2nd time mommy of 7 month old girl says:<\/p>\n
My first pregnancy was wonderful, but it was in a different country. I wasn’t afraid of labor and the birth experience was jarring, but my doctor was amazing and I was able to deliver ‘naturally’ but with drugs. My second was stressful. I was pregnant and had my 2nd in the US. It was invasive and I felt that I had no say in what happened. I had 18 hours of induced labor only to have an ’emergency’ c-section because my daughter wasn’t budging. She was sunny-side-up. Due to the consequences of the c-section (blood loss, transfusion, difficult recovery), I am balking at the idea of having a 3rd baby in the US. I would change pretty much everything about my 2nd pregnancy, from the beginning to the end.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Have your own parenting wisdom to share? \u00a0Complete my quick\u00a0\u201cLife with a Baby Questionnaire\u201d<\/a>\u00a0 and\/or \u201cStarting School Questionnaire<\/a>\u201d and your answers may be featured in a future \u201cWeekend Wisdom\u201d post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 2nd time mommy of 7 month old girl says: My first pregnancy was wonderful, but it was in a different country. I wasn’t afraid of labor and the birth experience was jarring, but my doctor was amazing and I was able to deliver ‘naturally’ but with drugs. My second was stressful. I was pregnant and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[404],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekend-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5998\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}