Parker Joie arrived September 30th at 12:45 AM- she is perfect
I think I will split the story into two parts, this will be the awesome part about when active labor started, and I will get around to posting the rant part of getting into labor later or in a differant thread all together, right now I am just still on the high from having this awesome experiance and meeting my wonderful Parker. I was over 42 weeks along, but Parker knew her timing was just right, she came out 20 and one half inch and 8 pounds 4 oz . We had the most wonderul, unassisted homebirth _ I could not have dreamed it up to be this wonderful, I birthed my baby standing on my own two feet, supported by myself and my connection with baby- it was just surreal - here is the play by play- but FYI- I had Dh call the MWs at 12:15, blood from delivery starting at 12:30 and baby at 12:45- so its not a long story
Monday things were going along after MW swept my membranes and we discussed options- sweeping was fine facing options was stressful, we were going to rupture membranes last night or firt thing this morning, dh and i desided to wait one more night of doing the less evasive options, I took two more doses os castor oil, and did nipple stimulation for over an hour, took some walks- still things lost momentum and slowed down. I called MW and we both kind of agreed that with a third time mom doing all the above and still not working it was probably just not happening-- we discussedf arom and fml some more. Then Sonny and I got some time to connect and cuddle, and he suggested that I do what felt right- that was no more castor and no more ns- so we cuddeled and connected, and got then got Arcie to sleep, got Katie into the sound of music- and we had sex- that was the switch that flipped me into effective contractions- I still thought they were not strong enough, and thought I was just progressing in early labor, i chatted with dh, was thrilled to see arcie sleeping, and Katie enjoying her movie (she watched it with my mom while i was laboring arcie, and has been llooking forward to watching it again whebn I labored this one) DH got Katie to sleep and I had the house to mysekf as everyone else went to bed so I walked around the table talking to baby, feeling so aware of what baby was doing, the contractions were good and strong, but not terribly intense, so I could feel everything baby was doing- it was wonderful- at one point I felt myself brace for another contraction, and I looked at my birthing candle and imagined myself as gloopy yeilding, melting, surrendering gooey woman, and physically slowed down with that visualization and got into such a wonderful place- by the time dh and katie were asleep i woke dh and asked him to call the mw becuase the contractions were right on top of eachother- i felt great and was not even really having to struggle with them, i welcomed them and kept talking to baby about what I was doing and encouraging and supporting babies hard work. I had a tinge of regret for having dh call the mw- becuase i felt like i had several hours left of work, and did not really want the extra hands- but minutes later I was stopping for contractions standing, balancing as I was feeling baby move down- I could feel everything - DH called mw as she had asked him to if they needed to step on it- i thought he was silly to call them aguan just becuase the blood was starting, and laughed out load and said to tell her everything was fine, i was having my baby, I had one more contration like that in the dining room- they felt amazing as I could feel everypart of baby moving down, and could feel my body responding to that, I yeilded in the warm wax glooby woman I was, and walked back to the bedroom, at the next contraction dh told me baby was crowning and asked if i wanted to get in the pool - I kept talking to baby and acually tittered at dh- silly him- I would have known if i was crowning, no I would not get into the pool so soon- silly man- next contraction parkers head was born, followed directly by her shoulders and her- dh asked as she was coming out what he should do about her still fully in her sacks- i said nothing that it was awesome to be born in caul- and took her from him- we were laughing becuase I got the cord wrapped aroubd my leg when I took her since dh w3as behind me- she was pink and yelling loudly for everyone to hear- arcie woke up and was so enchanyed to help get the blankets and get the hat on, and get a shirt for me- she was thrilled- it was perfect that she woke up just then to share in the new life and be with me and her baby- Katie spelt through it all till morning
I will not forget as long as I live what it felt like to have her head turn and her rotate her shoulders and work with her as a team, all my other births were more intense so I don't think I could feel as much of this wonderful things that were really happening, and once I was into talking with baby and encouraging baby and working with her- it was just such a great way to birth!
