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Surreal moments after just having a baby

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TheOddity · 04/01/2016 21:59

It can't just be me who had this please say it isn't as I already think I'm a bit nuts.

The next evening after I gave birth, I distinctly remember going to Asda to buy some medication for all my sore parts. I insisted on driving there alone while DH stayed with baby as I basically wanted to escape the baby hell hole for half an hour.

The whole Asda experience was as close as I've ever been to a 'trip'. I remember thinking how no one realised I'd given birth less than 24 hours before. Everyone was still just living their lives, being normal, coping. I felt so weird, I can't describe, it was like a psychedelic dream.

Did anyone else have this surreal feeling? Strange stuff you did immediately post birth?

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Sprink · 04/01/2016 22:24

"Baby hell hole?"

possiblefutures · 04/01/2016 22:24

Ooh this is all making me feel less abnormal. Visual and auditory hallucinations here too, plus grandiose and paranoid thoughts. Forgot about hearing crying babies everywhere until read the post above. Funnily, only had all this with the one with whom I had less sleep. Is it mostly due to sleep deprivation?

TotalConfucius · 04/01/2016 22:25

DH was in charge of buying little gifts for the older DC 'from the baby'
I came to after a little post c-section doze to be confronted by a 7 yr old boy dressed as a black and white cat, complete with tail.
I was so quick out of that bed I dislodged my catheter and there was pee all over the shop.

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Gunting · 04/01/2016 22:26

I did the exact same thing! Went to Asda to buy medication and kept thinking how 24 hours ago I'd given birth. I still had that weird feeling like my insides were droopy and I kept thinking 'I bet no one can tell I just had a baby' although looking back I looked like I'd been in a war zone.

I also kept thinking how it was the longest i had been away from my son for over 9 months and got all emosh.

Squigglypig · 04/01/2016 22:27

The whole birth and aftermath was completely surreal for me. I remember asking the nurse on the second day after I had her if I could go out and get some fresh air (it may have been second day). I think I might have left baby DD there but I assume my DH was there with her. Anyway I got outside and the air was so fresh and cold it really hit me that I felt high, I blame extreme tiredness and the Co-codamol.

Then walking her home from hospital, I noticed all the leaves had fallen off the trees. It was like I'd gone into labour in Autumn and come out with a baby in Winter. It was a four day labour though (latent stage my arse).

Blueprintorange · 04/01/2016 22:27

I remember having a shower post birth, but I wasn't really "there" IYSWIM.

I thought it was disgusting that there was so much blood and no-one had cleaned it, then I realised it was mine

ShowYourSeams · 04/01/2016 22:27

I was in quite a bad way after just delivering my twins by emcs. I was being given lots of crazy drugs, was having a massive blood transfusion and kept passing out because my oxygen levels wouldn't stabilise. On coming round from one episode, I apparently asked the anaesthetist something really in depth about a TV programme I'd never even seen before but I'd read about probably on MN the day before. DH was very confused.
A lot of other stuff happened that night over a period of about 6 hours, but I was so out of it I was convinced it had all happened in a few minutes.

53rdAndBird · 04/01/2016 22:30

Sat up feeding DD on postnatal ward, some time at night, looking out of the window watching three people dressed in white dancing outside. Half of me knew I must be hallucinating them but I could see them so, so clearly. I watched them for ages.

BirdsInMyPants · 04/01/2016 22:30

Yes sprink it's not all moon light and flowers with newborns you know.

Sometimes it's absolute screaming, colicky hell.

I can vouch for that.

Knitmyshickers10 · 04/01/2016 22:35

I remember seeing my sons face everywhere too, also I dreamed that he was making that screwed up little face babies do before they start crying and as I was waking up from the dream I realised I was making the same face too!

Girlfriend36 · 04/01/2016 22:36

The birth was completely surreal but then I was in labour for 4 days and completely out of it on gas and air once they moved me into theatre for an emcs the radio was on playing bloody Boney M!! It was exactly how i imagine it would be to be out of it on Acid or similar.

Once dd was home I often had the sense that she was next to me even if she wasn't, was quite weird....

