Friday morning I woke up and noticed some lightly stained discharge and got so excited! Hubby was taking a shower and I ripped the curtain back with this giant grin and said “I’ve got bloody discharge!!!” I then showed him some tissue (poor guy). Dh had to go to work that day and I was really bummed about it but decided I would try and be out and about that day to get things going. I started getting some prep contractions, they felt like bear hugs and I actually enjoyed them. I had them all day and they were about 15 minutes apart and got a little closer together later in the day. At midnight I decided to go to bed and twenty minutes later I felt this painful contraction, I waited and felt another one 7 min. later so I told hubby and had him start tracking. They stayed like that til 1:30 when I passed out from exhaustion. I woke up at 4am cause they were making it hard for me to sleep, they progressed to 3 min. apart and around 6:30 I laid back down since it wasn’t changing. Hubby had called out from work which was nice but the contractions slowed so much they were every 20 min. or sometimes one in an hour. I wanted to get things going again determined to have her that night so we went to the beach for a couple hours and then went to the shopping center to walk around. At circuit city the contractions were coming back and were about 10 min apart. Around 7:30pm they became more regular and over time more frequent. They got to two minutes apart and stayed that way for a bit, I was going nuts so I asked dh to check me, I was only 3cm. So I gave up on it being saturday night and laid down. Sunday morning around 9:30 the contractions took it up a notch and became more intense now 5 min. apart, I was moaning and breathing through them but still able to chat on here in between contractions. Around 10 I asked him to check me again and I was 5cm, at this point I was ticked, I kept thinking “it took me this long to get half way?!” Hubby was chatting with him mom online updating her and asked me where I thought I was labor wise, then told his mom it was still early labor (clearly he didn’t know much) I looked online and read some info on the different stages of labor and told him I was definitely in active labor. I was a little disappointed though and what they said the usual time is for active labor, it was between 7 and 11 hours or something and I was thinking there was no way that could be right. I gave in and decided to lay down and just let the contractions get me to 10, I spent the past couple nights up and walking around and it didn’t make much difference so whatever.
Around 12:45pm I started feeling a little shaky and asked dh to check me again, he didn’t want to cause he figured there couldn’t be much of a change yet, boy was he wrong! He was telling me that he could fit all four fingers in my cervix (that’s 7 ½ cm on his hand) I asked him if it was stretchy or tight, he hadn’t paid attention so I asked him to check again, just as he was about to put his hand in my water exploded all over me on the bed. He jumped back totally surprised, I asked if the fluid was clear and it was (thank God) so he hollered to my mom that my water had broken. Within minutes they were scurrying about trying to get things ready (we all thought it was gonna be a while) my mom got the bed ready but then I decided I wanted to be on the floors so she covered that up as well… I don’t really know where dh went but he left the room for a bit I think… lol spacey memory.
Anyways I got on my hands and knees and a contration hit, it hurt so bad I bit my arm and left a nice bruise. Lol Then I decided that wasn’t comfortable and decided to sit a bit, I had a couple more contractions and felt them pushing her down, it was hurting really bad. Around 1:25 I asked dh to sit behind be so I could lean against him. My mom got it front and asked if she could check me, (I was in pain and could care less) she announced that she felt baby’s head and that it was only a couple inches inside me. I thought she had gone mad, how could she be so close to being out already? I was hoping to let the contractions do most of the work and push her down as they were but my body had other plans.. that bearing down feeling that women get and you get to choose if you wanna push? Ah not me, it was as it someone climbed in my body and took over, I was yelling and crying and growling I think too. Hubby tried to remind me that deep moaning was better than yelling and I nearly took his head off, lol. My mom kept asking me if I felt like pushing, she was telling me not to fight it, at that point I didn’t have much control. I had a couple contractions that I felt pushing her body through my cervix and I thought for sure I was gonna pass out from the pain. I was lifting my body of the floor and swaying it hoping it would open me up more, I remember crossing my eyes a few times too. Then my mom said her head was right there, she was crowning, she went and got the camera took a couple pics and also grabbed a mirror so I could see. Another contraction came and I was crying saying not yet I wasn’t ready yet, my body took over again and forced me to push with the contraction, I screamed to stop pushing and my mom thought I was yelling at her… I was yelling at myself, then her head popped out, my mom began to feel around her head and another contraction took control of me and I felt her body stretching my birth canal and out she shot at 1:45 pm. She cried instantly and was sooo warm! She had the cord around her neck once but it slipped right off and wasn’t a problem. She came out so clean I mean aside from the bits of bloody goop she had no vernix on her at all. She was beautiful and healthy and then pooped on me : )
So 20 minutes of pushing and she was here with us, an intended UC executed perfectly!
