When I had Lamb I was beyond overwhelmed, beyond exhausted and in so much pain! I had to stay in hospital for 3 days because he wouldn’t latch and the midwives were determined to help me breastfeed before they discharged me. I will always be grateful for this.
I only had a couple of visitors while in hospital. My mum drove down from Mansfield, my brother and sister-in-law popped along to wish us well, along with Daddy Lambs parents.
Everyone was so excited and happy to see the new arrival.
“Congratulations”.
“How are you feeling?”
Those are the sorts of things everyone would say.
But there is one thing that has stuck in my mind that really touched me at the time.
My mother-in-law said something a little different to everyone else.
She looked me in the eye and with true sincerity said “well done”.
I knew there and then she felt everything I had gone through. She understood exactly how I was feeling, and embraced what was to come.
There was something about the way she said it, maybe she doesn’t even know it, but I knew she really meant well done like I had just pulled the sword out of the stone.
A simple comment that said a thousand words.
Ax
My mum actually said ‘well done’ too and i still remember it now 13 years later. It just made me think she got what I’d been through
It’s funny how too little words can stick with us for so long xx
that’s lovely and so heartfelt. I don’t think anyone said well done to me. they were more congratulating the doctors, because I had a c section!
Birth is something really special and something that will stick with your forever. I remember both my births really well and remember the lovely midwife I had and how she looked so well after me. Truly amazing.
My midwife was amazing also, if I can request her when I have another I will! X
This is really lovely, how two words can mean so much, and how it’s stuck with you until now. I wish I had something like this to remember x
Just lovely Alex. And those two words really do mean so much from one mother to another especially coming from your mother in law. Extra special. Lovely post hun xx
Thanks darling 🙂 they honestly stuck with me from the moment she said it, and I don’t remember much of the experience from all of the drugs and lack of sleep! Xx
Ah that is so lovely that she ‘got it’. My hubby said he was proud of me when Baby was born and I still remember it now. x
It genuinely felt like that. She knew what I had just been through xx
Thats a lovely thing to have said 🙂 I do think that we should congratulate other mothers for their achievement however similar or dissimilar to our own we all brought life into the world. And that really is a huge achievement! xx
Such a huge achievement! And challenge! No matter how short or long your labour is it’s insanely tiring and painful!! We all deserve high fives xx
That’s so lovely of her. And I definitely think there’s a moment of recognition sometimes with other mums (however new or not) who know just how you’re feeling.
That is adorable it is lovely what family can mean to you and just their presence can be a comfort. She must have been so proud of you it is so wonderful when you have words as keepsakes or little memories that stay with you forever.
What a sweetie! I can barely remember the first couple of days in any detail, I do remember the utter fear after my C-section at having another one… still scares me
Aww! That is so sweet! How thoughtful of your mother in law!
That’s so lovely. You do go through the stock conversations with people after giving birth don’t you? Phil tells me even to this day that he is so proud of me and when he said it right after I had Toby it was so special xx