What did you feel when you first saw your baby in the delivery room?

United States
October 17, 2008 8:01pm CST
I know that as a parent, there is a different feeling when you see your fruit of love. As a future parent, I just want to know what is the feeling when you see your baby in the delivery room?
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@Humbug25 (12540)
18 Oct 08
Hi there aisaellis First of all congratulations on your pregnancy! It was a weird feeling when my son finally arrived like it was a dream or something. I was holding him and looking at him and smiling my head off but it was like I wasn't there. Maybe it was because I was so tired but I was really really happy.
@Humbug25 (12540)
22 Oct 08
Sorry I misunderstood you when you said 'as a future parent' I assumed you were soon to be a mum!!
• United States
23 Oct 08
oh it's ok..it's my mistake too..with the words i used there, anyone would thought i am pregnant..hehehhe
• United States
22 Oct 08
Hi humbug25. I am sorry but i am not pregnant :). i just want to know the thoughts of the parents who saw their baby. I don't know how you really feel but i know it's wonderful. Happy mylotting!
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@jenisky (406)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
i know my response is quite late already but i'd like to answer your questions so i can share my feelings of being a mom seeing her baby for the first time..i have 3 childrens now my eldest son is almost 4 yrs old and i have 10 mos old twins.but seeing all my childrens for the first time is such a wonderful and unexplainable happiness.they were in my womb for 9 months and there's a lot of pains and worries while they were not yet born.but all the pains gone when i saw them all beautifully and healthy.its feel good to be a mother:) soon you'll have your own baby too and you'll know the feeling :)
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• United States
21 Feb 09
oh, there's never late here..I am glad you gave time looking up to my profile and some answer old discussion of mine. I do appreciate it from the bottom of my heart. I know I will be mom soon (5 years from now) so I would really want to know how does it feels. I keep hearing about she felt great and she felt crying. I am glad I got to know another feelings from a mom like you..
@balasri (26537)
• India
23 Oct 08
Words just cannot explain those feelings.My baby made me stand near God for a moment.
@balasri (26537)
• India
24 Oct 08
Me too.Ain't I?
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• United States
27 Oct 08
Of course you're very lucky
• United States
23 Oct 08
Wow! that's a very nice feeling. You're baby must be very lucky..
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@maroseqf (3657)
• Philippines
18 Oct 08
well, i haven't had the feeling. but i will, in two weeks time. i am so excited to give birth to my firstborn. i'll be having a baby boy and thinking about it makes me feel brightened. i just hope that i will still be awake when my baby comes out of me. i want to see him and hear his cry. that moment would be so unforgetable.
• United States
18 Oct 08
Wow! congrats for your new born baby. I know your emotions are mixed. Aren't you afraid that it hurts especially that it's your first born and you don't have any idea how it feels to give birth?
• United States
18 Oct 08
When my daughter was born, her father and I had broken up 4 months before she was born. I was alone in the delivery room, scared and anxious to see her, I heard the doctors saying "one last push" ... "It's a girl!" Immediately they put her on my chest, I wasn't able to see her face! They get me ready for recovery and they put her in her little mobile crib and I look at her face for the first time and I scream "Oh S*#%" And the doctors and nurses scramble - "What's wrong?! What's wrong?!" I said she looks like her father!!! lol I'm tan, dark features - she's blonde blue eyes. She's absolutely beautiful lol I was over joyed that she was finally here but that was my first reaction lol.
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• United States
19 Oct 08
Oh my God. That's a different reaction (hehehe). The doctor might be very shocked about what you did. But it's ok. I know now that you love your daughter and i know you took care of her. I am sorry to hear that you broke up with your husband during the time of your pregnancy. I can clearly imagine how hard it is for you. I know the emotional burden of the pregnant women and it's hard if your husband is not there for you. Anyway, i salute you because you passed that stage.
@sev123 (45)
• United States
18 Oct 08
Everyones experience is different. I know that the first time I saw my son I knew that I would do whatever necessary to take care of him. I honestly loved him, but I don't think that I actually talked to him for the first couple weeks of his life. I was like a robot changing, feeding, bathing and holding him at first. But after the initial shyness wore off, as well as some of the fatigue, I found myself doing all the things that I always dreamed of doing with him while I was pregnant. I sing to him, rock him, read to him and play lots of games. It's really hard at first to connect to a complete stranger, but this little stranger will end up being the love of your life.
• United States
18 Oct 08
Oh wow! I can tell that you're a good mother. Well a mother is a mother we cannot change it. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about your son.