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I wish I had known that a long pushing stage in a rotten position would further damage my already dodgy pelvis and lead to 18 months of more pain.
I wish I had given myself a break and not been so determined to breastfeed that I allowed midwife after midwife to shove DD's head on to my boob for up to 90 minutes each time and understood that an odd bottle here and there was probably not going to be the end of the world and that it would have been much better for my sanity AND bonding than allowing my boobs to be manhandled by strangers. And I wish I had known that it would be better to just try a little bit and often than try for a hideously long time every time and to get so het up about the situation that my milk didn't even come in until Day 7.
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Just wondering does anyone ever get the feeling that after the birth of a bub your not alowed to feel overwhelmed or miss your previous life because you wanted to have children?
It sometimes feel that becuse I choose this path I'm not allowed to complain, esp when they are innocent little bubs and you are supposed to be the luckiest person in the world.
This is more how #1 felt, #2 so much easier for me.
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Labour - Kinda embarrassing - I wasn't breathing properly, using the breaths to push because I was scared that if I used all my breathing to push, I wouldn't have any left for me and I'd pass out. LOL! I was in a GREAT frame of mind during labour!!!!
After - Yep, Mum had warned me about the haemmorids, but I sat, crying, for days at the uncomfortableness of them. They were worse than my stitches! Also, I wish that someone had told me about using lanisol leading up to giving birth to prepare for breastfeeding. Bleeding nipples is NOT fun and I wish that I'd known about it before hand. As it was, it was day four before a nurse told me to go and buy it, when I was just about to give up b/f altogether. Instead, after I got through that, we are still going, 13 months on :dance:
Corelly x
