ok so i am gonna try and do this sooner then later so that i don't forget.....
At around 4am on Saturday morning June 7th i woke up to my water braking at woke up DP to tell him and he jumped up, and shouted..."SHOULD I CALL THE MIDWIFE!?" i laughed and told him no and to try and go back to sleep and i would go clean up and do the same. to no avail...we were excited and two week's past our EDD and very ready for this all to happen already.
So i took a shower, he began to make the house ready... lite candles etc. and the cntx had not really begun. we messed around the house, i posted here and read some of my book before i began feeling anything worth saying anything about.
around 6-ish i was having cant around ten to fifteen minute apart and we felt we would call the MW and let her know what was happening since she lived two hours away. she told us to call her again when we saw a change in the pattern in anyway and not wait until they hurt to call and then she would be one her way! we were all excited that it was finally here and we were gonna met our baby soon.
around 7:30am we called a friend to see if our DD could come play. they said bring her over and so around 8 i sent DP and DD off to play, and DP would only be gone to 20 minute's or so.
around 8:30 he was home i the cntx were about five minute's apart and DP felt it was time to call the MW again.and we did and she was on her way.
Dp began to fill the pool and set the last minute things up around the house and i felt like i wanted him with me although the cntx were close and intense i felt no pain, just wanted him to be close, so we called our birth buddy and she came over around 10ish to do the final preparations so DP could be with me. 10:30 the midwife arrived and i was feel bad because i still felt no pain and they were still maybe every five to four minutes long. the house also felt WAY to small for all of us and i needed space so Dp and i went out for al walk for around one hour or so, sat down at the park realized that sitting made them hurt and we again began to walk and ended up back home.
MW subjects i go get in the shower and i do which then turns into a bath and i feel relieved that i am in water and In a room alone with DP, at this time our BB goes home for a quick feeding of her DD and says she'll be back soon. i think i was in the bath with steady cntx around every three minutes still very manageable and clearly not the painful one's i had remembered with DD. so i still felt like i was going no where and my MW had come all this way and i was slowly progressing. DP and i talked and decided i would change and go out into the big pool for more space in the living room.
It was now around 12:45pm and our MW was sitting reading a book on the couch. i go tin the pool and WOW... it felt so good to have the extra room, i moved all around in the pool and BOOM!!! my first cntx in the pool was what i call LABOR!!! i felt and heard my pelvis pop...in conjunction with a doozy of a cntx and the game was on!! i looked over to my midwife and said... "that one REALLY hurt!" she said... I KNOW HONEY! and from this moment on they were coming fast and furious not sure the timing anymore but wow......i felt immediately like i had to take a shit, and to the MW she said, that's what I'm talking about....feel for the babies head....i did and he was there.. so close! i had a few more until they became the kind you can no longer help but push and i did... fully....but still staying open and receptive and still breathing my way through it. i think i had three or four real pushing cntx and got on all four in the pool MW and DP behind me, and i had him out and the midwife pushed him under me and told to grab my baby...and i did!!!
i held him and sat back against the pool with DP and we realized our little man was no quite ready to be breathing yet, we were totally cool, i knew he came to live and that was that, i could understand no breathing at this point , i barely was. anyway,the MW gave him a few breaths and a few more and maybe a few more and anyway, in the end he coughed and pinked up and began to cry....in my arms!
Narayan Yahudah Shabtai was born on June 7th at 1:27pm and was 7lbs 7oz and 21.5 in long! We kept the placenta attached for around three hours and DD came home to cut the cord!
this birth was amazing and awesome in so many ways....the longer part of the story is i did tons of work in preparation for this birth to make it somehow better then the one with DD which was 24hours of hell! anyway, it all paid off including the last two week we went over due, we needed ever minute! i can say again and again... i would and will do this again, which took me years to say after DD birth.
http://picasaweb.google.com/shantimama/Narayan02
today it's been one week.....
At around 4am on Saturday morning June 7th i woke up to my water braking at woke up DP to tell him and he jumped up, and shouted..."SHOULD I CALL THE MIDWIFE!?" i laughed and told him no and to try and go back to sleep and i would go clean up and do the same. to no avail...we were excited and two week's past our EDD and very ready for this all to happen already.
So i took a shower, he began to make the house ready... lite candles etc. and the cntx had not really begun. we messed around the house, i posted here and read some of my book before i began feeling anything worth saying anything about.
around 6-ish i was having cant around ten to fifteen minute apart and we felt we would call the MW and let her know what was happening since she lived two hours away. she told us to call her again when we saw a change in the pattern in anyway and not wait until they hurt to call and then she would be one her way! we were all excited that it was finally here and we were gonna met our baby soon.
around 7:30am we called a friend to see if our DD could come play. they said bring her over and so around 8 i sent DP and DD off to play, and DP would only be gone to 20 minute's or so.
around 8:30 he was home i the cntx were about five minute's apart and DP felt it was time to call the MW again.and we did and she was on her way.
Dp began to fill the pool and set the last minute things up around the house and i felt like i wanted him with me although the cntx were close and intense i felt no pain, just wanted him to be close, so we called our birth buddy and she came over around 10ish to do the final preparations so DP could be with me. 10:30 the midwife arrived and i was feel bad because i still felt no pain and they were still maybe every five to four minutes long. the house also felt WAY to small for all of us and i needed space so Dp and i went out for al walk for around one hour or so, sat down at the park realized that sitting made them hurt and we again began to walk and ended up back home.
MW subjects i go get in the shower and i do which then turns into a bath and i feel relieved that i am in water and In a room alone with DP, at this time our BB goes home for a quick feeding of her DD and says she'll be back soon. i think i was in the bath with steady cntx around every three minutes still very manageable and clearly not the painful one's i had remembered with DD. so i still felt like i was going no where and my MW had come all this way and i was slowly progressing. DP and i talked and decided i would change and go out into the big pool for more space in the living room.
It was now around 12:45pm and our MW was sitting reading a book on the couch. i go tin the pool and WOW... it felt so good to have the extra room, i moved all around in the pool and BOOM!!! my first cntx in the pool was what i call LABOR!!! i felt and heard my pelvis pop...in conjunction with a doozy of a cntx and the game was on!! i looked over to my midwife and said... "that one REALLY hurt!" she said... I KNOW HONEY! and from this moment on they were coming fast and furious not sure the timing anymore but wow......i felt immediately like i had to take a shit, and to the MW she said, that's what I'm talking about....feel for the babies head....i did and he was there.. so close! i had a few more until they became the kind you can no longer help but push and i did... fully....but still staying open and receptive and still breathing my way through it. i think i had three or four real pushing cntx and got on all four in the pool MW and DP behind me, and i had him out and the midwife pushed him under me and told to grab my baby...and i did!!!
i held him and sat back against the pool with DP and we realized our little man was no quite ready to be breathing yet, we were totally cool, i knew he came to live and that was that, i could understand no breathing at this point , i barely was. anyway,the MW gave him a few breaths and a few more and maybe a few more and anyway, in the end he coughed and pinked up and began to cry....in my arms!
Narayan Yahudah Shabtai was born on June 7th at 1:27pm and was 7lbs 7oz and 21.5 in long! We kept the placenta attached for around three hours and DD came home to cut the cord!
this birth was amazing and awesome in so many ways....the longer part of the story is i did tons of work in preparation for this birth to make it somehow better then the one with DD which was 24hours of hell! anyway, it all paid off including the last two week we went over due, we needed ever minute! i can say again and again... i would and will do this again, which took me years to say after DD birth.
http://picasaweb.google.com/shantimama/Narayan02
today it's been one week.....
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