What did it feel like to hold your baby for the first time?

Re: What did it feel like to hold your baby for the first time?

• Whippet8 member

  

  November 2013

  It's very hard to describe. I was drugged up from the c-section, and they wouldn't let me hold her until I was all stitched up. DH held her, but I couldn't keep my eyes open. I kept thinking, "I need to look at my daughter right now." 

  
  

  They finally let me hold her, and I just remember smiling. Like, "wow, did this just happen? is this really a baby?" I remember being wheeled to my room absolutely beaming, like I was the proudest mama in the world. 

  

   

  
  

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• BackseatDriver member

  

  November 2013

  Surreal. It was so hard to believe that it was really my baby.

  
  

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• cinderin member

  

  November 2013

  I had a c-section which went well. I only had a spinal, so the drugs were minimal. DS was breech, so I had a planned c/s but he broke my water and I went into labor so I had the c/s then. Since I had just eaten, I had to wait about 8 hours before they would do it. I just had contractions, monitoring and tried to relax. It was fine. 

  
  

  They took me into the OR and we were so excited. DH didn't want to watch/see anything (I don't blame him). When DS was pulled out of me the first thing I heard was him screaming/crying. I was so happy because I knew that meant he had good lungs :-) 

  
  

  They wiped him off and took him over to be weighed. DH followed. They wrapped him up and DH brought him over. We tried to put him on my chest, but there wasn't room. So DH held him by my head and we sang him happy birthday. It was only about 20 minutes and they had me back in my room and we did skin to skin. We did skin to skin and BF as much as possible. 

  
  

  I cried so often those first few weeks because I was so happy he was here and he was healthy. I had had a high risk pregnancy and DS was breach, so I had had a lot of worries going into it. I was just so thankful he was healthy. I still am :-) 

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• bobcee member

  

  November 2013

  I went med-free both times, so relief.  Relief that it was over, that they were here safely and everyone was healthy.  Excitement, bliss, pride.  It was really surreal as well as pp mentioned.  There is just so much going on at the time that it seems like a whirlwind, yet you're in your own little world and nothing else matters besides cuddling that precious baby.

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• vitan member

  

  November 2013

  BackseatDriver said:

  Surreal. It was so hard to believe that it was really my baby.

  ditto this.
  

  
  
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• wiggyslilsis member

  

  November 2013

  Surreal, magical, overwhelming, life changing, emotional.
  
  I was so out of it I really couldn't hold her right away but just seeing her was impossible to explain.
  
  We were team green. When the doctor said open your eyes, Congratulations you have a daughter...I just don't have words. My whole entire world changed. Suddenly I had a daughter, a baby girl and it could never be any other way.
  
  It was just all so precious and I don't think the English language can do it justice.

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• sgautschi member

  

  November 2013

  I was in a state of shock. Partially because I didn't realize I would push her out so fast (3 pushes when the doctor got there) and also because I couldn't believe she was my baby. I just remember seeing her right after I pushed her out and thinking "where did this baby come from??", then when they placed her on my chest I just couldn't keep my eyes off her. I almost missed watching DH cut the cord because I was so entranced by her. I just remember saying over and over again "omg".

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

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• carcrashheart member

  

  November 2013

  surreal. i cried, a lot. it wasn't an "omg" moment. it was "thank god he is here, safe, healthy and alive" moment.

  Thanks to our wonderful RE our family is complete!

  DS #1 10.12.12

  DS #2 10.24.14

  
  

  

  
  

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• botanicalbliss member

  

  November 2013

  I was thankful he was OK.  He was rushed off to the NICU w/in minutes of birth.  I didn't get to hold him in the delivery room.  It was 4 hours before I could hold him.  I couldn't believe he was mine.

  

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• pb&fluff member

  

  November 2013

  Relief.  Relief that he was safe now, on the outside.  That after all we'd been through, he was here and I didn't have to worry anymore.  Also surreal in the fact that I grew this tiny human being in my body and that here he was!
  

  
  
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• Onceinalovetime member

  

  November 2013

  All of your responses are so sweet, I can't wait for my turn

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