Seeing DC for the first time

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What is that feeling like when you see your DC for the first time?

My mind can't actually comprehend it and I can't imagine what it's going to feel like when I do finally give birth!

I'm dying to know what he's going to look like 😍

My first thought was "I can't hold him, I'm too drugged up "

Second thought was "he's got a really wrinkly forehead"

Since then, I love him loads but he's a massive pain in the back and driving me crazy

@DeadDoorpost how old is he now?

My first thought 'thank god she doesn't look like a cabbage patch kid'

Second 'shit I've got a baby!'

Love her to the ends of the the earth though... she's the best!

First thought was “I don’t recognise you” and an overwhelming feeling of surprise that I didn’t recognise the baby because I felt like I knew him so well when he was inside.

With my first, I just thought she looked like a purple, squashed-up alien, and vividly remember thinking “Is this it? Is this what I’ve just been through hell for?”

With my second, I thought “she looks like just her sister” and immediately burst into tears of happiness!

(First was a traumatic vaginal birth, second a lovely planned CS.)

I thought "oh its got balls" )was told it was a girl)

But then they put him on my chest and he stopped crying straight away and it was amazing. Good luck to you

First thought "what has just happened"

"Oh my god is she mine"

"Wow, she's beautiful"

My Labour was 11 minutes - so was quite shocking; I thought I was being sent home with pain relief but instead had a baby! Ha

When he was delivered (CS) my first thought was ‘oh fuck it’s a BABY’ like there was any other explanation for the pregnancy and you know, general situation. Then once he was on my chest it was more of a ‘oh it’s you...’ type feeling.
With his sister two years later I was actually blown away that she looked so much like him. It was a ‘well of COURSE you look like that! Hi!’ Type feeling.
It’s amazing. Amazing.

After an entire pregnancy of "lalalala nothing to see here lalala"

First thing out my mouth after a 20 min labour was "is she definitely a girl"

Swiftly followed by "does she look like an alien"

I'm so proud of this moment lol 😂

Thank fuck that’s over

#1 "thank fuck for that"
"She's tiny"
"Can I have her back now :-)" (She went to dh for a while while I was fixed up)

#2 "oh wow, that was quick"
"Someone take him" (was shaking a lot)
"What a lot of hair!"

#3 "ah, there you are"

Amazing

It’s very surreal, I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. My first thought was “that’s never just come out of me, surely?!”
Then DH told me we had a DS and I just thought “gimme my baby! I want him!” I noticed his strawberry blonde hair, and his tiny face. I kept thinking “I’m a mum, whoa” which is weird because clearly I’d had 9 months to understand that fact!

Honestly? For me... completely underwhelming. I was a bit out of it after two nights without sleep. I remember looking at her really carefully and thinking “oh yeah, of course that’s what you look like” and I felt relieved all was over, but there was no amazing rush of feeling. More just, “right, cool, she’s healthy and seems to have all the bits in the right place, when I can get this tea and toast I’ve heard so much about and when can I sleep”. She’s nearly two now and the way I feel when I first see her face in the morning (usually when she’s nose to nose with me trying to prize my eyes open) is a much bigger feeling than the first time I saw her. It’s now pure overwhelming love. Some people get that straight away, some people don’t. It’s so exciting trying to picture them though isn’t it

I only had gas and air first time but it obviously wasn't on properly (as I discovered the second time round) and was exhausted and in shock (drove myself to hospital because Cheltenham Gen said there was no way I was in labour - fucking cunts ffs. They put her on my chest and her head felt like a peach and I wanted to sink my teeth into her head. But I didn't do it. Experienced a lot of trauma and anxiety, I'm sure that's to blame.

My first thought was "he's got a fucked up shaped head".

Ventouse delivery.

I was the same as @Orangeday, I was so shocked I didn't recognise her. I felt I knew her so well I had somehow completely overlooked the fact that she would have a face I'd never seen before ...

DH said he struggled to connect the baby on my chest with the one that had been in the belly.

Would give an awful lot to live those moments again and DD isn't even 2 months old yet! Enjoy x

We did ask the midwives if we could put a nappy on #1 a while after birth. They gave us an odd look and reminded us that she was our baby so we could do what we wanted. 😂

I can't remember!
They gave him to me then whipped him away for checking as he had meconium.
Then the doc decided I needed to go to theatre for stitching and I had a nice nap and saw my baby a couple of hours later!
I have absolutely no memory of seeing him for the first time at all!

It's the most surreal feeling! My first thought was, 'oh, look at the size of you!'

The second thought was 'are you mine? you don't look like a newborn!'

Forceps, after 20 hours in labour and 2.5hr pushing so I was fairly delirious! DS was 10lb 11, yes he was mine and completely bypassed the new born and up to a month clothing we'd bought!

I've always just said 'Hello', and a few other things.

Awww it sounds lovely!

I find it so weird that I'm actually going to have another human and he's going to be mine 🙈

My first thought when I held DS13 for the first time was "this is mine?" because I didn't recognise him at all. The first time I held DS8 I thought "his head is just fucking huge".

Fierce. Not lovely exactly but a fierce sense of "mine".

Though I also had a moment later on when DS1 was in his little plastic box and started crying wondering whether I was "allowed" to pick him up.

I had 2 great labours and felt like a fucking God just after them.

She’s not a
Then I marveled at how much she looked exactly like Dh.

My thought process was so.ething along the lines of: oh thank God that's over. Oh my god I have a baby. Hes a boy! Oh my god hes covered in gunk!

He was head to toe in blood and meconium and he was the most beautiful disgusting thing I'd ever seen. I was exhausted though so it was all a bit of an incoherent jumble in my brain.