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28608, The Birthing Experience
Posted by HeavenLei, Sat Sep-11-99 01:57 PM
Definitely changes you. For most people, thankfully... it's for the better. my daughter (Medena Nychelle) will be six soon. I was in labor for two LOOOONNGGGG days. I couldn't eat, and my dumbass doctor expected me to walk around... I hadn't had nourishment for 48 hrs and this clown wanted me to walk.. ha! I had natural birth... no pain killers, sedatives, hypnosis...etc and I didn't have much pain... thanks to the fact that I was throwing my damn guts out, and that kept my attention longer than the contractions. My "babydadddy" was not there, At the time he and I were not on good terms... and.... we still arent. however, after the delivery, he came to see us, and it was a beautiful thing to see... he was afraid to hold her... like she was gonna break or something. Nevertheless...it was a touching sight...can you imagine what it would feel like looking into your own eyes, but on another person's body? that's what i saw when he laid his eyes on her. I cried for about a week because she had NO resemblance to me or my family at all. The nurses in the hospital, other patients and their visitors...even my own doctor had to do a double take when they saw me pushing my daughter aeound the maternity ward, while her father wasn't there. Now... she has a features of mine... those big soup cooler lips... and the brains <img src="http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/Images/happy.gif">... and the wit <img src="http://www.okayplayer.com/dcforum/Images/wink.gif">... and she definitelyh has inhereted athletic ability from both of us. I can't wait till she's in high school... so she can really blow people away... she loves EVERY SPORT... and is pretty good too! except for tennis... she's gotta get that together.. but anyway, i'm rambling and I'm at work, I gotta be out... but no matter how harrowing the labor is...once your seed shrieks their first cry...you won't be able to remember ever feeling so good.<BR>Peace<P>"... the revolution will not kill germs that may cause bad breath..." Gil Scott Heron