How to "fake" high blood pressure for a short amount of time

[needtogetarmy]

good luck cindy!

i had a 9 lb 13 oz baby with no epidural. if i can do it, anyone can!

Ouch!

 

[Melaina]

Hey CindyLou, good luck sweetie and I KNOW patience is the last thing on your mind right now but let nature take it's course. The nipple stimulation will cause braxton hicks but true labor induction is questionable. Sex can lead to labor as well but you need to do it quite a bit.... I think you need the accumulation of sperm every 2-4 hours for 24 hours to equal the equivalent end result of pitocin. Induction is not always the best option since 50% of all inductions end up in c-section anyhow. I am all about drugs in labor.... my favorite pregnancy quote "they do not hand out trophys when you leave the hospital"... do what you've gotta do. I was so impatient with my 2nd child that I had 3 membrane sweeps after 37 weeks.... the third time I even told the doctor "c'mon really dig in there!!!". I think he thought I was a psycho person but it was NOT an ideal pregnancy by any means and I wanted it OVER. It didn't work. Anyways..... good luck!!!!!!

 

[cindylou]

Depends what narcotics feel like to you. Are you afraid of acting loopy or saying somehting bizzare in front of other people?

Yes. lol. Im getting an epidural if available and if it works for the second half but they also offered narcotics for the first half so I could still be up and walk around instead of confined to bed - but I dunno.........

 

[cindylou]

Hey CindyLou, good luck sweetie and I KNOW patience is the last thing on your mind right now but let nature take it's course. The nipple stimulation will cause braxton hicks but true labor induction is questionable. Sex can lead to labor as well but you need to do it quite a bit.... I think you need the accumulation of sperm every 2-4 hours for 24 hours to equal the equivalent end result of pitocin. Induction is not always the best option since 50% of all inductions end up in c-section anyhow. I am all about drugs in labor.... my favorite pregnancy quote "they do not hand out trophys when you leave the hospital"... do what you've gotta do. I was so impatient with my 2nd child that I had 3 membrane sweeps after 37 weeks.... the third time I even told the doctor "c'mon really dig in there!!!". I think he thought I was a psycho person but it was NOT an ideal pregnancy by any means and I wanted it OVER. It didn't work. Anyways..... good luck!!!!!!

Thank you! I will see if my doc will do a sweep at this week's appointment. Social inductions are really popular around here but my particular group of doctors are hippies or something because I am the only person that I know that didnt get to schedule a week 39 or week 40 induction. I dont know one person that I know who went into spontaneous labor but that looks like what Im going to have to do. Thats fine I guess. I just really dont want to go two weeks late or anything crazy.

I have a pretty open mind about my labor which is why I dont really have set way that I want things. I am just going to trust the doctors to do whats best in any situation. If I end up with a c-section, so be it. I am getting an epidural if it all works out!! I wouldnt go through the whole labor without pain meds!! No way! I wouldnt get a tooth pulled without pain meds either. I just thinking I coul?d get through the first half without pain meds?

 

[pdaddyII]

Hold your breath and think bad, stressful thoughts. Put pressure on your lungs when you do this by pushing out.

You can also do it by relaxing if you have sufficient control over your heartbeat and manipulate your breathing.

Both will only have a temporary effect.

his would actually induce he valsalva maneuver. 'Bearing down' in his fashion triggers that vagus nerve causing an interthoracic pressure increase that tells your brain to DROP your systolic blood pressure thus dropping your heart rate.

This is why you see a lot of heart attacks or cardiac events for that matter occur on the shitter. People will bear down and drop their heart rates to the point of rhythm conversion.

 

[cindylou]

his would actually induce he valsalva maneuver. 'Bearing down' in his fashion triggers that vagus nerve causing an interthoracic pressure increase that tells your brain to DROP your systolic blood pressure thus dropping your heart rate.

This is why you see a lot of heart attacks or cardiac events for that matter occur on the shitter. People will bear down and drop their heart rates to the point of rhythm conversion.

what is the difference between systolic and "the other" number?

 

[pdaddyII]

what is the difference between systolic and "the other" number?

Systolic(top number) is what's looked at as more important, than comes the mean arterial pressure. The systolic measures the intravascular pressure while your heart is contracting while the diastolic measures the pressure while the heart is resting and allowing the ventricles to fill back up with blood.

 

[Melaina]

Many doctors will allow induction at 39 weeks for a medical condition, most doctors at 40 weeks and the remainder wait until 42 weeks.... no woman should go past 42 weeks of pregnancy. I do know in certain areas doctors will allow 37+ week inductions for mere convenience and in my opinion I just don't like it.... all pregnancies are an estimate so a 37 week induction could be a 36 week induction.... you know? Every minute a baby is in the womb is beneficial.

I think that's awesome that you're going in with an open mind! It's the best way to go. I know SO MANY women who are like "I'm going natural all the way" and end up getting pain meds and then beat themselves up over it. Delivering two 9 1/2 lb babies, in my experience... I PREFERRED the c-section. The method of getting there scared me a bit but that's not really anyone here's need to know, LOL. I just loved how fast it was and the healing was easier for me then 4th degree tearing, eh. Everyone is entitled to their opinions No matter how you deliver, you will survive and the experience will be a positive, no matter how negative the actual experience is

 

[Melaina]

"How to "fake" high... 23-Aug-2009 11:18 AM superdave what teh fuck are you talking about chick

Are you "slow" Superdave?

 

[Mr. dB]

I think the subject of this thread is amazingly irresponsible, and doesn't bode well for the next 18 years of parenthood.