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, September 7, 2010

Post-labour note on nitrous oxide during birth.

They will tell you to only inhale as you feel a contraction coming on and to stop once the contraction's peak passes.

You MAY be one of the people who gets crazy nauseous if you suck on it too hard. If you're not....consider doing it anyway. >.> They'll tell you not to....but I say...if you're going to be high once in your life, what better time than when you're in labour?

I was still feeling contractions and pain but I totally didn't care. Whenever the nurse left the room, I'd stop being a good girl and start breathing the nitrous as if it were air. It was awesome. Everything was floaty and funny and I didn't care about much of anything.

Nitrous oxide was amazing.

Morphine paled by comparison.

...of course...nothing beat the epidural.
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