Long time lurker & first time poster but couldn’t hold it in.
There’s no chance that is how the birth went! Newborn mum here & your first baby is most commonly a long labour so to do it in 7 hours with no tearing- pull the other one!! Everyone I know who has had a baby recently (and there is a lot with the covid baby boom) have all been 20 hours plus with some type of intervention- forceps, induction, c section etc.
also she talks about how it can take 20 mins to latch- the baby would be absolutely screaming by that point, it’s so incredibly stressful and she smiles/giggles?
I can’t stand all this ‘I wake up and stare at her lovingly’ and ‘she’s such a good baby’. She’s a newborn & it’s highly unlikely you’re sleeping more than a few hours at a time.
I find Charlotte Dawson a little over the top but at least she was honest. Motherhood is no fairytale- it’s so damn hard and more people need to talk about it.
I really can't stand her and she lies like a cheap watch.
But I did have two births with minimal tearing and only gas and air.
Both were in hospital because I felt safer. Plus, I didn't want the clean up in a rental!
The first was in a posterior lie. It is rare for unassisted births to occur in that situation. But I was just so fortunate to have no further complications. As BYG would misquote: 'textbook'.
He was born at 9:49am. Labour was established at 3:20am. So it does happen.
My thing with her is that childbirth isn't a competitive sport.
It is a choice.
Some people, like me (and her), have it relatively easy.
Other women - my amazing sister in law among them - have a really hard time.
But she (sis in law) isn't a martyr. She was devastated that her home birth with my neice ended up in a 4am ambulance call. With my nephew, she booked in for an elective c-sec straight away!
We are both bloody excellent mums. And our children are a credit.
It is just the luck of the draw, frankly.
I am staggered by how stupid, selfish and insensitive she is.
- Some women choose not to have babies and are judged adversely
- Some people want babies and cant conceive
- Miscarriages are common
- Stillbirth happens and is heartbreaking
- Some babies die
Aged 10, having won every race at school, I swam for the County.
I lost.
I cried my heart out.
At 15, I ran cross country for the county and I won.
I annoyed my friends to the point where my best friend didn't talk to me for a week.
She should be happy with her 'textbook good fortune. Not implying she has done better as a 'muvver' just by virtue of having a relatively easy time (like I did).
Also, gouging his eyes out and pulling his hair doesn't suggest she was terribly in control.
Silly cow!