A little sad
I just found out that my C-section for my 2nd has to be scheduled earlier than I expected, which makes it now the week before my first baby’s 2nd birthday 😥 I was really hoping to experience her birthday and anniversary of me becoming a mother without dealing with the postpartum C-section healing and at least being able to hold/ pick her up. Has anyone else experienced this grief before? I’m having trouble talking to people about it because I just get hit with “just celebrate her birthday earlier” which is so frustrating because it makes me feel dismissed in how I’m feeling and the additional layers of navigating the emotions of me going into labor being considered “high risk”, a change in my timeline of when I give birth, and now having less time to prepare for my 2nd baby’s arrival. 😓
Can you not ask if you can have it on a different date? I had a meltdown when I was told the date for my c-section. It was May 4th. Luckily, I had some complications, which meant that I had to have it a week earlier.