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Definitely! That would be really interesting to read unless I had a
scary or disappointing birth experience

I did not have an ideal labor. I ended up going to emergency C-Section and baby and I both got sick and were hospitalized for a week. I did recieve a copy just to have for my own records. Was interesting to read seeing I was pretty out of it myself. When I went to C-section, right after LO was out they had to put me completley under and I lost a little over 2 hrs. Epi was not working well on me and when i started to FEEL things, they knocked me out cold.

With my first I had abruption of the placenta and I have read through the records. With my other two they are just pretty standard charting, nothing like detailed notes, so it wasn't so interesting to read back through. If it were I would love to read it.

Yep! I have the notes from my first birth (home birth and that's just something the midwife automatically gives out, whether you ask for it or not) and haven't got around to asking about getting the notes for my second birth (I'm a little scared to because some hospitals charge a copying fee of ~$1 a page for your records and that could get a little pricy), but I would looooooove to read those and see what the doctor and nurses wrote since my birth was so completely crazy (crazy good) compared to your standard hospital birth. It would probably give me a good giggle!

@zippylef: i guess it would depend how much i have to pay and how much effort it takes to make the request, even if by mail. if you think it would help give you closure, then you may have more incentive than i do though.

Here in New Zealand, midwifery care is free and are the main people to look after you during pregnancy and are usually there to deliver the baby. I had a fantastic midwife who gave me a copy of the hospital notes which were written during my induction which includes my blood pressure, fetal heartbeat, how many contractions and how I was handling them. Afterwards my midwife used these notes to write me a birth story from her perspective - it's super cool to read through and remember! I had a pretty good labor/birth so reading the delivery notes isn't hard for me to do.

I would love to see them!

If I had notes from every 5 minutes of my first labor and delivery I would have a novel hahaha but I would love to read it, I was too tired to remember a lot of it.

I'm requesting my records for my recent hospital experience. Not sure how much it'll help with closure, but I want to know every. single. thing.

Absolutely! I find all of that stuff super interesting, even if its sometimes scary.

I would love that! my labor went so, so fast that I barely know what time things happened. and of course, iphone doesn't time stamp each text, so my husband's updates to my mom (through my phone) aren't even helpful!

I read through the chart while I was still in the hospital, I just waled up to the desk and asked for it, read through it then handed it back. No one writes anything exciting in charts really.

that's really cool! I'd love to see a copy!

Definitely! I just learned TODAY that LO did come out sunny side up after all. The birth came up and DH told me that the first thing he saw when she came out was her face, she was face up.

@Mummystar: serious midwife envy over here!

I got my discharge notes, but that's all. I was only at the hospital for pushing and recovery, so I'm not sure how interesting it would be. But I would totally read it!

I would like to read it!

I would love to read the whole chart!