Back Off Barbie
The year, 2007 went by so quickly for me.
I got married…moved to Philly….got a dog…got a new job…got pregnant.
End of 2007.
Enter 2008.
Got a baby.
The whole ‘pregnant’ experience went really well. I never got sick…had any scares…nothin’.
It was a great, plump 41 weeks.
I had some sadness as we got closer to the delivery date, though.
Sad that neither of our families were close enough to show up to the hospital when our little guy arrived.
I hated to ask any of them to come because we really had no idea when ‘he’ would come!
So I decided to shelf the visitors till after he was born. Knowing I was surely going to need a break.
The time came when my son came into the world.
And we know how nutty of an experience THAT turned out to be.
It was Memorial Day Weekend in ’08.
And NOT ONE PERSON CAME TO VISIT US.
I have to admit…
I didn’t want anyone to come. I felt like hell. I looked even WORSE than hell.
Even though we didn’t have family here – we had a few coworkers that had become great friends of ours… and I wanted nothing of it. NO visitors.
Just because I couldn’t deal.
During the whole labor experience – the anesthesiologist overshot my epidural and knocked me over the edge. Oh. My. Gosh. It was HORRIBLE.
If you’ve never experienced it, I hope you NEVER have to.
I had to lay flat the entire time. Every time I sat up, I got this raging headache. Like someone hit me over the head with a crowbar.
Yeah. That bad.
They ended up having to do a blood patch the day we went home with hopes to make me better. Thank goodness it worked cause I had no idea how I was going to live like that.
My head hurts now just thinking about it.
So add that to the mix…I can’t even believe I let a NURSE in my room! ha.
Looking back on it, I’m very glad that we didn’t have any visitors.
It was enough to get to know my baby.
If we would have had 20 people waiting in the wings to meet the new addition?!?!?!
I seriously would have lost my mind.
If #2 comes along some day?
I think I’ll have a change of heart.
Maybe.
How about you? What was your experience like?
Were you one of those new moms with gorgeous makeup and your best friends from high school in the waiting room? (sigh) Awe the luck.
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