Welcome Little Baby 💙 My Birth Story & What's Next
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- Опубліковано 27 чер 2024
- I'm very happy to announce the birth of our baby Floris 💙🤍
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I’m Lucy, nice to meet you.
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Please don't ever feel bad for wishing the birth had gone differently. Of course the priority is that you and baby are healthy, but you are 100% allowed to be disappointed/have mixed feelings about the birth. Doesn't mean you're not grateful. And you can look back months later and realize that birth can be beautiful and traumatic at the same time. That was my experience, time and if needed therapy really help to come to terms with the upsetting parts of birth. Congratulations on your boy 🎉
Yes! This exactly! Just because things didn't go horribly wrong doesn't mean that it wasn't still traumatic, down playing our own bad experiences because "someone else had it worse" doesn't help you heal.
I didn't have ANY of the "beautiful, powerful feminine energy" expectations that you did when I gave birth (maybe that attitude just wasn't as widely spread 15+ years ago?) and my labor and delivery was textbook and relatively short.
AND STILL it was Traumatic! Honestly I can't wrap my head around someone who would describe it as anything but.. it is PAINFUL, it changes your body FOREVER.
You are not betraying your Joy by acknowledging the pain.
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I agree 100%
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@@InThisEssayIWill... Oh yes to the pain.... Those last 4 centimetres were the worst pain and I remember begging for a c section.
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I was here when she was cutting her own bangs and now she has a beautiful baby. Congratulations girl ❤
Sameeee me tooo❤
DIY Queen lol 🤭🥰
Here since the sock bun!
Me too!
Sock bun! :)
All 4 of my babies wanted to stay in my womb. Lol So, all were unmedicated inductions. They last one being 30 years ago. I think it must be hard with social media showing all of these home births and making a hospital birth seem like a bit of a failure. Your body did what it was made to do, even if it needed help. We are blessed to live in a time when intervention makes it possible for baby and Mom to be safely delivered of a human! Congratulations Mama!
I hadn't thought of the social media aspect, it was 15+ years ago for me and a lot of the ideas she talks about having here are things I've never heard of before. It's been so long since I've been in that kind of information space I just had no idea that it had changed so dramatically. I never conceptualized giving birth as something to look forward to, holding the baby afterwards sure, but the actual labor was always going to be hard work in my mind.
My birthing story for both of my children was wildly different than I had planned or hoped for, as well. Some people will shut you down with “but your baby is healthy so what does it matter,” but please know it’s okay to grieve that experience you had so hoped to have. It doesn’t make you ungrateful for a healthy baby. Congratulations on your baby. I wish you and your family every happiness!
Your feelings regarding your birth experience are 100% valid. Having an induction and a very medicalized birth is a tough experience even if "both baby and mom are ok". I had a traumatic birth and lost one of my babies, and I believe all women deserve a beautiful birth and are allowed to be sad when birth did not happen how they wanted it to happen.
This resonated with me very strongly, my son was born at 42+3 after every intervention and ultimately we needed an emergency C-section to bring him here. Please know that whatever you feel about your birth experience is completely valid. It took me a long time to wrap my head around the trauma from my own birth and I'm now 10 weeks away from having my second child. Just know that you did everything right and you are completely allowed to feel disappointed by the experience. I hope motherhood is treating you well, congratulations Lucy!
It’s absolutely not ungrateful to have to grieve not having a home birth and the experience you really wanted. You can recognize that you didn’t have a fully positive experience while also being glad it went ok. ❤️❤️
Congratulations! Floris is a beautiful name.
It reminds me of Florian in French, which I really like!
Congratulations Lucy! ❤ from LOTR braids to babies. Time flies!
I never expected to see the photos you have shared on instagram of your son. Whether it's his hand or the back of his head. I never expected you'd show us that much. So thank you. I feel like you're sharing a little of him with us while keeping your privacy. Congratulations on the birth of your little boy by the way
Incredible story. Even though nothing went "wrong" per se I think it's ok to feel conflicted about the experience which did not go according to your plans so don't feel bad about it ❤️
Delighted to see you back mama and happy you are doing well! 💖 So important to share these stories ❤ My first didn’t go to plan either and I felt like I couldn’t admit to being basically traumatised by it (because ultimately I was very lucky that baby was born healthy!) but ALL EXPERIENCES AND BIRTHS ARE VALID xxxxx
It's perfectly normal to feel how you feel. Don't deny your feelings just to assuage someone else's. You'll end up hurting yourself much more.
