My name ain't Stella....

[Jengles 0]

I think Gill idea of doing a maternity tour is a good one, at the old hospital they had cable in the labor and delivery rooms, might as well push in style and comfort. lol Kings County is like brand new, I think a tour is in the planning

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

I think Gill idea of doing a maternity tour is a good one, at the old hospital they had cable in the labor and delivery rooms, might as well push in style and comfort. lol Kings County is like brand new, I think a tour is in the planning

I did the tour thing. Cable in the delivery room...I had everything you could image. They even gave me a massage. The hospital provided a DOULA for me (I laughed, my mom laughed, my sis laughed)...that poor lady didn't understand a word we was saying. She kept asking if we were Dominican and if that was some form of Spanish. I was in labour for 29 1/2 hours...ALL BACK LABOUR...not sure about pushing in style and comfort, but I told the doctor to give me the DAMN scapal, because I'm doing this C-Section myself. Wouldn't mind doing that again. I loved the suprise that came after all that pain. After losing a set of triplets and a singleton, I would have stayed in labour for hours, just to see what God has blessed me with.

[jawi876 2]

I say...find a nice fancy designer boutique...and PUUUUUSSSHHHHH! Nothing like labor and shopping.

[Jengles 0]

I think Gill idea of doing a maternity tour is a good one, at the old hospital they had cable in the labor and delivery rooms, might as well push in style and comfort. lol Kings County is like brand new, I think a tour is in the planning

I did the tour thing. Cable in the delivery room...I had everything you could image. They even gave me a massage. The hospital provided a DOULA for me (I laughed, my mom laughed, my sis laughed)...that poor lady didn't understand a word we was saying. She kept asking if we were Dominican and if that was some form of Spanish. I was in labour for 29 1/2 hours...ALL BACK LABOUR...not sure about pushing in style and comfort, but I told the doctor to give me the DAMN scapal, because I'm doing this C-Section myself. Wouldn't mind doing that again. I loved the suprise that came after all that pain. After losing a set of triplets and a singleton, I would have stayed in labour for hours, just to see what God has blessed me with.

So sorry for your previous losses.

The suprise is great. You look at them and say hey is who u look like me or him....both times I've looked down and said "oh no u got my nose" lol. I'm a mess

[Jengles 0]

I say...find a nice fancy designer boutique...and PUUUUUSSSHHHHH! Nothing like labor and shopping.

I'll be in labor and delivery looking at QVC

[Forever Young 1]

I think Gill idea of doing a maternity tour is a good one, at the old hospital they had cable in the labor and delivery rooms, might as well push in style and comfort. lol Kings County is like brand new, I think a tour is in the planning

I did the tour thing. Cable in the delivery room...I had everything you could image. They even gave me a massage. The hospital provided a DOULA for me (I laughed, my mom laughed, my sis laughed)...that poor lady didn't understand a word we was saying. She kept asking if we were Dominican and if that was some form of Spanish. I was in labour for 29 1/2 hours...ALL BACK LABOUR...not sure about pushing in style and comfort, but I told the doctor to give me the DAMN scapal, because I'm doing this C-Section myself. Wouldn't mind doing that again. I loved the suprise that came after all that pain. After losing a set of triplets and a singleton, I would have stayed in labour for hours, just to see what God has blessed me with.

So sorry for your previous losses.

The suprise is great. You look at them and say hey is who u look like me or him....both times I've looked down and said "oh no u got my nose" lol. I'm a mess

Ditto on your losses Lawny.

I loved the after labor part! I was shaking like I was naked in the middle of the Alaskan tundra! But just the experience of bringing a new life into the world was just the best feeling EVER!!!! When you hear that first cry and count halla deh finger han toe dem...han git a chance to look at the likkle sittin' that has been kickin', pushing and making your body a living hell for the last ten months...it still leaves me speechless!! Truly a gift from G-d!

You will find the right place Jengy! NO DOUBT!!!! Do the tour!!

Bless,

Gill

[Jengles 0]

Question - I'm allergic to the epidural...my last experience was BAD. Does anyone know of any other kinds of pain medication that is used to labor?

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

Question - I'm allergic to the epidural...my last experience was BAD. Does anyone know of any other kinds of pain medication that is used to labor?

Well, they gave me STADOL that's before all hell broke lose with my SON. I was HIGH as a KITE and all I wanted to do was have SEX...can you imagine the amount of PAIN I was in and all I was thinking about was SEX. At that point, when the drug kicked in all the MEN that came in the room looked fine to me. Even my CROSS-EYED doctor. I'm a mess.

