In denial?

[moss]

I am sitting here in work right now and I got a momentary flash of "OH MY GOD THIS HAS TO COME OUT," which I have never gotten before. Well, not exactly... There was one time when I came across a section about tearing in my pregnancy book and it actually made me burst into tears and have a little panic (at around 20 weeks?), but apart from that I have been excited and not scared at all. Now I'm wondering whether I am in denial and I am going to have a huge panic attack in the next few weeks! Does anyone else feel like this?

 

[abcd1234]

I dont think i'll realise i have to push this thing out until im actually in labour!

I'm WAY too calm about the whole thing and not worried about pain etc, i dont think my mind will let me accept that its gonna bloody hurt!!

 

[Hazel]

There's not a lot of point worrying about it until it happens then just go with it.

I've got everyone around me starting to panic a bit now. My dad and DH went off to a job overnight and as they were going they said "if anything happens just ring us and we'll be back in an hour" (it's a 2 hour drive from here so don't know how they would manage that ).

 

[JoAnn&Aimee]

I am way to calm as well. I always thought that I'd be going mental over giving birth but to be honest the thought of the actual birth isn't scaring me. It is the labour that scares me the most!

My dad and DH went off to a job overnight and as they were going they said "if anything happens just ring us and we'll be back in an hour" (it's a 2 hour drive from here so don't know how they would manage that ).

Not without breaking a few speed laws!

 

[ASD123456]

I dont think i'll realise i have to push this thing out until im actually in labour!

I'm WAY too calm about the whole thing and not worried about pain etc, i dont think my mind will let me accept that its gonna bloody hurt!!

I'm the same, I'd even go as far as to say I'm looking forward to it. I think I'm going to have a massive wake up call when the pain actually starts and I realsie how bad it is.

I think it's probably better not to get to hung up on the pain now because thats not going to help or stop it in any way. Being calm about it s a good thing (well, thats what I keep telling myself anyway), at the end of the day it's pain with a purpose as opposed to a pain because you've hurt yourself- and theres a brilliant prize at the end of it

Alex xxx

Alex xxx

 

[Miss.Monroe]

i had a little freak out today doing the washing up, thinking oh sh*t either way either by natural birth or cesarean, this baby has got to get out of me at some point! kinda scary, the whole idea of a human body coming out of mine freaks me out a bit, but i cant wait to meet her, and it will be such a relief! im not going to think about it untill im there, doing it lol.

i just think of all the poor women who have done it on their own nautrally, and all thoes poor people in the old days! who had no pain relief, god thoes poor women

 

[Penstraze]

I like denial its my friend I intend to stay in denial for as long as possible! They do get delivered to your doorstep by a stork - right?

 

[CoreysMummy]

He He... I was just the same, I didnt think about it.. even when my waters broke in bed, I still didnt realise that I was going to have to birth this huge thing that was growin in my belly.

Its best not to worry about it, alot of people do it, and many go back for seconds and thirds!! So it cant be all that bad (I say that because, when I got to hospital, I was taken for an emergency cesarian straight away as LO was breach).

Cabbage leaf's they get left under too!!

 

[Mildly]

I've booked a stork delivery for mine The natural birth sounded too painful and teh c-section too messy for my liking!

 

[Tadpole]

I dont think i'll realise i have to push this thing out until im actually in labour!

I'm WAY too calm about the whole thing and not worried about pain etc, i dont think my mind will let me accept that its gonna bloody hurt!!

This is me as well. Although I DID have a moment of clarity in the ante-natal class the other week over the thought of getting a real live baby out through my foof. Have gone back to my little fluffy bubble world now though.

 

[Suzie and Faith]

It's not that bad - honest! I had 4 days of early labour contractions (at their slowest they were every 15 min!) (bubba was twisting and turning which was stopping me dilating properly.)

I'm not saying it didn't hurt but it's not like normal pain, it feels productive and i'd do it again!