Congratulations! Please don’t feel like you are complaining. Giving birth is a massive deal and even though others have different experiences that doesn’t make yours any less valid!
My first son's birth was at hospital, induced at 37weeks and full of meds. Hated it, even now I feel like I'm grieving my experience, he's 4yo and great! My second son's birth happen on covid lockdown I was utterly alone no support and my midwife didn't want to help during birth...it was natural however but still in hospital and not what I wanted. My third son was at home, uneducated, relaxed and with my husband. It was beautiful, perfect and my new midwife was an absolute angel. ❤ Every birth is different and honestly home birthing was my dream, keep your dream to give birth at home for the next one Loepsie!! Glad to hear baby Floris is healthy and happy. ❤
My eldest son was born three weeks early at nearly 11 pounds. I had undiagnosed gest diabetes because I had been through so many doctors at a university hospital that nobody followed up on some thing they should have. I wanted to have a natural childbirth and all of that stuff kind of like you but in the 1988 version of it. None of that happened and a lot of bad things actually happened and honestly, I was mad at myself. I was mad at the doctors. I was mad at the whole system and you know what ultimately I got over it because I had my baby and he’s perfect in spite of everything. Eventually, he was the healthy baby. He was meant to be. we don’t have control over so many things and for me I just look at it as if I had been born 100 years before I was or even maybe 50, I probably wouldn’t have survived that pregnancy and it’s doubtful that my son would have either. All the interventions were probably not necessary, but the ultimate one was a cesarean section and as he was almost 11 pounds it was necessary. I had three days of induction. My waters were broken. I had a monitor and all kinds of things that added up to awfulness. Subsequent pregnancies, I learned that my body will not dilate no matter how long I am pregnant it just won’t. It doesn’t matter how long I’m induced it won’t. I, and at least two of my children are only here because of modern medicine so it may not have always been done perfectly, but it had to be done even though I didn’t like it even though it didn’t go along with anything I wanted. I wanted the kids and I got them so there’s that.😊 take it easy and enjoy your sweet little baby boy.
From seeing you cutting your bangs to now a mother...May God bless you and yours with great health, immense love and all the healing....❤❤❤ Love from India
Childbirth is a birthing of a mother and father too. Your strength shows at feeding times now.
Welcome baby! Congratulations parents!
Congratulations Lucy, I've been watching you since we were both in highschool and you were doing your super early hair care videos. You were the first UA-camr I discovered on my first summer using UA-cam, and you feel like such an old friend and I'm so so proud of you
Congrats on your baby! You'll find yourself wondering how you ever had a life before him - babies bring so much stress, but also so much joy to your life. Especially once they start developing a personality.
Birth story: mine was horrific. I was 20 and very underprepared. I ended up having pre-eclampsia, so I was taken into hospital several weeks ahead of my due date to try and induce labor. I ended up there for a week, on stroke medication, with a central line in my neck after 17 IVS and another central line infiltrated. I was so swollen by the end of it, I had blisters all over my legs and I was unrecognizable in a mirror. The labor wasn't too bad, but I hemorrhaged and nearly died. I ended up having to get a few blood transfusions. I survived, my daughter was born healthy and did fine, but the whole thing was traumatic for everyone involved. I don't remember most of it now, it's just a blur, but two years later my OB/GYN said basically I should never have been able to get pregnant in the first place, my uterous was full of cysts and scar tissue, and endometriosis, and I ended up getting a full hysterectomy when my daughter was 2 years old. 10/10 would not recommend, but was totally worth it.
I'm a mom of 7 and I've had a few challenging births and delivery, so I truly understand ❤ You did wonderful 🎉
Congratulations! I've been watching you for years and years and now I'm having my own little one within months of yours!
I had a very similar birth with my first. I never went into labor naturally on my own and felt that disappointment and anxiety with myself. I felt all the same feelings, and just because you didn’t have medical emergencies doesn’t mean you didn’t have trauma. It is okay to grieve the experience you wanted to have. Allow yourself that because it will help you heal. I still look back at my birth and the early weeks with him with a lot of bittersweet feelings and it’s been a few years. I just gave birth to my second and it was 180 degree different experience and it reminded me of a lot of the trauma of my first that I had forgotten about, or thought I had processed and they resurfaced. I felt that grief again for my first experience. I realized in hindsight just how much trauma I really did have. My first was born during covid, we came home had had no help, exhausted and so so lonely. I actually felt very anxious and unsure with my second birth in the beginning. But it was overall so different and healing. Allow yourself the time to process, grieve and heal! It might take a while, and that’s okay, and it doesn’t diminish any of what you experienced at all. ❤
thank you for sharing your birth story! this all feels very special to me, as i first discovered your channel when sewing my wedding dress, and when i got pregnant, i saw that you were expecting too! and now our baby girl is 3 weeks younger than Floris. we also had a different birth than what i envisioned in my birth plan, though my daughter decided to come out by herself on the day i would've gone to the hospital to start the induction 😅 i still had a positive experience, because the hospital staff was amazingly supportive and informative. i think it's important to share the real experience, not just the euphoric and positive ones. birth is so much more than "both mama and baby are healthy" and most people forget that. congratulations and enjoy your time with your new family ❤️
Congratulations! Floris is such a beautiful name!
