The moment of birth

*hugs* Mrs B, I so know that feeling. DS was blue and not breathing after my emergency CS as well and I was freaking out, they didnt even show him to me, just took him right away and gave him oxygen.
He was stuck as well, they had to go internally and push him up while the surgen pulled him out and they caused a tear on my cervix which made me piss of with blood, so I had to have a blood transfusion!
Then my bowels went funny and I couldnt pass wind, they had xrays, that was scary! They made me walk round as much as I could and drink hot water and thankfully they went back to normal and I could pass wind.

My second CS was elective and was so so so much better, so Im sure your next will be much better too if you have a CS that is) I was really scared when i got pregnant again so soon, but it all went totally fine(apart from DD getting stuck and having to born via forceps even though it was a CS) but other than that it was fine.

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Lol Tali, thats quite funny

In the relief of it being over, I forgot what I was there for but when I heard my son cry for the very first time, it took my breath away and I realised I'd just had a baby, our baby.

when jacob was born he cried straight away, and i saw him wraped up in a towl cos i had a c-section and hubby was holding him.

with isabella i didnt see her till she was a few hours old as she was born by general asthistic another emerncy c-section which is kinda good cos she wasnt breathing when born and if id seen that i would of freaked,i saw her down in NNU, when she had the cpap thing on, i remeber her trying to eat it haha it kept falling outta her nose and she kept trying to suck it lol i remeber her being really small like a doll (she was 3lb 1oz) jacob was small too but my 1st reaction was wow hes a big baby! he was 5lb 1oz at 35w5d. isabella was a 31weeker.

My first feeling was relief that the pain was over - then they held him up, and I was so glad that they'd told us in the antenatal classes that they were born blue/white, because I'm sure I'd have paniced otherwise. Then he started crying, and they popped him on my chest, and I was just blown away, the amount of love I felt for the wee wet little thing was amazing.

Oh, and I remember them saying 'oh, he's a big boy' when they held him up - of course, I immediately wanted to know just how much he weighed!

DD was born with an emergency c section, after she was pulled out (gross weird feeling) I heard her gurgle (couldnt see her, but DH was watching it all!) and Im sure I kept asking if she was ok. She was quiet for a bit before gurgling again, I caught a glimpse of her as they moved her to clean her up and she was purple, she was quiet again and kept asking if she was ok. Apparently breathing took 3 mins to establish but apgars were 8 and 10. Anyway DH got to go and look at her while they cleaned her up and weighed her etc, he took her out to meet her grandma and aunty who had stalked the corridor at midnight waiting to know we were ok, before I finally got to hold her. When they finally tried to put her on my chest,( but she was so big (4.570kgs) she was half hanging off), I felt like I was about to vomit all over her so got DH to take her off!
Not the best first feeling, it was horrible meeting her for the first time and trying to vomit at the same time, next time will be different

Wonderful wonderful thread!

I'd been in hospital three days waiting for my induction, it hadnt gone particularly well and I'd stalled at 7cms so had an epi in the hope I'd relax enough to dialate more but instead I got pre-eclampsia and when OB checked again I was back at 6cms, with that and being 17 days over due with meconium minus waters we were off for our emergency c-section!

I was bit panicky, I was sure I could feel the scapel DH was saying no way I could and I was getting upset but the anethitist (sp!) was wonderful and put me at ease and the surgeon was Australian (I am in the UK) so we had a mini bond. I remember them saying if I wanted to see what was happening without actually looking I could see the reflection in the big light above me, I looked for a second but just saw a mess of stuff so looked away quickly.

DS cried immediately, which was an amazing relief, all I could think for ages was "thank god he's here, is he okay, thank god he is okay". They held him up for me to see and I said 'hey there beautiful boy' and started crying and they took him away for his checks. DH was with him the whole time, DS was absolutely fine, DH did his nappy and dressed him and they brought him over to say hello all trussed up (first photo)... ETA actually no thats not right, they did his checks and cleaned him up and then I had a hold and kiss and little coo and then DH took him for his nappy and to put clothes on. I wish now that I'd remembered about skin to skin but no one mentioned it and DH and I had completely forgotten about it in all the fuss.

I remember thinking he had such a squished nose, a really flat nose which isnt like either side of our family. They put DS up by my face so I could see him but then I started throwing up so DH took him for a little while until the anti nausea drugs kicked in.

Oh and I remember laughing at his poor wee wrinkly hands, he had old mans hands and his wee testicles were soooo shrivelled!!! He was very overcooked, peeled from head to toe in his first week LOL

Then we went into recovery and had some lovely quiet cuddles and booby time.







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