Grim... wrote:
Sam managed to get the cord around his neck twice (as in around it twice, not at two separate times). The doctors pinned an ECG thing onto his head while he was still in the womb and he flatlined about twenty seconds before he was born. He come out grey and limp, like something that not only wasn't going to live, but that never had or could live. Mrs. Grim... was so out of it with all the pain she had no idea what was going on, so every time she looked at me I had to put on a "yup, everything's fine" face even though I was petrified.
The docs put him on a magic machine which blows air into their face and massages him - they didn't zap him (to my knowledge), and it took him about three minutes (which felt like about three hours) before he took on some colour and started to cry.
Heavens - well, I'm glad all is okay then.
Mind you, they come out looking pale purple, limp and looking pretty lifeless when they're born
alive. Fucking scary stuff even when nothing is going wrong.
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The moral of the story, as far as I'm concerned, is: If you do have children, please, for the love of God, do it in a hospital. Home births just aren't worth the risk.
Well, we're doing this one at home. The hospital was so fucking incompetent with Olly that we're risking it at home. We have an ace midwife, and a nearby hospital they can be whisked to if anything goes wrong.
Most of the people we know with young kids our age have had home births - it's a very small percentage that have something go so wrong that you need a doctor, so you were very unlucky.
And in fact doctors can actually make things worse, according to a paediatrician I know, as they tend to jump straight in for the medical procedures when a midwife could probably finish things off without Vontusing, forceps or a C-Section. This is because doctors are all afraid of getting sued, and are always in a hurry, too. And like playing with knives.
Well, there's nowt more likely to cause arguments than opinions birth and childcare - it's worse than politics.