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Do you remember the day of your c-section, the day your baby was born? I was talking to my sister, she had 4 c-section and she can't remember the day her babies were born or the first couple of days afterwards. I was wondering if this a normal thing to happen?
Um no I remember both of mine. I was a bit groggy for a few hours afterwards because of the different assortment of drugs they had to try on me, but other than that I remember everything (well as much as a pregnant mother of 2 can actually remember :rolleyes:)
I rememeber DS birth. Going in for induction i remember being in shower etc and i everything that happenened in lead up to CS, i remember recoevry, first BF etc etc and certinly remember all my days in hospital and first few days at home!
But I am person who remembers things from the past and friends and DH look at me as if I am a freak LOL.
I can remember everything.
Did she have a general or an epi? I suppose that could make a difference? Also the level of trauma involved could make her recall less
Perhaps ask Maz - she has had 4 caesars...although Im sure she can remember also...
You know ... I might get what she is saying. I had two. First one under GA and second a spinal and to be honest the first one is getting a bit blurry :lol: Now it may be that she remembers more from the last one, I do.
I can still remember my first c/s, but not nearly as clearly as the second one. I know what happend afterwards, but it's foggy ... so I truely believe that with time, I might just forget it.
I also think that although a birth is and awsome and empowering experience ... living trumps it. You (well I) tend to concentrate less on the birth (all dd's premmie/hossie dramas) while you are living life, learning and loving your kids. Does that even makes sense!!!
i remember everything about my c/s the day before, the day waiting to go in, and the after and days after as well. is not something i think i could ever forget. i guess with the more children you have the harder it is to remember everyone...
Its a bit hazy but I remember the best bits... her first cry, seeing them poke her bum over the sheet, and then watching as Shel trimmed the cord, and when I said "does she have eyes" and then once I was in the room I remember holding her, and her first bf... that was after a loooong and fairly traumatic labour. It might help that I have photos though?
i remember both of mine, especially matilda's with crystal clarity. xavi's is a little more hazy as i fainted on the table and was put under a ga. but yeah, i remember everything.
I remember everything!! Not one thing I don't remember. Being induced and him not going into labour, being on themonitors, making the choice of going for a c/s or waiting to see how he progressed....went for the c.s, lucky we did caue the cord was wrapped around 3 times on his neck. His first cry, being weight, being called a baby buddha by all the staff in theatre.
I had only a epi and was still abit high from the gas that i was having when being induced.
I remember going in having the spinal, holding jase's hand, them rushing jack out of the room, laying there stunned hearing the nes he wasn't breathing and that he was a boy, jase leaving the room, vomiting on the anethesist :lol: i remember recovery talking to the nurse as she used to live not far from me, then I am a blank until 7 hrs later when I demanded I be taken to SCU to see Jack... I have hazy memories of speakign to people on ph and seeing some pics Jase got printed for me...I have no recollection of being taken via SCU to stroke jacks face but I did apprently :( I hate that I dont remember that
The only thing I dont remember is the ob holding him up over the sheet for me to see the first time :doh: I have a picture though, my actual labour is now very hazy, probably due to the copious amounts of gas I was inhaling :lol:
But I do recall everything else.
Yep, I remember it all in all its detail... The sounds the smells, the emotions... But mine was elective, and so I didnt have a labour prior and have it forced on me... So it was how I planned my birth, and so therefore, I guess, how I remember it...
mine was only three weeks ago so yeah, i remember it clearly! but having said that, i'm like feeb, and remember the smallest details of special days - even going right back to childhood. it's just one of those things that happens. day to day life, i forget, but relevant days - well, they just stick in my mind
i can't remember what i had for lunch two days ago - but i can tell you exactly what happened in the lead up and after E's birth.
i've also written her birth story and will blog her life so that the special stuff stays in my memory or can be triggered by reading it kwim?
I remember everything - the only parts that are a little fuzzy was when we got back to the room and I was nauseous from the drugs ...
Yep, I remember all of mine too. Although, I was expecting it, even though labour did start 3 weeks early. I remember the minute my waters broke all the way through the whole thing, the colours of the walls, the faces of the midwives, anaesthetist, the needle going in my back, the first cry, watching him get weighed, and DF cutting the cord...everything. It also helped that I wrote everything down a few days afterwards and I have lots of pictures. Although I haven't read my birth story in awhile...but I always reflect back on it.
I remember mine very well - remember it better than my VB in fact! :D I went in knowing it was what I had asked for and what I wanted and so I soaked up every detail. I even remember trying to send text messages later that evening and realising that in the morphine haze no one had rung my mother LOL.
I remember it all. Well except for the 45mins or so I was knocked out (I needed a general unfortunately) but from the moment I woke up again remember everything very clearly.
I remember it all to well, even though I wasn't "there" mentally. I have very vivid recollections of the day.
I remember how clear the sky was before I went in I remember joking to the woman preparing me for the surgery, I remember asking the Dr if he ever danced coz I thought I knew him, I rememeber having a conversation with the lady in recovery who was 6 weeks pregnant at the time and I remember getting the feeling back in my legs and arguing with the MW's about me going to see my baby.
Wow thanks for all the replies. It doesn't sound like must be very common.
She had spinals.:
I was going to suggest maybe the anaesthetic... maybe not though.:
I had a spinal.. I remember most of it, and definitely more than I remember of my VBs.
I am a bit disappointed that i don't remember more of those.
If she had any sedation such as midazolam or valium, they could be responsible for the lack of memory. 80% of people who have sedation don't recall anything of the entire day of the proceedure.
Having said that, I recall *all* of the day of my c-sect. Even the bit when I was waking in recovery. The only bit I have no knowledge of is the bit where I was actually knocked out just after DD was born.
Yep...Ive had 4 all under a general and I remember every single day of each one.
Nikolaus - being in laobur for 22 hours and hearing the doctor to hurry up and get me 'out' as Nikolaus was in alot of distress....and waking up in recovery with my SIL bawling next to me as she was due 3 weeks after me.
Wilhelm lol.....starting to go under and Jed said he hopes the baby doesnt come out choclate (I had a crush on my OB and he was yummy chocolate ;) ) and in he walked and laughed with us. Woke up when I was put back onto the bed from the theatre bed
Vyolett.......beggin to go natural all the way until I was on the 'slab' an d wkaing up in recovery to breast feed her and cry with Jed about how beautiful she was.
Mateauz..PMSL....went in on my due c/s date to start labour waiting for my c/s and have my water break in the room before theatre...had a great annithatist who wante dto know if I had other parts of my body pierced to which I told him to check when I was knocked out. Woke to find my baby in SCN and screaming at the midwife to get the dame tubes out of me so I could see him
So yes...I can remember.....I dont know how I could ever forget
Thanks guys. She remembers the c-section itself, just doesn't remember afterwards or a couple of days after. Like with the last one she doesn't know if the midwifes had the baby with them or if she had her in the room with her. It may have been how she reacts to the drugs. I know she was on morphine. Thanks for the replies.