Post by userdeleted on May 5, 2015 11:28:46 GMT -5
These are so sweet. I sincerely wish I could remember, but I can't. I know I eventually said hello and told him he was so loved when I was in recovery, but don't remember the first things I said when I saw him the first time in the OR.
One thing I also remember is everyone left including my mom and husband to follow lo to the Nicu and it was just me and the midwife. I was still raised high on the bed completely numb from the epi and she turned walked behind the curtain to get something. I looked over and there was my placenta. Just chillin next to me on a table. I did not like that.
Oh wow. That would be a weird thing. To be all alone and worried, too.
My husband accidentally got a look at my innards when he was walking back from meeting our son at the weighing/testing area. That creeped him out a bit, too.
I just came back and saw this thread! Excellent idea. I cried reading all your stories, and subsequently remembering my own.
I had a failed induction resulting in a rather sudden c-sec. They had me fasted down Jesus Christ fashion on the table (small hospital does odd things) so I wasn't able to hold Mina when she arrived. Soon as they pulled her free, they brought her around for me and my husband to get our first look at her, and to inform us on the moment we first saw her that she was a girl. I was so drugged up that I didn't even cry, but I remember saying "I told you it was a girl!" (My intuition was right!)
Then they took her away, and my husband went with her, and I saw her when they carted me to our room. I was crying then because I hadn't seen her fir over an hour, and I basically cried at her for an hour. lol So my first words were either drugged nonsense or sniveling nonsense.
My experience was similar with the failed induction and rapid c-sec. I wasn't strapped down, but my arms were out to the side and under the sterile drape. So I didn't get to touch him until recovery, either. Not the experience I was hoping for, but he came out healthy and screaming, so I can't complain.
I've been trying to think of what I said to LO when he was born since this was posted, but I have no clue. I saw him in the OR for about 2 seconds. They just lifted him over the curtain and then took him over to be cleaned up. userdeleted reminded me that my SO also saw my innards when he was coming back from seeing LO. He was kind of grossed out. When I finally saw him in recovery I don't know what I said. Things were crazy. Trying get him to latch on while also trying to get my clotting under control... It was a fluster cluck.
My midwife was thinking at least 8.5 lbs. I felt and looked big. Nope. She was small for me, 7 lbs., 4 oz and 20", though at 38w4d. She'd have been 8+ if born closer to her EDD. My other term/full term babies were between 8.5-9 lbs and 21-22".
I can't remember what I said, but I remember being so scared. LO was not breathing when he came out and very gray in color. His cord had been wrapped around his neck. But they laid him on my chest and started rubbing his chest and when he finally started crying so did I. They let me hold him for an hour before they took measurements or anything. It was the best day of my life.
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