mamamoo
08-16-2003, 11:49 PM
This from I'm pregnant dated 12-5-02.
If anyone saw my post on Thursday night(of last week) about the mucus plug thing, I guess that's when things started. I noticed I lost a little of it, ran to the computer and asked about it. With my other two kids I lost it in the hospital after I had already been in labor a while, so I thought it was kind of weird that I was losing it already(especially because I wasn't due until the 13 of Dec.)
I went to bed and around 2 am woke up with a contraction. I went pee and started crying because I knew it was going to happen that day. I had pink tinged underwear and more mucus plug. I was crying because I was totally not prepared, I thought I at least had a week or more(my first was 3 days early and second was 4 days late)to finish cleaning the house, wash baby clothes, and just generally get stuff ready. We didn't even have the birthing tub yet. So at 2 in the morning I was on a mission, I had to go through 2 huge plastic totes of baby clothes that had to be washed and put away. I did that for 2 hours then made my hubby get up and clean/do the laundry. I went back to sleep around 4 am, and slept pretty good until about 6, only waking a few times with contractions.
I took a shower and folded all the baby clothes my hubby had washed so far. My mom and sister came to help with the kidsat about eight am. I was having contractions about every 15 minutes or so. I almost wondered if it was false labor because they weren't getting closer together. I called the midwives and my work just to let everyone know I thought it would be that day.
So for about 4 hours I kinda just breathed through the contractions they were pretty strong but very irregular. I watched "days of our lives" to get my mind off it for a while. By then the ctx were getting harder to deal with. I couldn't lay down because they hurt too much and I was getting tired. There were a couple of times I wondered why I had chosen to birth at home. I had epidurals with both of my other children, and the memory of how good it felt to be pain free and enjoy the fact that i was going to have my babe in my arms was starting to get to me.
My mom got the birthing tub, we got it set up and filled, but ran out of hot water and no one noticed so it was cold. I think that i freaked a bit. The thought of going through the rest of labor without a warm tub just killed me so we started boiling water. Finally we got the temp right and i called the mw to see when i could get in. she said not yet...grrr. i was so ready!!
My boss called I think around 2 or 3 pm to tell me she was coming to get the kids. Thank goodness for her!! I needed a break, they were just to wild and I was really starting to have good cntx. All the time they were home the cntx were only around 12-15 min apart. Within about half an hour after the kiddos got picked up they were 5 min apart then I called the mws at about 4pm. One of them had to drive an hour and a half to get there and I thought it was going to be soon. After I got of the phone with my second mw the con. were every 2-3 minutes.
My mw got here at about 4:30 or 5:00 and let me get in the tub. This whole time all she did was check my bp and listen to the baby. I did not have an internal exam my entire pregnancy. After I got in the tub the ctx got further apart but much more intense.
I started to freak out a little because I got the impression she thought it was going to be a lot longer. I told her I was scared and she asked me of what? I said of the contractions getting much worse, I couldn't do any worse. She told me very calmly it wouldn't get much worse(it didn't) and I was almost there. I was also feeling sick like I was going to throw up after each ctx. M<y mw said thats great that also meant i was getting close.I was sitting on my knees the whole time and moaning through the ctx. The moaning helped so much, it's like some of the pain was coming out of my mouth when I moaned. Next time I will start moaning sooner(I felt a little inhibited about it for some reason at first). My legs kept falling asleep because i was sitting on them, so finally i kind of laid back while my mom sort of supportedme. It was hard to concentrate on anything but breathing and moaning. I was in a trance and got very irritated when someone interrupted me. I think i was actually sleeping in between the cntx. or just zoning to save my energy. It was so real.
My second mw finally got there at probably 6pm. She checked me and asked if i felt like pushing, i didn't. I was all the way dialated but Had a lip of cervix on one side of my baby's head so when i tried to push it was excrutiating. Finally my mw decided to push it out of the way( that was the most painful part of the whole labor/delivery)then i felt the urge to push. I had never felt this before. I was crying and told them I didn't think anyone should have a hospital birth because i felt so cheated with my other two.
I started to push and i could feel him coming out of me, i got nervous and tensed up for aminute. they told meto grunt and loosen my mouth, it helped a lot this primal feeling came over me and i felt like a wild animal in a forest pushing and grunting. I felt the connection of every living creature ever bringing a l;ife into this world. After about three pushes i felt the "ring of fire" (not as bad as the lip of cervix thing) i did tiny pushes(that was sooo hard i just wanted to push all the way, i don't know how i stopped my self.) to get his head out, then one push and whoosh across the pool he went. I was told he looked like a torpedo. My husband was supposed to catch him, but once his head was out there was no stopping me!lol.
They laid my baby on me and i was in the best place i had ever been in in my life. I feel like my son gave me something I had lost when I had my first child. I had healed a part of me I didn't even known was still wounded.
I got out of the tub after delivering the placenta. No tears I felt wonderful. We didn't have a name picked out(i thought we still had time LOL) My hubby came in and said how about felix , i didn't feel like he was felix, then issac, i liked that but for his middle name, then he said how about samuel issac i said okay. that's it. It really fit him. Sam was 8lbs 4oz, 22.25 inches long, and born at 6: 27 pm on Nov. 29th.
Just a note...I had planned on having my other two children there, but when it came time to bring them back for the actual delivery part, I felt like I couldn't have them there. I needed quiet and consentration and with their excitement I think it would have been too much. Also I think I would have not been able to go primal( i needed that)with them there. They were just as happy to meet Sam right after he was born.BTW~they are 5 and 3.75.
