My baby was born yesterday morning at 8:01am on my living room floor after a precipitous labor, basically unassisted, but attended by 3 shellshocked emts.
I woke up at 4:30am thinking that I was in early labor. We talked to our midwife and planned to be at the birth center at 8am. Sometime around 6:45/7am my contractions suddenly went from 55 seconds long with 5 minutes in between to what I think was around every 1 and a half minutes for around a minute long. Zero break, and I seriously couldnt walk 3 steps before having another contraction. I finally made it downstairs at around 7:40am - which was 30 minutes late because I couldn't move. As soon as I got downstairs I sat backwards hanging over on our leather chair waiting for DH to load the car. I realized that my body was pushing involuntarily and started to completely freak out because the birth center is 50 minutes away. I told DH to call the midwife and when she heard me screaming and grunting she told him to hang up and call 911 because there was no way that I was going to make it out of the house, let alone nearly an hour away. He did and when the emts arrived they tried to get me to the ambulance but I was screaming that the baby was halfway out - so they helped me to lay down on my living room floor and I pushed the rest of her out.
Pretty traumatic for both of us. My water broke maybe 5 minutes before she was born and it was think with meconium. I was only in active labor for around an hour and only pushed for maybe 15min minutes. It was particularly insane because my first labor lasted 36 hours, so no one saw this coming.
Coming to the hospital has pretty much been a nightmare. DD has had respiratory problems since birth and we are now @ the NICU. They did a chest X-ray and she gas something in her lungs and she has an elevated white blood cell count so she is being treated with antibiotics. They don't want me nursing her, she is desperate to suck so I gave in on the pacifier, and this whole thing is awful. She will be here either 2 days or 2 weeks, depending on how she does. I was not prepared for any of this.
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