[Birth Report Part 3] Record of my first birth | First-time mother | Natural birth | Finally giving birth

This is a record of the birth I experienced.
I am writing this while looking at my diary from that time.

This part starts from when active labor began.
It will be a bit long, but I hope you will stay with me until the end.😌🍀

Active labor that was painful enough to make me vomit

The pain after moving to the labor room was truly beyond my imagination.

For the first time in my life, I screamed that loudly.

I kept saying "it hurts," and I vomited three times in the labor room.
When I vomited, I couldn't breathe properly, which was also painful.

"Please don't push yet."

Even though I understood it in my head, when the pain came, I couldn't help but feel like putting strength into my lower body.

Even if I tried to release it through breathing, I didn't have the composure for that.

Before I knew it, I was putting all my strength into the hands gripping the bed rails.

My husband who stayed by my side the whole time

I am quite nearsighted, but at that time, I didn't have the composure to wear my glasses.

I couldn't see much of my surroundings.

Even so, I knew that my husband was rubbing my back and lower back the whole time, and that he kept telling me to "hang in there."

Perhaps he learned by watching the nurse, because he got better and better as we went along😂

Adjusting the position of the oxygen mask and rubbing my lower back, he was very reliable.

After a while, there was an internal examination,

and I was told, "The cervix is 10cm dilated."

I was surprised.

It took so long to get to 3cm, but I realized that once active labor starts, it progresses all at once.

I had vomited so much that I drank all 500ml of water, so I had my husband go buy more.

And then, I remembered this.

A straw that allows you to drink while lying down.

The "later" time for "I'll attach it later" never came...

Finally to the delivery table

Finally, I moved to the delivery table.

Thinking, "Wait, I have to walk this distance myself?!"

I endured the pain and walked little by little.

In the delivery room, the midwives and nurses were very efficient.
Attaching the blood pressure monitor, preparing the sheets, the preparations for birth were being completed one after another.

Even during that time, every time I screamed "It hurts!"

they kindly said to me, "I understand, you'll be able to meet your baby soon."

Come to think of it, I had shared my birth plan with the hospital, but I hadn't told my husband anything... I remembered at this moment.🫢

By the way, my birth plan is as follows.

I'm sure there were some things that would have been fine even if I hadn't specifically asked, but everything was granted.

In the YouTube videos I watched before giving birth, there were people holding their husband's hands while giving birth, but I didn't feel like I could hold them with that kind of strength.

I decided to desperately grip the bar of the delivery table that was attached near my lower back.

The moment the baby was born

The midwife said in a calm voice,

"I will tell you when to push."

"Okay, now!"

I pushed in time with that voice.

In my case, it seems it was a very easy birth,

and after pushing about three times,
Whoosh!

The baby was born.

That moment was a feeling I still cannot forget.

It was as if something that had been stuck in my stomach was gone all at once.

I remember my body feeling suddenly lighter and incredibly refreshed.

The doctors' procedures (it seems they were rubbing the baby's back) began, and I immediately heard a healthy first cry.

The moment I heard that voice, I felt relieved from the bottom of my heart.

My husband was the first to say,

"You did a great job."

I couldn't reply because I was out of breath, but I remember nodding many times.

We finally met

The midwife showed me the baby with the umbilical cord still attached.

There was blood all over the body, and the skin was a little purple.

Looking at the child crying with a scrunched-up face,

"Ah, this baby is my child."

"They were really born."

I felt a strange sensation.

As requested in the birth plan, my husband cut the umbilical cord.

The precious umbilical cord that had connected me and the baby.

By having my husband cut this, I felt like it really hit home that "we have become a family of three."

My husband was quite nervous, but encouraged by the doctors, he cut it safely.

When the baby was wrapped in a swaddle and came into my arms, I couldn't say anything.

I was just moved.

After the birth

After that, while they were treating the baby and me,

"How cute!"

"Mom, you did a great job!"

The midwives and nurses spoke to me many times.

I was truly grateful that they created a bright atmosphere from beginning to end.

I remember the baby sneezing while being weighed, and everyone there smiling.

The entire process of the birth was captured in photos and videos by my husband and the nurses.

I'm glad they kept them for me, precisely because memories will surely fade little by little.

Before returning to the hospital room, I was told, "Please try to urinate in the toilet if you can," but I didn't know where to put the strength...

In the end, I couldn't do it well, and they treated me with a catheter.

I felt a little relieved when the midwife said, "That's common."

When I returned to the hospital room, breakfast was prepared.

I was hungry, but the fatigue won out, so I ate about half and finished.

My husband also went home once here.
He seemed to have been hit by a wave of fatigue after the birth, and he looked sleepy.🥱

I finally got to bed too.

When I managed to move my wobbly lower back and lie down, I was very happy to be able to sleep on my back for the first time in a while.

And then,

"I really gave birth."

That realization slowly began to sink in.

Reflecting on it

It was unexpectedly difficult because I had a fever before the birth, but I think the baby was waiting in my stomach until I was ready.

But once active labor started, it was really over in a flash.

Even now, six months later, I can remember that day surprisingly vividly.

I realized that this is what "an event that stays in your heart" means.

If I am blessed with another baby in the future,

I think I will choose a natural birth again.

Because although it was the most painful thing in my life, I want to experience that feeling of my body becoming light again once more.✌️

I hope to write about my time in the hospital and life after childbirth in another article.

Finally

Originally, even when I saw babies and thought they were cute, I wasn't the type to get all that excited.

But my own child is completely different.

I'm sure all the moms and dads across the country feel the same way, but...

My child is definitely the cutest in the world 👶🏻🤍

Thank you so much for reading this far.