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Pretty positive; yes, it hurt like hell but it's supposed to
I didn't have any complications, though.
I didn't have any complications, though.
I pushed for upwards of two hours and eventually delivered with vaccum assistance and a resident literally pushing my baby of me by putting pressure on my stomach and sliding her down. I had a 4th degree episiotomy and the midwife tried to tell me I only needed ibuprofin as pain medication. It sucked.
I pushed for upwards of two hours and eventually delivered with vaccum assistance and a resident literally pushing my baby of me by putting pressure on my stomach and sliding her down. I had a 4th degree episiotomy and the midwife tried to tell me I only needed ibuprofin as pain medication. It sucked.
This. I had the same thing, I called it a "steamroller motion" because that's what it felt like. My perineum is still tender to the touch and the post-partum recovery was the worst. Thank GOD for side-lying breastfeeding. I couldn't bear to be seated for weeks.
I have mixed feelings with my labor, but one thing that stands out is how alone I was through it all. I'm grateful for how straight forward and generally easy it was, but I'm sad my OH wasn't always by my side to hold my hand. They kept kicking him out for every little procedure then forgetting to let him come back in that in total he was probably with me two hours (one at the beginning and one at the end).
Even when it was time to push, the midwife told me to go ahead and start pushing and she'd check on me later, so there I was with my knees to my chest pushing by myself. I think the experience was so vastly different from what I had envisioned that when LO was born, I was in such a state of shock. I didn't even cry. I just looked at her and said "Cool" and pulled a goofy smile. It didn't even sink in she was my child until they brought her to me an hour later to breastfeed.
If I could change anything, it would have been my reaction when I first saw her.
I pushed for upwards of two hours and eventually delivered with vaccum assistance and a resident literally pushing my baby of me by putting pressure on my stomach and sliding her down. I had a 4th degree episiotomy and the midwife tried to tell me I only needed ibuprofin as pain medication. It sucked.
This. I had the same thing, I called it a "steamroller motion" because that's what it felt like. My perineum is still tender to the touch and the post-partum recovery was the worst. Thank GOD for side-lying breastfeeding. I couldn't bear to be seated for weeks.
I have mixed feelings with my labor, but one thing that stands out is how alone I was through it all. I'm grateful for how straight forward and generally easy it was, but I'm sad my OH wasn't always by my side to hold my hand. They kept kicking him out for every little procedure then forgetting to let him come back in that in total he was probably with me two hours (one at the beginning and one at the end).
Even when it was time to push, the midwife told me to go ahead and start pushing and she'd check on me later, so there I was with my knees to my chest pushing by myself. I think the experience was so vastly different from what I had envisioned that when LO was born, I was in such a state of shock. I didn't even cry. I just looked at her and said "Cool" and pulled a goofy smile. It didn't even sink in she was my child until they brought her to me an hour later to breastfeed.
If I could change anything, it would have been my reaction when I first saw her.
Sadly, me too. After 3 hours of pushing, her going into distress and coming out silent, I was too exhausted to "care" the way I wanted to. It caused me immense guilt for months. I didn't bond immediately like I thought I would and she didn't feel like "mine" for weeks
I pushed for upwards of two hours and eventually delivered with vaccum assistance and a resident literally pushing my baby of me by putting pressure on my stomach and sliding her down. I had a 4th degree episiotomy and the midwife tried to tell me I only needed ibuprofin as pain medication. It sucked.
This. I had the same thing, I called it a "steamroller motion" because that's what it felt like. My perineum is still tender to the touch and the post-partum recovery was the worst. Thank GOD for side-lying breastfeeding. I couldn't bear to be seated for weeks.
I have mixed feelings with my labor, but one thing that stands out is how alone I was through it all. I'm grateful for how straight forward and generally easy it was, but I'm sad my OH wasn't always by my side to hold my hand. They kept kicking him out for every little procedure then forgetting to let him come back in that in total he was probably with me two hours (one at the beginning and one at the end).
Even when it was time to push, the midwife told me to go ahead and start pushing and she'd check on me later, so there I was with my knees to my chest pushing by myself. I think the experience was so vastly different from what I had envisioned that when LO was born, I was in such a state of shock. I didn't even cry. I just looked at her and said "Cool" and pulled a goofy smile. It didn't even sink in she was my child until they brought her to me an hour later to breastfeed.
If I could change anything, it would have been my reaction when I first saw her.
My labor and birth was awesome. I was in cloud nine for 3 weeks! I'm still smiley and sentimental when I think about it or see pictures. I had a wonderful calm textbook homebirth with zero intervention. (Not even a pelvic exam).
I plan to do it again if I can convince hubby to do a homebirth again.
I loved my labour and would have 5 kids if I could just do the labour part no pregnancy part! I think we are all thrown different things in life to cope with - perhaps this was my Luckey break? Regardless it was beautiful and I would do it again in a heartbeat - and we plan to very soon.