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Childbirth
Tea1Sugar · 27/04/2014 09:03
Thanks writer 
I had a little girl, Emilia on 15/4/14 weighing 7lb 13oz. I found the anaesthetic petrifying and got rather hysterical at the beginning when all feeling went but the anaesthetist held my hand and was amazingly calm which calmed me. The radio was on and everyone was singing along! How are you and your small man?
ReeseWithoutHerSpoon · 27/04/2014 09:07
Oh tea congratulations!
I had EMCS with dd and it was the lovely, calm anaesthetist who got me through! I remember hounding her with questions - is everything ok, is the baby ok, what are they doing now, then I started telling her how scared I was. She just stayed there by my head the whole time talking in her calm, Eastern European accent to me! Would love to thank her- she's the one person I remember vividly from the whole experience.
Molotov · 27/04/2014 10:56
Yes, Reese, I remember my anaesthetist, too. I'm one of these people who keeps insisting "I'm okay. I'm fine", but he knew I was nervous and I remember him touching my arm and briefly taking my hand to emphasize 'it's okay'.
I don't remember his name, but I won't ever forget him (or that entire team at Birmingham Women's Hospital).
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