Birth Story

[bertine]

So, first some background. The week before Ross was born was pretty stressful. We had to put our cat Emerson down (his kidneys were shutting down) and that made everyone really sad. Also, gwangi had a really bad cold. Through the week, I missed two days of work because I had a cold/sinus infection and Zach missed 1.5 because of his cold/cough/whatever.

Comments

[eyelid]

*hugs* Zach is totally right, who cares how it comes out. Though I totally get where you were coming from, I felt much the same about Isaac's birth.

RE: the complications: !! it's so strange to think that you were actually in so much danger. It must have been much weirder to live it.

[bertine]

Yeah, in the moment I was really upset about not getting a VBAC but now I am okay with that part of it. I think it is just that I was so sure it would work.

The complications: I KNOW, I remember thinking "this isn't good but there is no point to panicking" while they put me under but it took me days to process the risk I was under (even though I know it all turned out okay).

[heathrow]

Xoxo. How stressful of a delivery/recovery!

Much love to you and the rest of the family.

[melissa_maples]

Holy cow, what a saga. I'm so glad all of you are okay. <3

[sharya]

I had a similar thing happen with Alex's birth, in that I had trouble processing what had happened. Essentially, she was such an emergency that they put me under with a general anesthetic, and took her out by section. When I awoke, I was alone, paralyzed, and no longer pregnant. It took me months to grieve the fact that I was not present at her birth, as strange as that sounds.

I'm so sorry you had such an unfortunate experience, but so happy you have a wonderful healthy baby as a result.

♥

[pallid_regina]

That sounds uber-stressful. I'm really happy everyone is OK now.