My water broke around 11am. Called my partner Erik to let him know, he was out feeding the cows. I wasn't sure if it was pee because it dripped out slowly for a while, I used a ph strip to tell. He came right home and contractions started around 12:30. They would vary between 1-5 minutes apart last 2-3 minutes. Just about every contraction I would drip amniotic fluid, or pee, or both.
It was a very wet labor, lots of fluids!! I soaked through several towels. I've never experienced that before. I experienced no pain during the contractions but sometimes they would feel ecstatic and I thought maybe I wasn't very far along because of this so I was taking it easy. I was considering having an unassisted birth at this point because I've had several before, but suddenly I got this fear of tearing.
Around 4pm the older ones got back from school and labor seemed to slow down a bit and we were all laughing and the girls were staring at me. so I asked them all the leave the room. At 4:30 I started feeling pressure and told my oldest daughter to call our midwife (who lives next door) she arrived at 4:45 (I think) and had me pant through the pushing to ease him out as slowly as possible. This was the only birth I was screaming during, it was so hard not to push and it HURT at this point, with his head in the canal with no moulding. 5:03 he was completely out, We're still not sure how much he weighs.
I have a second degree tear despite our efforts. The tear is straight along the episiotomy scar from my first birth and the same tear I get with all my births. I'm getting stitched up in about an hour. My midwife is not really practicing right now, except for me, and the lidocaine we ordered almost 2 weeks ago (with second day air) still has not arrived so luckily a naturopath is selling me a vial.
A story on my placenta (Warning: talks about eating raw meat and placenta)
Originally my intention was to eat some right after the birth and freeze the rest for smoothies. I live on solar power and only have a refrigerator at the moment, as well as most of my neighbors. I thought my one neighbor who has a freezer would let me store in his but he's not using his right now. So instead what I did was made a dish with it and I'm eating it over the next three to four days. It is soooo GOOD! and I highly recommend it to everyone..I don't have much time type more because the baby is wanting to nurse a lot right now. But here is the recipe I used
cut up placenta in small peices
mix with sundried tomatoes that I powder in a vitamix (or blender or food processor)
fresh coconut cream (made from older hard meat coconuts run through a greenstar juicer)
diced onions
about a pound of fresh raw organic local grass fed beef
avacado
Yes I eat raw meat as well as the placenta raw,
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