! I typed this yesterday and I believe a mischievous 5 yr old deleted it!! I’ll start again and maybe keep it shorter this time! Saturday morning I woke up and my contractions had mostly stopped, over the night I had 3 to 5 that woke me up, but I didn’t think too much of it. I took ds to his little football/soccer practice, while dh went for his 3 hour bike ride in the woods! During practice the few contractions I was having seemed to get worse, but I didn’t really think much of it for another few hours. At 11:30 I started to keep time, every 6 minutes for an hour, my parents were over with lunch and then taking ds to the zoo, at this point I called the Dr and she recommended I go to the hospital, but take my time. Dh was home and he finished eating, the contractions started to pick up before we left and during the car ride I was very uncomfortable, but tried to carry on normal conversations in between. When almost to the hospital I had one that double peaked, which scared me a bit and I started crying and almost lost myself, dh was also lost and I had to try to focus so I could tell him how to get to the hospital. Once there it took only one contraction curb side for me to focus enough to walk myself up to L&D. The nurses were great! The dr had expected me to come in Friday night after seeing me that morning and she informed all the nurses that I wanted everything natural, it was nice to know that the people caring for me knew what I wanted and respected my wishes. After a brief questioning session and dilation check (I was 6cms) I got into the tub (2:15pm). I laid there with a smile on my face in a strange blissful state. I was able to completely relax; no one could really tell when I was contracting except me. After about an hour I started to feel stronger contractions and it no longer felt as if the water was helping, the warm muggy air made it hard for me to breath so I got out(3:30). I sat on the ball for awhile and then that got uncomfortable as well, when I stood up the Dr came in and asked if I would like to be checked. She figured I was pretty far along and we weren’t sure if my water had broken while I was in the water. She told my sister that I was having a labor that should be on video and that most women don't handle this well. I was 9cms and we decided to break my water to pick things up. The next contraction I described by saying Holy Cow when it was over. It was a lot more than the rest, they told me I would definitely know when I felt like pushing and to let them know when that happened. I was afraid I wouldn’t know, with ds I didn’t ever feel a real urge to push, I imagine that was from the epi I had. During the next contraction I felt the need to push, so overwhelming it was incredible. The nurse told me to push when I felt like it and she would get the Dr. I could never in words describe the next 20 minutes, pushing and feeling her get closer to the world, having complete control over my body and being surrounded by nurses who were just helping me along. My dr always knew the right thing to say, telling me that I was doing what my body was built for and how beautiful it was. And when I started to get scared she would tell me not to, to follow my instinct and listen to my body. It wasn’t long before I felt her head ready to come out, I pushed with all might and out she came, it was 4:46. The cord was wrapped around her waist 3 times and she never screamed out, just whimpered a bit. I don’t know how long we just laid there looking at each other, but it was perfect. Dh was in shock the whole time, hardly saying anything at all. Ds isn’t too amused by her, but is very sweet telling me how cute she is and rubbing her cheek while saying, it’s okay sweetie over again. I had trouble with bleeding afterwards and lost to big blood clots, the biggest larger than a baby's head! It scared me but all is well, only some soreness from the diagonal tear I got, I guess that pain will last another week or so.
We are doing great now, nursing has gone off without a hitch, diapering is getting better, I’m using cloth for the first time and we had a cover get caught on the cord (it bled a little), so I was discouraged for a few days, now we’re using sposie’s at night and will switch completely once the cord falls off. My angel is sleeping in my arms right now, life seems to be as it should be!
We are doing great now, nursing has gone off without a hitch, diapering is getting better, I’m using cloth for the first time and we had a cover get caught on the cord (it bled a little), so I was discouraged for a few days, now we’re using sposie’s at night and will switch completely once the cord falls off. My angel is sleeping in my arms right now, life seems to be as it should be!
birth stories!! Thank-you so much for sharing yours! Great control, Mama!
Baby Josie!
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