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4 Day Labour & an Unplanned C-Section - Birth Story!

Hannah (Sex & Relationships Education)

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I'm BACK!! and so is #TheHormoneDiaries with my BIRTH STORY video 🤯 Four days of labour, one unplanned C-section, and one beautiful baby 💛 Thanks to past Hannah for taking copious notes during actual labour so I can remember enough to put this video together 😂 If you have any questions for a future q&a about all this, leave them in the comments, and for more vloggy/lifestyle parenting content, don't forget to subscribe to my More Hannah channel! Feels good to be back!!!

TW for emetophobia from 17 minutes in.

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00:00 – Intro
03:29 – Last weeks of pregnancy
06:48 – Labour begins…
17:01 – 48 hours into labour update
20:22 – Recap on labour so far
24:26 – Labouring in hospital
31:05 – Epidural!
33:55 – C-section
38:11 – Post-birth
40:45 – Outro

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20 Comments

@chryschaos 4 years ago

As someone who doesn't want kids, but also likes to know Too Much... thank you SO MUCH for including us on this journey. Also, logically, I knew you & baby R came through okay, but I was So Invested watching the clips while you're in labor 😂

@dbackscott_CCG 4 years ago (edited)

Labor, delivery, solitaire, Lord of the Rings, puzzles, unexpected surgery; this vlog has it all.

@estrellAllertse 4 years ago

I just teared up when I saw the inserted picture of Dan lying on the bathroom floor 😭! This is just so cute and really says a lot about your relationship and about the type of partner, Dan is 💚💚💚

@melaniemurphyofficial 4 years ago

Still can’t get over how long your labour was 🤯 & just SO GLAD that you were informed and respected at all stages, that this was a positive experience! 😭👏🏻❤️ The dream! Roll on postpartum content woop! This long weekend can’t come fast enough … I want to HOLD ROWAN SO BAD AGH

@abigailwoodruff6259 4 years ago

I'm crying because it's been so nice to have someone to do pregnancy with this whole ride and as I sit here with my sleepy 3 month old and look back on my own 4 day labour and unplanned csection, I feel particularly seen ❤

@Maxmedhurst 4 years ago

Congratulations! I love that you sound more northern when sleep deprived and pumped full of painkillers post-birth 😂

@JeffersSLT 4 years ago

Welcome back! We missed you! Also, the length of time you've been doing the Hormone Diaries and all these experinces you've had, means this well documented series really is an incredibly rare and special study into the phyaical and mental, changes and challanges of human life and I want to thank you so much for it.

@eringrasse7512 4 years ago (edited)

Can we 100% rule out that it was not ALSO the magic of Schitt's Creek that helped get the labor festivities going? Moira Rose is adding it to her list of well-deserved accolades.

Also. Abundant and heartfelt congratulations to you, Dan, and Rowan! A very important question: Did your hospital have a baby button? I'm a hospital chaplain, and at my hospital, whenever someone who's given birth moves from the Labor/Delivery to the Post-Partum unit, they get to press a doorbell-like button that plays a lullaby over the entire hospital-wide intercom system. It is the ONLY cute thing that ever comes over the intercom, and whenever I tell family member of patients who are there for scary/tragic things to listen for the lullabies, their whole faces light up.

@beccabowen4292 4 years ago

I've been watching the hormone diaries since I was 14-15. I felt odd because I never had my period but you helped me feel accepted and helped me learn more about my body. now I'm 22, I know that I have a genetic mutation in my uterus and probably won't have children, I don't want children, yet following your journey helps me so much. learning about what it's like, how things work, it's so helpful especially in a society that doesn't teach us about our bodies!!! thank you and congratulations!!!

@roguemarvel 4 years ago

I actually watched the extended editions and appendixes in the labor and delivery room. I was there for a while because my water broke before I started active labor So we brought the PlayStation to watch movies in the room.

It was still playing while I was pushing and I was distinctly remember one of the nurses turning and watching the screen briefly and saying "wow, they really put a lot of work into these movies"

It was great. My oldest came into this world listening to songs from Howard shore and people talking about how he wrote them and the mood that they set 😅

@Andrea-zb9tp 4 years ago

For my fellow emetophobes - there is lots of mention of being sick, so if you’re not in a place to hear about that, maybe skip this one for now :)

@kylathomas5493 4 years ago

The excitement I feel at your return shows me how much I'm right to be a Patron! Missed your videos so much, welcome back and congrats!!!!

@loretta_3843 3 years ago

You're reminding me of my mum when she had my brother (her first). She was in labour for 3 days, she ended up with a large tear and stitches around her vagina after she'd been put to sleep and my brother was born that way. She ended up with an infection which kept her in hospital for a long, long time. However, she came to Australia from Italy in 1958 (brother born 1964) and has never really been able to handle English. So, she couldn't understand anything, wasn't told what was happening, it was just a different time - no interpreters etc.
Back then, it was the time when babies where all put in a nursery together. Turns out, because of the language problem, her infection etc, it was over a week and she still hadn't even seen my brother. Someone found her crying one day, made the effort to find out why, and she was finally able to see her first baby. It's crazy how much things have changed. I was amazed when she told me all of this. She'd never talked about it and still doesn't bring it up - she's 88, I'm the youngest and I help look after her😊
I doubt you'll see this, but it's just crazy thinking about women who were giving birth 100 years ago or more. You can see why giving birth was so dangerous and why so many women and children didn't survive it. I've never had kids, you're so courageous!☺️

@RC-1290 4 years ago (edited)

20:20 "After the two towers", this is quite useful for keeping a decent overview of timing XD

@emilyryker 4 years ago

I can't tell you how grateful I am to have heard you put into words how I feel about hospitals, around 26:00 lol. I have Crohn's Disease and now have a permanent ileostomy. I have been in the hospital multiple times and I also feel a weirdly positive connection to being checked in. While I've had some negative outcomes from the hospital (surgical errors and having to be there by myself after major surgery, during COVID) I still overall feel like "ok, now we're going to get things fixed up."

As I get closer to starting my family and figuring out what that means to me, I've found that the idea of being in a hospital/epidural/C-section doesn't frighten me. The idea of being in the hospital during my delivery makes me feel safe and looked after. It's interesting to hear that come someone in a similar medical situation to me!

@followingthedopamine28 4 years ago

As an American, I wish we had the same relief when we were admitted into the hospital. I can't speak for everyone, but I feel like the cost of being admitted weights heavier on people than the feeling of being taken care of.

@stagetopage 4 years ago

Anyone else emotional and tearing up at the introduction music? So excited for this video, and so happy to see you back, Hannah 💛

You watching LOTR and playing Solitaire at 2am is just so gloriously you 😂

@chajahogeweg9229 4 years ago

Funny story of my c-section. I also didn't feel a thing. I was very nervous and ask my husband "I wonder when they're going to start" and my doctor just says " I am looking at your uterus right now"

@Beveybumblebee 4 years ago

4 days!? I would have been screaming for a C-section. Welcome back Hannah!

@ReclaimingSensitivity 4 years ago

Congrats Hannah! What a wonderful name too ❤️.
I am someone who does want a baby, but has quite a big fear of birth (for lots of complicated reasons), so seeing such a relaxed account of such a long labour has really helped me remember that things can be ok even when the unexpected happens.