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What thoughts went through your mind after seeing your baby for the first time?

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MandyM749 · 23/04/2012 11:18

I couldn't believe that my partner and I had created such a beautiful, perfect baby girl! I was so overwhelmed and shocked that I had actually been carrying her for 9 months and started crying!

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BonkeyMollocks · 23/04/2012 11:21

I cried. Lots!

Then when I was holding him and he was moving, I could recognise his movements because it was what he was doing in my tummy. The little twitchy kicks, elbows.
It was a really weird realisation! :)

Pascha · 23/04/2012 11:22

A vague sense of Oh Shit.

Niceupthedance · 23/04/2012 11:25

My first words were "oh my god".

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Sparklingbrook · 23/04/2012 11:25

A bit of- 'Oh blimey I seem to have had a baby'. Shock

GinPalace · 23/04/2012 11:26

I was bathing him in a baby bath on the table at about 2 weeks old (so not quite first time but still, it is in the spirit of the thread), his ears were underwater and I was thinking about when you have a bath and go underwater how it sounds, and I just thought.... I wonder....

So I tapped out a heartbeat rhythm with my finger and he instantly curled tight into a little foetal ball... and I thought - he remembers it!!!! made me all teary to think he could remember that warm safe cocoon and how he was getting slowly used to the outside world. Grin

GinPalace · 23/04/2012 11:33

Perhaps a better answer to the question asked though would be I cried with a weird mixture of happiness, relief, nervousness. But wondered why his lower jaw was set so far back - did he have some sort of problem?? So I asked the midwife (nicely - not in a 'OMG my babies deformed way') and she snapped back 'all newborns are like that!!" - well I didn't know he was the first one I had ever seen! Blush

timmyleedances · 23/04/2012 12:15

Fuck
In a half shock half wonder way

CogitoErgoSometimes · 23/04/2012 12:16

I remember thinking 'oh, its you'. Like meeting someone you'd only ever spoken to on the phone but recognising them immediately :) I didn't cry until they tried to take him away for a heel-prick test... then I went ballistic!!!

BlackOutTheSun · 23/04/2012 12:17

Erm, oh shit what have I done Smile

Kaloobear · 23/04/2012 12:18

Something like 'ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!'

ShowOfHands · 23/04/2012 12:19

With dd I felt unbearably sad and just thought 'I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry' on a loop (traumatic birth, she was black and blue with a couple of nasty scalp tears).

With ds? 'Somebody get me some custard'. Had been nil by mouth for 21hrs.

Longstocking2 · 23/04/2012 12:20

I was really just in love at first sight with both of them and just kept checking they were breathing and smelling them and kissing them endlessly. Bliss.

hairypotter · 23/04/2012 12:21

I cried as I held her for the first time and thought about how much my dad would have loved her. He had died a few days before Sad

lynniep · 23/04/2012 12:24

I didnt really think anythink other than 'thank god thats over'. DS1 was taken away for recusitation, and I didnt see him till the next morning. (Apparently he was put on my belly straight after birth but I didnt see him)
My first thought on seeing him was 'oh poor baby' as he was all wired up. I didnt have any feelings for him at all really.
My first thought on seeing DS2 was - 'god he's massive' relief he was out. Asked the midwife to give him to DH but she wouldnt. So I held him instead. Again felt nothing much.

CMOTDibbler · 23/04/2012 12:25

'oh god, is he ok' as they waved him at me then ran off to SCBU

Longtalljosie · 23/04/2012 12:26

Very detached. Not from her exactly, but from existence (I do know what that sounds like Blush). Hard to explain but it had been a very very long labour and I was a bit like a traumatised animal - very quiet and still. 24 hours later and I was weeping at her beauty!

stubbornstains · 23/04/2012 12:27

"Please raise the head of the bed up so I can hold him properly".

"Will someone please raise the head of the bed up so I can hold him properly, I'm too tired to raise myself".

"Will someone please".....etc.etc.etc....

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notcitrus · 23/04/2012 12:29

Ds - oh I get this one? Was convinced they'd pulled him from a drawer under the trolley. Followed by Aw, he's got slanting eyes like mine - shit, does he have Down's?
Finally asked a doc who said no, he just has slanting eyes like yours!

Dd - phew, that's done forever. Followed by me projectile vomiting for the next couple hours, so when I finally held her it was aw, she looks just like ds only with DP's colouring. Instant bonding as she fed wonderfully, unlike with ds where I was in shock for 3 days.

Iggly · 23/04/2012 12:30

That his cry was the most beautiful noise ever! (DS)

Dd - I was in awe again.

glastocat · 23/04/2012 12:31

Oh god it looks like a frog.

heliumballoon · 23/04/2012 12:32

DD1-thank fuck I never have to do that again.
DD2- ditto

I never learn.

Nagoo · 23/04/2012 12:32
  1. He's fucking massive.
  1. That was a piece of piss. Oh! Blonde hair!
CharlotteBronteSaurus · 23/04/2012 12:34
  1. oh thank christ you're all pink and screamy
  2. jesus she's massive.
Justfeckingdoit · 23/04/2012 12:35

Fuck she is tiny
She appears to be ginger and look nothing like me or DP (both got dark coloring)
She looks like an alien

Was in shock after an EMCS

Then that she was so so beautiful.

Looking back at photos she did indeed look like an alien :)

Sparklingbrook · 23/04/2012 12:36

I remember being glad he was a bald baby. Confused