This is Forres Elise. I'm speaking with CP 150616-0029.
Um, who has agreed verbally to the consentment form. Yes.
All right. So my first pregnancy, I went to the doctor and he told me to
take a birthing class. And he had um gave me the phone number and I went
to my first birthing class with Leon, and he was just so bored with the
whole thing. I said, yeah, because you're not the one carrying this kid.
And um she asked how many of us were going to have an epidural. So I
raised my hand and she said, don't do it. It is bad for the baby. The baby
could be born dead, and it scared the absolute hell out of me. So when I
went back to the doctor, I told him I wasn't having an epidural and he
asked me why and I reiterated what she had said, and he flew into a rage,
called his nurse into the office. Back then, you didn't need nurses in the
office with you. Um, called his nurse into the office and demanded he call
her and have her retract everything she said. And he said, I promise you,
Janette, if If I thought anything would happen to the baby, I would never
tell you to have an epidural. He said, trust me, you've trusted me all
these years, trust me. And I did. And I didn't have any problems, and it
was great. And um I could, I could have played checkers throughout the
whole uh labor and delivery, and I did it with my second baby also. I did
have with Stephanie, I had some uh false contractions. I went to the
doctor and he said they were Braxton Hicks. Because I wasn't quite sure
whether I was in labor or not because labor is different for. Uh, from, uh
, pregnancy to pregnancy sometimes, and I was afraid that I would have her
right then and there. They were so hard, but he said that they were
Braxton Hicks and that if I needed him to call him, well, she was due June
15th and ended up coming June 15th, so. They were Braxton Hicks. And other
than that, I didn't have any other problems. And I did have an epidural
with her also and I just could not imagine. My sister-in-law uh did not
have an epidural and it was horrible. So I was glad I did what I did. Were
you, did you feel when they asked you to push and all of that, were you
like, did you, was it like when I had my son August, Eric was holding one
leg and mom was holding another like what was the circumstance back then
because that's completely normal now to have the whole family in the room
and everyone involved in that process. Well, I, yes, they wanted me to
push. But you see doctors today don't like epidurals because it takes
longer to deliver and they want out of the delivery room. Back then my
doctors were very patient. They'd go back across the street to their
office and when it was time they'd come back over or they'd come back over
to check on you and then go back to their office again. It was a totally
different scene than it is today. Today they they take your epidural off
and they want you to push. The the rest of the way through. I didn't have
to do that. And I just couldn't imagine being taken off my epidural
towards the end. Probably would have killed somebody. But um Yeah, I, they
asked me to push, but that was it. I didn't feel anything. So was Leon in
the room then while you were? Yeah, he was in the room the whole time.
Yeah, he was in the room for both babies. The first time the doctor had to
get him a chair.
And um the second time he was, he was good with it. He knew what to expect.
But it was thrilling
What did you think actually? Did you have any other questions?
Yes, I don't think so either. OK, I think we could, yeah. I think
childbirth brings out your true self. It Depends on how you handle your
your delivery is. It's a part of who you are, who you really are.