Welcome Nadia!! Born 12/18 at 6:26 pm after 19.5 hours of active labor and 12 hours of being complete. What an amazing experience. Water broke at 10pm 12/17 and within an hour I was in labor, never checked by midwife, but she's been with me for 5 days and I had her check me Wednesday and I was 3-4cm. So I know I started in a good spot.
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I labored throughout the night, not too bad. Went into birth tub in morning and put my finger in my vagina and felt head 3 knuckles in, so I knew I was complete. I at that point thought "this isn't that bad!! I am already complete?" Well for many reasons I just kinda stalled out....ctx irregular...took some herbs, baby sounded good entire time, all else normal and I was doing OK. So we just lunged, squatted, and finally I started to get an urge to push! I pushed maybe 2 hours but really not full force as I wanted to save my bottom. So into the birth tub and got more pushy, crowned and just happened to be able to be fortunate enough to deliver her head and then I just went for it and pushed her out. Took my time swimming her up, cleaning her off under water and looking at her, her eyes were open, so gentle, so peaceful. She never cried, stayed skin to skin for hours and is amazing!! I am so in love and SOOO happy I wasn't at the hospital!! I would have been augmented with pitocin, hooked up to continuous fetal monitoring and probably pain meds. But I was able to eat, walk, and labor in the way that was right for me and my baby. So blessed to have a support team who trust the process!! I am in awe of my body, my baby, my man, my midwife and all life......
