Rookie Mistakes is a series where guest bloggers divulge their parenting fails, and make us laugh or inspire us in the process.
Quite often those Rookie Mistakes begin before the baby is born. This week Tamsin who blogs at Chasing Esme shares her rookie mistakes in what she thought labour would be like. Why is it never like the movies?!
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The Labour That Didn’t Go To Plan
When I found out I was pregnant, it was a shock. I had suspected that I was pregnant for a while, as I had had a few symptoms. Sore boobs, cravings tomatoes, and no periods. But, I was never regular anyway, and maybe the tomato thing was just because I wanted some. And with having sore boobs, I was thinking that maybe I was due on soon.
And, now I’ve experienced how good epidurals are, I have no idea why women don’t have them more often! I just wish someone told me how painful it was before hand, and that it was okay to accept pain relief!
Just remember, it’s good to have a clear image in your head of what you want, but don’t be too sad if it doesn’t go to plan!
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How about you? Did you handle labour better or worse than you were expecting?
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I had no birth plan other than I knew I did not want an epidural, I think I was more scared of the idea of that then the labour! My labours were all fairly easy, other than two very long inductions in which at one point I was screaming for an epidural! When the midwife left the room to find a doctor I gave birth, each time! #fridayfrolics
I never had any strong convictions about what I wanted in labour! My birth plan was ‘I’ll start at the bottom (paracetamol,) and work my way up (epidural!) With the first (which seems to be a common theme,) I ended with the epidural after 24 agonising hours, and with the second, I was quite willing to do it again, and have an epidural, but I never needed more than gas and air, it was just so much less painful! I was glad that my expectations of myself hadn’t been too high either, because then I didn’t feel any sense of ‘letting myself down’ when things didn’t go to my perceived plan! It was great to read your story. x
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My first labour didn’t go to plan and ended in an induction and epidural but my second – when I didn’t write a birth plan – was exactly what I wanted, a water birth with no medication at all x #fridayfrolics
Great message Tamsin! Really, all you can do when it comes to delivering babies is spend some time thinking about what your ‘ideal’ scenario will look like, and then prepared to change any or all of your plans as required. I never got around to doing a birth plan for my baby, partly because he came early and party because my midwife kind of glossed over that bit. I guess she’s seen enough babies and brith plans to know that baby’s not always on the same page 😉
Your birth plan sounds a lot like mine with my first, and my labour also involved a whole lot of being “not mobile” and pumped full of epidural magic. My first labour was as though somebody had read my birth plan and then done the exact opposite on every single point. If it helps at all, I had no birth plan with my second, but got the most “perfect” and calm birth you could imagine. After screaming for an epidural first time around, I managed my second with just a bit if gas and air at the very end. Hope that helps if you do have another! 😉 Fab story!
Dawn x