Watching this clip, from one of my all time favorite movies, reminds me of me, when I was strapped down to the OR table for my C-section.  I really look like a seven-foot tall green monster who mumbles a lot. Thankfully my doc just pulled a baby out of me, and not my brain……. at least I think that is what happened.  My husband is unwilling to corroborate this story.

I like the term an “Abby Normal” birth.  A birth that is not quite normal (whatever that means) and a birth that is not quite abnormal (whatever that means).

I wanted an unmedicated hypnobirth with baby #1, and ended up with the whole shebang and a C-section…..Abby Normal.

I wanted a VBAC with baby #2, and got it…….Abby Normal  (come on now, VBACs are just  not considered “normal” anymore).

Tomorrow I will be on a local community panel on normal childbirth and midwifery.  I am very excited to be on this panel discussing childbirth and VBAC’s to eager women in my community, but I still have not figured out what is a “normal” birth.  It will be interesting to find out what “lay” women think it is. I will keep you posted.

*I hope I do not scare anyone with my seven-foot tall frame and green complexion.  Maybe I should sit in the back of the room.*

RR