Rowan Vashti was born at 4:45am May 27(my due date). I had my home birth after 2 cesareans!! The whole thing was over in 4 hrs 15 minutes from first contraction to her birth. It was the craziest wildest experience and I'm still processing it. So this is going to be really long! And for those who will only read this intro, she was 8lbs 2oz and we are both doing really well
I guess it technically started with me losing my plug the day before. Nothing else was going on though until I lay down at about 12:00 midnight and get two walloping contractions. Enough so that I'm moaning through them. My dh is asking if I'm in labour and I'm like 'no, but I'm uncomfortable so I'm going to get into the shower.' Well I get in and am instantly on my hands and knees moaning through contractions, my dh comes in shortly after and asks if he should time them and I said ok. They were coming steady and hard at about 45 seconds long and a minute and half apart. I didn't want to call my midwife too early but by 1:00am I was thinking I'd at least let her know what was going on. She said she would be on her way.
At this point I'm having a hard time coping and thinking that this is happening way too fast. I plug the drain to turn the shower into a bath and focus on moaning deeply through the contractions. We then call the doula who is assisting my midwife and she arrives at about 2:30am. I barely know she is there, her and dh couldn't do much more than be there for me. I was squeezing dh's hand pretty hard, but by then the contractions were coming so close together, sometimes two and three at a time with no break and about 20 or 30 seconds apart.
My midwife arrived about 3:30am and told me this wasn't the beginning but near the end. I was pretty out of it but I really didn't think it was possible. She started setting up the birth tub and then encouraged me to get out of the tub and try and pee. By then I was starting to feel a lot of pressure and could feel myself mildly pushing between contractions. I did try to pee but couldn't and was making my way to the birth tub when I hung onto dh in a hanging squat during another contraction. Made it to the tub and immediately starting pushing during the contractions. They actually weren't as bad as soon as the pushing started but the pressure and backache were intense.
I could sense them doing things like setting up the video and that my dd had woken up and was very interested in what was happening. But I was seriously in labour land. I pushed for maybe 30 minutes, trying to take it slow and breath the baby out. I felt the notorious ring of fire, and then her head was out! It took a few minutes for her shoulders to turn, this is when I started to feel panicky about her in there and gave a big push. I think this is when I tore. But she slid out and I caught her myself!! (I was kneeling upright). I couldn't believe I did it, it was an awesome moment. My dh asked what we had and I got to look myself and tell everyone we had a girl
DD was very excited since she really wanted a little sister.
So that is the story of Rowan's crazy intense beautiful birth! She pinked up right away and didn't cry. She just looked around with those new eyes. Her and I got into bed shortly after for some sleep. With my dh and dd sleeping on either side of us. My ds did wake up during the middle of it and was upset with the noises I was making but he went back to sleep and missed the rest of it!
I am still reeling from the whole thing. But me and Rowan are doing well. I didn't need stitches for my tear and besides being a bit sore, feel pretty good My milk came in the day after her birth and she's a nursing fiend already. I will try and post pics in the next few days.
Jenny
I guess it technically started with me losing my plug the day before. Nothing else was going on though until I lay down at about 12:00 midnight and get two walloping contractions. Enough so that I'm moaning through them. My dh is asking if I'm in labour and I'm like 'no, but I'm uncomfortable so I'm going to get into the shower.' Well I get in and am instantly on my hands and knees moaning through contractions, my dh comes in shortly after and asks if he should time them and I said ok. They were coming steady and hard at about 45 seconds long and a minute and half apart. I didn't want to call my midwife too early but by 1:00am I was thinking I'd at least let her know what was going on. She said she would be on her way.
At this point I'm having a hard time coping and thinking that this is happening way too fast. I plug the drain to turn the shower into a bath and focus on moaning deeply through the contractions. We then call the doula who is assisting my midwife and she arrives at about 2:30am. I barely know she is there, her and dh couldn't do much more than be there for me. I was squeezing dh's hand pretty hard, but by then the contractions were coming so close together, sometimes two and three at a time with no break and about 20 or 30 seconds apart.
My midwife arrived about 3:30am and told me this wasn't the beginning but near the end. I was pretty out of it but I really didn't think it was possible. She started setting up the birth tub and then encouraged me to get out of the tub and try and pee. By then I was starting to feel a lot of pressure and could feel myself mildly pushing between contractions. I did try to pee but couldn't and was making my way to the birth tub when I hung onto dh in a hanging squat during another contraction. Made it to the tub and immediately starting pushing during the contractions. They actually weren't as bad as soon as the pushing started but the pressure and backache were intense.
I could sense them doing things like setting up the video and that my dd had woken up and was very interested in what was happening. But I was seriously in labour land. I pushed for maybe 30 minutes, trying to take it slow and breath the baby out. I felt the notorious ring of fire, and then her head was out! It took a few minutes for her shoulders to turn, this is when I started to feel panicky about her in there and gave a big push. I think this is when I tore. But she slid out and I caught her myself!! (I was kneeling upright). I couldn't believe I did it, it was an awesome moment. My dh asked what we had and I got to look myself and tell everyone we had a girl
DD was very excited since she really wanted a little sister.So that is the story of Rowan's crazy intense beautiful birth! She pinked up right away and didn't cry. She just looked around with those new eyes. Her and I got into bed shortly after for some sleep. With my dh and dd sleeping on either side of us. My ds did wake up during the middle of it and was upset with the noises I was making but he went back to sleep and missed the rest of it!
I am still reeling from the whole thing. But me and Rowan are doing well. I didn't need stitches for my tear and besides being a bit sore, feel pretty good
My milk came in the day after her birth and she's a nursing fiend already. I will try and post pics in the next few days.Jenny
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