Monday, July 21, 2008
Breathe and Relax
Since I got 'knocked up' I have been hesitant to write too much about the pregnancy...I hesitate because I am sure I would offend a mother out there somewhere...no necessarily my mother, but a mother none the less. No matter how excited I am, or thrilled to be having a kick ass kid I can't help being sarcastic and blasphemous. You know some people were just born to be a cynic and to point out irony...I know it's a 'bad' trait to have...but hey it's me and it's how I roll...pregnancy not excluded. If I wrote all that I was really feeling people would think I was the most ungrateful thing out there...well little would they know it's just all truth most women hide from other women to make them want to have children. It's a cycle. Like if anyone would have told me that in reality you are pregnant for closer than 10 months than 9...I would have liked to have put that in my plan, or your body is put together by silly putty and at any moment a joint you heavily rely on could go out at any time, I would have better prepared myself, and lets not even talk about the food issue...my gosh, I can't wait to have a healthy relationship with food again...it's all about feeding...they say you don't eat for two, but that is such a joke...if I try to just eat for one I get sick because I have not had enough to eat. That was mainly my biggest problem for the first 5 months...but we need to tell each other these things. I was ill prepared to handle much of this. When I train for an athletic event I know what I am getting myself into...I know what I will be doing or should be doing on any given day, I know how to eat, how to recover, how to race, but with pregnancy I have nothing...all the books kind of suck. You know nothing really helps you because you don't really have all that much control over how your pregnancy is taking shape. Sure I would love to get my cardio in everyday but good hell I feel like trash and it's a blessing if I can get to work. Now in my 3rd trimester things are a whole heck of a lot better for me and that's great and all but I am afraid my body is just trying to make me forget all the cruddy things it had to put me through to get to this point. I usually use the same tactic if I am babysitting...you just have to be really nice for the last 15 minutes of babysitting then the kids totally forget you wouldn't let them watch the Finding Nemo for the 5th time in a row...mean sitter. As of now I am in my 'birthing' stage where I could have this kid anytime with in the next month because it goes to 42 weeks. Yeah I am not excited if I went at 42 weeks...my gosh I would be so ready to go. But I am doing the whole HypnoBirthing technique for labor and delivery. I am excited but I feel that there's a whole lot happening during labor that a lot of moms are not sharing with me. All they tell you to do is relax and breathe...and if you do that you won't feel any pain. Okay cool...so breathe and relax...check. I can do that. Is that all I need to do? Yeah. Just that...and don't have any medical interfence. Oh okay well that sounds easy enough. So I know how to breathe and I can relax with the best of them...so I think I should be set. With that advice I'm not sure why any woman gets an epidural. See where I am going with this. Yeah breathe and relax...with that kind of mind altering advice we could put anasthesiologist out of business in all the women centers of the world. Yeah I feel that they may be missing a step. Hmmm. All and all though everything is going well...it just makes me laugh.
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Eugena - I guess I don't need to ask how you are doing. Laura Cook sent me the link to your blog and I had to stop by and check out you and your pregnant self! I won't give you any bs nirvanesque pregnancy crap. I'll just say a prayer for you that your breathing and relaxing will get your through your labor and delivery. It sounds like you have realized that everyone has a completely different pregancy and the same goes for the delivery. I hope yours is quick and fabulous. You look great and sound like you are doing well. Best to you and the little one!
Julie
You want to know the truth of what happens? It's different for everyone. I was devastatingly sick [morning sickness?!-all day sickness is more like it] for the first 6 months of my pregnancy. I was so weak at times, Willis had to carry me to the bathroom. My third trimester was okay, but I had to wear old lady support hose, otherwise I swelled so much I couldn't walk. The contractions for me were horrible. I had back surgery in 2005 and with each contraction I had the worst back labor imaginable. But as soon as I had my epidural, the rest was a cake walk for me. For me, because of the drug, delivery was the best part of the whole 10 months. I am a huge fan of the epidural. Breathing and relaxing would have been nice in theory, but for me there is no way that would have been enough. Let me know if you want to know anything else...I just went through it 9 weeks ago, it's still fresh on my mind. ;)
Breathe, Relax, and a little morphine, then an epidural a few hours later for me. But you're way tougher than any chic I know. You can do it! But anybody has the right to change their mind at the last minute, I have a feeling that you'll make it. I read your post about a 1/2 marathon that you ran because of injuries, and turned it into a marathon at the 13 mile mark because you just couldn't cut out early. I am excited to find out the resultes of this race. But both endings will be 1st place because you'll have cute little mini seth and that's all that really matters in the end.
Oh my Eugena! Yeah well, if you talked to me, I do not hide anything about the whole experience. It sucked! But, you get this awesome little baby out of it...and people say you forget...umm I have not yet! If you do the hypnobirthing, I totally want to hear about it. I really looked into that, but didn't do it. Hope all goes well!
You are so funny! Funny because its all true:) Good luck with the hypnobirthing. And just to share, birth #1- no epidural, I thought it would be easy too. I am a strong person that can handle pain, birth #2-epidural- an actually somewhat pleasant experience and I wasn't sore in every muscle of my body for two weeks.
NO GUARANTEES:)
Just make sure a natural birthing process is really going to empower you as a human being otherwise you won't get any satisfaction from doing it natural:) Just my two cents, sense you seem to want an honest heads up about the whole pregnant experience. I am on board for number three:)
Oh yeah, I might add that I have 9+ pound babies, 15 inch heads. So everyone above is right: everyone is SO different.
I forgot to type that birth #1- I threw up I was so nauseated from the pain of transition labor.
First of all, brilliant, as usual. You are ever on your game-- by that, I mean that you win at everything, including IRONY! (Please tell me you know the reference...)
Second of all, yeah... breathe, relax, no pain-- think more of easier pain management.
Third, I did it without pain meds or an epidural. HUGE caveat.... My labors were short and fast. Both times I was already dilated to at least a 4 before I ever got to the hospital (thanks, Braxton-Hicks) and didn't really feel contractions until my water broke. If I had a real labor like some of these girls go through, I would have been begging for an epidural. I swore I'd get one if I didn't dilate at least 1cm more every time they checked me.
Let's just say, this time I'm going to re-research epidurals and see how far they've come: if they make happy mamas and happy babies, that's all I need. 'Course, that's if I don't have the baby before it kicks in...
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