We didn't really remember them until Kelly Gray, our doula, came for a postpartem visit. She asked us what we remembered, and we slowly started going over all the events of the one-day labor.
The one that made us laugh hardest was when Kataneh yelled at me with pure rage during a contraction: 'Stop making that face!' I was unaware I was making any face, other than looking at her and encouragingly to breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. The funny part is that Kelly said she looked at me after Kataneh's outburst, and she said I had the same face I had during the whole labor! I simply stopped looking at Kataneh and made faces at other, inanimate, objects in the room.
Another good story was during another one of Kataneh's contractions. For most of the labor, Kataneh was up, walking around. Kelly and I had set up this system where Kataneh would wrap her arms around whoever was in front of her, and then kind of squat down a little bit pushing her back and butt backwards - elongating her back (kind of like this). The other person would then push on Kataneh's lower back with their fists with full body weight as a 'counter pressure' technique which Kataneh really liked. It just so happened that during one of these contractions and counter pressure sessions, Kelly and I both looked at each other (as we were face-to-face) at the exact same time with a grin as Bill Withers' 'Lean on Me' played in the background.
No comments:
Post a Comment