Seeing DC for the first time

[amrscot]

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 😍

These are lovely! I just remember telling my husband to go see him and take all the photos and being upset that he was so far away. He was in fact the other side of the room but my glasses had gone MIA and I was off my tits on drugs by that point. Then I was upset because I couldn't hold him properly while they stitched me up.

All fine when we got to recovery, he snuggled up and went back to sleep while we looked at his lovely hair and squishy battered face.

First baby - just remember him looking a bit purple and dirty! I was tired and sore
Second baby - he was so warm and fluffy when they put him on me and I was so overwhelmed with happiness after a very short labour and textbook quick delivery.

Just very surreal. Dc1 was placed on the floor as I was kneeling up and I needed to go backwards so I could pick him up (cord still attached). Went back and then just paused looking at him for so long that the midwife had to prompt me to pick him up. He felt very soft and warm and I told him he was beautiful and perfect.

Dc2 was delivered by DH as midwife wasn't there in time. He was also very soft and warm but he cried unlike dc1, so I sat there cuddling him and wrapping him in a towel until the paramedics arrived. I also told him how beautiful he was.

I didn't actually feel the rush of love, just protective and amazed that there was really a baby in there, they were mine and I had actually given birth.

After doing most if the hard work, LO decided he wasnt coming out so had to have a forceps delivery. I remember being so numb from the epidural that when they took baby out and placed him on my tummy I didn't even notice he was there, when I asked is he out? is he ok ?that's when they said he's fine and lifted him off my tummy to show me. Honestly.... I never felt that rush of emotion that people are on about, i knew that I was his mother and that I had to take care of him. When they eventually stitched me up and took me to the ward I remember LO being in the plastic cot next to me and looking around his eyes caught mine as if to say pick me up but I just looked at him and didn't. I never had PND as far as I was aware it just took me a while to come to terms with this new person who is totally reliant on me. As time went by and as he developed a personality my love for him just grew. I look at him sometimes and I can't believe I felt that way about him in thoese early days because I just love him so much that I hate being away from him now.

I had a long, difficult labour and ill be honest I had very little interest when I first saw him except thank god that’s over! It took months to bond properly and enjoy him.

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Cheltenham General also told me I wasn't in labour! Well, I showed them! Had a baby girl an hour later in the bath! Luckily in the hospital-as it was snowing they'd let me stay!

"OMG he looks just like grandma" - weirdly he resembled my dad's mum for the first two weeks or so. I remember that while I was was pregnant I tried to but could not imagine what his face would look like and then he came out looking like grandma!

...and the next minute: "now, darling, let's not pull out mum's epidural just yet" - b/c the first thing he grabbed onto was a loop of the epidural catheter that was hanging over my shoulder. I am an anaesthetist, so couldn't ignore the irony!

I spent a while itching to see and hold him while he was weighed etc (caesarean), then I was surprised that I recognised him, it was his dad's eyes. He stared at me so hard and it was lovely that he served to recognise both our voices. Then I felt like I couldn't hold him with that hand any more and was getting a crick in my neck, so I really wanted him taken away until they'd finished stitching. It wasn't until the HDU that I got to feed him, hug him and really feel like his mum.

The first thing I thought was that he was so cute. He wasn't all squashed and wrinkly like I was expecting him to be. Then I was shocked at how much hair he had as the midwife had said she didn't think he had any when he was coming out!

@amrscot 15 months :D