tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118802.post7879677617315184905..comments2023-04-01T07:53:24.109-05:00Comments on Navy Blue Elephant Trunks: "Traumatic Birth"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118802.post-87714788230419963742010-07-26T14:47:55.056-05:002010-07-26T14:47:55.056-05:00I also didn't have the 'perfect' birth...I also didn't have the 'perfect' birth experience, although much much less traumatic than you or amanda - I had to have a c section given transverse breach and my age, no dilation etc. It was a planned section and was as good as that can be. So it wastn't traumatic at all, really, just not the birth I'd dreamed of. But it was what it was, and it was the right thing to do, and at the end there was my daughter and she was fine. Which was all that mattered.Thaliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12125639207843989848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7118802.post-27152954972709360652010-07-24T22:01:53.184-05:002010-07-24T22:01:53.184-05:00I'm glad I'm not still the only one using ...I'm glad I'm not still the only one using the monitor. I'll hang on to my video monitor until he actually tells me to get rid of it.<br /><br />I was scared to give birth after everything we went through to get, and stay, pregnant (7 IVF cycles, multiple pregnancy losses.) I wished for one of those peaceful births where my son was placed on my chest, etc, but it didn't happen.<br /><br />I was induced at 37.5 weeks given my history and other complications, and he was born not breathing. Instead of hearing baby cries, I was the one who got to cry as my blue baby was taken out of the room to be resuscitated. I don't think I breathed as long as it took him to finally take a breath.<br /><br />We obviously didn't have the NICU experience you did, only one night in the NICU for our guy, but yeah, our "birth experience" was not what I had imagined, what I had dreamed after everything we went through to get to that point.<br /><br />It was traumatic for me, because at that moment, given everything we had gone through to that point, I did think that I had lost him. That's the only birth experience I'll get, so it's pretty darn lasting.<br /><br />Yes, it could have been much, much worse, and I am so very thankful it wasn't. I think it was my history that made it "traumatic." I never thought I'd walk away with a take home baby, and when he was born not breathing, well that just did it. <br /><br />I'm lucky despite the less than "prefect" birth experience.amandahttp://www.mananabanana.brainwidth.net/noreply@blogger.com