Did you cry?

[grace7]

Did any of you cry at any stage of labour? Just curious to know. I remember getting a bit teary in the part before transition, think I was pretty delirious.

No, not at either of them. And i was very level headed.

Although i remember feeling a big urge of warmth, love and protectiom over them both when i first looked at them when giving birth.

Literally a warm feeling running around my body. It was amazing.

@DDIJ - how old is your little one now?

No, but I did swear and bite anything I could as the stupid fuckers had removed my glasses so I couldn't see and I ended up panicking.

My dh was excellent providing distractions but when he was excluded, the midwives were fair game....not sure how many I did bite though!!

Afterwards yes out of happiness

Too stunned with DD1 to cry (also shouted,mooed,roared etc) I cried with frustration when with number 2 was still 5 fucking cms dilated 8 hours after arriving at 5cm dilated - I told the midwife it wasn't happening and there was something wrong but she just didn't listen. Oh well, she bloody listened to the registrar when she told them to prep me for a crash-C due to a placental abruption.

@DDIJ do you still feel nothing towards them? Or was it towards the birth it’s self? No judging x just empathy

I broke my heart.....the most precious moment of my life was holding him, him looking up at me, an explosion of a love I never knew could exist (midwife was crying her eyes out with me too)

@DDIJ I’m sorry you feel like that

@ddij I felt like that through PND. Someone put on here that she loved her DC but if someone could take them away and they'd be ok she'd be fine with that. I related to that a lot. You aren't alone.

No. No crying at all. Not through pain or emotion. After labour I was just relieved they were out and if was over I didn't feel anything for them for a while.

I did scream a lot though.
And midwives telling labouring women not to waste energy screaming can fuck off.

I cried and i'm not a cryer. I think it was after labouring alone all night and was simply due to feeling sorry for myself! i lived with my mother and feebly shouted her at 5am in the morning, then broke down sobbing when she didn't come rushing into my room

Briefly, when the midwife “lost the heartbeat” after they broke my waters (which I did NOT realise would be such a violent, violating process...). The registrar was super calm and said the baby had probably moved, but at that point it was becoming clear I’d be having a EMCS, and I was briefly terrified.

No. It was horrific. I was in pain and angry. Won't ever forget the agony of it. my DM however (first time GM) did cry

I cried when I was in the reception of the labour ward and they didn't believe I was in established labour. Reason for crying was that I was on my hands and knees in front of people waiting for news of new babies, vomiting into a plastic bag and wishing I could hide. I was in established labour btw

I don't think so, but I swore. A lot.

I remember being off my face on gas and air after 30 odd hours back to back labour. I was crying for my epidural as it took ages to arrive.

I was such a mess the midwife thought I was about to give birth (she wouldn’t examine me) but I was only 3/4cm!

My husband remembers those few hours, I was out of control. I’m glad I don’t remember it enough to be embarrassed! God knows how I would have coped without an epidural as they had to put me on a drip to speed things along.

I cried on the antenatal ward while waiting for my induction, because they were so busy nobody came to see me for hours and I thought they'd forgotten me. Not entirely logical, but I was 41+6 and emotional! Didn't cry in actual labour at all, and I don't think I did when DS was born, though DH might say differently!

I was to tired to cry once dd was born but dh cried a lot.

I cried when the contractions started in my back and when the forceps were tearing me apart. Other than them I was laughing with the gas and air :)

I cried several times out of frustration as my body was progressing so slowly and I was pretty loopy from all the pain and pain relief. Cried a few moments before DS was born as I was rushed in for an EMCS and DH started crying next to me in theatre which made me emotional!

I cried early on because they kept telling me I had to eat and I was saying I felt too sick. In the end I accepted a glass of milk. Took a sip and threw up. (I really wanted to say "I told you so". I don't think I did).

I didn't cry with either, but did feel overwhelmed and in awe. I think with my first it was a 19 hour long induction and I was just relieved for her to be born. I felt the surge of love/that I'd kill anyone who ever tried to hurt her but no tears.
With my son I had a failed epidural so was in lots of pain and I was just focusing on the pushing him out. Again I felt a bit overwhelmed once he was born and the rush of love but didn't cry. I'm 27 weeks with another boy, so who knows this time!

I remember when I got my son home and my daughter had been brought home (she was 14 months) and she was looking at and I remember thinking, holy shit, I'm a mum of two now! I remember feeling very very scared 😂 but I managed and I'm now cooking number three!

No and after 36hrs I just wanted to sleep. I didn’t get that rush of love either.

I made up for it 4 or 6 weeks later though!