I don't know what the hell is in it, but i was talking in slow motion (or so it seems)...it took all my pain away. My epidural was hard, because I had severe back labour. My son was face down but facing the wrong direct and I could feel him going down, but he was being pulled back up. My imbical cord was wraped around his neck once and around his shoulder twice. The hospital thought I was going to sue them, because THEY almost lost my son. I kept telling them how I was feeling and they would not listen. It was not until my mom, 5 aunts and my sister (all nurses) started acting bad. From a family of rebels, but we live good. I told the nurse from my labor pains started getting out of hand that something was very wrong. The worse part is and the reason I ended up in shock, I was receive no medication from the epidural my LINE WAS BLOCKED or twisted and that FRIGGER of a anethelogist never checked it when they called her. She lied and said she flushed my line and she did not.

It was rough for me, but I'll do it all over again. Even if I had to go through the same experience. I have to post a picture of my baby...

[Forever Young 1]

Question - I'm allergic to the epidural...my last experience was BAD. Does anyone know of any other kinds of pain medication that is used to labor?

Well, they gave me STADOL that's before all hell broke lose with my SON. I was HIGH as a KITE and all I wanted to do was have SEX...can you imagine the amount of PAIN I was in and all I was thinking about was SEX. At that point, when the drug kicked in all the MEN that came in the room looked fine to me. Even my CROSS-EYED doctor. I'm a mess.

I don't know what the hell is in it, but i was talking in slow motion (or so it seems)...it took all my pain away. My epidural was hard, because I had severe back labour. My son was face down but facing the wrong direct and I could feel him going down, but he was being pulled back up. My imbical cord was wraped around his neck once and around his shoulder twice. The hospital thought I was going to sue them, because THEY almost lost my son. I kept telling them how I was feeling and they would not listen. It was not until my mom, 5 aunts and my sister (all nurses) started acting bad. From a family of rebels, but we live good. I told the nurse from my labor pains started getting out of hand that something was very wrong. The worse part is and the reason I ended up in shock, I was receive no medication from the epidural my LINE WAS BLOCKED or twisted and that FRIGGER of a anethelogist never checked it when they called her. She lied and said she flushed my line and she did not.

It was rough for me, but I'll do it all over again. Even if I had to go through the same experience. I have to post a picture of my baby...

OMG Lawny,

Your story started off funny and went downhill FAST!!!!!! I AM SO SO SORRY for all of that!!! What a bloodclaat mess!!! Praise G-d for yuh Rebel family and yuh son! G-d is good all the time...all the time G-d is good!!!

I have to say whatever deh hell dem give yuh mussi GOOD! Cause deh las claating ting I was tinking bout when I was in labor was HAVING SEX...on the contrary...I WANTED TO CHOP MY EX-HUSBAND'S SHYT HOFF!!!!!!

Unfortunately Jengy for both of my pregnancies I wasn't able to get an epidural...my labor went to fast for the first one...and I waited too long to go to the hospital for the 2nd...However, the insurance co. had to pay the anthesiologists(sp?) to 'stand-by' for BOTH!!

Bless,

Gill

[Forever Young 1]

**********THURSDAY CHUCKLE**********

Good Mawning Carib Fam,

I hope everyone had a good night!!

Too all my expectant or soon to be expectant Mama's out there...please make sure you are taking a multi-vitamin containing Folic Acid!!! I was watching the 'Today' show and a new study came out that all women of child-bearing age who are or looking to become pregnant should be taking Folic Acid daily. It cuts the chances of birth defects in HALF!!!

OK, just spreading the word...on to the chuckle!

Have a good day Fam!!!

Bless,

Gill

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Jamaican Government Workers

These two Jamaican government workers were working along the roadside.

One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind him and filled in the hole. While one was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole. The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on down the road. "I can't stand this," said the man tossing the can into a trash container and heading down the road toward the men.

A befuddled onlooker went to men and said: "Hold it, hold it. "Can you tell me what's going on here with all this digging and refilling?"

"Well, we work for the government and we're just dong our job," one of the men said.

"But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up. You're not accomplishing anything. Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' money?"

"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally there's three of us: me, Elmer and Leroy. I dig the hole, Elmer sticks in the tree and Leroy, here, puts the dirt back. Now just because Elmer's sick, that don't mean that Leroy and me can't work."

[*JG* 2]

There are some pain meds they can drip in through the IV. I'm just not sure what they are called.

I had epidurals. Wouldn't want to contemplate labor without them.

[Jengles 0]

the first labor was so bad. I had to get the epidural twice, but then the doctor, gave me the right amount of bendryl via an IV

the second labor - I had the button, but every time i pressed it was torture. they wouldn't give me more bendryl. I had her at 2pm and at 8pm I was still itching. I should have asked for more bendryl. the nurse looked at me and said oh u really are allergic. No I've just been itching for the last six hours for no reason.

