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- From: brentw@coopsol.com (Brent Williams)
- Subject: Re: Birth Story (Long)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.190915.26750@coopsol.com>
- Organization: Cooperative Solutions, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov19.220906.4615@oakhill.sps.mot.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 19:09:15 GMT
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- amym@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Amy Moseley Rupp) writes:
-
- >Please, everyone about to have a baby, consider the questions I
- >have asked above. In a Csection everything moves fast and you
- >do not have time or the head to make these decisions. Discuss them
- >beforehand even if you are convinced you'll deliver vaginally.
-
- I can't agree with this more. I agree with the remark you
- made about prepared childbirth classes not preparing you
- enough for C-sections. Ours spent so much time trying to
- tell you that a vaginal birth was "better" that we were
- relatively unprepared for a C-section. It also ignored
- the fact that people have different pain tolerances (wife:
- none whatsoever, her mom: Joan of Arc), which made my
- wife incredibly bummed out that she wanted an epidural.
-
- Anyway, best thing to do when you go through childbirth
- education is to treat anything positive with a large grain
- of salt. Assume that you will a.) have a C-section, b.) that
- the epidural will not work, and c.) "bonding" time that you
- want won't happen the way you expect. According to my wife,
- the pain becomes a memory after a few months -- you're pretty
- busy and don't have time to remember much about the delivery.
-
- >Overall I am happy and delighted with our healthy beautiful daughter.
-
- Congrats. Enjoy the first year. There will never be another
- time like this. After they get mobile and start talking, there
- is a relatively linear evolution forward to adulthood. But the
- stuff that happens in the first year now seems like an incredibly
- special time.
-
-
- --
- Brent Williams/Cooperative Solutions Inc., San Jose CA (408) 377-0300
- brentw@coopsol.com
- Cooperative Solutions makes Ellipse, a development environment for
- industrial strength graphical client/server business applications.
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