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[quote=Anonymous]13:36 - yes, we should!  I am saddened - and angry - to hear about what you have had to go through, and what you have to live with.  For the others asking, I had no induction and a 34 hour labor.  I was told to push for 4 hours.  I had done birth classes, read out bodies ourselves when I was 13, went to a women's college, and had no idea this could happen to me.  Risk factors which they told me afterward (not before!) were - over 40, fair skin (?! -  but women in the online support groups have every age and ethnicity), large baby and family history (this is also debatable, although my mother had prolapse, her mother and sisters did not.  But I was a large baby and they used forceps on her.)  The key things are - large baby and long second stage of labor.  Oh, and the midwife screamed at the nurse for not emptying my bladder which had two liters of water in it because after 29 hours I succumbed to an epidural.  In sum, use caution if you are over 40 (muscle tears more easily), have a big baby, and if you are laboring long.  If you have an epidural make sure they empty your bladder.  Honestly, even an enema before delivering is probably a good idea.  You want maxium space for baby to slide out.  There is good information on positions and pushing in books by Calais-Germain and de gasquet (the latter is only in French) that I found after the fact.  There is mounting evidence that you should not push for long and definitely that when you push you do it in a certain way.    OP, whoever you are, good luck!  I fully agree with 13:36 that every woman should clearly understand the risks and make her own decisions as a fully informed person.[/quote]

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