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

Wednesday 3:41 pm


Well, Sandra's been back on nitrous for a few hours, since it's been far more effective than the morphine. Unfortunately she hasn't made any progress, so what they're talking about is giving her an epidural and upping the syntosin a whole lot more to try and get things moving . . .

The epidural is so that they can raise the syntosin to levels that would be unbearably painful otherwise. Not sure how I feel about that . . .

It doesn't help that Sandra is falling asleep between contractions, so she wakes up to them rather than being able to prepare - the nitrous takes a bit to kick in, so she really needs to start breathing it five or ten seconds before the contraction starts for it to be most effective. As it is it makes things bearable, but it would probably be more effective if she was awake to manage it better.
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