In about 3 hours. I’m not actually in labor now, but I’m about to leave for the hospital, where a scheduled C-section awaits. Draax, BabyDraax, and I are in for some big changes, so wish us luck!
Luck! Say yes to drugs! Remember it’s a lot easier to keep post-surgical pain away than to fight it back once you feel it. Prophylactic Dilaudid is the only way to fly. 
We want pics!
Best wishes 
Best wishes. As the father of twins, I can say with certainty that your life is suddenly going to be exponentially more interesting.
Wow! You probably have had them by now, but sending lucky thoughts your way!
Wishing you a lifetime of joy and happiness with your new family!
Preach it. My epidural didn’t take because they waited too long.
Great googly-moogly! They did an epidural for a c-section and it didn’t take?! And they cut you open anyway? :eek:
:: curls up and hides ::
Wow. Women are the tougher sex.
Woohoo for NightingBabies! Congrats!
My apologies, Nightingale… congratulations!
Sending good thoughts your way!
Congratulations!
We get pics now, right?
Yay! Many congratulations! Is this your first C-section? I had three of them, and if you have any questions or I can otherwise be of assistance, you can even email me off-boards.
BTW, I know it’s probably over by now, but for others and for future reference, if your nurse anesthetist offers you something in your IV, once everything is over, to “relax” you, say YES, YES, YES! That happened with my last one, and I don’t know what she put in there, but it was nice .
Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat.
(sorry)
That was probably the Dilaudid. It’s an opiod painkiller and euphoric. It’s also a street substitution for heroin and morphine. That’s what they gave me after my horrible-scary-no-good-very-bad emergency c-section at 23 weeks, and I was just happy enough to act like everything was normal. My friends who came were (I found out later) debating in the bathroom if I was suffering some sort of psychotic break because I was so bloody calm about the whole thing. “Don’t you think she should cry or scream or rant or be scared or something? She’s totally in massive denial, isn’t she?” “Nope,” said the experienced nurse among them, “She’s on Dilaudid. Let her enjoy it while it lasts.”
I don’t think so. I’ve had IV Dilaudid, and it is nice, but it gives me a very definite sensation that was not present at that time (it’s real strange with Dilaudid; it goes into my IV, and I get a dull ache in my shoulders and the top of my head; that lasts about 2 seconds, and then, wham! totally stoned). Also, I’d already had Duramorph in the catheter in my spinal block. Duramorph, for anyone who’s not familiar, is a super-long-lasting morphine that is administered spinally. The pain relief lasts 18-24 hours. My nurse told me that sometimes it actually is not such a good thing, because post-ops feel so good that they move a lot, then when the Duramorph wears off, they feel like they’ve been hit by a Mack truck.
Well, you know how it is with Babies!
You can’t eat just one!!
