I really want to share with my daughter her birth story every year during the month of her birthday. Last year she wasn't old enough to get it, and I wasn't "over" the loss of the natural birth I had planned, so I didn't talk about it at all. But this year she loves to hear stories about when she was "younger" (!) and I'd like to start this tradition. I feel a little bit more like I am "over" the disapointment involved with her birth, but it still brings up some bitterness in me.
Plus there just any much inspiring in the story. "I woke up very early in the morning and I could tell it was time for you to be born. We went to the hospital and worked and waited all day and night until the day when you were born. " It is just such a passive story. I can add in some details about being born in the same hospital as her friend 2 days later and about her being later than expected, but when it comes right down to the main action points are going to the hospital and being cut out of my stomach.
It has actually help to type this, so maybe I'll quit trying to work on this in my head and move to paper until I get a story I can verbalize, but I am still very interested in what other have told their kids.
Plus there just any much inspiring in the story. "I woke up very early in the morning and I could tell it was time for you to be born. We went to the hospital and worked and waited all day and night until the day when you were born. " It is just such a passive story. I can add in some details about being born in the same hospital as her friend 2 days later and about her being later than expected, but when it comes right down to the main action points are going to the hospital and being cut out of my stomach.
It has actually help to type this, so maybe I'll quit trying to work on this in my head and move to paper until I get a story I can verbalize, but I am still very interested in what other have told their kids.