What else do pregnant women deliver?

[LorieSmurf]

@brossa

The baby can also be coated with a variable amount of vernix.

I love how the Latin vernix caseosa means “cheesy varnish” :eek:

[Qadgop_the_Mercotan]

Ah, vernix caseosa. It was considered a sign of good luck to deliver a cheesy baby here in Wisconsin.

The “clean the baby up with crackers” jokes got old real fast, though.

[brossa]

The old battleax delivery room nurses claimed that they used to use vernix as hand cream. Christ, I hope they were kidding.

[pudytat72]

@howye

Obligatory Scrubs quote: “You’ll fart, poop, pee, and scream, all in front of ten complete strangers, all of whom are staring intently at your vagina, which, by the way, has an 80 per cent chance of tearing.”

I had both of my boys in the hospital I worked in , so they weren’t “complete strangers”, but at that point, I really didn’t care too much!

It made for some amusing comments when I was pregnant and delivering babies.

[Chanteuse]

@brossa

The old battleax delivery room nurses claimed that they used to use vernix as hand cream. Christ, I hope they were kidding.

Probably not. My dad told me that his aunt–a midwife–saved it and used it as face cream. :eek:

On one hand I’m extremely icked out by that. shudder On the other hand, Dad did say she had a lovely, soft complexion, so maybe she was onto something. (I think, though, that *I’ll *just stick with Oil of Olay!)

[Ruffian]

@corvidae

Getting Pit after delivery is quite routine where I work as post-delivery management in firming up the fundus and hopefully assisting in avoiding a post partum hemorhage.

I just had a C-section 10 days ago, and was given Pitocin afterwards to stimulate uterine contractions. I wonder, though, about the post partum hemmorhage–I was told I bled a bit more than normal and had to be given a medication that starts with M (Qag? Care to weigh in?) to reduce the bleeding. I thought the Pit would be typical post-Cesarian, but now I wonder if it was more because of the bleeding.

The Pitocin SUCKED as did the friggin’ sadistic nurse who kept coming in to “massage” (read: push and squeeze like it’s Play-Do) my belly post-op. It was so painful I screamed, repeatedly…and I delivered my first without pain meds without making that much noise. Only thing I can compare it to is the severe back pain I had prior to both of my spinal operations. When I woke up yelping and moaning in pain about 3 hours post op, they turned off the Pitocin and turned on the Demerol, and sleep and I found each other.

Having had a C-section and a vaginal birth (which, yes, included poop, pee, hemmorhoids the size of kiwis, and a second degree tear), I gotta say–I don’t understand why anyone in good health with an uncomplicated pregnancy would choose a C-section. Yowsa.