Comments on: ‘Could Be Anything, Love… You’ve Had a LOT of Drugs’

By: Wendy Powell

Wendy Powell — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:12:00 +0000

I totally agree! I like to think of the childbirth ‘thing’ as when Mother Nature gets to really show us who’s in charge!! And wow… 7?! I’m impressed, Lady!

By: love seven

love seven — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:44:00 +0000

Well, I’ve been pregnant 6 times ( and been blessed with 7 boys) and EVERY birth was different. I exercised and ate well most of the time. It’s really God’s way of saying you are mere man and I am in control of this as well.

By: Wendy Powell

Wendy Powell — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:15:00 +0000

It is unfair isn’t it?! But I really do believe that everything we do to look after our body & to make it healthy & strong, does make a difference. Pregnancy & childbirth is indeed very natural & happens every day, but sometimes it can be dangerous & scary too – and there’s only so much control we have over that. Maybe its Mother Nature’s way of putting us in our place sometimes! If there’s a next time for you Catherine (not for me – I’m done after 2 thanks then I hope you staty healthy & strong & have a better experience!

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 22:19:00 +0000

i was the same as you – i exercised, did yoga, ate *almost* all the right things and STILL he took 6.5 days to come out and had to have some assistance. Afterwards i was like ‘bah! if there’s a next time i’m being lazy & eating chips’, but looking back on it, i did recover very quickly so your post has actually made me realise that all that trudging through muddy fields with the dog maybe wasn’t quite such a waste of time.

mind you, i’ve got a mate who i doubt she eats that well, doesnt exercise and and smoked through her pregnancy & her babies popped out in under two hours each.

the internal debate continues…..:)

By: Wendy Powell

Wendy Powell — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:48:45 +0000

Thanks Bumbling, I try to keep it in balance – I’m not nutritionally perfect by ANY stretch, if I want wine, or cake, I have it. I just run further or faster the next day if I want my flat tummy back!

And thank-you Josie – I’m definitely no hero, but it’s lovely to hear you say, ‘you know what, I think we did OK’. We did good Girl… look what we made

By: Josie @Sleep is for the Weak

Josie @Sleep is for the Weak — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:52:35 +0000

You sound like an absolute hero to me. Labour is so physically gruelling and you sound like you endured it fantastically. I have a lot of sympathy as although I was lucky enough to have a good delivery, I did haemorrhage badly afterwards (although not as badly as you – bloody hell!). It’s something I still struggle to think about as it was very, very scary and it’s hard not to wonder why my body did it. But I healed, I have a beautiful healthy boy, so I reckon my body did ok

Thanks for joining in the workshop!

By: Bumbling

Bumbling — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:19:21 +0000

My body wasn’t able to do everything it should, but it produced a fabulous, healthy, amazing miracle of life! It may be in pretty bad shape now, and I wish I’d had your knowledge and commitment (because, to be fair, I did know that eating all the pies was not going to mean I had a flat tummy post pregnancy) to stay as healthy as I could be, but you live and learn…

But 15 months on, I’m going to try. I am, I am!!

By: wendy

wendy — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:22:35 +0000

Hi Helen, it is indeed. Thanks for reading!

By: Cheeky Wipes Helen

Cheeky Wipes Helen — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:29:51 +0000

I came across your blog via Josies workshop. I completely agree, so much is out of your hands that it’s easy to feel you’ve been let down when things don’t go to plan. But at the end of the day as you rightly say, focusing on what you get out of it is most important,