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    Is it really true that a woman with wider hips can give birth any easier than a woman with regular sized hips? I've always wondered..

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    Default Re: "childbearing hips" myth

    Don't know but I have wide hips and I didn't even notice my daughters head coming out (course it may have been because of the fabolous drugs they gave me at the hospital)
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    nope...total myth. has nothing do with your hips..all to do about pelvis and the way you are birthing (i.e. laying on your back (bad), vs. squatting (using gravity good)

    my first.. 8lbs 1 oz 36 minutes pushing

    second... 9lbs 2 oz... 32 minutes pushing

    third.. 9lbs.. 1push (less than a minute

    all babies had 14 3/4 inch heads (average is 12")

    I am 5'6" and about 118lbs (115 before kids)...I have NO hips at all





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    My mom, who's delivered babies for 25 years, says yes. Wider hips generally (but not always) mean a wider pubic bone and wider birth canal. Tiny little women with no hips tend to have a lot of problems during delivery because it's a tighter squeeze for the baby and the baby often gets hung up on the pubic bone, necessitating medical intervention. A much bigger problem, according to my mother, is tiny little women with great big husbands - it means a bigger baby that mom can't handle. My mom always hated to see little Asian women come in with big white or black husbands, because it always meant a horrible birth and usually a C-section.

    I'm 5'1" and my ex-husband is 5'3". When I told my mother I was getting married, she got very quiet and then said, "Well, at least his babies won't kill you." Ha! Anyway, no one's babies are going to kill me because I plan to adopt. But I have big ol' childbearing hips anyway.

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    Unfortunately it has more to do with the bony circle within your hips than the hips themselves. A woman can have huge hips but have spiny protrusions within that can impair passage of the baby through the birth canal.

    My sister and I are built the same, hippy as all hell. I had all three of my kids with no issues while she had and will always need a cesarean.



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    ^ yup..the pelvis.

    my sis has WAY bigger hips than me..all of her babies were under 7lbs..all 3 csecs. I have larger friends that had very small babies and had a horrible time with birthing.

    again, if you're having problems, you should be squatting and not laying on your back like most hospital have you do. by squatting, you're not only using gravity to help, but you're opening up your pelvis WAY wider to allow for the babies head.





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    ^^^ If you have been administered an epidural woud you still be able to give birth squatting?


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    Most likely not although i'm not 100% sure as I had all three of mine with no pain meds at all.



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    ^^Yea that is what i was thinking. From what i understand you have to remain lying down after being administered an epidural.


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    Quote Originally Posted by seraya
    ^^^ If you have been administered an epidural woud you still be able to give birth squatting?
    No. You cannot. An epidural numbs out everything from the waist down. In fact, most women cannot move for a certain amount of time even after giving birth.

    I was induced with Pitocin and still had a fully natural, vaginal birth (no pain killing drugs).

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    Oy vey.. Sassy.. I gotta give you credit. The only baby I delivered vaginally was my first, my Son. And he was only 6lbs, 6oz. I was also flying on drugs (weee!). But he damn near killed me. I tore, AND they cut me. Oh, and I also popped a blood vessel in my eye from the pushing, so it looked like someone punched it for a few days.. LOL

    So when I hear about women giving birth to 8+lbs, 9+lbs and so on... I automatically cringe..

    While I was pregnant with him though, the Doctors told me that I could only deliver a baby no more than 7 pounds, vaginally. Anything else would have to be a C-Section. They said I'm not build big enough where I need to be.

    I guess I'm in luck that I've needed C-Sections after him anyway.. Even though my other 2 were even smaller than my first.

    VG is right though--You wouldn't be able to squat, or even really stand when you've had an epidural. It pretty much paralyzes you. I had it with my Son and was in bed the whole time.

    I can also tell you that during C-Sections, they shoot ya with the same stuff---times 10. So, if anyone ever has to have one.. Don't expect to be able to move for the rest of the day/night. I have to keep checking that my legs are still there myself. LOL

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    Ugh, the popped blood vessle thing! I blew them out in my eyes and had little red polka dots covering my face, neck and the upper part of my chest from pushing. My three kids were huge:

    9lbs 1oz
    10lbs 3oz
    9lbs even

    I'm 5'4" and averaged about 120lbs up until I hit 30...



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    Owwww Sirona! LOL I totally forgot that you had a 10-pounder! I don't know how you did it, woman! Was it a Boy or a Girl?

    It was funny too, because I was wheeled into delivery straight from the recovery room following a surgery for my Hydrocephalus (Shunt Revision). I had thought that the popped vessel thing was due to that somehow, but they said "Nope, that's from pushing the little guy out." I looked like a total zombie.. LOL

    Oh, I forgot too.. I'm 5'3" and pre-pregnancy, I'm somewhere between 103-108lbs.

    Even though I'm having another C-Section, I'm hoping Hunter stays in the same weight range as my other 3. LOL

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    Quote Originally Posted by VenusGoddess
    No. You cannot. An epidural numbs out everything from the waist down. In fact, most women cannot move for a certain amount of time even after giving birth.
    Wow It must be very difficult when the time comes to push.

    Quote Originally Posted by Rhiannon
    Oy vey.. Sassy.. I gotta give you credit. The only baby I delivered vaginally was my first, my Son. And he was only 6lbs, 6oz. I was also flying on drugs (weee!). But he damn near killed me. I tore, AND they cut me. Oh, and I also popped a blood vessel in my eye from the pushing, so it looked like someone punched it for a few days.. LOL

    So when I hear about women giving birth to 8+lbs, 9+lbs and so on... I automatically cringe..
    Oh Rhia that is awful! I wonder how i will be with my first? I'm only 5"3 and i weigh 116 even though i'm nearly 3 months gone also this is my 1st.

