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Caroline Isabel is here  

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will update later 8lbs 7 oz 20 in

I woke up about 4:30 - 5 am with good contractions about every 2-3 minutes and 45-60 secs long. tried to lay in bed awhile longer but couldn't. Got up and got ready...I had a feeling this was finally it. We left the house around 6am. When we got to the birth center, I was still going strong with contractions but had this negativity in my mind that these would stop. Hard to fight negative feelings sometimes especially when they keep coming true. Well My contractions started to slow down to every 4-5 minutes. The midwife asked if she could move me into the midwife sleeping quarters b/c another girl was on her way in and it seemed like she was ready to deliver.

No problem, my husband and I went and walked around the birth center for about 35 minutes and the contractions were staying steady but didn't seem hard enough to do much. They checked me and I was 4cm and 90-100% effaced about what I was. We talked about what we wanted to do. We decided to break my water....at 10:10am, well 2 contractions later we decided that going and walking about town was not an option. by the third contraction, my contractions were lasting about 5 minutes....It was insane, like nothing I've ever felt before. I'm normally pretty quiet other then toning, by the end of the second 5 minute long contraction, I started shaking, I told my husband I couldn't do it. He looked me dead in the eyes and said honey you're in transition...you can do it. I was thinking in my mind there is no way I'm in transistion. I had to get out of the bed. We went and sat on the toilet. had Another insane contraction. Told my husband I wanted an epidural...lol. Had another contraction I told him to go get the midwife I needed something I couldn't do it. At the end of the contraction I said to the midwife, did one of the other girls deliver, thinking a jacuzzi tub would help and she shook her head, and I said do you have medicine anything i can't do this...I'm losing it. She said she had something but needed me to lay down to take it, She went to go get the medicine and another contraction started, my body just pushed, not me, I had absolutely no power of this, it was insane, my husband went to yell for the midwife that I was pushing. And I said her head is out LOL. The midwife and nurse came flying into the bathroom. And here I was sitting on the toilet with my baby half delivered. Midwife asked if I was ready to push again, I tried but was not. Another contraction came and my body started pushing again, so I stood up and delivered her at 11:28am

more to come have to go change diaper....Daddy is scared of little girl parts and infections
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hooray! :
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Congrats!!! Can't wait to hear more!
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Congrats, mama! :
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::: Congratulations!
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Welcome to the world, baby girl! Congrats, Mama! :
post #8 of 12
Congrats! And I LOVE the name!
post #9 of 12
Hurray and congrats!
post #10 of 12
Wow, congratulations Momma! Sounds like when they broke your water her head just dropped down and your cervix just opened right up.
post #11 of 12
Congrats! That's what happened for us too (after AROM). :
post #12 of 12
Congratulations! It's a wild ride going from water breaking straight to transition eh!
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