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Originally Posted by maranapanda
The worst part of my fast labor was being stuck in rush hour for an hour on the way to the birthing center! That's one of my big reasons for having a homebirth this time around!!! I got to the birthing center at 6cm, and 45 minutes later had my son.
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Woke up 8:30 a.m., first ctxns started right away with bloody show. I knew we would be having a baby that day. Within half an hour, I was lying on the livingroom floor, unable to get up, asking dd1 to get dh and have him fill up a hot water bottle (back labour).
My mom came to pick up dd1. My dad was supposed to watch her but we told my mom there would be oodles of time! My first labour was 17 hours. So my dad went out shopping and my mom stayed at her place with dd1. Well we were wrong about having oddles of time. The ctxns were fast and furious, going from 7 mins to 5 mins to 4 mins to 3 mins to 2 mins within an hour and a half. At around 10:00 a.m. dh called the MW who said to meet her at the hospital, called the doulas. My mom and dd1 came back ("Mommy, what are you doing?" --seeing me breathing hard and fast on the ground, lying on my side with the hot water bottle on my back-- "I'm just breathing to help my muscles work hard, because your little sister is going to be born soon."). We discovered that there wouldn't be enough room in the car for her to take us all to the hospital.
I started pushing involuntarily and dh had to call for an ambulance to take us to the hospital because he doesn't drive. Well, the ambulance got lost, then they couldn't get all their stuff upstairs. I had to walk with the drivers to the elevator, my water broke when we got to the bottom floor
, then when we finally got to the hospital the elevator wasn't working.
Finally we got up to a room in L&D and I was fully dilated (coulda told you that!!!! I was holding back pushing for almost an hour!!! that was very unpleasant). I pushed dd2 out in 20 mins. She was born at 11:30 a.m.
So 3 hours from first ctxn to baby in my arms. Baby could have been born sooner but we had that silly ambulance and elevator mishap. This too is one of the reasons I decided to try HB again.
I recall feeling overwhelmed by the intensity and how out of control things seemed because everything was so fast, and it was almost like my body had a life of it's own. The overwhelming strength with which I pushed the baby out was also scary - that I could be so strong and not know it. Does that make sense?
Mostly I just wanted my MWs there to tell me everything was okay and safe. That would be my only concern again this time if it was all super fast. After the birth was done, I remember thinking, "What? That was it?" So much less painful than my first birth, and the involuntary pushing/bearing down is a million times better than purple pushing was.
I too was worried/wondering what would happen if dh was at work and I was home with the kids one day and went into labour. What if it was fast and furious and I had to frantically call all over the place? Well, I guess I would just deal.
I think it's just normal to be thinking about this stuff.
My first birth with dd1 was traumatic, my second was lovely and wonderful. I really wonder what this third will be like since I have seen both ends of the spectrum. I am hoping for another fast and wonderful birth but you never know.