Mother Talkers: Comments Baby08 is home!!! -- UPDATE -- Pictures

Congratulations!! (0 / 0)

Your post made me feel so happy :) There's nothing like that new-baby, post-partum bliss!

What "ring of fire" business? Pardon my ignorance . . . very curious what that is . . .

Glad you and baby and fam are all well!!

by minnmom on Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 08:59:44 AM PDT
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  Apart from being a terrific Johnny Cash song, is what my first midwife called the part where the baby first "crowns"...
  
  She was showing me (a first time mom) some rather graphic pictures of an actual vaginal delivery. Yeah...
  
  I quavered, "Ring of fire? Can't we come up with a better name? The ring of niceness?" She just snorted at my profound ignorance...
  
  by Suzanne77 on Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 04:59:33 PM PDT
  
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  - I always thought it felt (0 / 0)
    
    much more like sitting on a bowling ball and trying to get it back out! I never perceived it as particularly painful, it was just a very strong and powerful feeling.
    
    by tjb22 on Wed Jun 25, 2008 at 07:33:35 PM PDT
    
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    - Yeah, it didn't really hurt (0 / 0)
      
      I think my old Midwife was kind of into scaring people. It was quite powerful. All of the "pushing" experience was pretty euphoric for me actually.
      
      by Suzanne77 on Thu Jun 26, 2008 at 08:42:47 AM PDT
      
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