something you didn't know? or were pleasantly or otherwise shocked about?
2006-12-04 06:34:05 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
The biggest surprise was that I didn't immediately feel "love" for my daughter. It was like meeting a stranger for the first time. I thought love for your child was a "given". Turns out it was like a seed that was planted on that first day. It has grown, in many ways, ever since.
2006-12-04 06:43:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
How quickly you forget about the pain. I had my son without an epidural (totally the way to go, in my opinion).
Also, the books say you'll leave the hospital looking six months pregnant. Kind of, except when you were six months pregnant you were excited to show, and probably wore cute shirts that accentuated your belly. When you leave the hospital that belly looks like a deflated balloon and the last thing you want to do it accentuate it OR ever see your maternity clothes again!
Do yourself a huge favor and buy some nice sweats a size larger to wear home. Also some good hipster-style underwear, cause you'll be wearing big pads for a long time.
I was truly surprised at how normal my parts looked after birth. I expected a lot more trauma.
2006-12-04 14:44:01 · answer #2 · answered by eli_star 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had a planned c-section because my daughter was breech. I never knew that you got really bad gas from having a c-section. The gas pains were just as bad, if not worse than the pain from the incision.
I was also overwhelmed with how fast the whole surgery went. From the time I was taken into the operating room to the time I went into the recovery room was only about 30-35 minutes.
Also, I'm a pretty modest person and I was surprised at how you just don't care about who sees what part of you naked.
2006-12-04 15:09:45 · answer #3 · answered by Julie F 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone who has witnessed it firsthand(i did 7 months ago, from about 18 inches away, when my daughter was born)and says it is beautiful is LYING. Miraculous, yes. Amazing, definitely. But not beautiful. The most surprising thing was the amount of bodily fluids that are everywhere. There was stuff on the walls, ceiling, etc... just kidding. there are alot of funky colored fluids that i had never seen before. And any modesty goes out the window in the delivery room.
2006-12-04 14:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That since I had severe pre-eclampsia, I became an instant case for the students at the hospital. In the middle of contractions, doctors and students kept coming in to check out every inch of me. If a nurse wasn't checking on my progress, someone was hitting my elbow to show how brisk my reflexes were. Any bit of modesty I had soon disappeared. And no one told me how disgusting the first bath/shower was going to be. I was on meds for 24 hours after the birth and so it was that long until I could shower. Just to warn you...it's more disgusting than anything I've ever seen...sorry but it's the truth.
2006-12-04 14:47:02 · answer #5 · answered by kaylasmom 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was shocked at how badly it could hurt. I had never had a baby before and didnt have anything to compare it with. One thing is that you'll NEVER ever forget that day your baby is born! You'll remember details about it. It's AMAZING too! The first time you hold your baby. It's special each time, but the very first time you experience it, it's like...wow!!... It's a real living baby that just came out of you. That little and precious face... I don't know if you're pregnant but I suggest taking pictures and or film the birth. We did.
2006-12-04 14:38:50 · answer #6 · answered by Just me. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Childbirth, CRAZY... My fist I was just taking a picture and sat down in the bed and my water broke, I thought i would be fine but right after the water broke, a encrusting pain started for 3 hours, but then its amazing when you see that life coming out of you, I wasn't expecting that. My SECOND, it was terrible, I was in labor for 26 hours, what a freaking difference, I didn't expect that, then It got stuck and they had to to emergency C-section, they use gas, when i woke up I didn't Even know who I was, I was like that for 3 hours, then the gas worn off and i saw the baby, but it was not the same because everyone had touch him and carried before me, I was kinda upset because I did not go t to see him first. But they you see their little faces and you whole perspective of life changes in a second.
2006-12-04 14:48:01 · answer #7 · answered by u_better_remember_me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had three and the first one I din't relize how every push you do baby slides down then slides a little back up when you are finished pushing, it took a long time lol, the second one I learned that docotrs don't know every thing because they almost killed me and made me feel like the stupid one and the third one the even though I had two other children I was terrified of pushing.
2006-12-04 14:39:07 · answer #8 · answered by Jody 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay this is gross but I had to share - when you're pushing the baby out - some women have a bowel movement. The Dr.'s and nurses have seen it hundreds of times before and just wipe it away and continue with the pushing process but for some reason it never occurred to me that this would happen and I was worried that it would happen to me. Turns out when you're actually in the process of pushing you don't really care what else is going on you're too focussed on having teh baby. But THAT was surprising to me.
2006-12-04 14:38:12 · answer #9 · answered by SaraBMW 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That I would not be able to eat, I wish I would have grabbed some lunch first.
I ate a ten in the morning and I didn't deliver until 12:10 at night, I was starving.
2006-12-04 14:40:27 · answer #10 · answered by The Invisible Woman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did not really understand baby blues. I cried so much after I had my first baby and it didn't help that my son was born at 11pm 9/10/2001, the day before 9/11. I think I cried for 3 weeks after he was born.
2006-12-04 14:46:15 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