[phatmadame81 0]

srry to hear Jengles... but like Gill said just tour and you will find the right place........

I had my boy at Kings county right whenthe changes were starting..........

Epidural.......I had that twice.........my thing was the pitocin they had to give me.......I went fo a stress test in teh morning, while there the nurse asked me if I was in pain or anything, so of course I said ( I was not in pain) , I was just waitng for them to finish up so I could go to GK and get a patty and cocoa bred and a gingerbeer( I knew it was gonna burn the ####### outta my chest-acid reflux, but I just had a craven......di likke facety nurse look pon mi and seh you nah go no whey, you inna labor......, I just laughed and told her to hurry up cause I was hungry..... I couldn't go anywhere cause they started my admittance papers.......so there is me sitting in teh L&D room waiting from about 12 noon until about 6 when I finally get someone come and check me again...of course I did not move an inch from the 3 cenitimeters....so they gave mi Pitocin..and that made the pains kick in.........lawd if you whan hear smaddi whay dis come offah di boat ( plane) you shodda deh inn ami room, likke china doctor wah did deh pon call run outta mi room and send in one a de doc in training......I screamed " if you push u bloodcl@@t hand inna mi one more time I gwan vhop eh off".she was like " ms, I am sorry I don't understand what you saying, could you not speak taht language to me" I was like hey dutty gal nuh tell mi wah fi do, just get the likke chiny ooman back in yah so she can tek dis likke sinting outta mi.......before I could finish she was gone...............my mom and sister in the corner laughing..........then my mom asked does it hurt, " NO OOMAN SMADDI INNA MI STOMACH A TICKLE MI......YOU DAMN IEDIAT U ( my mom let me slide there but she got back at me after the delivery ) :lol: :lol:

but I still can't remeber the torcha I went through do, my sis said I was crying for my dad ( mind I despise that man) and that I flung the bed pan at my son's father.......serve him right fi deh pon di pon wid him new ooman........... ( really it should have been one of the docs knife and it shouldda catch him too)

[Forever Young 1]

srry to hear Jengles... but like Gill said just tour and you will find the right place........

I had my boy at Kings county right whenthe changes were starting..........

Epidural.......I had that twice.........my thing was the pitocin they had to give me.......I went fo a stress test in teh morning, while there the nurse asked me if I was in pain or anything, so of course I said ( I was not in pain) , I was just waitng for them to finish up so I could go to GK and get a patty and cocoa bred and a gingerbeer( I knew it was gonna burn the ####### outta my chest-acid reflux, but I just had a craven......di likke facety nurse look pon mi and seh you nah go no whey, you inna labor......, I just laughed and told her to hurry up cause I was hungry..... I couldn't go anywhere cause they started my admittance papers.......so there is me sitting in teh L&D room waiting from about 12 noon until about 6 when I finally get someone come and check me again...of course I did not move an inch from the 3 cenitimeters....so they gave mi Pitocin..and that made the pains kick in.........lawd if you whan hear smaddi whay dis come offah di boat ( plane) you shodda deh inn ami room, likke china doctor wah did deh pon call run outta mi room and send in one a de doc in training......I screamed " if you push u bloodcl@@t hand inna mi one more time I gwan vhop eh off".she was like " ms, I am sorry I don't understand what you saying, could you not speak taht language to me" I was like hey dutty gal nuh tell mi wah fi do, just get the likke chiny ooman back in yah so she can tek dis likke sinting outta mi.......before I could finish she was gone...............my mom and sister in the corner laughing..........then my mom asked does it hurt, " NO OOMAN SMADDI INNA MI STOMACH A TICKLE MI......YOU DAMN IEDIAT U ( my mom let me slide there but she got back at me after the delivery ) :lol: :lol:

but I still can't remeber the torcha I went through do, my sis said I was crying for my dad ( mind I despise that man) and that I flung the bed pan at my son's father.......serve him right fi deh pon di pon wid him new ooman........... ( really it should have been one of the docs knife and it shouldda catch him too)

LAWD MADDY...WAT A STRESS!!!! Yuh did carry on BAD eeh?? Isn't wierd that you can't memba deh pain! Like yuh dyam well knoa yuh went through pain...but fi memba exactly...i can't (Han nuhboddah fi seh is mi old age (KimKim) ) Even a few weeks agter I couldn't remember the burden...just the blessing!

