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.

Monday, August 23, 2010

Tuesday - 12:18pm

...has it really been nearly 6 hours already? Really?!

Part of me feels like this means that things are going to go very slowly, but I know that labour can change gears pretty quickly. Still struggling for that nap that I'm pretty sure I'm never going to manage. People won't leave me alone long enough to let me sleep - but at least the oxycodone seems to be wearing off so I'm coming out of the fog.

Oh! Oh! Ready for the funny part? They moved me here because on the scales at the other hospital, my BMI was too high for that hospital. When they weighed me here, I weighed 4kg (nearly 10lbs) less than before. I'm sure that some of it is fluid but I'm sure that a large portion is just different scales.

Going to try and nap again. Will probably fail again.
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