To ask if you remember all of your babys birth

[StrawberryBlossom234]

I had a baby a year ago and before thre pushing stage all I remember is being on the birthing ball screaming for an epidural, I dont remember how or why I got back onto the bed and that I never got the epidural and my partner is useless with memory so can't gu e me an answer either. Please tell me im not the only one thats forgotten some of the things

No I forgot loads immediately after it. My last birth was 6 years ago I don't remember much at all now.
One embarrassing part on the 2nd was I kept standing up on the bed. I was on my knees facing the head of the bed everytime a contradiction finished I'd tried to stand upright on the bed.
It was weird the MW can shouting get on your knees.
The gas is strangely overpowering.

I do. Clear as day. An epidural helps (in my case it did, anyway). My first delivery was over 18 years ago, last over 6 years ago, and our two DDs were in between. Clear as, I remember. I don't think I'll EVER forget trumpeting relentlessly in the midwife's face as she stitched me up. I don't remember what degree tear I had. I just remember being a complete fart monster the last time and telling myself, "It's your last baby. You will never see these people again. It's your last baby. You will never see these people again," on a loop.

I do but with both I had v quick active labour and minimal (time for) pain relief - rocked up at the hospital fully dilated w DC1 and with DC2 went from 3cm to baby in about 90 minutes. DC2 in particular was a beautiful birthing experience - I was v lucky. But a midwife told my grandmother she had a pelvis like a barn door so maybe it’s hereditary

I remember both of my two labours completely, The first I had a tens machine, then entonox just for the final half hour. The second I had no analgesia. So perhaps the lack of clouding by opiates is the reason.
My first was a severely painful O-P presentation (“back to back”, as it seems to be called on MN) and my second baby arrived almost dead and spent a week in SCBU, so they were both memorable for all the wrong reasons!

Don’t worry, it’s normal to have memory blanks during labour. Severe pain and the drugs they give you can cause amnesia.

I remember little about mine apart from screaming in agony then had gas&air and morphine that put me into a sort of dream state (didn’t help the pain but I hallucinated and lost all sense of time). When I started pushing they took the gas and air away, I vividly remember that part and also looking out the window and realising it was dawn!

The ‘ring of fire’ is something I’ll never forget and being told to ‘push away the pain’ by a very young midwife who was a bit panicky due to baby’s position, so I pushed so hard baby shot out all in one go.

Then once baby was out it was like time snapped back to normal. The whole thing was surreal up until then. DH says I fell asleep kneeling up during transition and talked nonsense at times but I don’t recall that! I think he was a bit traumatised by it actually, he nearly fainted at the end and had to sit on the floor!

I had an EMCS after my waters broke at 33 and a half weeks, I remember from my waters breaking through to being wheeled into my room after the op, but then between that and being taken to NICU the next day to see my daughter is a complete blank. According to DH, during that time I was really distressed from pain but refused morphine, DH gave me a bed bath, and I wanted apple juice. I honestly don’t remember any of it. DH thinks the tapentadol they gave me for pain relief also relieved me of some of my memory!!!

I remember the births of both my DC.
Didn't have any pain relief so my mind wasn't foggy from that plus both labours were relatively short so not many hours to remember (just over 2 hours for each one)

Yes I remember all of it. I had a long labour, 4 days in total. But I remember it all very clearly.

I do remember it but I think that if it had been recorded like on OBEM, I would have watched it back and said "I don't remember saying that..."🤔 a few times! There were long boring bits where not much was happening (must be have been so dull for the midwives) and I don't recall those very well, just the eventful bits.

The bit I really don't remember at all is the placenta being delivered, maybe I was too busy fussing over DS and thinking, "Aargh, he smells of mince!" to notice that? I asked DH about that recently and he didn't recall it either. Still, it had been a long day and I'd spent the whole day prior to that having contractions and not really getting anywhere, so it was rather tiring. Quite a nice birth really but didn't feel like repeating it...

Remember my first very clearly. It was looong but I had an effective epidural so it was also very calm and civilised.

Second trimester loss. Also effective pain relief and long. Remember all details very clearly.

Last baby, very rapid labour. Went to hospital as waters broken. Examined and told I'd be a good few hours. About 20 mins later yelping in pain. All the details very blurred but I was re-examined and just a few minutes later baby born in assessment room. The fear and pain wiped chunks of my memory. Afterwards the Midwife told me what I'd been doing and saying - I'd been acting like a wild animal apparently which was how she realised I was in transition before even looking "downstairs". I didn't remember any of that. I also couldn't remember my daughter crying when she was born. My husband assured me she had roared - and there were photos of her at a few seconds old - roaring angrily. It seems so odd that I can't remember it.

Also my husband went home after a couple of hours to take our eldest to school. They came back later after school. I don't remember my husband holding the baby before he went home the first time. It sort of makes sense he didn't as the Midwife encouraged skin to skin contact for mother and baby. However given my other memory lapses it may be that he is right and i am wrong!

Nope I don't remember half of it after 4cm on the diamorphine and gas and air 🤣

I remember both times being told I wasn't showing signs of active labour only to push out a baby at the end of it. I don't remember being told anything about being dilated or anything. I had two preemies so don't know if that made a difference? I remember a midwife telling me they didn't want to keep examining me with my second as my waters had broken and they didn't want to risk infection. Cue me crying as I was in absolute agony and they were going to send me to a ward and take the gas and air off me and she told me to calm down I had a strop, went to the toilet and nearly ended up pushing him out down the loo! With my first I remember them injecting something into my cannula that made me burn all over it was so weird. I don't remember how long I pushed for or anything like that but it wasn't long with either of them.