I absolutely know how you feel. All 3 of my babies were induced. With my last I really wanted to push it as long as I could to experience spontaneous labor, but unfortunately baby failed a stress test and it was deemed necessary for baby to come out at 40 weeks. I’m sad I’ll never experience spontaneous labor AND I’m grateful for the inductions that brought my babies into this world. Both can exist together.
Congratulations to you both on the birth of your beautiful, healthy little boy 🥰🩵
You're definitely not alone in feeling conflicted and about your birth experience. I also wanted an unmedicated, natural birth. I had to be induced as well, and in the US they go straight for the most extremely measures. I caved and got an epidural, which terrified me. My baby went into distress and I ended up having an emergency C section. He's almost 12 and I'm still salty about it! I already didn't love being pregnant and that was just the icing on the cake. If anything, I'm sad that I let the birth experience taint the entire pregnancy. Thank you for sharing your story and being so candid!
Congratulations 🎊 God bless your family!✨
Congratulations on baby Floris, Lucy! I'm glad both you and the baby are doing well. Your feelings are natural and I appreciate your honesty. You were in my prayers during your pregnancy and labor. I had all four of my children without pain meds (1985-1990). The three girls were super fast labor and deliveries, and I had to be induced with our son. That labor and delivery was traumatic partially due to the pitocin and he was a dry birth.
I'm childfree by choice, but my sister in law had an interesting experience with her first pregnancy. I can't speak to all of it, as it wasn't me going through it, but I do know she was in labor for what seemed like hours before the doctors decided to do a C-section because my nephew was stuck. I believe he was around 12 pounds! I remember my mom freaking out, thinking he would be brain damaged, but he came out just fine, albeit with a bit of a conehead from being stuck. It went away fairly quickly and now he's 24, married and a news anchor in Texas. Congrats on your little one! Love the dress you're wearing in this video. :)
It’s ok to feel both gratitude and disappointment at the same time! I did everything in my power to avoid a c-section but as the weeks went on it seemed more and more likely. Finally I scheduled an ECV as a last effort to get her head down, but ended up having an emergency c-section days before the ECV was scheduled. Turns out baby girl had her chord wrapped three times. I’m incredibly grateful that things worked out as they did, because it was the safest way to bring her into the world and she’s here safe and healthy! But I’m still disappointed I wasn’t able to have the broth I wanted, and that’s ok too!
I hear you dear Lucy. I hope 'debriefing' here really helps with your healing from the experience..
Welcome back, and congratulations on your baby boy!
I am so excited for you!
I’d love to see more cooking or meal prep, deco and reno, definitely more hair stuff! More tea time! And sewing is always ALWAYS welcomed♥️
Adore your dress. Take your time and enjoy your baby. Congratulations!
I was induced 2x due to preeclampsia. Hospital births both times because of my bp (it's just always been high). I'm glad baby is here and I'm sorry it took so long to get it started! Sometimes they just don't want to leave! It's okay to grieve the birth you wanted. It's also important that people talk about it. I feel like so often all we hear about are the beautiful "perfect" births or the super traumatic ones. It's important to talk about the in betweens!
Congratulations and Blessings to you and your new bundle of joy!!! 🩵👶💚
Congratulations, so happy that you and baby are doing well! You’re exactly right about it still being fresh and your perspective shifting / softening with time ❤ enjoy this time, it goes quickly!
Congratulations - you all have a world of adventure ahead of you x
Congratulations ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 I am happy that baby and you are good! I wish you a wonderful time with him!!
Hearty congratulations loepsie🎉🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations! Best of luck as you and your family continue on the next part of your wonderful adventure with your baby .💖💖🤗🤗
Congratulations to you and dad. Welcome baby ❤
Congratulations Lucy! SO happy for you! ♥
Aww I never clicked on a video so fast! So beautiful to see you as a mommy. ❤
The scream I scrumped! Congratulations!!! 💖💖💖 Glad you are both healthy 💖
I am just so over the moon happy for you and your new little family 🖤 enjoy this time, so cliché, but it really does go by so quickly.
