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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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HonorMatopoeia · 30/07/2006 15:01

As she had been swaddled by the midwife after c section - 'She looks like an eskimo!' - I then slipped back into my drug induced haze

MacSporran · 30/07/2006 15:20

I am going to be sick . Had a section and the anti-sickness pill didn't work. Was passed a cardboard bowl just in the nick of time.

SpaceCadet · 30/07/2006 15:21

dd1-hello!! you look just like your name!
ds1 why isnt he crying?
ds2-omg hes huge!!!(he was 9lb 7 but as soon as he was born it was evident why id struggled to give birth to him!)
dd2 "im dying!!" (said as her head was born, it blimmin hurt)

jamiesam · 30/07/2006 15:30

Ds1 -can't rem. (slightly scary em c/s, just happy that they had finally got him out after having to send for a stronger dr - boy was ds1 stuck!)

Ds2 - 'it's a boy' - had been convinced he was a girl, I clearly don't do feminine intuition.

MarsLady · 30/07/2006 15:43

Give me pate, camembert and wine!

mrsnoah · 30/07/2006 15:56

THAT'S NOT MINE!
(must've been the drugs)He was blonde not dark.
Threy all pissed themselves laughing.

treacletart · 30/07/2006 20:01

Something along the lines of:
"hello little one! - can we get all this stuff out of his nose and his mouth?"

nicnack2 · 30/07/2006 20:07

with ds1 hello u
though dh said " you werent joking were you" as ds1 emerged with red locks. ( my father was and i said it was a likeyhood)

DS2 what is it?, Give it to its father.

amisuchabadmummy · 30/07/2006 21:16

God, I feel like I've got a really fat ase. Has my ase got really fat?

...don't ask me why - I was on no drugs whatsoever !

themoon66 · 31/07/2006 14:16

DD - 'Bloody hell its big!!' But she wasnt actually that big, just 7lb 2oz.

DS - Midwife said can you try and sit up a bit and i said 'Noooo, am sitting on its head'

compo · 31/07/2006 14:18

"pass me a bowl I'm going to be sick"

tenalady · 31/07/2006 14:25

'no too ugly to be mine, shove him back up there'

Cakehead · 01/08/2006 19:26

'It's a girl' and then:

'Look! My tummy's gone flat!'. Honestly, not completely self-obsessed, but I was really surprised. Of course it wasn't actually flat, just saggy and baggy, but I was lying down and it seemed bliss that that big watermelon had gone.

YellowFeathers · 01/08/2006 19:50

I think I said the obvious like
"Its a baby"

mrsdarcy · 01/08/2006 20:00

Can't remember what I said when DS1 and DS2 were born

DD: "Is that my baby? Is it alive?"

monkey2 · 02/08/2006 10:40

is it ginger???? dont know why because there is nothing wrong with being ginger

Beauregard · 02/08/2006 10:41

Oh god my carpet!

Joolstoo · 02/08/2006 10:41

That's Katie over there

tenalady · 02/08/2006 15:32

lol monkey cos mine came out strawberry blonde and we dont know where the hell it came from [we dont have a milkman by the way]

tenalady · 02/08/2006 15:32

lol monkey cos mine came out strawberry blonde and we dont know where the hell it came from [we dont have a milkman by the way]

monkey2 · 03/08/2006 10:31

Hiya tenalady... we dont have a milkman either. C dad said to me 'where did that come from' My resp...... havent a clue, might have something to do with all the drugs the past 27 hours!!!

Stefallie · 04/08/2006 15:01

hi all

i said (after moving the cord between it's legs) oh my god its a girl I think I went into shock after that!

Twiglett - the midwife asked me if I wanted to see my placenta and at first I said no, but then I thought what the hell, whet if I never do this again. It looks like a big bit of liver and thats about it.

julienetmum · 04/08/2006 22:07

I said "What is it?" with dd

Ds needed a little help to breathe, (mw blew in his face for a few secs) so I think the first thing I said was (dh had already told me the sex) "he isn't crying"

yana04 · 09/08/2006 23:34

Hello there . I don`t remember the first one but second (Can I have that bacon sendwage now)

Philomytha · 10/08/2006 19:24

'Give me my baby back!' I have no memory of this (have no memory of a lot of it) but DH says this is what I shrieked when midwife whisked the baby off to the resuscitaire. He was fine; in fact, he was so fine the paediatrician wanted to know why we had bothered him. I think the next thing I said was probably quite rude and was directed at the doctor stitching up my episiotomy.