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Childbirth

Share experiences and get support around labour, birth and recovery.

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was it wonderful meeting your new baby......?

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kgc · 14/07/2005 00:29

This is baby no.4 for me and had the most amazing experience ever over my other three meeting my new baby..maybe it was a waterbirth and the others were not but anyway.......how about everyone else...any experience you want to share????

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aloha · 14/07/2005 22:37

I've said this before, but I thought ds was so extraordinarily beautiful, I spend hours pondering how I was going to fob off all the baby model scouts who would be clamouring for his services! I am perfectly serious, and yes, I was quite mad.
Dh and I both cried when we saw him for the first time. I was so hyped with adrenaline that night I felt incredibly awake -which was lucky as ds wasn't the greatest sleeper in the world...

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kgc · 14/07/2005 23:09

LOL Frizbe!!

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snafu · 14/07/2005 23:11

Yes, it was wonderful although slightly disconcerting, as ds was the absolute spit of my brother from the very second he popped out...

ScrewballMuppet · 14/07/2005 23:14

Shoched with ds1 he looked like a little elvis presley and not sure what to do and being nervous didn't bond to him straight away..very soon after though, alot more relaxed with ds2 bonded to him immediately I set eyes on him.

MumsRCool · 14/07/2005 23:16

Was so relieved to see him as I'd spent the last 6 weeks of the pregnancy in a state of panic after watching a particular episode of ER where a baby dies and all I wanted to do was to get him out so that I could take care of him.

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kgc · 14/07/2005 23:18

then....... ScrewballMuppet

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kgc · 14/07/2005 23:20

MumsRCool... that you felt this way, especially from t.v prog......but big Aaaaaaah for outcome [smle]

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highlander · 15/07/2005 16:14

PMSL aloha!!

Reminds me of my sister when her DD was born. She said she was in floods of tears looking at all the other babies in the ward, feeling sorry for them as they weren't nearly as gorgeous as her DD!

MrsDoolittle · 15/07/2005 16:17

PMSL highlander

Your sister could have been me

triceratops · 15/07/2005 17:25

My brother describes parenthood as a state of perpetual worry and guilt. I understood what he meant as soon as I saw my little squashed baby. I was thinking "Is he OK? Is he supposed to look like I sat on him? What have I done to the poor love!" I felt instantly incredibly possesive and protective but I don't think I would call it love until he was about six weeks old and he smiled at me.

fruitful · 15/07/2005 18:20

I don't actually remember the first time I held ds. I know I was in a wheelchair and he was in a heated cot with lots of wires attached to him, and I know he had to be passed to me. But I can't actually remember what he looked like or what I felt. I can remember how he smelt though - gorgeous. I think I was very spaced for quite a few days. Fiercely protective and worried for him and determined to bf him but - he didn't start being a person for about a week. Somebody I love rather than somebody I need to fight for.

He's chucking up on the rug now, best go and sort him out

charleepeters · 15/07/2005 18:22

It was really wierd to be holding ds i was very ill through out my pg, to the point i was barley concious so inever had time to think what it would be like when he was born, but it was amazing, the best day of my life!

starrynight · 15/07/2005 18:57

Shock and Awe, baby.

HappyHuggy · 15/07/2005 19:06

With ds1 we had been told we were having a girl do seeing him for the first time was a bit of a shock, we had pink clothes with us and everything. It passed really qucikly though and i was very proud of him although i didnt get those feelings of totally love that you read about for a while, i felt like i was baby sitting for a few months but then one day i realised he was mine and it started to fall into place.

With ds2 i went into shock after the birth (was a very quick birth, they both were, ds1 2 hours, ds2 4 hours) after being induced. So i just wanted to sleep. It took alot longer for the bond to be there with ds2 might have been cause i had problems feeing him and also had his brother too. They are quite close in age. Its only really in the last few months that that bond has grown and i look at him and think awwwwwww

berolina · 15/07/2005 22:34

the image is so vivid, my little curled up baby on my tummy, his hair looked quite dark because of the wet but turned out to be lighter, his eyes wide, his little mouth opening in a slightly bewildered cry, a big lump of vernix on his side. he was only on my tummy briefly, then they whisked him off to be checked as his ctg had been doing horrid things during the last bit of labour and he was a bit purple (he then proceeded to score 10 on his apgar - paediatrician came back saying 'he took us for a bit of a ride there' ) but those few seconds were surreal and fantastic.

expatinscotland · 15/07/2005 22:52

I do remember her puckered wee face. She didn't cry. Her mouth was a perfect 'o', as if she were thinking, 'What the HELL just happened?' She only cried after they rubbed her w/a towel, and she had the cutest wee cry!