My mom is so proud of catching her she is telling everyone she meets, who then ask if she’s and midwife and she proudly tells them “I am now!”…
Hubby has been enjoying the new daddy feeling, he is just in awe when he looks at her and is so thankful to God for such a wonderful blessing.
I am so proud of myself, I did it all natural and though I screamed I never wanted anymore kids and if I did it ever again it would be with an epidural… I would do it all again in a heartbeat. What a gratifying feeling knowing you gave your baby the best start in life!
There’s more about the placenta and what happened with that but that’s another story I’ll post later…
Around 12:45pm I started feeling a little shaky and asked dh to check me again, he didn’t want to cause he figured there couldn’t be much of a change yet, boy was he wrong! He was telling me that he could fit all four fingers in my cervix (that’s 7 ½ cm on his hand) I asked him if it was stretchy or tight, he hadn’t paid attention so I asked him to check again, just as he was about to put his hand in my water exploded all over me on the bed. He jumped back totally surprised, I asked if the fluid was clear and it was (thank God) so he hollered to my mom that my water had broken. Within minutes they were scurrying about trying to get things ready (we all thought it was gonna be a while) my mom got the bed ready but then I decided I wanted to be on the floors so she covered that up as well… I don’t really know where dh went but he left the room for a bit I think… lol spacey memory.
Anyways I got on my hands and knees and a contration hit, it hurt so bad I bit my arm and left a nice bruise. Lol Then I decided that wasn’t comfortable and decided to sit a bit, I had a couple more contractions and felt them pushing her down, it was hurting really bad. Around 1:25 I asked dh to sit behind be so I could lean against him. My mom got it front and asked if she could check me, (I was in pain and could care less) she announced that she felt baby’s head and that it was only a couple inches inside me. I thought she had gone mad, how could she be so close to being out already? I was hoping to let the contractions do most of the work and push her down as they were but my body had other plans.. that bearing down feeling that women get and you get to choose if you wanna push? Ah not me, it was as it someone climbed in my body and took over, I was yelling and crying and growling I think too. Hubby tried to remind me that deep moaning was better than yelling and I nearly took his head off, lol. My mom kept asking me if I felt like pushing, she was telling me not to fight it, at that point I didn’t have much control. I had a couple contractions that I felt pushing her body through my cervix and I thought for sure I was gonna pass out from the pain. I was lifting my body of the floor and swaying it hoping it would open me up more, I remember crossing my eyes a few times too. Then my mom said her head was right there, she was crowning, she went and got the camera took a couple pics and also grabbed a mirror so I could see. Another contraction came and I was crying saying not yet I wasn’t ready yet, my body took over again and forced me to push with the contraction, I screamed to stop pushing and my mom thought I was yelling at her… I was yelling at myself, then her head popped out, my mom began to feel around her head and another contraction took control of me and I felt her body stretching my birth canal and out she shot at 1:45 pm. She cried instantly and was sooo warm! She had the cord around her neck once but it slipped right off and wasn’t a problem. She came out so clean I mean aside from the bits of bloody goop she had no vernix on her at all. She was beautiful and healthy and then pooped on me : )
So 20 minutes of pushing and she was here with us, an intended UC executed perfectly!
My mom is so proud of catching her she is telling everyone she meets, who then ask if she’s and midwife and she proudly tells them “I am now!”…
Hubby has been enjoying the new daddy feeling, he is just in awe when he looks at her and is so thankful to God for such a wonderful blessing.
I am so proud of myself, I did it all natural and though I screamed I never wanted anymore kids and if I did it ever again it would be with an epidural… I would do it all again in a heartbeat. What a gratifying feeling knowing you gave your baby the best start in life!
There’s more about the placenta and what happened with that but that’s another story I’ll post later…
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He is getting lots of play time with daddy but its not what he wants nor is it the same thing kwim?