I can clearly see you are such a good Mamma already 🖤
Your video has left a lasting impression on me. I can't stop thinking about it!
Congratulations 👶🏻💕 anything food or closet related is what I love to watch. Also, easy vintage/retro hairstyles.
I’m just glad you and baby are okay. That was so cute what the nurse did of taking pictures.
Aww congratulations to you and Robbert. Love the name floris! More hair styles please
Congratulations and welcome to the world, Floris!!!! 🎊🎉
So very happy for you loupsie. ❤
Thank you so much for sharing!❤❤❤
Congratulations! How exciting! You did great! I love your hair videos, if you do more of those that would be so fun!
I welcome a new baby into the world and I send a big congratulations to the parents. Lots of love.💕
Congratulations! I hope you and baby are doing well
Floris is beautiful and it’s amazing to see you again!
I’d love to see you making more corset tops when you’re able, they’re beautiful! ❤
Congratulations to you both on your new arrival
Congratulations on your son... may he bring you all the happiness you deserve.
Congratulations and blessings!
I'd love to see some good/recipe videos again on top of all your wonderful videos. I like learning new recipes and always appreciate yours. Enjoy baby Floris they grow so quickly!
Thank you for sharing this very honest insight into your birthing experience! I can imagine that coming to terms with the whole experience might take a while. Congratulations on your beautiful baby ❤
Oh my goodness you poor thing. I'm so glad everything worked out in the end but you had a hard road. Enjoy your lovely baby. An exciting (and exhausting!) new chapter.
Congratulations! Understand the mixed feelings, wish you all the best! 🤗💕
My first birth was quite similar to yours in that it was an induction, which I didn’t want, and resulted in me getting an epidural, which I eventually requested because I knew I didn’t have the stamina to go on given how slowly I was progressing. I have mixed feelings about it, because like you everything went well, but it just wasn’t what I’d envisioned or prepared for during pregnancy. My second birth, however, was everything I wanted. It was a beautiful birth center water delivery and was absolute magic. So you might get what you hope for the second time around! Maybe not, but I’ve learned every birth is going to be its own thing. Know you’re not alone in your mixed feelings and that it’s okay to feel that way! Congratulations on Floris; he sounds like a dream.
Congratulations Lucy! I am so happy your baby boy is here and that you are both healthy 🙏🏻 don't worry about not having the birth you wanted, many of us didn't. I try to focus mostly on knowing that God was taking care of me and my baby all the time. Enjoy each second with your baby, time goes by so quickly 🥹
Congratulations! I was pregnant for 42 weeks too so I get you, it's a LONG time! You may find it helpful to go over the birth with a good therapist. Mine wasn't traumatic either, it just didn't quite pan out how I'd imagined and even if there's no trauma, it can be very healing to tell the whole story to someone neutral and understanding. Whichever way it happens, giving birth is transformative and I think it's good to give that its space. It's great to see you back and so full of life, hats off to you because I remember 6w postpartum and I would NOT have been so peppy on camera at that point!
Congratulations! Im sorry things didnt pan out as hoped, your feelings are totally valid ❤ i hope your hair doesn't fall off! Lol i would love hair videos or more content about post pregnancy (diet, how you feel, how your routines change). Welcome back to UA-cam and wishing you and your family well ❤
So happy to see u back❤ content wice I love your vlogs, wether they are about sewing or gardening or coocking or just mundane life, I just love u as a person so anything that makes u happy will doo😊😊
Congrats and good to hear you're all well.
I'd love to watch anything to do with hair. Those kind of videos are interesting as well as inspiring.
i’ve followed you for so long i can’t even remember!!! probably the sock bun era. watching you grow has been so beautiful and i am so proud and happy for you!!!
Awwwww bless you so glad everything turned out okay in the end, congratulations
congratulations loepsie 💕💕
Congratulations! Such a beautiful little baby for you and your husband.
Gefeliciteerd met jullie zoon Floris! 👶🏼
Welcome to the world of motherhood. It's the best blessing ever! Congratulations!
Me racing to UA-cam to watch! Congratulations….so happy for your new little family. 💕
So happy that you and your family are doing well
Congratulations on the healthy birth of your son. You look wonderful and I am happy for your growing family.
