Thing 2 turned ten yesterday and it was just a fun celebration. I was thinking about that and wondered why his birth wasn’t really in my thoughts at all. I took a few minutes to reflect and this is what I came up with.
nothing scary or magical happened (other then him being born of course!)
These are some key things I remember about his birth.
I would like to emphasize, that I was/am actually pretty happy with how things went. Thing 2 was healthy and all was well. I had my VBAC.
But the experience of his birth itself remains very neutral in my mind and emotions. It was so much better then Thing 1’s birth, so I was fine with how things went. But I felt very disconnected from the process once I got the demerol and epidural.
Molly at Talk Birth had a post last week about the Flow of Childbirth and it helped me see why his birth wasn’t so memorable.
I wrote about how I felt about the differences in my 3 Things Births in Birth is a Journey: Does it have to be life changing?
If you simplify different birth experiences I think they could fall into these 3 categories.
- a traumatic journey
- a normal journey
- a magical journey
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