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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First timer here, I think I need to take a class but would love some info from DCUM. (delivering at Sibley)

- How long after water breaking did you go to the hospital? Or, how long did you labor at home?
- What happens when you get there? Immediate epidural if you chose a medicated birth?
- What unusual items did you bring with you that were a life saver? 
- At what point do you have to stop with snacks and start with ice chips?
- Was the lactation consultant at the hospital enough? Was a follow-up lactation consultant useful? Was the LC in addition to a doula or was this a combo pack?
- What did your hospital give you? Diapers, underwear etc. 
- How many had night nurse/doula help at home? Pros/cons?
- Pelvic floor therapy? Yes/no/recs. What is the equivalent for a C-section?
- Post-partum therapy? Is this a specialist?
- What classes did you take before? What is there for DHs that is helpful?
- local  parent groups? baby and me classes?
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1. My water never broke on its own with either pregnancy. I was told to call when contractions were strong enough to interrupt a sentence for more than an hour. With my second, I was induced at 41 weeks.
2. My first one was born in a birth center. When we arrived, we were settled into our room. I don't remember a ton about it, I was in pretty active labor by the time we got there. When I was induced with my second, I got an epidural at 6cm. I was trying to go without because it was not difficult for me the first time, but pitocin contractions are different.
3. Long phone charger cord. Good pillow. Chapstick.
4. With first one, no one told me I had to stop having snacks. I wasn't interested in food during labor though. With my second, I had dinner the night before I was induced and then nothing until after she was born later that evening, but that was mostly because I wasn't interested in food.
5. My second was born at Sibley and I never saw a LC despite asking. I ended up with a cracked nipple from poor positioning, but I saw the Breastfeeding Center people after getting home and they helped. I highly recommend them for basically everything.
6. Hospital let us take pretty much whatever we wanted associated with the baby herself. We came home with some diapers and the blanket and hat, but I don't think we brought much else. I already had Depends at home based on my first birth and was pretty keen to just get out of there.
7. Pelvic floor damage is not exclusive to vaginal delivery. Pregnancy itself is very hard on pelvic floor. Pelvic floor therapy SHOULD be part of routine postpartum care but isn't. If you can afford it and need it, go for it! Ditto postpartum therapy, though you might find a group more useful than an individual therapist since so much of the emotional adjustment is related to normalizing our own experiences and one person is less equipped to do that than 10 women all going through the same stuff at the same time.
8. I took no classes before. Neither did my husband. I preferred to get my information from reading and talking to my doctors. My husband is kind of freaked out by bodies in general and basically said that the less he knew about it, the better he'd be able to support me, and he was right about that! [/quote]

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