Congratulations on your new baby boy, my son was induced at 42 weeks and my daughter was 1 day over but I was due to be induced the following day as she had stopped growing at 32 weeks, epidural for son but nothing for her and she was under 3 hours from first contraction to the last stitch. It's 35 years ago now but I still remember seeing them for the 1st time. ❤
Congratulations on the safe arrival of baby Floris 👶🎉
I can so relate to your mixed feelings. I wanted to be an earth mother, giving birth without pain relief, listening to whale song, breast feeding etc, but I had a traumatic and stressful pregnancy it was inevitably a medically managed birth. I also had an induced labour that took a while to get going, I got a long way with a rocking chair, plus gas and air, but I ended up agreeing to an epidural. I was only able to breast feed for a few days, so felt quite a failure compared to my expectations.
It's healthy to acknowledge and talk about the negative feelings. Some people will no doubt judge, but many more will understand. It's so generous of you to share your personal experiences and I know it will also help other new parents too.
Wishing your new family so much joy and happiness. Take care of yourself 💕
Congratulations! ❤👶 Everyone has their own story, don't ever feel like yours is less than, it's just different.
I'm so sorry you weren't able to have a home birth! It is 100% understandable and valid to grieve that. I would. My oldest was a home birth (thank God; long and hard but definitely a positive experience and I'm planning the same for my second in Nov) but how you described your concern/dislike of the hospital environment is something I 100% identify with. Good for you for sticking it out and staying strong! Congratulations on your healthy baby boy!
I would love a tea video! What are you drinking this summer? Do you have any favorite snacks/meals to pair with your tea?
I just missed you,
Welcome back 🎉❤😊
I gave birth to my first child almost five months ago now and like you it didn't go as I expected. There was a point during labour when i was informed that there were some risks developing and in the end I concenting to an emergency cesarean, even though I was scared. In the end the medical team did a great job of making us feel calm and supported throughout the whirlwind that was happening around us, my recovery has gone well and our baby was healthy. Despite that a part of me feels like I had missed out of the "full" experience of a natural birth, but I am starting to come to terms with this and to appreciate that even if it wasn't the experience I expected it doesn't mean it was any less special.
Congratulations!!
Congratulations Lucy.
Gefeliciteerd met jouw zoontje!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You never know what you’re going to get during a birth. 12 years after my one and only, I still feel lucky to be alive! I wouldn’t be here had it not been for modern medical practices. Sometimes nature is very, very cruel.
You look amazing!! Congratulations
I gave birth just over 3 months ago In a hospital in America. It was a mostly good experience, I wasn't able to go all natural like I wanted to but I know the epidural helped me relax and allowed me to dilate. It got a little scary toward because my son's heartbeat would drop with each contraction, they told me he probably had his cord wrapped around his neck. (He definitely did) so it took him what felt like forever to cry after he came out. He's super healthy now and growing like crazy. Enjoy the quite moments with your little man while is still so little 💙(I feel like my son is huge now) congratulations!!
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for sharing your story! I'm 24 weeks pregnant and preparing for the birth in any way I can, your honest story really helped❤
And for video suggestions: clean with me, decluttering, home updates, or your favourite things of the moment (books, skincare, anything really😅). But I will watch any video you make, happy that you're back!
Congratulations again on the arrival of Floris, nothing compares to the joy of having a baby.
I had 3 hospital births and all were positive experiences. My last baby (number 3) was the one that was the easiest and I felt empowered and that feeling of being one with my body. I went into labours totally open minded with all 3 babies and was guided by wonderful midwives. I never had had pain relief but my labours from start (spontaneous rupture of membranes began all my labours) to birth were 12 hours. I never had a birth plan as I didn't want to feel I was robbed of something if the birth plan veered from what I had written. As long as our babies arrived healthy I didn't mind how it happened.
Our daughter had two failure to progress labours and ended up with c sections (2020 and end of 2021) and to this day she is a little disappointed at not delivering naturally. I tell her that watching her two daughters growing healthily no matter how they arrived is the biggest blessing and your vajajay thanks god every day (said in humour) and that it is ok to feel disappointment at how your dream of labour did not go as planned. Covid times also meant there were no visitors or support people apart from her hubby were allowed which I think added to her disappointing experience. Not being able to see family for 5 days after having baby was hard for her.
Thank you for sharing this with us! What a super star you are for making it through such a long unmedicated birth! Seriously! You should be so proud! 💪 My first birth wasn’t anything like I expected, and it took me a long time to come to terms with the grief I felt over it. But my 2nd and 3rd births were magical. I learned so much from each one.