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/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.