My two births were easy compared to you and Lawny. My first one I was in labour 4-5 hours and the second was about 8 hours labor...but 7.5 of them were at home...I almost didn't mek it tuh the hospital pon both! All I memba is wan doctor starring at me when my ex-husband han I walked into the E/R! Mi haffi cuss em..."Is Wat YUH NEVA SEE A OOMAN AGIVE BURT BEFORE!!!! "Yow Dorian,(ex-husband name) TELL EM FI COME HOUTTA MI FACE WID EM PHOCKERY!!!!"

The doctor, lab assistant ...whatever then got..."Yo, Gee...she talking that Jamaican ish right now...you REALLY want to MOVE when she starts in on that...REALLY!!!!!!

That was it...push push push...baby out...done!

Gill

[TRELAWNY PARISH 10]

srry to hear Jengles... but like Gill said just tour and you will find the right place........

I had my boy at Kings county right whenthe changes were starting..........

Epidural.......I had that twice.........my thing was the pitocin they had to give me.......I went fo a stress test in teh morning, while there the nurse asked me if I was in pain or anything, so of course I said ( I was not in pain) , I was just waitng for them to finish up so I could go to GK and get a patty and cocoa bred and a gingerbeer( I knew it was gonna burn the ####### outta my chest-acid reflux, but I just had a craven......di likke facety nurse look pon mi and seh you nah go no whey, you inna labor......, I just laughed and told her to hurry up cause I was hungry..... I couldn't go anywhere cause they started my admittance papers.......so there is me sitting in teh L&D room waiting from about 12 noon until about 6 when I finally get someone come and check me again...of course I did not move an inch from the 3 cenitimeters....so they gave mi Pitocin..and that made the pains kick in.........lawd if you whan hear smaddi whay dis come offah di boat ( plane) you shodda deh inn ami room, likke china doctor wah did deh pon call run outta mi room and send in one a de doc in training......I screamed " if you push u bloodcl@@t hand inna mi one more time I gwan vhop eh off".she was like " ms, I am sorry I don't understand what you saying, could you not speak taht language to me" I was like hey dutty gal nuh tell mi wah fi do, just get the likke chiny ooman back in yah so she can tek dis likke sinting outta mi.......before I could finish she was gone...............my mom and sister in the corner laughing..........then my mom asked does it hurt, " NO OOMAN SMADDI INNA MI STOMACH A TICKLE MI......YOU DAMN IEDIAT U ( my mom let me slide there but she got back at me after the delivery ) :lol: :lol:

but I still can't remeber the torcha I went through do, my sis said I was crying for my dad ( mind I despise that man) and that I flung the bed pan at my son's father.......serve him right fi deh pon di pon wid him new ooman........... ( really it should have been one of the docs knife and it shouldda catch him too)

LAWD MADDY...WAT A STRESS!!!! Yuh did carry on BAD eeh?? Isn't wierd that you can't memba deh pain! Like yuh dyam well knoa yuh went through pain...but fi memba exactly...i can't (Han nuhboddah fi seh is mi old age (KimKim) ) Even a few weeks agter I couldn't remember the burden...just the blessing!

My two births were easy compared to you and Lawny. My first one I was in labour 4-5 hours and the second was about 8 hours labor...but 7.5 of them were at home...I almost didn't mek it tuh the hospital pon both! All I memba is wan doctor starring at me when my ex-husband han I walked into the E/R! Mi haffi cuss em..."Is Wat YUH NEVA SEE A OOMAN AGIVE BURT BEFORE!!!! "Yow Dorian,(ex-husband name) TELL EM FI COME HOUTTA MI FACE WID EM PHOCKERY!!!!"

The doctor, lab assistant ...whatever then got..."Yo, Gee...she talking that Jamaican ish right now...you REALLY want to MOVE when she starts in on that...REALLY!!!!!!

That was it...push push push...baby out...done!

Gill

Gill,

Mi jealous. I wish I had it that easy. Afterwards I just wanted to go home. I can't stand being in a hospital. All I can think of is the amount of germs all over the place. I was there a total of 9 days and I had to share a room for 2 days. l that did not last long, because my roommate was so DAMN nasty I had to use the bathroom down the hall. Keep in mind I had a C-SECTION, but she had blood all over the bathroom. On the seat, in the stall I told them (HELL NO) ya'll got to move me somewhere else or give me my own room. They gave me my own room. That woman was so FRIGGIN nasty. I didn't even want my son in there. Thank God I was near the window. All of my nurses were JAMAICAN except for the ones in the beginning part of labour. They took excellent care of me. I use to work with them a few years back at another hospital and they remembered me. So, I got HOOKED up big time. Plus they were cooking and bringing me food. I just loved them. People could not figure out if my son was black, indian or hispanic. and when we would go out, people thought I was the BABY SITTER...aint that some 'ish.