Now, another thing I was told when I went to the hospital because I was thin was, somebody like you, you'll be able to wear your street clothes home from the hospital. Okay. You cannot wear your street clothes home. Nobody after a two days stay in the hospital is ready to wear the street clothes home. Now I don't know, maybe if you're 14 and having a baby, but the normal people -- you cannot, there is no way you're going home in your blue jeans. And for lots of reasons, blue jeans are just not comfortable I mean you've just given birth through the birth canal and you can never get that button done up. You'll never get that button done up and no matter how thin you could go back to being, you're not that person for several months to come. That requires months and months of breastfeeding, exercising and good luck.
The final thing -- oh! Yes, yes, yes, the final thing. Right. Your hospital suitcase. So for particularly the first time you have a baby, you spend -- I had my suitcase packed to go to the hospital and I had my little picture that I was going to focus on and I had my music and I had this whole image of my head based on the classes, the birthing classes that I am -- this was going to be a really serene experience.
Okay! So the first time I gave birth, I was home alone and I felt that first labor pain but I had some errands to do, so I went to do them. I am standing in line at the bank and I feel like my body temperature go up, I feel really hot and I go, huh! That's weird. But that I keep doing what I am doing. I go to do my next errand, it happens again. I say to the woman at the store, feel my face, I think I am hot. She says, oh! Yeah, you're hot. So I go home and I call my husband on his phone and it's the only day for the past week he left his cell phone at home.
So I am lying on the bed, trying to stay calm and there the pains are pretty far apart so I am not panicking and then they start to come a little faster so I called my doctor, she says, come to the hospital. I say, how? What's there to take me, I don't know if I can try. I called my cousin. She is a nurse and she is off duty and she comes to pick me up. And on the way there, I feel that the pains are getting worse. But we get to the hospital, and I still don't realize what I meant for. I said her, drop me at the door of emergency, I'll take it from here. She of course I think had children is laughing her head off and says, I will park the car and I'll be there in a minute.
By the time I get seen in the maternity ward, I am in pain, because the first time you just don't know what's about to happen to you. I am in pain. Okay! So I have my suitcase, back to the suitcase. When it all happened, it happened so quickly, I didn't have time for music. I didn't have time to look at a picture. I don't remember having time to breathe. In my case, it came so quickly I had time to push. That's it. I never open the suitcase. My second baby, I give birth wearing my maternity dress, that I borrowed from somebody and then they didn't want it back afterwards surprisingly enough.
It happens quickly. I had time to grab my husband's arm, leave him bruised for life and deliver a baby. You don't need the stuff in your suitcase. And those I think -- I have to think about it. No those are the main things that people never tell you about giving birth that you really need to know.
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