Not just an excited tremble, like full-on, body quivering, teeth chattering, uncontrollable shaking. There was nothing I could do to control it. It caught me off guard, and freaked me the hell out. My nurse covered my body with numerous pre-warmed blankets, which was an awesome gesture, but it didn’t help. Even my speech was shaky.
Through chattering teeth, and with an unsteady voice, I tried to assure my husband I was fine. Or as fine as you can feel following an event like childbirth. I was freezing, and every muscle in my body ached as I shivered in my bed, but for the most part, life was aces. For the first time in forever, I wasn’t nauseous, and I wasas I held my baby girl—skin to skin—but OMG what the hell was the deal with all the shaking?is totally normal. Weird and inconvenient, but normal.
Nothing makes you feel less confident as a first-time mom than shaking to the point you worry about dropping your infant. Ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration. As far as my daughter knew, I was essentially one of those vibrating baby loungers. I was lying on my back with guardrails and nurses on each side of me, so we were both safe, but all the same, it left me feeling a little uneasy.
An hour after it started, the shaking subsided as quickly as it had come on. I was no longer freezing, and I had this adorable ball of squish to show for the past nine months of nonsense. If you would have asked me at that time, I would have told you my daughter would be an only child, because there was no way I was ever doing any of that again.
But I did, because motherhood is like that. It’s never really easy, but every single moment is worth is. Even the shaky ones.
I got it badly for my second baby, it was very surprising as I never heard of it before
I remember how awful this was...could not stop shaking 😩
All 7 of my births involved me shaking uncontrollably afterwards. Whether all natural, cesarean, or with a shot of stadol.
Been there.
Never heard of this. Good to know it's normal in case it happens!
I had the shakes real bad right after having my epidural administered
I had terrible shakes afterwards. Uncontrollable for quite awhile.
Yes it’s from the adrenaline, can be “worse” if you had an epidural
I had the shakes SO bad, it was crazy. Teeth were chattering.
Wow it happened to me with my second child after a c section I thought it was awfully weird but I guess not. It seemed scary at the moment.
I had the same with my second child. No epidural this time....maybe that added extra stress on the body? I was glad for the warm blankets and it felt bizarre at first but was totally distracted with my healthy newborn I don't remember much past a half hour or so ☺️
I had this after the birth of my second daughter. It started almost immediately after delivering the placenta and just felt like my body was going to shake apart. I think it lasted about an hr.
Totally happens to me after every birth, epidural or not 🤷🏻♀️ Every time I got done breast feeding in the hospital it was so bad I shocked my nurses. I thought I was alone in this!
Ugh! This was so weird! It happened twice with my first - once an hour or so after birth and once the next day after we had just got home.
I did that as well. No drugs, sent home 23 hours later. My shaking started early the next a.m. Turns out, they hadn’t fully removed the placenta & I was bleeding/had the beginnings of a dangerous infection. please follow up with your dr. It might not be something that wears off.
Omg thank you! That happened with my first child! I thought maybe it was from the drugs! This makes so much sense!
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