A total 6am question

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Just wondering lying in bed about what childbirth must be like for the baby. My first is just waiting for the call to arms and I feel a bit sorry for it thinking what strange sensations it's got to go through. This also gets me thinking about the weirdness of invisibly communicating with it inside and I wondered if anyone had anything to say about what it feels like ...umm... relating to your baby during labour and birth?? Do your own bodily sensations take over? can you actually still feel it moving during labour and sense it going through an experience of its own?

So I thought I'd come online and ask instead of just thinking about it.

Mine stopped moving in labour. And to be honest I forgot all about a baby. Just concentrated on coping with the pain. Had to have a caesarean in the end and was quite surprised when they presented me with a baby at the end of it.

Then after the morphine kept waking up and thinking - whats that making that funny noise!!

But oh my the bundle joy at the end of it. Couldn't wipe the smile off my face for a week.

I thought like that Spots, but then I figured none of us can remember what it was like being born could we!?

Me too, I forgot about the baby and just concentrated on the labour, in fact I remember grabbing the midwife and snarling, "get it OUT of me"

But couldn't wipe the smile off either!

I think all my dd could hear was the midwife saying "you're not pushing" and me screaming "YES I F*KING AM YOU B**H!!!" lol. Not the nicest of welcomes to the world. But I remember when the head was crowning, and I looked down, and I could see the top half (so weird to realise that a baby is half way out of you lol). I wanted to stroke her hair (lol I sound so silly) but I didnt cos I thought it would seem a bit weird, plus I was just concentrating on trying to get her out.

I think I was the third person who actually got to hold her though but i had just been carrying her for the past 9 months so i guess i couldnt of expected too much! Lol