GOT ME BUTTONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

UserRequestedRemoval · Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:51 pm

There is a story that there is an OB in the north west who has something like 30 buttons at home. God alone knows why but there you are.

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:55 pm

Hey, Jude ......

Jude wrote:
Great Plum wrote:Only if you pretend to be an American tourist and get sold one by an enterprising child on St Matt's Day
huh! No way! After button grecian what is left?????????

Don't be afraid:

Bocker
Junior teacher
Head of Department
House mistress
Head mistress

and then all the way down again

UserRequestedRemoval · Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:24 pm

I would just be happy to get to my buttons and stay there, I dont fancy crossing to the other side

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:55 am

The final push did send me off line for a bit - I thought I ought to have something to eat!

well done then....did you use gas and air - or was it "au naturel"???

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:42 am

Rory wrote:
The final push did send me off line for a bit - I thought I ought to have something to eat!
well done then....did you use gas and air - or was it "au naturel"???

Just being erudite and wise again.

It has been gas and oxygen for over 30 years.

The reason being that gas and air delivers only 14% oxygen, not good for babies in labour, gas and oxygen delivers 50% oxygen, very good for babies in labour.

Here endeth the lesson.

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:47 am

Thank you EA - you can always enlighten us men folk - actually I've tried it three times (and I didn't even know what it was) - I missed the last birth because I was looking after the other three!!

UserRequestedRemoval · Wed Sep 20, 2006 12:26 pm

I have never tried it, There was no way Ann was letting go at the latest birth. Both the midwife and I tried to prise the tube from her mouth but when she started to bunch her fists we both backked off fast!

Jude · Post by **Jude** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:04 pm

no just lots of coffe and h20 - I am allergic to gas and air - or nitrous oxide - last time it was used on my I flatlined - great fun for me - not quite so for the medics and the chiroprator!

I have to wear a bracelet to ensure I am not given entonox!

UserRequestedRemoval · Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:28 pm

Crikey Jude, make sure you never forget your bracelet then

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 9:09 pm

soc wrote: the midwife ..... tried to prise the tube from her mouth

They tried to do that to me but no way was I letting go of it

UserRequestedRemoval · Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:44 pm

Vonny wrote:
soc wrote: the midwife ..... tried to prise the tube from her mouth
They tried to do that to me but no way was I letting go of it

Ann loves that stuff, all I have to do is mention it and she sits there with a huge grin on her face

sejintenej · Post by **sejintenej** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:50 pm

soc wrote:There is a story that there is an OB in the north west who has something like 30 buttons at home. God alone knows why but there you are.

and if you followed the links in another thread you will see that a merkin is asking US$9.99 (plus $2.50 post/packing) for one small button of some age. How he can put a date on it I don't know. Available only to merkins - the racist so-and-so.
In fact I think I have a few at home in England - filched to sew on at home in the holidays in case of need and not disposed of since.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:32 pm

I have tried it, like the police try tear gas, but in labour I went straight for the epidural, no messing.

UserRequestedRemoval · Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:45 am

englishangel wrote:I have tried it, like the police try tear gas, but in labour I went straight for the epidural, no messing.

epidural, that's a spinal block isn't it? If so I had one of those when I had knee surgery. It is such a wierd feeling watching them filleting your knee and then feeling the tug of the sutures but no pain. Learned a whole new respect for mothers that day.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:57 am

Yes.

There is a spinal, a one off if something will take 20 minutes or so, like a forceps delivery, and an epidural where the tube is left in and the anesthetic is dropped into it if something may take a while

I had to have one both times because my blood pressure was out of control, and I might have needed a c-section for my twins (I didn't)