So I am not here this weekend. I am off celebrating and having a really good time sans children. So I have given my blog over to one of my very good friends, Momma from Live. Laugh. Pull Your Hair Out. If you don't know her, you should. She is fabulous! One of my daily reads. I love the way that she looks at life and her photos are just awesome.
So with out further ado, here is what Momma has to say about childbirth and her safe haven.
**********So with out further ado, here is what Momma has to say about childbirth and her safe haven.
A wonderful gal asked me to guest post on her blog while she goes away and parties with other cool bloggers.
How dare she?
I thought about discussing these cool bloggers and how they are the "clique" that everyone wants to be friends with but no one measures up to. I also thought about bad-mouthing them all
while they are there and we are here at home eating bon-bons in front of the TV.
while they are there and we are here at home eating bon-bons in front of the TV.
But that would be wrong.
So I give you this instead.
So I give you this instead.
I have figured it all out.
After 30 agonizing months of pregnancy, many, many pounds of weight gain, hours and hours of painful labor and hormonal hell, I have figured it out.
I have figured out why I had two more children after having my first.
Sure they are cute, fun to dress up and make life worth living, but now I know why I went through the torture to get them here.
The hospital stay.
Yep, you you read that correctly.
I enjoyed being in the hospital.
A lot!
I call it my Safe Haven. My Comfy Place. My Retreat.
Think about it. You have just endured months and months carrying this beautiful babe and then very painfully delivered him/her and it is over.
Except now you have your healthy baby in the comfort of a hospital where the majority of people around you know all about babies.
They come and check on you every once in awhile.
Some chat. Some don't but that's OK because you enjoy looking at your beautiful baby more than talking to them anyways.
There is no cleaning to do.
No cooking.
No parenting other children.
No running errands.
No worrying about how you look.
All you have to do is admire your baby, watch some television, walk down to the kitchen area to grab some food and stay in your pyjamas all day. You have visitors coming to admire your newborn and some even bring gifts.
No cooking.
No parenting other children.
No running errands.
No worrying about how you look.
All you have to do is admire your baby, watch some television, walk down to the kitchen area to grab some food and stay in your pyjamas all day. You have visitors coming to admire your newborn and some even bring gifts.
If you're lucky, some of those visitors will tell you how great you look.
Some won't.
But that's just fine, because you are in your Safe Haven. Life is good. All is well in your world.
Except for the sore boobs.
Bleeding body parts.
Uncontrollable tears.
and
No sleep.
But it is all worth it. Even after your hospital stay.
When my children are beating the crap out of each other and calling one another names I have never heard in all of my 34 years, I remember my Safe Haven and how much I enjoyed it.
Because I am never going back.
19 comments:
I know exactly what you mean! And being an employee of the hospital where I delivered meant even more special treatment. I loved it! With my third baby, I sent everyone home after the first day and told them not to come back until it was time for me to be discharged home. I had my worship CD's, a great book, lavendar room spray...talk about a safe haven!
Man, now I DO want to go back!
Great host! have fun away Jenn, I'll miss getting Friday report from you....
Oh I hate the hospital stay! They wake you up when you sleep, they hurt you, oh I can go on and on. Although ,mine was actually not that bad - maybe it's the smell. I hate that smell.
Ha! I HATED the hospital! Of course we spent 3.5 months in the first time around, so with baby #2 I checked myself out the day after she was born. I couldn't get away from that place fast enough!
You forgot the best part of the hospital stay...THE PAIN MEDICATION.
That is so true! I think we moms should all honor our birthdays or just some random day of the year by going to a place like that.. but the hospital bills are insane so let's pick a spa instead :)
I LOVED my safe haven. It was heaven! They would care for my baby, me, my husband. And I was lucky enough to be in my own birthing suite, LOVED IT. I stayed as many days as they would let a natural birth stay! (3 days!) Have fun Jen!!
Queen of Feisty
It does feel like a cocoon doesn't it?
Of course I cannot relate to any of that. I hate the hospital except for the pain medications. Those are always good for a laugh or two.
LOL. I don't think I appreciated my hospital stay the first time around, but I will take advantage of it next time (assuming we have a second one). hehe.
WOOHOO! Hope youre having a horrible time away! *wink wink*
My first was born at a Army Hospital and it was a truly rotten experience. You only get wheeled out of the hospital if you had a C Section if you did not have that when you are released you just walk down to your car. The second time I gave birth was at a civilian hospital but it too was not a great experience...it was a very old hospital and over crowded. But the upshot is they did wheel me to the car.
So very, very true! I spent a lot of time in the hospital in 2007 (5 hospitalizations between the twins' birth and medical issues with me and then each twin) and it was quite a peaceful place, very unlike home.
Love the guest post! Have a great time Jen.
I loved my time in hospital...it was like a cocoon and I didn't really want to get back to reality.....I also remember eating two desserts every night!
I felt the opposite! They kept bothering me and poking me with needles and checking girl parts peeking at my privates. I finally got some sleep when I went home.
I don't ever want to go back either but I so loved the hospital stay. I'm pretty sure I cried when I finally had to leave after my last one!
Yeah...except for all that minor stuff you mentioned, it was a blast to be in the hospital -- NOT! I don't know where you went but my hospital stay was nightmarish. I hated it.
Good post.
Ha! LOVE this post :)
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