I keep reading about women having to have their legs held by their husbands/nurses/birth partners during pushing.
And then I saw pics from my cousin's birth and and she had her legs up in those calf stirrup thingies.
I just laid on the bed with my legs bent and pushed- no holding, no contraptions... It seemed really easy (relatively) and natural, but given everything I've seen and read I'm starting to wonder if I'm in the minority...
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The nurse and DH helped hold my legs but I started pushing with the stirrups. It took 3 hours so they didn't hold them the entire time. I wish my legs could have been free and loose!
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DH held one leg and a student who was observing held the other. I had stirrups for when I wasn't pushing.
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Wagon Sr. held one and the nurse held the other, and I was holding them by the thighs as well.
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it's already blurry. i think i was holding my own legs?
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I'm the idiot that voted stirrups. It was actually held by the nurse and my husband.
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I held my legs up!
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They held my legs and I liked it. I tried a couple other things, like stand/squatting, but went back to the nurse and DH leg-hold classic. For the final push-out they got me to hold my own legs.
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I delivered laying on my side so I had someone holding my right leg up.. I believe it was one of the nurses
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I held one, Dh held the other.
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Dh and my sister held my legs for most of the pushing and I was also holding them. After 2.5 hours of pushing I needed some help getting lo out so the dr used forceps. For that part my legs were in stirrups but my dh and sister were still by my side kinda holding my legs.
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It was me, DH, and the nurse all holding them!
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My DH held one leg and a nurse held the other (it was totally embarrassing because I went to college with the girl, she was a couple years younger than me. I was so mortified that she saw all my goods. Lol)
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@Mrsdaredevil: I've had terrible dreams (twice) that someone I know turns out to be my delivery nurse (one of DH's ex-girlfriends!)!
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My first delivery, my legs were held, second delivery, they were just loose on the bed.
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It was a mixture of me, DH and a nurse.
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primary DH and nurse and I think I sorta helped to hold them, too.
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I was able to get a stronger, deeper push if either I was holding my legs or if DH and a nurse/midwife were holding them. Initially I was on my back while he was beginning to crown, but I couldn't deliver at that angel, so I switched to my side and had to have my legs held that way too- I was able to push him out right away after getting onto my side.
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I used stirrups, but I gave birth in a British hospital and they just do things differently.
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@zippylef: Funny. I gave birth in a British hospital too and they didn't even have stirrups at all. I guess it must vary from hospital to hospital...
I also didn't push that long- maybe 15 mins? So maybe that had an impact on leg positioning too. -
@MegWag: They were pretty certain with me that I was going to deliver by forceps but I was required to push for an hour and a half first, maybe my situation just called for it. Addenbrooke's is also a teaching hospital attached to Cambridge University, so they might have different policies than a regular hospital. *shrug*
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I squatted holding onto a bar above the bed for my first, and was kneeling in a tub for my second...so none of the above?
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I pushed against my husband with my top leg and one of the midwives using my bottom leg, it helped me to have a better push. I delivered on my side.
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No stirrups - DH held one leg while L&D nurse held the other - I also held both legs. I had an epidural and my legs were total jello!
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