Zachai Joshua Sex: boy Born: 18 May, 2008 Age: 0 years & 149 days Birthday in: 216 days Starsign: Taurus Development: See the 4 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Zachai Joshua`s birthstory

So where should we start? Well from my last blog entry "When it all falls down" I stated that I had lost my mucus plug. So yes that was Friday morning (may 16th) So I was cramping up all day and just lots of bloody show. I was just hoping and praying that it was a sign of soon to come labor. That evening me and my mother went to go get a mani-pedi I needed to treat my swollen feet. I felt the same way all day just cramping and a discomfort. I got home and decided to install his car seat in the car, then do some walking and squatting, well I guess everything in one triggered my labour. I woke up Saturday morning around 4:30, as a felt a gush come out of me in bed, I got up and ran to the washroom, but it was just some more mucus plug and bloody show. I went to lie back down, however my contractions started briefly after that. They came pretty close together about 5-6 minutes apart, lasting 30secs and what not, so I waited it out. Had the jello and popsicles ready however, nothing stayed down. I called my midwife when the contractions were around 5 minutes apart for a minute for an hour. She came over and checked me and said I was only 2cm dilated and about 80% effaced. I was feeling like "that's it?" She gave me a shot of Gravol and told me to try and get some rest and eat as much as possible during the contractions, because I would benefit in the end, however you'll see how it turned out for me. I did get sleepy, but the contractions were intensifying and it was hard to sleep. I ate and threw it all up so I had an empty stomach. I took a hot shower, even got in the tub with my whale of an ass, and it felt good for the time being, but then the contractions hit harder after that. I called my midwife around 12:45,pm now having been in labour for about 7 hours, and told her that the contractions were now pretty regular at 4-5 minutes, for 50-60secs. She told me that she was at the hosp as back up for another birth and would not be able to come and check my progress for another hour, and that I could come to the hospital but she would send me back if there were no huge changes in my cervix. So i waited out another hour and then paged her and told her i'm on my way. I needed to feel like something was being done, being at the hospital would at least make me feel like the ball was rolling, plus my ass was in such pain i needed something to relieve me. So I get to the hospital looking like crazy women, big black tee, black pants, black crocs, hair in a messy bun, having contractions in the elevator beside some man (I know he felt weird) hell i could care less I wanted my baby out of me. It's now after 2pm and my midwife checks me and tells me I’m 4cm and thinned all the way out and that she would admit me in the hospital. I was all for it. She gave me another shot of gravol mixed with this other drug that I can't remember the name of but it's like Demerol (probably spelt that wrong) she said she just wanted me to rest and that that pain relief would help but would ware off. I had been against having epidural, and really wanted to go natural, so I took this and decided to see how far I would get. Well my ass slept very nice for about an hour or so and i could still feel the contractions but i was so high on the drug that it didn't hurt. She woke me up and checked me and i expanded to 6cm she then had me walking around the hospital, sitting on the exercise ball and all sorts. I'm telling you if it's one thing i learned is that breathing helps a lot!. At least it worked for me, I mean the pain did get really bad but I coped with it and breathed through it all. I lost track of time but I wasn't fully dilated till after 11, i was a wreck by then, I remember using the gas mask, which just made me feel high, sitting on a ball moving my hips in circles, going on all fours...i was in every and any position that night. I begged to start pushing because my body couldn't take it anymore, she told me I was good to go, so there I am thinking couple pushes he's out. Ladies I pushed for damn near 2 hours and he was not out, he could not get through my pelvic bone. I was exhausted! I looked my midwife in the eye and said I can’t do this! I need the vacuum, she said let’s just try another position I said NO! I need the vacuum I physically cannot push, all the ice chips and cups of apple juice could not supply with the energy I needed to push lil man out. So she called the OB on call in the hospital and my room got hella chaotic, random nurses coming in and stuff, I was upset it had to go that way, my midwives provided a calm environment all the other people that came in just made the place hostile. So needless to say they put the vacuum in and in two pushes my baby boy was born. The feeling a vacuum?!!?! I will not even write that in this story because it’s indescribable! I ripped in two places, so I’m all sore now!

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