What smells/tastes/other things do you associate with the birth of your child?

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Who started this off???

Smells that oxygen mask. It is knocking me sick thinking about it.
Taste vomit after pethidine

Having a drink with a straw Took a while to get over that one.

Was hugely grateful to DH after the event that he didn't put the CDs on while I was in labour. They stayed association free!

I listened to the same CD's many times during labour, many many times!! To me they were one of the best things about the experience the one thing that made me feel calmer was listening to the music and we used to play them to DD when she was going to sleep when we came home, in fact I still do play one every night.

I hated my labour but I don't have any bad associations with the music, that reminds me of gaining dd

I started this, but my message seems to have not appeared! I think there was a problem when I posted it....

anyway, for me, it's orange opal fruits for ds' birth - I ate one during labour with ds, and could taste it for hours after, salad cream (out of the little sachets), which adorned all the hospital food, and lavendar oil which will always remind of little babies. For dd, the annoying 'Early Bird' tune from Cbeebies, which I had going round my head during her labour.

I can't bear the smell of Pampers wipes ... not because of labour but because they remind me of the hellish first few weeks of DS' life! Don't have any associations with labour really ... don't know why as the whole 3 days was pretty shocking

I had an elective section with ds and one thing I can remember was that the surgeon was wearing wellies The next day I was on morphine so I really was off with the fairies.

The song for me was "pure and simple" was just around that pop idol time.and the smell would be that baby smell....i used to think people were bonkers when they smelt a baby's head but i used to have to have a good long smell before i put her down anywhere............God time flies.

Same for me - Pure and Simple by Hearsay brings it all back! My DDs are two and half now.

Same for me - Pure and Simple by Hearsay brings it all back! My DDs are two and half now.

Same for me - Pure and Simple by Hearsay brings it all back! My DDs are two and half now.

Whoops! What happened there.

raw meat. sorry

Toast and blackcurrant jam! Ate loads after dd2s home birth, sat in bed with dh and dd1, grinning like a chesire cat that I wasn't pg anymore!!!

Dd1, has to be fish and chips,my last meal before I had her!!!

dettol - cleaning the bath has never been quite the same since

Songs. For DS1 we heard Angels sooo many times during labour along with (rather appropriately) Torn by Natalie Imbruglia and DH swears that they played The First Cut it the Deepest too. For DS2, it's Rome Wasn't Built in a Day by Morcheeba and Everytime We Say Goodbye by Simply Red which was playing when DH ahd gone out to get my bag and the midwives had gone so it was just little DS2 and me having our first cuddle and attempt to bf. Still makes me smile soppily!

savlon

Dd was born in Holland and the dutch version of Johnson & Johnson was a brand called Zwitsal.

Still have the talc........dreamy baby soft smell always brings back squidgy memories

No one else with raw meat then?

Raw meat.....am I missing something ??

My children were born only one minute apart (no they are not twins!) - the time of day was the same so it was a bit like Groundhog day the 2nd time round with the ward, visitors etc.

Ds was born in a hot July so this hot weather and babies bring it all back. I saw a newborn recently almost exactly the same weight and it made me feel really broody!

Ds was born April last year and daffodils will always bring it back - they are grown in the fields round our house and I will never forget the drive back from the hospital seeing the fields of yellow.

Ahhhh!!

the smell. Yuk

I have different perfumes for each child-ie:- DS1 was Fresia body stuff, lotion etc by M&S, DS2 was
hite Musk, DD1 was Bodyshop White Daisy and DS3 was Sunflower stuff.

Thought about doing something like this thread earlier but my idea was sounds-what sounds make you curl up and think either OOHHHH or AAHHH!

Just a start off one-my littlest one is nearly five but I still have contact with tiny babies and it's that sound they make when the've just fed and go all snuffly on you. Also, when your DH leaps into bed, promising untold passion(!) and you hear that snore, you think that maybe tonight's not the night (small sigh of relief..) and you can go to sleep without arguing, wet patches or thoughts of "Oh my Gosh, we had s..x and I was so pi..ed that i can't remember if we used a condom!!??)Sorry, cynical bugger but just a last thought...one of my favourite sounds is when my kids go to bed! Not because I'm a horrible mum, but because even though my oldest is now 13, when I shut their doors, they all say"I love you" and I say "I love you too.." and whatever kind of a day we've had (tantrums, sulking, sitting on stairs) I know that I mean it and so do they. I then feel that maybe I've done a little bit towards being a nicer mum and drift off downstairs. It's quite weird, actually, when you're wearily going upstairs to hear the oldest say, "Mum, are you going to bed now," when he stays up later than I do. FIRM RESOLUTION (anyone else got these?!!) my children are all going back to normal bedtimes when the holidays are over!!
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Emergency caesarean - thinking as they are prepping me for surgery that I could not be doing this as I had shopping to do and the bank to visit!!! Thinking prior to being taken to upstairs to the maternity/labour wards that they would probably induce me - not realising the seriousness of the situation!!! Oh well....

Hearing women in labour in the high risk unit whilst they were monitoring dd's heartbeat.

seeing my husband in white wellies/rubber shoes, the surgeons oakley protective eye glasses, staring at the clock timing the surgeon once he started cutting - he said it would be four minutes till dd was out!! and he was spot on... four minutes from the start of cutting to take her out of my tummy. Having a conversation whilst having surgery... very bizarre. The feeling of washing up in your stomach....

Seeing dd's troll like punk black hair as she was shown to me. Hearing my husband tell the nurse that YES she does have a name... rather a little too abrupt. Everyone oohhhing and ahhhing about her name.

Sorry no wonderful labour and bonding moment for me. The bonding came a little later.....

No doubt next time will be different.

I don't have any smells that I associate with my dd's birth but there was a Cd that my dh listened to constantly when I was pregnant. And when I hear any songs from it now it makes me feel really depressed. I think it was because I didn't particularly enjoy being pregnant and dh worked long hours so I was often alone and I hated the flat that we were staying in at the time.
It just brings back memories of that time and I don't like it. Plus the Cd wasn't really cheerful music anyway so that probably didn't help.
However there are other songs that were in the charts at the time that if I hear them brings back happy memories of dd as a baby.
And if I see Quincy on the tv, please don't laugh, It also brings back fond memories of my dd as I used to watch it when I was feeding her at lunch time.

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Rainbows. When I went up to the delivery room there was a rainbow right across the sky so we took a photo of it (or rather dh did, I was busy) and we have a fantastic photo now, date stamped with dd birth day ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.