Random thread about labour

Since given birth, everynight when i get into bed and lay down it goes over and over in my mind... just from arriving at hospital, contractions and then pushing but not actually when Rosie eventually arrived (which is the better part of it ) lol its really weird, anyone had this and might know why it keeps going over and over in my head? The last couple of days i havent thought of it so much but now and again it just pops up in my mind.

Lucy & Rosie(14wks + 1)

Hi hun

i've had something similar with aspects of her birth and the time afterwards when we were still in the hospital.

i think it is a bit of ptsd - post traumatic stress disorder or acute stress reaction - if you google it you can read about it on wiki...

the easiest way to get rid of it repeating is to use acupressure tapping on the feelings www.emofree.com
also write it down in a diary
and talk to someone about it

and yep, i didn't have the good parts going over in my mind either - but then, your mind was quite happy with the good parts and so doesn't need to process it in the same way.

hugs
elizabeth & siri
xxxx

Yup, sounds familiar

Hi there - I still occasionally go over my daughter's birth in my head, and that was 18 months ago. I felt a real need to discuss virtually all the time in the first few months following the birth - I took to telling all my friends about it constantly, since my hubby was a bit freaked out by the (totally ordinary) gore and I could tell that he wasn't too keen on reliving it again!

Silly thing is that mine was in no way traumatic, no emergencies, no medical procedures - just an ordinary natural birth with a very happy ending. I think it's such an extraordinary, life changing and, frankly, quite shocking thing to do that I needed to adjust to the idea of it. So much of modern life is tailored to comfort and convenience that I think I found it a bit shocking to experience something so primal. Was there anything in your birth that might have disturbed you particularly?

I'm pregnant again, so no doubt I will start regularly reliving the first birth again soon!

xxx

I thought labour was ok, i wasnt stressed atall when my waters started leaking maybe when i went to delivery reception when it all started to sink in but then i wasnt stressed by it...my contractions only got stronger when i was 6cm and i apprently my partner said i was asleep most of it, i had the gas and air tube resting on my lip and when i needed it i wud just suck on it asleep lol so i dont remember much of it untill they told me to get up and go to loo which made me panic because i couldnt and i started shivering becuase i wanted to go back to bed then i needed to push which was the most worst part of it because they took the gas and air from me so i had notthing then an hour into it she still wouldnt come so they called doctors to cut me but luckly all docs were in surgoery so i eventually had her after 1 n half hours of pushing so maybe thats why i relive it?... i hardly think about it now but i still love telling everyone about it heh!

Hope ur well xx

i had dreams replaying my labour for a few weeks after giveing birth!
i mean feeling the pain and everything!
i woke up and was like ohhh noo not again
i also had phantom kicks!
like i felt my baby kicking inside me even tho she wasnt!
i was really worried .
so dont worry it jsut fades away in time
to a memory not a nightmare
lots of love
claire & evelynn(4 months)
xxx

Yes

I think I know exactly what you mean.
This kept happening after Charlies birth for a long time. I had 3 babies prior to that and didn't 'relive' the births much at all so I thought that as Charlies had been really really quick and traumatic (OH didn't make it to hosp in time) that was the reason. I used to shake all over at the memory of it but it kept popping into my head.
I heard that you have to talk out the birth, anytime I mentioned it to OH looking for a bit of sympathy he got annoyed and thought I was digging him up for not being there but I was just wanting to tell someone what it was like.
I think I only stopped thinking about it because I got pg again so quickly and had to focus on other things ha ha

I did relive Francis' birth for a few weeks but in comparism to Charlies, the whole experience was pleasant so i didn't mind. Weird eh?