I think that's all. sorry it is sooo long!!!
If anyone saw my post on Thursday night(of last week) about the mucus plug thing, I guess that's when things started. I noticed I lost a little of it, ran to the computer and asked about it. With my other two kids I lost it in the hospital after I had already been in labor a while, so I thought it was kind of weird that I was losing it already(especially because I wasn't due until the 13 of Dec.)
I went to bed and around 2 am woke up with a contraction. I went pee and started crying because I knew it was going to happen that day. I had pink tinged underwear and more mucus plug. I was crying because I was totally not prepared, I thought I at least had a week or more(my first was 3 days early and second was 4 days late)to finish cleaning the house, wash baby clothes, and just generally get stuff ready. We didn't even have the birthing tub yet. So at 2 in the morning I was on a mission, I had to go through 2 huge plastic totes of baby clothes that had to be washed and put away. I did that for 2 hours then made my hubby get up and clean/do the laundry. I went back to sleep around 4 am, and slept pretty good until about 6, only waking a few times with contractions.
I took a shower and folded all the baby clothes my hubby had washed so far. My mom and sister came to help with the kidsat about eight am. I was having contractions about every 15 minutes or so. I almost wondered if it was false labor because they weren't getting closer together. I called the midwives and my work just to let everyone know I thought it would be that day.
So for about 4 hours I kinda just breathed through the contractions they were pretty strong but very irregular. I watched "days of our lives" to get my mind off it for a while. By then the ctx were getting harder to deal with. I couldn't lay down because they hurt too much and I was getting tired. There were a couple of times I wondered why I had chosen to birth at home. I had epidurals with both of my other children, and the memory of how good it felt to be pain free and enjoy the fact that i was going to have my babe in my arms was starting to get to me.
My mom got the birthing tub, we got it set up and filled, but ran out of hot water and no one noticed so it was cold. I think that i freaked a bit. The thought of going through the rest of labor without a warm tub just killed me so we started boiling water. Finally we got the temp right and i called the mw to see when i could get in. she said not yet...grrr. i was so ready!!
My boss called I think around 2 or 3 pm to tell me she was coming to get the kids. Thank goodness for her!! I needed a break, they were just to wild and I was really starting to have good cntx. All the time they were home the cntx were only around 12-15 min apart. Within about half an hour after the kiddos got picked up they were 5 min apart then I called the mws at about 4pm. One of them had to drive an hour and a half to get there and I thought it was going to be soon. After I got of the phone with my second mw the con. were every 2-3 minutes.
My mw got here at about 4:30 or 5:00 and let me get in the tub. This whole time all she did was check my bp and listen to the baby. I did not have an internal exam my entire pregnancy. After I got in the tub the ctx got further apart but much more intense.
I started to freak out a little because I got the impression she thought it was going to be a lot longer. I told her I was scared and she asked me of what? I said of the contractions getting much worse, I couldn't do any worse. She told me very calmly it wouldn't get much worse(it didn't) and I was almost there. I was also feeling sick like I was going to throw up after each ctx. M<y mw said thats great that also meant i was getting close.I was sitting on my knees the whole time and moaning through the ctx. The moaning helped so much, it's like some of the pain was coming out of my mouth when I moaned. Next time I will start moaning sooner(I felt a little inhibited about it for some reason at first). My legs kept falling asleep because i was sitting on them, so finally i kind of laid back while my mom sort of supportedme. It was hard to concentrate on anything but breathing and moaning. I was in a trance and got very irritated when someone interrupted me. I think i was actually sleeping in between the cntx. or just zoning to save my energy. It was so real.
My second mw finally got there at probably 6pm. She checked me and asked if i felt like pushing, i didn't. I was all the way dialated but Had a lip of cervix on one side of my baby's head so when i tried to push it was excrutiating. Finally my mw decided to push it out of the way( that was the most painful part of the whole labor/delivery)then i felt the urge to push. I had never felt this before. I was crying and told them I didn't think anyone should have a hospital birth because i felt so cheated with my other two.
I started to push and i could feel him coming out of me, i got nervous and tensed up for aminute. they told meto grunt and loosen my mouth, it helped a lot this primal feeling came over me and i felt like a wild animal in a forest pushing and grunting. I felt the connection of every living creature ever bringing a l;ife into this world. After about three pushes i felt the "ring of fire" (not as bad as the lip of cervix thing) i did tiny pushes(that was sooo hard i just wanted to push all the way, i don't know how i stopped my self.) to get his head out, then one push and whoosh across the pool he went. I was told he looked like a torpedo. My husband was supposed to catch him, but once his head was out there was no stopping me!lol.
They laid my baby on me and i was in the best place i had ever been in in my life. I feel like my son gave me something I had lost when I had my first child. I had healed a part of me I didn't even known was still wounded.
I got out of the tub after delivering the placenta. No tears I felt wonderful. We didn't have a name picked out(i thought we still had time LOL) My hubby came in and said how about felix , i didn't feel like he was felix, then issac, i liked that but for his middle name, then he said how about samuel issac i said okay. that's it. It really fit him. Sam was 8lbs 4oz, 22.25 inches long, and born at 6: 27 pm on Nov. 29th.
Just a note...I had planned on having my other two children there, but when it came time to bring them back for the actual delivery part, I felt like I couldn't have them there. I needed quiet and consentration and with their excitement I think it would have been too much. Also I think I would have not been able to go primal( i needed that)with them there. They were just as happy to meet Sam right after he was born.BTW~they are 5 and 3.75.
I think that's all. sorry it is sooo long!!!