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^lol.
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don't be scared Curious lady. When you hold that little tiny bundle of joy you forget everything for a little while.. ofcourse it takes time to heal but their is no better happiness and joy :)
My daughter is now 9 months and i still cant forget my labour. Dont want to scare anyone but i also dont want to mislead anyone in thinking its easy, cos it defo wasnt.
My labour was 19 hours long. and 19 hours of very strong contractions. they started off really strong and just got worse and worse. baby was lying against my back so the back pain was unbearable, as my husband had to bear the brunt of my screaming, to press my back at each contration. I just wished someone told me that it wud be that bad cos throughout my pregnancy i was totally unawae of wot was coming. if i knew atleast i wud be mentally prepared.
just read up on what to expect and also what you can learn, in terms of breathing techniques, as they do help, and try gentle exercise thr pregnancy aswell as it also helps
good luck
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^ Thanks for sharing Sahar! And yes I hear from everyone that c-sections and worse in terms of recovery. I had a laparoscopic operation and could not believe the pain afterwards. And those were only small insicions they made :-/
I'm happy you had family around you to take care of you, makes it so much easier :-)
Ps- try to update your blog more often!! I'd love to read about Enaya :)
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Thats a nice story Sahar....I never really thought of how anxious a C-section mommy would be until now.
Congratulations !!
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I think I just never really understood what it was like! MashAllah everything went PERFECTLY -- no complications at all. And even my scar is not obvious. But at least for me, I think mentally I just wasn't prepared. But maybe we never really are. :D
Shinz, I'll try. Usually I'm on GS while feeding her. Only one hand free. Makes typing out long posts difficult. That post above took me A LONG time. :D
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Lovely story Sahar. Make sure you keep a copy of it for your daughter to read when she's older.
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a question to all of you..is this pain is with first bab only? what about 2nd pregnancy? same pain?or no pain?
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There's pain ith each delivery, but it may not be the same degree.
a question to all of you..is this pain is with first bab only? what about 2nd pregnancy? same pain?or no pain?
I did not experience any pain in my delivery. I had a c section. I was given general anaesthesia. In operation theatre while I was just telling the nurse to go easy with oxygen mask I was knocked out completely. Last thing I saw was the operation theatre lights. When i woke up I couldn't open my eyes , had no control on my head couldn't lift it and was being told that I had a baby girl. Nurses was telling me how cute she is and that they didn't have to make her cry. She was immediately rushed to NICU. I saw my daughter the next day and was able to hold her after a week.
Just to see my daughter I used to walk up and down 1 floor every day and had to walk quite a bit to reach from my room to NICU and NICU To my room. It made my recovery faster because within 24 hours I was up and walking. Next week I even went to my office to do some documentation.
My delivery has been one of the smoothest , no pain at all and even after the c section i didn't experience pain in my stitches Thank God.
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^ im so scare :(
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Sahar - after reading your post i almost had tears! wow! you write so beautifully as well. thanks for sharing your experience! and congrats!
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it’s exact 4 weeks until my due date and I dont know if I should have visited this thread.. scary !
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proto - I wish you a smooth delivery 
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sahar, your story made me want a baby even more! not the c-section bit lol but the "i still can't believe she's mine" bit. awww :) i can't wait for that feeling.
The nurses took hubby and me in to prep me. I changed into the hospital robe and got attached to all the monitors and got my IV. I could hear the baby's heartbeat regularly. I started having contractions more frequently, probably due to nerves. At some point they let Ammi come in while hubby went out for a little while.
Hubby would be with me during the surgery, but he wasn't allowed in until after I got the anesthesia. I was having a spinal and was terrified about getting a shot in the spine without anyone else there.
I don't know what I expected it to be like, but it definitely wasn't anything I had imagined! Despite the fact that I knew I was having a c-section, I expected to still be in a delivery room and to have that sort of atmosphere. No -- I was in an operating room with really bright lights and doctors hustling and bustling and prepping stuff everywhere. I was already really on edge and nervous. This wasn't helping.
Then they told me to get on a thin board that I guess was the operating table, with two things that stuck out for me to rest my arms on. I sat up for a while. The anesthesiologist was prepping stuff behind me -- I knew what he was up to! The assisting doctor introduced himself and started talking to me. I knew he was trying to distract me. There were other doctors and nurses doing stuff, prepping instruments, moving stuff around, etc. One heard where I teach and exclaimed that her fiance had gone to that school -- all I could think was, "I can't get away!" hehe.
Anyway, eventually they told me to bend forward so I could get the spinal injection. It hurt initally, tho it wasn't terrible. I did have sit like that for a while as they put the anesthesia in. Then I started to feel the numbing sensation. They told me to lie back and have my arms stretched out. They hung a blue thing over me. It was supposed to be a curtain divider to keep me from seeing anything, but it was practically lying on me. I think I was beginning to panic and then the anesthesiologist gave me oxygen -- that worked me up even more and I asked him if I could take it out. I think it was just too many sensations. But he turned it down and I tried to keep myself calm.
My OBGYN came in and started prepping. I started feeling pressure at my abdomen. I wasn't actually sure when they started the surgery, but sometime soon after, my husband was hustled in in all the madness.
I was really out of it by then. Just trying to keep myself from having a panic attack and stay calm. In under 10 minutes, someone cried out "It's a girl" and I heard the baby cry out. I think I said, "Really?" And that was about it. They took her to get cleaned off and weighed and tested. MashAllah she was a great weight for her age. She scored amazingly well on her APGAR tests and did not need to be sent to the NICU. They called hubby over to take her and he brought her over. He told me she was beautiful. I tried to turn and see her as best as I could. I remember thinking, "Oh look a cute baby," but it didn't really hit me that this was mine -- it really still hasn't hit me.
OMG, your story felt like I was reliving what I went through...
Only I was put under general anesthesia and was completely terrified in the operating room. Hubby couldn't be there with me, and I had the bad luck of a VERY coldhearted nurse/doctor whatever she was. I was being prepped it felt heartless....like she was literally treating me as if I was an animal or something, not sure how to describe. Due to previous pregnancy my skin/belly was very loose and baby was not "stable" so they pushed my pregnant belly as far back as possible and taped me up to hold it so they can easily operate. Now mind you I was supposed to be a planned c-section on 09/14 but started having intense contractions(3-5 mins apart) on 09/10.
I was crying at this point because it hurt so bad!!! And as the anesthesiologist gave me the oxygen mask (it was the anesthesia)...i remember being scaredd & anxious as I fell asleep. Well the pain, people who went through c-sections know the pain you go through. I really should write down my story here and then send it to myself, so I have it for memory...hmm
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Afro -- I can't believe they'd let a nurse like that in to the maternity ward! ARGH! I was very lucky to have great care in our maternity ward. The nurses were great (tho each had different instructions for nursing. thankfully, most of them were not pushy about doing it their way -- tho one was and she was telling me wrong!). They also were totally fine people visiting at 3pm or 3am. It was up to me. They had a number of waiting areas too, for friends and family who were there for hours, equipped with tv and computers.
SGC -- :D
best wishes, prototype! you'll be great!
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Sahar, it was just that 1 particular lady...and she was harsh at the wrong time. I wanted to strangle her. I understand you have to do a procedure but if I am crying from pain, she could have tried to be just a little gentle! The other nurses weren't so bad, just her and my luck the evil one that was around when I started waking up from anesthesia
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One of these days I have to write down my story here...just so that I dont forget it...:)
It wasn't easy,but so so worth it..>Mashallah...:)
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Proto, i maybe wrong, but you do have a son already, no?
or was it someone else?