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.
they are really serious about no ceserean? Typically over here if you are over due and your water has been broken for at least 24 hours they do it, because the baby and mother are more prone to infections. Tell her I love her and to hang in there :)
ReplyDeleteWe're hoping to avoid a caesarian, since the recovery time is so much longer than with a vaginal birth, and the doctors prefer it if possible, too.
ReplyDeleteApparently it's rather different here to the US in that respect . . .
This is Simon, by the way - if I asked Sandra to write a comment right now I'd probably have my head ripped off. Or she'd say yes, but fall asleep after typing a couple or words . . .
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