and had to be induced. Well that crap makes labour hit you like a fricking freight train to your tender bits and after 5 hours of constant 30 second contractions with 30 second breaks and no gas (cause they ran out with the patient before me), I was BEGGING for the drugs.
Once that doctor rushed in and spoke those beautiful words, "I'm here to give you your epidural" and had it done mere minutes later, it was relief I didn't know was even possible. After another 18 hours of labour with no results, my boy was delivered by emerg c-section (had the cord wrapped 2x around both legs). I'm not sure how I would have been able to get through that without the epidural. Marvellous things they are. I completely admire women who can go through labour and delivery without any drugs by choice, but I'm happy with the choice I made.
TL;DR epidurals are awesome. Support your wife if she asks for one.
Skip forward 5 months and now my little man is teething. Does anyone have any good advice for that? We've got Camilia Teething Liquid, but does anyone have better suggestions? We've been told he's still a little young to give ibuprofen which they say would work better than tylenol.