    Yesterday I was watching A Baby Story on the TLC channel and this women gave birth to a 10lb 11oz baby.. he was HUGE. I felt very weak after witnessing that !

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    I hope you have better luck than I did, Seraya.. LOL
    Don't be afraid to take the drugs, and make sure that they know ahead of time that you want them. The last thing you need is to find out you're 8cm dilated and it's too late to have anything. That happened to a girl that I knew.. She nearly tore her Husband's arm off during delivery. He had deep scratches up and down it.. LOL

    I think one of my favorite (being sarcastic here) parts of the whole thing was when they were about to do the Episiotomy, and they told me to stop pushing. Problem with that was I wasn't the one pushing. The boy wanted out, and my body wanted him out.. LOL So, that's why I tore as well.

    I miss cable! TLC is the best when it comes to birth shows! Have you watched Discovery Health at all? They also have a few shows you'd probably like on there too--"Birth Day" and a couple others. It'll definitely help to get you prepared, and maybe scare you a little.. LOL

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    Seraya, you can TOO, give birth squatting with an epidural. I have done it. Some docs/np's call it a "walking epidural". Basically, it less medicine, and blocks out a lil less pain.

    And, depending on your BMI, and how your anestesiologist(sp) calculates your dosage, and how close/far from the time you actually deliver, you may get/have a walking epidural, when they intended to give you a "full" one

    Take it from me, besides giving birth this way, I was also lucky enough to feel the episiotomy that was about to happen immediately after, yeah it was great
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    Quote Originally Posted by seraya
    Oh Rhia that is awful! I wonder how i will be with my first? I'm only 5"3 and i weigh 116 even though i'm nearly 3 months gone also this is my 1st.
    I wouldn't sweat it too much, your size doesn't really indicate how easy/difficult your birth will be. I was 5'2" and 105lbs pre pregnancy with 33 inch hips. My firstborn (7.5 lbs) was delivered 15 minutes after I fully dilated.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah
    . A much bigger problem, according to my mother, is tiny little women with great big husbands - it means a bigger baby that mom can't handle. My mom always hated to see little Asian women come in with big white or black husbands, because it always meant a horrible birth and usually a C-section.

    Well i am [email protected]!! I <heart> big men!

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    OH FUCK!! Me too, lol. ^

    I'm 5'0" & if I ever have my bf's baby, I would be so fucked. He's 6'5" with very broad shoulders.

    Oh man, I don't want to think about it.

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    My friend is very thin and has no hips and her two kids weren't a problem for her. The second one she had with no epidural in two hours. She said it was painful but both times she was further along in labor than she even thought. Her second one, her son, was over 9 pounds when he was born. I have big hips but won't be having kids so I don't know if it'l be easier for me but I always thought my friend would have trouble and she didn't.

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    an ob/gyn once said to me that he believed that women with average to larger feet tended to have easier births...
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    My mom is not even 5 feet tall, weighs 90 lbs soaking wet, but gave birth to 6 children, one of them a twin birth. None of us were over 8 lbs though. I hope that I have it as easy as her. I'm the first and took 16 hours, but after me, labors were 2 1/2 hours max from very light contractions to birth.

    When going into labor, the ligaments holding the pubic symphysis loosen and allow the symphysis to expand. In fact, forensics can estimate how many children a woman has birthed based on examining the scars around the pubic bone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rhiannon
    Owwww Sirona! LOL I totally forgot that you had a 10-pounder! I don't know how you did it, woman! Was it a Boy or a Girl?

    It was funny too, because I was wheeled into delivery straight from the recovery room following a surgery for my Hydrocephalus (Shunt Revision). I had thought that the popped vessel thing was due to that somehow, but they said "Nope, that's from pushing the little guy out." I looked like a total zombie.. LOL

    Oh, I forgot too.. I'm 5'3" and pre-pregnancy, I'm somewhere between 103-108lbs.

    Even though I'm having another C-Section, I'm hoping Hunter stays in the same weight range as my other 3. LOL
    My 10 pounder was a girl, she's now 14. The funniest part was she was born Xmas eve. I remember thinking, "Oh great, wtf, for xmas this year I get to have my uterus fall out." lol

    Oddly enough she was the easiest one, only 6 hours of labor. The two 9 pounders, my oldest (boy, now 16) and youngest (girl, now 12) were the toughest (22hrs and 20hrs) with the last one being the worst (pain and physical wear) due to her abnormal presentation (she was looking up rather than down).



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    Quote Originally Posted by JustJayda
    Seraya, you can TOO, give birth squatting with an epidural. I have done it. Some docs/np's call it a "walking epidural". Basically, it less medicine, and blocks out a lil less pain.

    And, depending on your BMI, and how your anestesiologist(sp) calculates your dosage, and how close/far from the time you actually deliver, you may get/have a walking epidural, when they intended to give you a "full" one

    Take it from me, besides giving birth this way, I was also lucky enough to feel the episiotomy that was about to happen immediately after, yeah it was great
    Thanks Hun, I have been reading up about the "walking Epidural" as i had never heard of it before you mentioned it and i am definitely going to request it for my birth.

    Seraya.


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