[kelceesmom]

You have a chance to be in the delivery room but you faint at the sight of any kind of blood. Would you buck up and still try and be there when your baby is born or would you bow out?

[bajj]

Um, this isn't too far fetched for me! LOL!

I did have the chance to be in there. She did not have family support at all. However, ds came real quick so i was still scrubbing up, and honestly, I'm glad! I know that sounds bad, but man, I think I would have fainted.

[thanksgivingmom]

If I had it my way - I don't think I would have even been in the room when I DELIVERED DD! haha

Loving your questions today Denise!!!

[ricabeau]

hahaha! I'm a total fainter but I chose to participate anyway. I made sure there was a chair close by in case I needed it. I got real woozy but I just kept moving the entire time; pacing from side-to-side. One second I would be talking to my sister (my daughter's biomom) and rubbing her back, a few seconds later I would be pacing toward her feet to take a peek at the baby. The constant movement was the only thing that kept me from passing out (and a couple deep breaths in the nearby chair when necessary). I am so glad I did it too. My bio daughter was born 11 weeks early by c-section and the delivery was a nightmare so seeing my younger daughter born was the most amazing experience of my life. I got to be there in the moment, fully experiencing it but without the pain. My mom and husband were there too and we all felt kinda like we had all just had the baby because of the incredible emotional rollercoaster we had been on. It was the most incredible experience of my life and nothing can or will ever compare.

[Happy123]

I was in the delivery room and stayed up top most of the time...but I watched as the baby was delivered. It was not as much blood as I thought. I was the former foster mom to a young girl who decided to give her child up for adoption. That was the emotional part...the blood and goo was secondary.
Happy123

[mrsred]

Being in the delivery room for my adopted children was not an option for me, since I didn't even meet them till they were 5 and 9 years old.
But, many years ago when my roommate found herself pregnant, I was in the delivery room with her. I was the girl that passed out three on three separate occassions in high school health class when we had to watch the first aid films! But I made it through the delivery without the least amount of queesiness. The experience was so amazing, and I was so focussed on her and what was happening I didn't have a chance to feel ill. Ten years later when I gave birth to my son, she was there with my husband and I.
For any adoptive mothers that have this opportunity, I strngly encourage you to embrace it.

[Stormster]

I was in there and I did start to faint! I had those sweats and started seeing spots and had to sit down. I RIPPED off my gown and top and was sitting there in a tank top sweating profusely and about to lose consciousness when I saw his head come out.

The doctor said Oh No You Don't and I promise this is the truth, the nurses CARRIED me over and put the scissors in my hand so I could cut the cord. I was so out of it it didn't even cut the first time, just halfway which made me even fainter LOL

But I did it! I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I can't believe I'm such a wimp!

[finallyamom0310]

Unfortunatly we didn't have the oppourtunity. We were matched while she was on the way to the hospital. We would have loved to have been in there regardless as it is something we talk to our DD about.