Mum to be here again.
A comment from our mate the lovely L__ got me to thinking about just how much we have learnt during the pregnancy, how little we knew to start with and how much is still unknown!!
There is just so much that we have learned during the ante-natal classes and through reading that we never knew before. Below is just a selection...
A LOT of women poop during delivery
It can take up to 2 hours to deliver the placenta after the baby has come
Babies turn around when half way out so that the head comes out and then they kind of spin round a bit so that their shoulders come out
There can be up to about 12 people present during a c-section
The waters sometimes don't break until the baby is out so the baby can be born in a bubble
When I think back to how naive we both where when we started this journey I realise that we have come a long, long way.
Even though the midwives have told us everything to look out for I am still a bit worried about knowing when I have gone into labour. I am sure that looking back on this in a few weeks time I will probably be laughing at this. I just remember that my sister got pretty far along just thinking she had back ache!!! I've also heard of lots of people who weren't sure whether their waters had broken or whether they had wet themselves.
I find now that although the weeks have flown by and the baby is now due 2 weeks on Sunday it actually still feels very abstract. I kind of can't believe that I could be a Mum in 2 weeks or less. Whenever I feel a twinge of something I think it must just be a little pain and never think it could be labour. So maybe I could be giving birth on someone's sofa after all!!!
A comment from our mate the lovely L__ got me to thinking about just how much we have learnt during the pregnancy, how little we knew to start with and how much is still unknown!!
There is just so much that we have learned during the ante-natal classes and through reading that we never knew before. Below is just a selection...
A LOT of women poop during delivery
It can take up to 2 hours to deliver the placenta after the baby has come
Babies turn around when half way out so that the head comes out and then they kind of spin round a bit so that their shoulders come out
There can be up to about 12 people present during a c-section
The waters sometimes don't break until the baby is out so the baby can be born in a bubble
When I think back to how naive we both where when we started this journey I realise that we have come a long, long way.
Even though the midwives have told us everything to look out for I am still a bit worried about knowing when I have gone into labour. I am sure that looking back on this in a few weeks time I will probably be laughing at this. I just remember that my sister got pretty far along just thinking she had back ache!!! I've also heard of lots of people who weren't sure whether their waters had broken or whether they had wet themselves.
I find now that although the weeks have flown by and the baby is now due 2 weeks on Sunday it actually still feels very abstract. I kind of can't believe that I could be a Mum in 2 weeks or less. Whenever I feel a twinge of something I think it must just be a little pain and never think it could be labour. So maybe I could be giving birth on someone's sofa after all!!!
What a long way you have come, and you've been great at all of it, as I'm sure you will be when the baby does come, and in all the days to follow.
ReplyDeleteThis could be me being totally naive but I'm wondering about this 'some people didn't think their waters had broken and thought they'd just wet themselves'... Is wetting yourself another 'joy' of pregnancy? If not, and it is the first ever time you have 'wet' yourself and you are roughly due to have a baby, would you not think 'a-ha!'
ReplyDeleteAnyway - two weeks - woo-hoo! I am very excited and hope it all goes to plan for you, my lovelies.
xxx
Your pelvic floor does go a bit so maybe some people are 'accident' prone???
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