Broadcaster Kim So-young recounted her first childbirth episode and expressed fear about giving birth to her second child.
On the 7th, a video titled "Kim So-young's first-ever childbirth stories revealed, Oh Sang-jin in the delivery room?!, even the delivery bag a second-time mom packs" was uploaded to Kim So-young's Ddinggri TV.
That day Kim So-young said, "The producer asked me to share some childbirth stories before leaving, so we prepared this session today. But I haven't really talked about it much. About childbirth. At the time I thought it was a bit embarrassing. Because I was young," she began. The production staff asked, "Natural birth or cesarean?" and Kim So-young recalled, "I had a natural birth and I'm a complete hard-line natural birth supporter."
She said, "I say that, but I'm so worried I might not be able to have a natural birth. It's not because I have some philosophy; cesarean is just too scary, so I'm praying, 'Please come out by natural birth.' Right now the baby is in a breech position. So every night I pray in my heart, 'Please turn quickly.' I really want to have a natural birth at this point. But I don't know what state I'll be in when this video is released. I'm scared. Isn't a cesarean really scary? I'm really afraid of cesareans. They say you can feel everything. So I desperately hope to have a natural birth," she said, expressing her earnest feelings.
She continued, "Maybe I'm such a staunch natural birth supporter because my first memory is a bit special. They induced labor, but I hardly had contractions. I went to the hospital and there's usually a last checkup, right? To plan the birth, people usually go to the hospital frequently from about a month to two weeks before the due date. Since I was the first child, I was carefree. The doctor said to come in, so I went, and the doctor suddenly said, 'We could deliver tomorrow,' so they scheduled an induction for the next day and I must have already been lowered down about two weeks before the due date. Even my husband had a schedule the next day, but he adjusted everything, and I was admitted the next early morning, induced, and gave birth that day," she explained the circumstances of her first birth.
Kim So-young said, "So I don't have that. I never experienced suddenly waking up and thinking, 'Is this labor?' I don't have memories like, 'It hurts every few minutes, is this labor?' I just went because the doctor told me to induce, and from the next morning they induced me and I wasn't that much in pain, but in the afternoon the doctor said, 'It will be out in three hours,' and it started to hurt a bit from then, I got an epidural and after pushing four times the baby came out. So maybe I'm talking naively about being a natural birth supporter because I haven't experienced really hard labor. There are people who suffer. For me, after four pushes it was over," she revealed, surprising listeners.
The production staff said, "I was in labor for 33 hours," and upon hearing this Kim So-young was shocked and said, "Then it might just be better to have a cesarean." The staff said, "Many mothers who plan induction end up moving to cesarean," and Kim So-young said, "That's right. But I learned that after I gave birth. If I had known then that if I had induced labor I might have been in labor for 30 hours and still ended up having a cesarean, I think I wouldn't have chosen induction. But I didn't know then. I was so carefree and not the type to ask many questions. I should have asked the doctor more closely, but I went in the morning thinking, 'Induction? OK,' and then I just came out in the afternoon. When I felt a bit uncomfortable or like it was hard, the epidural came then. The doctor told me to push and poof, it came out," she said.
She added, "Many seniors around me said that just because the first was easy doesn't mean the second will be. Each baby is different: some had an easy first like mine, but others had a very difficult second that lasted all day. So I'm somewhat letting go and taking it as it comes," yet she also shared wavering feelings, saying, "I suddenly got scared. I go thinking, 'This time I'll deliver in three hours,' but I'm scared."
Meanwhile, Kim So-young married fellow former announcer broadcaster Oh Sang-jin in 2017 and gave birth to her first daughter in 2019. She recently announced her second pregnancy, and the second child's sex has been reported as a son.<
[Photo] Kim So-young's Ddinggri TV
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