Flossam · 15/07/2005 22:58

The main things I remember are -
His eye was all closed up. He had scratched it on the way out and we were concerned.

His hair met his eyebrows - I was worried he would get bullied at school cause of this

How could I breast feed him with blood all over my boobs?

Now I am totally and utterly convinced he is the most beautiful baby in the world ever! But I don't think it would be fair to say I fell in love with him at first sight, as awful as that sounds. Love him to death now. Has brought tears to my eyes.

PrettyCandles · 15/07/2005 23:00

OMG meeting your new baby has to be the most amazing experience any person could have! Just think, nobody can introduce you, because nobody has ever met this person before. It must be like being the first human on the moon.

Both dh and I were utterly overwhelmed by it.

It was particularly amazing for me with ds, our first child, as he was lifted on to my chest without my seeing his face or his genitals, so I didn't even know 'what' he was, and then I turned him over myself, and gazed into his face, and touched his hand, and explored him for a while before discovering for myself that he was XXX (we had two names ready). My heart is thumping just remembering that.

It was stunning the second time, too, with dd, but not quite so overwhelming, perhaps because I was told that she was a girl with dark hair before I ever saw her. But that feeling of intimate connection with someone nobody in the world has ever met before was just as extraordinary.

expatinscotland · 15/07/2005 23:00

I remember exclaiming, 'Her eyes are blue!' I couldn't believe it. I'm Latin American with dark brown hair and eyes. Hubby is a blond w/blue eyes.

moondog · 15/07/2005 23:06

Neither particularly grabbed me at moment of birth (in fact asked for them both to be whisked off to the nursery-couldn't deal with it after all that work.)

But getting dd (first) home was amazing.For the first week just have a memory of playing 'Old Man's Shoes' (Elton John 'Tumbleweed Connection-one of the best albums ever) over and over and just crying and crying.Crying now just thinking of it. (Could be that the wine is contributing however!)

Bringing ds home was great too but the first baby......wow!!!!

charliecat · 15/07/2005 23:07

Not at all, wondered why it wasa girl after thinking it was a boy, loved her in the morning after some sleep though, immediately passed her to dp.

CountessDracula · 15/07/2005 23:08

Mine screamed very loudly when pulled out and my first thought was "OMG I it doesn't make that noise all the time" - when the brought her over to me she looked very cross with a big dent at the top of her nose and I felt a bit scared!

18mumtobe · 17/07/2005 12:53

it was the most amazing experience ever and the best most special day of my whole life. after waiting a whloe nine mths (which seems like yrs) it such a relief to finally be able to see them and hold them in your arms.

motherinferior · 17/07/2005 17:08

First time, no. I was in shock and exhausted, splayed open in front of nine medics - they put this slimy thing on my belly and I didn't want anything or anyone around - I just wanted to sleep, on my own. For hours. I felt very guilty about this for a long time.

Second time, yes - I was high as a kite, up to my tits in water in my front room, having pushed out a baby in three pushes 16 days early and I kept saying 'OMG, I just had a baby', in stoned ecstatic way.

jenkel · 17/07/2005 17:37

With DD1 it was incredible, we thought we could never have chldren and when she was born I was totally beside myself with love, awe and didnt sleep the first night in hospital, just kept starring at her tiny sleeping body next to me, just couldnt believe that I was a mum.

With DD2 it was slightly different, she was a totaly surprise natural conception, I had a tough pregnancy and had a really bad cold when I went into labour, so at the end of it I was really exhausted. Unfortunatly it took me a little longer to feel that love, something I still feel guilty about, but now I love them both the same and couldnt imagine my life without them

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