A Small Warning

While Simon and I are doing this to keep our friends/family/acquaintences in the know and so that we can remember the experience - we know that a great many people forget the insane emotions that go through them at a time like this. They remember joy, nervousness and excitement but tend to forget things like annoyance, anger and exhaustion. This is also a little bit of an experiment for us as well as (hopefully) a bit of reality for someone else out there who wants a bit of a real play-by-play of the emotional rollercoaster of childbirth and parenting. ...granted, I know that my experience is only one...but hey...still worth trying.

That said, not all of this blog is going to be happy and shiny. There will be some real, raw emotions here and we're going to express them pretty openly. We hope that this doesn't make anyone feel as if we're in any way unhappy about the birth of our son or that we're somehow not excited or don't love him. For us, this is the reality of things that people don't really talk about or express. I think that is extremely important to remember.

We may use foul language. ...you're warned.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Tuesday 10:27 pm


Sandra just got drugged. She seems to be enjoying it . . .

She just got her first actual exam, and it showed that she's making some progress, but not much - her cervix isn't yet  fully effaced, but it's getting there. The fact that she's been at it for 16 hours now is a little problematic, though.

Because she's still got a way to go before she's in full labour they've given her some morphine and an anti-nausea drug, to make her sleep and not have a problem with pain (unless she does progress to full labour).

I'm staying here overnight (though I'll have to go home some time tomorrow to feed the animals), but for now I can be the dedicated husband ;-)

By the way, to any midwives reading this, please please PLEASE tell your patients what's going on. We had been waiting all day to know what was happening, and we only just got some information from the midwife who did the exam now. If someone had said hours ago that they had experience with how effective the TENS machine was, so they weren't just ignoring  us because Sandra was coping with the pain well due to the TENS, we'd have had rather more realistic expectations. Well, I would have - dunno about my drugged-up love.

Anyway, things are on hold now for the night - more to come in the morning.
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