Giving Birth Again
I was walking home from seeing a friend today when I was suddenly struck by the realisation that I am going to have to give birth again. This is pretty obvious, but I've not really been thinking about it much.Now by all accounts, my experience of labour and giving birth to Freyja was very good indeed. I had my first contraction at 8am, went to hospital at around 3pm and she arrived at 9pm. I had only gas & air for pain relief, didn't need any stitches, she started feeding immediately and we went home the next day. I didn't have a lengthy 36 hour labour, an episiotomy, forceps, ventouse or an emergency caesarian.
But the thing is, I still had to get the baby out and it still hurt like hell. And I'm going to have to do it again...
posted by solveig @ 3:40 PM
3 Comments:
have you thought of a home birth?
when I was pregnant with Jacob, my reaction to that question was "are you mad? I'm staying near where they keep the pain relief drugs".
but having experienced it, I didn't feel that a home birth would be such a dangerous thing to do after all. not that I'd ever get the option, with my pregnancy problems, but theoretically, I liked the idea.
Don't they say that the second child comes out much faster? :)
Yannick's birth was very similar to Freyja's, I actually didn't find the experience as bad as people tend to describe it, not much worse than very bad period pains. However, the first week afterwards was just horrible - and I wasn't prepared for that at all! With a second child at least you have some idea what to expect, and I always believe that helps! But I compeletely understand how you are feeling!
Rowan - My midwife is encouraging me to but to be honest it doesn't appeal to me. I'd rather be in hospital in case something goes wrong - which I know is very unlikely but I'm not one of those people who doesn't like hospitals and I am one of those people who worries about everything! I also wouldn't want Freyja to be around when I was giving birth (from memory, it was a very noisy experience!) and it would mean her going elsewhere rather than me.
Sylke - I wasn't too worried about Freyja's birth, I was looking forward to it in a strange way. And I am looking forward to this one but I just know that once the contractions get going I'll be asking myself why on earth I decided to have another child!!
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