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what was the first thing you said after the birth of your baby?

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babyonboard · 30/01/2006 13:59

Just wondering what the first thing all you ladies said (or yelled) after giving birth.
My dp has constantly made fun of me since our ds was born in november, as I literally hollered 'it's over!!!!!' ...loud enough for unoccupied midwives at the station to dash in and congratulate us.
Nothing like the teary..'oh my gosh he's beautiful' i expected.
Little did i know it was far from over as i then had retained placenta and had to go into theatre and get a spinal block to have it removed..but thats another story....

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CarolinaMoon · 30/01/2006 14:01

I burst into tears. The anaesthetist said "I hope that's the right sort of crying" and I snivvled that it was...

Enid · 30/01/2006 14:01

hello

Cadbury · 30/01/2006 14:01

I said "Hello babble, I'm your mummy!" followed swiftly by "Eurghghgh! She poohed on me!"

moondog · 30/01/2006 14:01

'Thank fuck that's over'

Enid · 30/01/2006 14:02

dh said (after birth of dd2)

its a miracle! A boy without a winky! (from blackadder)

lucy5 · 30/01/2006 14:02

Cant remember, isnt that awful?

suzywong · 30/01/2006 14:02

Don't get the light from the flourescent tubes in his eyes

I was off my tits on drugs and being sewn up from a Ceasar.

DissLocated · 30/01/2006 14:02

I can't remember, how awful

DissLocated · 30/01/2006 14:03

LOL Lucy!

motherinferior · 30/01/2006 14:03

DD1: water

DD2: Oh my GOD! Oh my DARLING! I just had a baby in my front room!

Cadbury · 30/01/2006 14:03

snort Enid!

Pennies · 30/01/2006 14:05

"Never, ever again. Ever"

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babyonboard · 30/01/2006 14:05

lol...thanks ladies!
my dp said (after a very long stunned silence)..'my god why isn't he blue and bloody'.
god knows what he expected!?

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Gingerbear · 30/01/2006 14:05

Hello, what do you do? (passes out again)
Hello, what do you do? (passes out again)
Hello,what do you do ?(passes out again)
Hello, what do you do ?(passes out again)
Hello, what do you do ?(passes out again)

repeated ad nauseum to the theatre nurse in recovery room after C-section.

Tommy · 30/01/2006 14:05

can't remeber either - both times although I can remember thinking when the MW told me that DS2 was a boy "On my God - it's a boy as well as being a baby!" - sounds a bit weird but I know what I meant at the time

cod · 30/01/2006 14:06

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pepperpots · 30/01/2006 14:09

ds1 "does that mean i can stop pushing now?"
ds2 i growled at the poor student m/w "just because the baby has come out don't get any funny ideas about taking this gas and air just yet!"

Fimbo · 30/01/2006 14:10

With DD I don't remember
With Ds it was "please can I have a bowl, I feel sick" (c-section and complications very long story)

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babyonboard · 30/01/2006 14:12

lol @ its a boy as well as being a baby

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Lonelymum · 30/01/2006 14:12

Can't remember but I must have thought Thank God each time.

I can remember being surprised after ds1's birth that he was a) alive (it was a very difficult birth) and b) that he was a boy - I had assumed for no real reason that I was having a girl. Something to do with the fact that I am a girl and therefore anything that came from me must also be feminine, but if that were the case, there would be no men in the world would there?!

cece · 30/01/2006 14:14

get me out of these stirrups (might not be the first but I remember saying it quite assertively and loudly for a good while afterwards

Flamesparrow · 30/01/2006 14:15

"Why isn't it crying???"

closely followed by "Is its tongue ok?" and "What is it?"

The not crying - she was clearly healthy and happy, laying in my arms looking at me, but in my mind you have baby, baby cries... no crying = badness

The tongue - my godson was born with a tongue tie and it had caused problems (this was at the beginning of my pregnancy), DH is tongue tied, so I'd been paranoid all the way through!

"What is it?"... no-one had told me her sex, and the cord was in the way and I couldn't see!

This time should be interesting...

katierocket · 30/01/2006 14:16

"is he ok?"

cece · 30/01/2006 14:17

dh counted her fingers and toes!?

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