Did anyone try pushing out the baby while using the squatting bar attatchment on the delivery bed?

Question

I guess most hospitals have this 'attatchment' to the bed, but I have been told you need to ask for it. I just dont want to deliver my baby semi-sitting ot laying on my back. I read that this allows for 30% less room for baby to come out and is not the easiest way to give birth. I have two older children, and although I delivered both of them semi-sitting...I now dont think it is the best way...PLUS my tailbone has been sore almost the entire pregnancy and I dont want to put extra strain on it. I am considering laying on my side or perhaps squatting...how does that bar work?

Answer 1

I used that bar. And I had the worst killer leg cramp ever. It must be because with my epidural thats the only thing that i could feel. It was excrusicating and even worse that I had to have the nurse move it around for me because I couldnt move my legs from the epidural..but it very much helped when it came for pushing. I didnt ask for it it was already in the bed attatched.

Answer 2

The bar helps you to maximize your pushing by helping you to bear down. I never used it but instead used some similar squatting techniques. we used a twisted up sheet or towel to that I pulled on while someone else held the other end. When you play tug of war with the sheet in the squat position, it has the same effect as using a squat bar.

I had my second baby laying of my side. The best thing I can recommend is to walk through as much of the labor as possible to help move the baby down the birth canal faster.

Make sure you create a birth plan and share it with your Dr. and the nurses on duty when you arrive. Some Dr's & staff are uncomfortable with anything outside of a woman laying on her back strapped to monitors with an epidural. Keep educating yourself and you'll do fine. The more you know, the less scary it is and the less pain you experience. (Fear makes the pain worse)

Answer 3

I was offered to use it, but to me that was too uncomfortable, but I heard that it works for alot of women. Also the doctors mentioned a certain chair, that you can sit on, and try to push the baby out. I don't know what it is called besides "the chair", I think I was at the point where I didn't care, I just wanted to push. Lol. I also tried sitting on my knees and leaning towards the back of the bed. You can also prob. look up birthing positions online and see what you find.

I hope everything goes well! Happy Holidays!

Answer 4

With my 4th child she was alot larger than all of my other babies. I sat on a small stool which was shaped like a horseshoe. I don't think I would of been able to have had her any other way. I have not heard of a squatting bar, but I know the chair was great, you need your partner behind you to hold you up but I think it was great. I wanted it with my 5th but I couldn't move from the shower cubicle and they couldn't get the stool in there, I had him standing with the other leg pulled up. Will NOT ever recomend that position to anyone. Good luck

Answer 5

I squatted with #2 and #3, but not in a birthing bed. They were water births. They were much easier than the one that I birthed semi-sitting in the bed.

Answer 6

I never used this, but I sat up and pushed the placenta out in a squatting position. I had no bar though, just the hands of my doctor.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

id say squatting would be easier. although when i had babies that wasnt an option. thank god. i would be embarrassed to do that in front of a bunch of people.
good luck on getting answers and your new baby