Outaboutnowt · 04/01/2016 22:39

possible I think for me sleep deprivation played a big part. I was falling behind on sleep every night because I was desperately trying to get DS to sleep in a Moses basket. When I started co sleeping and getting longer stretches of sleep the hallucinations stopped within a few days

Also, I remember talking jibberish when in labour which seemed to make sense to me at the time. It was like I was talking to an extra person in the room.

DP said at one point I tapped the midwife on the shoulder and said "I don't like the way Barack Obama dresses his kids, either".
I have no recollection of this and can't say I've ever even noticed the way Obama dresses his kids never mind dislike it

All I can say is it was a long labour and the pethadine went straight to my head - I was as high as a kite

Whoknewitcouldbeso · 04/01/2016 22:40

I went to a spin class two days after I'd given birth. The instructor said she shouldn't really let me take part until 6 weeks post but I must have had a wild look in my eyes as she let me stay. I remember pedalling like a demon and then just going home and not going again for about 12 months. It was very odd.

Toraleistripe · 04/01/2016 22:40

Ouch!

Whoknewitcouldbeso · 04/01/2016 22:42

I was also absolutely convinced I was going to fall down the stairs whilst holding DS. It was something that consumed me as I clutched the bannister or bum shuffled. God knows why I was so terrified as I had never fallen down the stairs in that house before.

ceeveebee · 04/01/2016 22:43

I hallucinated for weeks - every single night I woke up convinced one of my twins had somehow got trapped in our bedcovers or between the bed and headboard (we never coslept). I regularly jumped out of bed screaming and switching all the lights on, waking DH and the twins up!

Pobspits · 04/01/2016 22:43

I had this when I had dc2. When I had dc1 it was christmas and everyone was off work, everything was not the norm and there were fireworks going off as we drove home - it felt apt! When dc2 came home I took Ds to nursery and went to get some shopping in Tesco and felt very confused and spacey at the fact life was continuing as normal.

Minibelle · 04/01/2016 22:43

I felt like this especially as my twins were in special care so I had to go home without them. I felt like wearing a sign saying just given birth to two babies! Felt strange that the world was carrying on as normal.

ThomasRichard · 04/01/2016 22:44

Another one who kept hearing babies crying when they got home. I'd forgotten about that but it was weird.

When DS was delivered he was passed straight to a paediatrician for a check-over. I remember seeing him, looking back at the registrar wondering where the baby was and then being hit with the sudden realisation that that tiny doll was my baby and another bouncier one wouldn't suddenly appear :o

The first time I went shopping without DS I got myself in a right state, wandering around the aisles going back and forth for bits I had forgotten. I ended up abandoning my basket and going home in tears, empty-handed. The staff member who had to put everything back must have been annoyed but luckily there wasn't anything chilled.

Pobspits · 04/01/2016 22:45

Oh and I asked the doctor when I was in labour if he realised how like Rodney Trotter he looked. He laughed it off but I insisted it was true because it was and told him to ring his wife and ask her?!?

Gazelda · 04/01/2016 22:46

A SPIN CLASS???!!!! [SHOCK]

StrictlyMumDancing · 04/01/2016 22:48

total I nearly wet myself at that

Eddie Izzard came into my room and I remember saying to DH he wasn't as funny in real life. Probably because he was a consultant who was telling us ds had jaundice. I blame the morphine post cs

Imnotaslimjim · 04/01/2016 22:48

Mine wasn't post birth, it was during the actual delivery. I can remember MW breaking my waters, and DS was suddenly there, on my chest. The actual moment of his delivery (2nd stage is listed as 2 seconds) has been completely erased from my memory. Apparently I didn't push, he came with the waters. Poor MW was caught completely unawares as she was on her own. Apparently they expected me to go for another couple of hours!

StrictlyMumDancing · 04/01/2016 22:48

total I nearly wet myself at that

Eddie Izzard came into my room and I remember saying to DH he wasn't as funny in real life. Probably because he was a consultant who was telling us ds had jaundice. I blame the morphine post cs

TheFormidableMrsC · 04/01/2016 22:48

With my firstborn, 17 years ago, I tried to get all the staff to sing happy birthday to the poor doctor who was stitching me up. I sang loudly and waved my hands around encouraging everybody to join in. I recall thinking that I didn't actually know if it was his birthday it wasn't but that it seemed absolutely the right thing to do at the time .

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