DH's tshirt preserved the cual perfectly, and I sat down and Parker wanted to nurse right away, a short while later the MWs arrived and we got to share our story and visit with them while they did all the paperwork and such. DH served us toast and drinks. DH worked with Peggy to help see if any meconiam was an issue- since she had passed her meconium, and was raspy too ( good thing we did not do the arom last night as planned at one point) and I worked on having my placenta- my very least favorite part of birthing along with its afertbirth pain
at some point the mws left and we all settled in for ther night in our huge bed- it was perfect
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...e/IMG_2736.jpg
I think I will split the story into two parts, this will be the awesome part about when active labor started, and I will get around to posting the rant part of getting into labor later or in a differant thread all together, right now I am just still on the high from having this awesome experiance and meeting my wonderful Parker. I was over 42 weeks along, but Parker knew her timing was just right, she came out 20 and one half inch and 8 pounds 4 oz . We had the most wonderul, unassisted homebirth _ I could not have dreamed it up to be this wonderful, I birthed my baby standing on my own two feet, supported by myself and my connection with baby- it was just surreal - here is the play by play- but FYI- I had Dh call the MWs at 12:15, blood from delivery starting at 12:30 and baby at 12:45- so its not a long story
Monday things were going along after MW swept my membranes and we discussed options- sweeping was fine facing options was stressful, we were going to rupture membranes last night or firt thing this morning, dh and i desided to wait one more night of doing the less evasive options, I took two more doses os castor oil, and did nipple stimulation for over an hour, took some walks- still things lost momentum and slowed down. I called MW and we both kind of agreed that with a third time mom doing all the above and still not working it was probably just not happening-- we discussedf arom and fml some more. Then Sonny and I got some time to connect and cuddle, and he suggested that I do what felt right- that was no more castor and no more ns- so we cuddeled and connected, and got then got Arcie to sleep, got Katie into the sound of music- and we had sex- that was the switch that flipped me into effective contractions- I still thought they were not strong enough, and thought I was just progressing in early labor, i chatted with dh, was thrilled to see arcie sleeping, and Katie enjoying her movie (she watched it with my mom while i was laboring arcie, and has been llooking forward to watching it again whebn I labored this one) DH got Katie to sleep and I had the house to mysekf as everyone else went to bed so I walked around the table talking to baby, feeling so aware of what baby was doing, the contractions were good and strong, but not terribly intense, so I could feel everything baby was doing- it was wonderful- at one point I felt myself brace for another contraction, and I looked at my birthing candle and imagined myself as gloopy yeilding, melting, surrendering gooey woman, and physically slowed down with that visualization and got into such a wonderful place- by the time dh and katie were asleep i woke dh and asked him to call the mw becuase the contractions were right on top of eachother- i felt great and was not even really having to struggle with them, i welcomed them and kept talking to baby about what I was doing and encouraging and supporting babies hard work. I had a tinge of regret for having dh call the mw- becuase i felt like i had several hours left of work, and did not really want the extra hands- but minutes later I was stopping for contractions standing, balancing as I was feeling baby move down- I could feel everything - DH called mw as she had asked him to if they needed to step on it- i thought he was silly to call them aguan just becuase the blood was starting, and laughed out load and said to tell her everything was fine, i was having my baby, I had one more contration like that in the dining room- they felt amazing as I could feel everypart of baby moving down, and could feel my body responding to that, I yeilded in the warm wax glooby woman I was, and walked back to the bedroom, at the next contraction dh told me baby was crowning and asked if i wanted to get in the pool - I kept talking to baby and acually tittered at dh- silly him- I would have known if i was crowning, no I would not get into the pool so soon- silly man- next contraction parkers head was born, followed directly by her shoulders and her- dh asked as she was coming out what he should do about her still fully in her sacks- i said nothing that it was awesome to be born in caul- and took her from him- we were laughing becuase I got the cord wrapped aroubd my leg when I took her since dh w3as behind me- she was pink and yelling loudly for everyone to hear- arcie woke up and was so enchanyed to help get the blankets and get the hat on, and get a shirt for me- she was thrilled- it was perfect that she woke up just then to share in the new life and be with me and her baby- Katie spelt through it all till morning
I will not forget as long as I live what it felt like to have her head turn and her rotate her shoulders and work with her as a team, all my other births were more intense so I don't think I could feel as much of this wonderful things that were really happening, and once I was into talking with baby and encouraging baby and working with her- it was just such a great way to birth!
DH's tshirt preserved the cual perfectly, and I sat down and Parker wanted to nurse right away, a short while later the MWs arrived and we got to share our story and visit with them while they did all the paperwork and such. DH served us toast and drinks. DH worked with Peggy to help see if any meconiam was an issue- since she had passed her meconium, and was raspy too ( good thing we did not do the arom last night as planned at one point) and I worked on having my placenta- my very least favorite part of birthing along with its afertbirth pain
at some point the mws left and we all settled in for ther night in our huge bed- it was perfect
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...e/IMG_2736.jpg
