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[carang]

i didn't feel the actual incision, i just felt them poking around. but when he said, "ok, now you'll feel a little pressure, tugging..." i almost hit the roof!

the only description i can come up with is this:

it felt like they were taking my belly button and trying to touch the 30 foot ceiling with it.

 

[prone_to_wander]

Oh Carang! that sounds so horrible!

 

[carang]

believe me...i wanted MORE DRUGS! and they did give me gas, but all it really did was give me something else to concentrate on.

even so, i do NOT blame the doctors. the anesthetist was WONDERFUL, spent most of it drying my eyes & stroking my hair!

as i said, there are SOOOOOO many things that can go wrong in a hospital, that would be multiplied exponentially (in my mind) that there is NO WAY i would EVER consider a home birth by myself.

 

[Matty]

A friend of mine describes her c- section as feeling like someone was doing the dishes in her stomach. Not painful, just kind of weird and gross.
It always cracked me up!

Cara, I feel for you that your pregnancies were so horrible. But fortunately, stories like yours are the exception rather than the rule.

I think births should be a balance.
They are an extraordinary experience, one that we don't get to have more than a few times in our lives. For some maybe only once.
We live in a time where we can give birth to our babies safely, but if we have the opportunity, we can also make it a truly amazing and enjoyable experience.

I'm done with having babies, but I sometimes wish I could give birth just one more time.
But without the following sleepless months

 

[carang]

i know that thankfully, not every one experiences what i had to go through.

but, like i said, i would kill to be able to do it again!