I was in the hospital with my third child in the maternity ward. I was in pain, but I knew I couldn’t stay there. I could still hear my baby’s heartbeat, and I knew I needed to do something. I went to the nurses’ station and asked for a painkiller. They gave me a pill, but when I got out of the room, I began to feel the sharp pain in my head. I asked the staff for painkillers and a tranquilizer.
After a few minutes I felt the familiar pain in my head, but the nurse who brought me to the room seemed to know what to do. They removed the pain pills, gave me the tranquilizer, and placed me in an examination room. The nurse told me the pain pills had worked. I felt pain in my head and around my body, but I was also able to move my arms.
At that moment, I was feeling a lot better, but I wasn’t sure if that was from the tranquilizer or not. But I didn’t want to worry about it. I knew it was coming, but I didn’t want to think about it if I could avoid it.
The pain pills were apparently working. But that doesnt mean they werent doing something else.
Pain pills and a woman-shaped scarring on your forehead? I guess that was a little bit of a coincidence.
It’s not that I was feeling bad. It’s that I wasn’t feeling very good. The pain pills were probably working, but they weren’t doing a very good job. I was still having a hard time moving my arms, and I was having a hard time thinking clearly. I felt like I was having a hard time thinking at all.
One of the side effects of childbirth is post-partum mood instability. The headache, for instance, has gotten worse over the last ten years because of all the stress of having a baby. And not just the stress of feeling sad and hopeless and not knowing what to do next. The stress of not having a plan and not knowing what to do next. And the stress of not having any clue of who you are, what you need to do, or what you can do.
I don’t know if you’ve experienced this, but when you have a baby in the middle of your life, you get to have a great big party. Everyone in the house is invited, and all the kids get to play. Everyone is excited to be there. Everyone is having a fantastic time. They are the most fun. All the stress of being a baby and having a huge party is over.
I am so tired of hearing people say they “feel” having a baby is stressful. I mean, I feel stressed, and I know that feeling. But I also know that it feels like having a great big party. There are things I want to do, and things I want to not do, and there are ways I want to handle things. It’s not stress. It’s just like having a party where there is food and fun, and without the stress of a baby.
I could go on and on. There are only so many times I can go, one way or the other. But I will say that it was great seeing everyone so happy. They were all so excited to be a part of the birth experience. I could see them getting a bit giddy, and I could see the smiles on their faces as they got to know their baby. I also saw lots of crying, but that was expected.