Is it at all possible to be put under anesthesia, during the delivery of your baby?

I think it is, but that is when they open you up and take the baby out of your stomach.

If you are going to birth the baby, you have to be awake. But there is something that they can do to reduce the pain, and that is something like an epidermal (?-spelling?). It enables for you to handle most of the pain, till the end comes.

This is the most important in your life. Your first child. You want to be awake, and you want your husband/boyfriend there with you. You want him to see what you go through so that if he thinks of another child, he knows he has to be in the room again to be with you. Most guys have slightly second thoughts for a while. That gives you time to bring one child out of diapers before the next one comes.

Good luck, and let us know what you had and how it went.

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OPTIONS:

1. Natural childbirth - breathing through the pain

2. SOME pain medicines, that are mild, can be given, but they are limited because they easily cross the placenta, and expose the baby. When the baby is born, if too many pain medicines have been given, the child may not breathe, requiring intubation and ventilation. One option might be nitrous oxide - which some OB floors have, for mild pain relief.

3. Epidural

4. Spinal - a MUCH smaller needle is used. It is done immediately before delivery, as it lasts only 40 min to a couple hours, depending on the medicine injected.

5. General Anesthesia - notably more dangerous IMO, and many anesthesiologists will not do it unless it is an utter emergency. The mom has a swollen airway, a baby pushing on her stomach - once asleep, she may be a difficult intubation, and a sincere risk of inhaling her vomit, given the baby pushing on her stomach. Despite significant improvement in safety with anesthesia over the past 3 decades, little has been done to make a safer general anesthetic for a delivery - as the problem is not with the anesthetic, but the state of the patient about to deliver.

These are your options - best wishes on what sounds like a hard choice for you.

We avoid general anesthesia in pregnant women whenever possible because it is significantly more risky for both Mom and baby than other forms of anesthesia and analgesia.

Consider an epidural for labor and delivery. They take most or all of the pain away. You'll still hurt afterward, but that's part of having a baby.

it is likewise attainable you have been surely unsleeping the entire time, yet as a results of between the drugs they use in unsleeping sedation you have amnesia of each and everything else that got here approximately. I had something comparable happen to me for the period of an outpatient technique, and it shook me up for incredibly a at the same time as afterwards. I saved thinking if i strengthen into screaming the entire time. (in spite of the fact that if i do no longer keep in mind it, that concept relatively bothers me!) Sedation could be very frightening, and does no longer bypass properly for each man or woman. in case you prefer surgical operation back, permit your scientific vendors understand what got here approximately.

if you want to deliver vaginally then no they cannot knock you out cuz you have to be able to push.

if you want to deliver by c-section where they cut open your stomach to take out the baby then yes you can be put under general anesthesia to have it done.

You and every other mom to be out there.....

You'll be fine...