Edibles for labor

[Anonymous]

You don't need to be eating snacks while in labor.

[Anonymous]

I have had a med free birth AND I have a lot of experience with edibles. I think mixing the two is a bad idea. Setting aside issues of legality and drug interaction, it's really hard to calibrate your high with edibles. Oh, and labor often induces paranoia on its own, adding pot to that could be awful. Just, no. Honestly I think if you must, vaping is a better choice and more equivalent to nitrous, which lots of other countries use to manage labor pain.

[Anonymous]

I've done labor 2x - first with epidural and 2nd without (but not by choice because it was too fast. I was a stoner before having my kids and I have to say I think that being stoned while giving birth would be not ideal for me. Just my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Well, I will share that I had a major complication after child birth. I was in tremendous pain and the anesthesiologist wanted to give me general anesthesia but, once I told him that I'd been eating after baby came out, didn't think he should do it, so I muscled through the pain with demerol and crap. I thought about asking my husband to just punch me reAlly hard and knock me out, but I didn't think he was up for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have had a med free birth AND I have a lot of experience with edibles. I think mixing the two is a bad idea. Setting aside issues of legality and drug interaction, it's really hard to calibrate your high with edibles. Oh, and labor often induces paranoia on its own, adding pot to that could be awful. Just, no. Honestly I think if you must, vaping is a better choice and more equivalent to nitrous, which lots of other countries use to manage labor pain.

They're not going to let you do that in the hospital.

Maybe OP could do a whip-it.

[Anonymous]

Jesus Christ. Unbelievable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this was going to be about crackers, jello and other snacks.

Me too!

Me three!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You don't need to be eating snacks while in labor.

This is incorrect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had to google what an edible is...

In what world view is it ok to take systemic, illicit drugs but not to get an epidural?

WTF

Oh stop freaking out. In what world is a spinal anesthetia okay and all sorts of pain medication afterwards but a pot brownie the end of the world? People use to drink whisky during surgeries. I don't partake but I'm hearing knee-jerk reactions rather than actual facts that it's harmful.

It isn't the end of the world, but let's use logic. OP isn't going to tell anyone that she ate a pot brownie to get through labor, right? So if she is delirious and needs medication that may not play well with weed, what is she supposed to do then? If she needs general anesthesia, where you aren't supposed to have eaten at all, I guess she'll just risk aspiration into her lungs because she didn't mention her pot brownie?

Oh, for crying out loud. I planned a homebirth, snacked through it, and ending up transferring to the hospital for a c-section. No one gave two shits that I had eaten. In fact, I kept snacking at the hospital before my surgery, condoned by the L&D nurses!

I do agree that mixing illicit drugs and possible medications at the hospital is a bad, bad idea, especially since OP isn't likely to come clean about it. But the worry over aspiration is entirely overblown.

[Anonymous]

LOL. I would suggest not for the reasons previously cited, but if you want to partake after, do you mama.

[Anonymous]

I am so naive I truly thought you were asking for snack ideas.
Always earning on the DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Edibles don't have to be brownies. 1/2 a pot gummy bear would provide a high on an empty stomach. However, for intense pain it seems like a waste of weed and it might contribute to anxiety, especially if you haven't gotten high in a long time... OP have you been getting high during your pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had to google what an edible is...

In what world view is it ok to take systemic, illicit drugs but not to get an epidural?

WTF

Oh stop freaking out. In what world is a spinal anesthetia okay and all sorts of pain medication afterwards but a pot brownie the end of the world? People use to drink whisky during surgeries. I don't partake but I'm hearing knee-jerk reactions rather than actual facts that it's harmful.

It isn't the end of the world, but let's use logic. OP isn't going to tell anyone that she ate a pot brownie to get through labor, right? So if she is delirious and needs medication that may not play well with weed, what is she supposed to do then? If she needs general anesthesia, where you aren't supposed to have eaten at all, I guess she'll just risk aspiration into her lungs because she didn't mention her pot brownie?

Why wouldn't OP say so? If she lives in DC, it's now legal to make pot brownies at home and eat an entire pan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow I had to google what an edible is...

In what world view is it ok to take systemic, illicit drugs but not to get an epidural?

WTF

Oh stop freaking out. In what world is a spinal anesthetia okay and all sorts of pain medication afterwards but a pot brownie the end of the world? People use to drink whisky during surgeries. I don't partake but I'm hearing knee-jerk reactions rather than actual facts that it's harmful.

It isn't the end of the world, but let's use logic. OP isn't going to tell anyone that she ate a pot brownie to get through labor, right? So if she is delirious and needs medication that may not play well with weed, what is she supposed to do then? If she needs general anesthesia, where you aren't supposed to have eaten at all, I guess she'll just risk aspiration into her lungs because she didn't mention her pot brownie?

Why wouldn't OP say so? If she lives in DC, it's now legal to make pot brownies at home and eat an entire pan.

It's still against federal law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought this was going to be about crackers, jello and other snacks.

Me three!

Yes! I may have had a handful of m&ms at one point.