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 - 3:45 pm

I was all set to post a rant about people's views on the pain a woman in labour should experience, but I deleted it because Sandra decided to go back to using the TENS machine . . . She's having a hot shower now to see if that helps much, and then we're going to set up the TENS.

We're also being moved up to the delivery ward again, thankfully. Thankfully, because the contractions suddenly started coming much closer together - two minutes, and lasting a minute to a minute thirty. Definitely a good time to go back to doing something about the pain . . .

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