https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Thu, 07 May 2026 00:42:16 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740165 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:17:12 +0000 artsyfartsy 1740165@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@ScarletBegonia: Mine is mostly a blur before the epi too! I think I was zoned out. I couldn't focus on much else but getting through contractions. Once the epi was in I was relaxed and aware like normal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740155 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 07:11:31 +0000 NavyRN2012 1740155@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For DS (who is 8 years old)- I can remember quite a bit actually. There are probably some bits and pieces I'm missing.<br /> For DD (who is 16 months)- I remember it all like it was yesterday!<br /> I had great experiences with both. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740107 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:05:25 +0000 Andrea 1740107@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I think so. I just reminded DH of something the other day! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740071 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 02:31:40 +0000 lamariniere 1740071@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember very well for both of them, especially for DD since it was so short! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740030 Fri, 04 Jul 2014 00:20:10 +0000 ScarletBegonia 1740030@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Up until I got the epidural (at 10cm and after pushing for an hour (I'm told)) everything is a blur. My memory goes wonky from the time my husband drove me into the hospital until the anaesthetist told me to rate my pain out of 10 and it dropped with every contraction...sweet relief! My husband has started to tell me some of the stuff I said to the midwives...yikes :meh: I was not nice to them.<br /> From the point where my pain was relieved, I remember everything crystal clearly - including the operating theatre where I had my forceps delivery. I remember asking the doctor if it was a boy or a girl when I had only delivered the head, and everyone laughing at me. I remember my son shitting all over me during skin to skin. I remember looking into my husbands eyes and thinking "what the eff have we gotten ourselves into!?". </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740017 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:47:42 +0000 Kemma 1740017@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember most of it but I also have my notes from my pregnancy and delivery if I want to refer back to them. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740013 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:35:21 +0000 Boheme 1740013@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I wish I didn't. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740009 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:29:10 +0000 Rainbow Sprinkles 1740009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For Dd2 I remember every last detail like it was yesterday. </p> <p>DD1, not so much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740006 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:28:31 +0000 MoonMoon 1740006@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I've never finished writing down my birth story and I'm sad because sure enough, 13 months later, it's getting fuzzy. Labor went on for a while, and my exhaustion meant I never had a firm timeline, I was hoping the doulas would have some notes to share, but they didn't, so I remember the big parts, but no longer the little details. Sad. It was honestly in the top happiest moments of my life! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1740002 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 23:20:42 +0000 Ree723 1740002@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For DD1, who just turned 2, yes, I remember pretty much everything. For DD2, who is nearly five months old, I only remember random bits and pieces here and there.</p> <p>I fully attribute this to the brilliant epidural I had with DD1 - I was relaxed, happy, pain free, and in a great mental spot to remember everything. With DD2, I had a delayed/failed epidural - I was in so much pain and hated every single second of that labour and delivery. Once she was born, it was great, but I was so pissed off at the midwife who tried to prevent me from getting an epi, and so pissed off that I just had to suffer in agony and not get to actually enjoy my child being born, that it really coloured my experience and has thus erased a lot of it from memory. I tried writing my birth story for DD2 (DD1's story was written in great detail straightaway) and found I couldn't remember a lot of it. It makes me so sad.... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739728 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:44:38 +0000 blackbird 1739728@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the most part, but it's not something I linger on </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739719 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:41:18 +0000 MamaBehr 1739719@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Over 4 years after DD was born, I remember the gist. Thank goodness I wrote it all down. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739682 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:31:59 +0000 coopsmama 1739682@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, I do. But sometimes I wonder if my perceptions of what happened are slightly different than reality because of hormones and emotions. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739664 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:27:53 +0000 birdofafeather 1739664@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>yeah, but i wrote it out too so i can't change the details! :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739640 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:22:01 +0000 MrsStar 1739640@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, my midwife wrote the birth story afterwards for me too so I have that to refer to if I need to! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739639 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:21:59 +0000 Grace 1739639@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yeah, except that parts that were really long, now seem like they took a second. I pushed for 2 hours but I only remember 10 min. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739635 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:20:07 +0000 artsyfartsy 1739635@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It's very fuzzy to me. I wrote it all down the morning after delivery because I was afraid this would happen. I read it now and I'm like "Oh yeah!!" Lol </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739621 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:14:52 +0000 Mrs. Oatmeal 1739621@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember lots of details, but there are quite a few things that are fuzzy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739619 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:14:36 +0000 Smurfette 1739619@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the most part </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739616 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:13:05 +0000 78h2o 1739616@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember it very well... and if I forget, I have my novel of a birth story to refresh my memory! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739611 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 20:09:57 +0000 Foodnerd81 1739611@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I remember it pretty well, although some details were hazy immediately- like I thought we had skin to skin for an hour, Dh said 20 minutes? I wrote out her birth story shortly after so is remember. It felt like a blur even when it was happening. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739585 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:58:43 +0000 spaniellove 1739585@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I was so drugged up that I remember very little of it - not entirely a bad thing. Bits and pieces come back to me here and there. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739583 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:58:23 +0000 bookwormmama 1739583@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>When I was writing my birth story shortly after DS's birth I realized I couldn't remember a lot of the details like times and the order that things happened. I think I have a hard time remembering details because my labor was overnight (admitted late afternoon, DS was born via cs late morning the next day) and I didn't sleep more than a couple 30 minute stretches throughout the night. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739562 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:50:21 +0000 Dandelion 1739562@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Not really for D. I just know how it started and when it ended.</p> <p>I still remember S and M's deliveries. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739556 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:47:02 +0000 travelgirl1 1739556@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It was a planned c-section and I remember most of it, apart from the first words I said to LO. Noooo idea what they were. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739554 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:45:44 +0000 sorrycharlie 1739554@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Kind of! I remember general times and details, how I felt, but it was also such a nutty whirlwind that it's almost a blur at the same time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739545 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:42:06 +0000 fussygal 1739545@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For the most part, although as time goes on I'm forgetting some little details. I remember all the highlights for sure though :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739542 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:41:30 +0000 Kimberlybee 1739542@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Yes, I remember lots of details about that day and everything went as expected for my scheduled C-section. So glad I wrote it all down (I emailed it to myself). It was the happiest day of my life! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/do-you-remember-the-details-of-your-labourdelivery#post-1739533 Thu, 03 Jul 2014 19:38:18 +0000 Rubies 1739533@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For D1, who is almost 3 years old, I remember the gist of it all but I'm really starting to forget the fine details that were, for a long time, etched in my mind.</p> <p>For D2, who is almost 9 months old, I still remember everything like it happened yesterday. Yowzers! </p>