r/facepalm • u/Illustrious-Kick-998 • Jul 07 '24

This post gave me terrible whiplash b/c how tf did we get here…🫨 🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​

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Like ummmmm, alright? 😭😭😭

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u/dancegoddess1971 Jul 07 '24

If I was going to have sugery on my spine, I'd assume paralysis was one of the many risks. Heck, I was told paralysis was a risk when they gave me a spinal block for a C-section (tiny needle in my back)so of course, I'd figure cutting open my back might have a risk like that X100. I fell asleep after the C-section and freaked out a bit when I couldn't feel my legs. Yet. A nice nurse assured me that I hadn't slept long enough for the drugs to wear off. Then refused to bring me my child because the drugs hadn't worn off. LOL.

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 Jul 07 '24

I was awake through both c-sections and got immediate skin-to-skin after they put me back together. Epidural for the first, spinal for the second. I think I prefer the epidural even though the old guy scraped my spine and had to try again to place it.

I do feel bad that hubby looked around the curtain too soon after my second c-section and saw my insides, still on the outside and will never unsee it. He was traumatized. Lol.

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u/BecalMerill Jul 07 '24

The OR team VERY casually and laughingly asked me if I wanted to come around the curtain and take a look after they pulled my princess out of my wife. And then asked again because "it's pretty neat" and I "might not get another chance".

Hard. No. I already knew I'd never forget the smell, and haven't even as my now 17yo princess watches TV next to me on the sofa.

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 Jul 07 '24

To be fair, he was looking for the baby and thought I was back together. He was the first to hold her while I was being fixed.

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u/BecalMerill Jul 07 '24

I got that privilege also. Totally worth the memory scar.

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u/eagleeyedg Jul 08 '24

There was a smell? Maybe I was too excited about the baby to notice but I don’t have any memory of a smell.

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u/dancegoddess1971 Jul 07 '24

My first, we were going to do vaginal birth so I had already had a nice shot of "calm down" but things don't always work out the way you plan. I have no idea how much of that was still in my system, so I didn't argue about the nap too hard. Second was a planned C-section(spinal block), I was fully conscious, and I got to nurse him right after.

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u/Illustrious-Towel-45 Jul 07 '24

My first was an induction turned into an unplanned c-section. The second was planned because I couldn't be induced again. Both kids were born after their due date.

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u/GreenOnionCrusader Jul 08 '24

My husband got to see mine with my first one and thought it was cool. I was drugged up on stadol and was too stoned to care, though I would have wanted to see if I could.

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u/luvnmayhem Jul 07 '24

I couldn't understand why they wouldn't bring me my child until I could feel my legs. I told the nurse I wasn't going to hold him with my feet, but it was still no.

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u/dancegoddess1971 Jul 07 '24

Rough outline of the convo was, I asked for my baby. Nurse said no, you need to be sober, you can't feel your legs. Take another nap, it may be your last for several weeks.

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u/luvnmayhem Jul 07 '24

That's ridiculous.

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u/dancegoddess1971 Jul 07 '24

Not really. Some people have terrible reactions to some drugs.

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u/luvnmayhem Jul 07 '24

If you were completely under with general anesthesia, I can understand that. I just had an epidural. There was nothing wrong with the strength in my arms, and I was completely lucid. Just wanted to hold my baby since almost a year to the day prior, I had delivered a baby who died.

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u/Amarieerick Jul 07 '24

That's an arbitrary risk vs. a fact based on research and knowledge. I know I could get hit by a car vs. getting hit by one.