I’m afraid I won’t have one. Is that the problem? I’ve heard so many beautiful and intense birth stories; births that were difficult and didn’t go as planned, perhaps, but births that started with a deep call from the body asking to bring out life. Births that took someone further inside themselves than they had ever gone. Labor as a connection between the birthing person and their partner, or with the alien inside. A drug trip (that was my theory), a place of no-time and only waves. Stories of labor and birth always sounded mythical to me, and now I guess they’ll remain as myths.
I felt the same when this happened to me. My first-born was breach, so he was C-section and then so was my daughter. I still had a story that I wanted to share about the amazing experience of bringing them into the world! Occasionally I still regret that I missed what it feels like to “give birth.” But life became so full with them, I focus on all the other experiences. I hope the best for you when it happens!
As I guy, just can't relate. As a reader, what lovely prose . . . .
I felt the same when this happened to me. My first-born was breach, so he was C-section and then so was my daughter. I still had a story that I wanted to share about the amazing experience of bringing them into the world! Occasionally I still regret that I missed what it feels like to “give birth.” But life became so full with them, I focus on all the other experiences. I hope the best for you when it happens!