Dealing With An Induced Labor
While my wife was pregnant, we heard a number of stories from friends and family,about what we were about to go through. Not only about what to expect while my wife was in labor, but everything that was going to happen during the next nine months, and I have to say that the things we were both hearing were not all positive. This definitely gave us both quite a bit of trepidation about what was to come, and I have to say now that many of our friends and family didn't do us any favors with the things they were telling us. I know that they were trying to help prepare us, but one thing that really scared us the most was an induced labor. Our friends and family who had gone through this before, really made it out to be something you wanted to avoid at all costs..
Ironically, we had a friend who was expecting right around the same time as us, and we found out she almost had to go through induced labor about three weeks before our own expected due date. We were extremely grateful when we found out she didn't have to go through this, and my wife and I talked about how badly we hoped that it would not happen to us. However, we were not to be as lucky as our friend. About nine days before our baby was expected, the doctor told us that my wife was going to have to be induced. We were pretty floored when we heard the news, and I knew my wife was extremely nervous, because I felt her palm instantly start to sweat as I was holding her hand. We were both extremely frightened, but I did my best to try and reassure her that things were going to be okay, despite what we had heard.
My wife was induced several hours after we heard the news from the doctor, and we kept waiting for the intense pain and other problems that we had heard about. However, my wife ended up delivering a healthy baby girl, and there were absolutely no complications with the labor. She was in some discomfort, which naturally comes with any form of childbirth, but our experience was nothing like what others had gone through. This is when we realized that sometimes it is best to turn a deaf ear to other people's labor stories, as there is a good chance that you may never experience what they did.
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William is a freelance writer living in Kitchener. He currently publishes a helpful baby product site http://babydollstroller.net/
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