I am truly going to be SNARKY, so stand back
Have you ever watched those baby shows on the TLC channel. Mostly of women being pregnant for the first time and giving birth for the first time. Now, I am sure I wasn't much different the first time, so I can objectively say ... " Oh, for God's sake, get over it! "
They worry about the pain of delivery. Giggle. Then they have some early labor pains, before they get to the hospital, and you would think they were dieing. SO, they get to the hospital and they get there Epidural and spend the next 8 hours watching tv and visiting.. no pain. By the time the Midwife comes in to tell them they are need to start pushing, they are so tired.. Tired of what??? The pushing begins and they are worn out from that.. but there is no pain. Then they are all proud... they did it... it was so rough.. oh for crying out loud. You didn't do shit. You sat sublimely though it all and then shit out a baby. Big fucking deal.
Then, I love it.. they get home. They have Grandma there to help.. which is wonderfull!!!! But, they spend the show complaining about how tired they are and how they couldn't sleep because Jr. kept crying and it takes them 20 minutes to change a diaper and blah blah blah... Oh my GOD, if the first night is hard..... add a million more WITHOUT any help. Whimps.
The shows crack me up. Now, granted, I have had two. The first one hurt like hell and I had pain killers. The second one... shit... I got to 6 cm and told the nurse we were getting no where in a hurry, because I wasn't in enough pain. I KNEW that I had to endure intense PAIN if I wanted the baby and I WANTED THE PAIN. I looked forward to it. I embraced it. Yes, I had pain killers, but not untill the last couple of cm.
Anyway. The shows crack me up, because those women don't have a clue and neither did I the first time around and what a fool I must have looked like.
Off my box now.
They worry about the pain of delivery. Giggle. Then they have some early labor pains, before they get to the hospital, and you would think they were dieing. SO, they get to the hospital and they get there Epidural and spend the next 8 hours watching tv and visiting.. no pain. By the time the Midwife comes in to tell them they are need to start pushing, they are so tired.. Tired of what??? The pushing begins and they are worn out from that.. but there is no pain. Then they are all proud... they did it... it was so rough.. oh for crying out loud. You didn't do shit. You sat sublimely though it all and then shit out a baby. Big fucking deal.
Then, I love it.. they get home. They have Grandma there to help.. which is wonderfull!!!! But, they spend the show complaining about how tired they are and how they couldn't sleep because Jr. kept crying and it takes them 20 minutes to change a diaper and blah blah blah... Oh my GOD, if the first night is hard..... add a million more WITHOUT any help. Whimps.
The shows crack me up. Now, granted, I have had two. The first one hurt like hell and I had pain killers. The second one... shit... I got to 6 cm and told the nurse we were getting no where in a hurry, because I wasn't in enough pain. I KNEW that I had to endure intense PAIN if I wanted the baby and I WANTED THE PAIN. I looked forward to it. I embraced it. Yes, I had pain killers, but not untill the last couple of cm.
Anyway. The shows crack me up, because those women don't have a clue and neither did I the first time around and what a fool I must have looked like.
Off my box now.
posted by Magpie at 5:22 PM
1 Comments:
LOL I agree completely!! I was so doped up from pain med & epidural when I had K I barely remember having her. No pain, but I had a hard time feeling any attachment to her when she was born. It just didn't seem real. Now with E, they gave me my epidural too late and it didn't work. I felt every bit of that birth!! But to me it was a much better experience. There are worse things than pain.
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