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Maia Rae Sex: girl Born: 06 March, 2008 Age: 0 years & 274 days Birthday in: 91 days Starsign: Pisces Development: See the 9 months page. Biggest achievement so far: - |
Birth details
Type of delivery: Vaginal (used gas for pain relief during the last 1 1/2 hours of labour)Duration of labor: 11 1/2 hours
Weight @ birth: 3300 g
Length @ birth: 49 cm
Maia Rae's birth story
Our little baby girl was born Thursday, March 6th at 11.34am. I was a week overdue and because I didn't want to get induced at the hospital, I had decided to try some accupuncture to get things flowing a little more naturally. Well, the accupuncture did the trick:-), right on the day of the second treatment (Monday), I lost the other part of my mucus plug and started having weak contractions the day after. I kept having irregular weak contractions all throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, and finally Wednesday night they became more frequent and of course more painful :-). From midnight on they kept coming every 5-10 minutes, but I didn't ring the hospital yet, because I didn't know whether it was quite the time yet, and I didn't want to be sent back once I was there. So I just tried to cope at home as long as possible. By 3am I thought that's it, I think the baby is really on her way out. So, I woke up Sean and we went to the hospital. By the time we arrived the contractions started coming every 3 minutes. They did an internal exam and said that I was only 2 cm dialated, my baby's head was very low down in the pelvis but my cervix was further up in the back, and they said the cervix had to move down to baby's head while it's dialating further.
We then went up to a delivery suite and I happily went straight to the shower to ease the pain a little with hot water. Somehow, the hot water made the contractions come less often, though, and since I didn't want the process to slow down, I got out of the shower every now and then and used the birthing bar or the bed. Most of the time I spent on my knees leaning forward, sort of half virasana (a yoga position where you lay forward, relacxing in between your knees, arms stretched out in front of you) and on all fours. Visualisation and hip rolling were the two things that basically got me through the contractions, and of course breathing. As the contractions got stronger and stronger I found it very helpful to moan and make funny noises, it so helped to release the energy and to move through the process. I so wanted to get into the bath cause I had planned to have a water birth, but the midwife said that they would have to do another internal before they could let me get into the warm water because they wanted to make sure that I was at least 5 cm dialated so things wouldn't be slowed down, but because the first internal had been really painful and freaked me out quite a bit, I didn't want to have another one, if I could avoid it, plus they had already told me that it was unlikely to have a water birth anyways, because the midwives who were there at the time weren't registered for it. In the end, I think during the transition stage, by 9.30 or 10 am, I asked for some gas for pain relief, which helped initially, but then as I got to the actual birth stage, I simply used the mouth piece for biting my teeth into it instead of breathing through it :-) which was quite "comforting", too. I remembered that one of the women from prenatal yoga used to say that it's good to let out the primal woman during birth and just let go, and I found that's quite true. I moaned and grunted like I had never before and was quite surprised at myself and the intensity of the noise I could produce at this stage :-) But it really did help to release the energy and move through the contractions.
The actual birth only took about 20 minutes. I'm still amazed at what my body managed to do. I was so overwhelmed and happy when I could finally hold my little girl. My first thoughts and words were "She is perfect". The second I held her I had forgotten the labour pain and it was all so worth it, such an amazing journey.
Our little baby girl was born Thursday, March 6th at 11.34am. I was a week overdue and because I didn't want to get induced at the hospital, I had decided to try some accupuncture to get things flowing a little more naturally. Well, the accupuncture did the trick:-), right on the day of the second treatment (Monday), I lost the other part of my mucus plug and started having weak contractions the day after. I kept having irregular weak contractions all throughout Tuesday and Wednesday, and finally Wednesday night they became more frequent and of course more painful :-). From midnight on they kept coming every 5-10 minutes, but I didn't ring the hospital yet, because I didn't know whether it was quite the time yet, and I didn't want to be sent back once I was there. So I just tried to cope at home as long as possible. By 3am I thought that's it, I think the baby is really on her way out. So, I woke up Sean and we went to the hospital. By the time we arrived the contractions started coming every 3 minutes. They did an internal exam and said that I was only 2 cm dialated, my baby's head was very low down in the pelvis but my cervix was further up in the back, and they said the cervix had to move down to baby's head while it's dialating further.
We then went up to a delivery suite and I happily went straight to the shower to ease the pain a little with hot water. Somehow, the hot water made the contractions come less often, though, and since I didn't want the process to slow down, I got out of the shower every now and then and used the birthing bar or the bed. Most of the time I spent on my knees leaning forward, sort of half virasana (a yoga position where you lay forward, relacxing in between your knees, arms stretched out in front of you) and on all fours. Visualisation and hip rolling were the two things that basically got me through the contractions, and of course breathing. As the contractions got stronger and stronger I found it very helpful to moan and make funny noises, it so helped to release the energy and to move through the process. I so wanted to get into the bath cause I had planned to have a water birth, but the midwife said that they would have to do another internal before they could let me get into the warm water because they wanted to make sure that I was at least 5 cm dialated so things wouldn't be slowed down, but because the first internal had been really painful and freaked me out quite a bit, I didn't want to have another one, if I could avoid it, plus they had already told me that it was unlikely to have a water birth anyways, because the midwives who were there at the time weren't registered for it. In the end, I think during the transition stage, by 9.30 or 10 am, I asked for some gas for pain relief, which helped initially, but then as I got to the actual birth stage, I simply used the mouth piece for biting my teeth into it instead of breathing through it :-) which was quite "comforting", too. I remembered that one of the women from prenatal yoga used to say that it's good to let out the primal woman during birth and just let go, and I found that's quite true. I moaned and grunted like I had never before and was quite surprised at myself and the intensity of the noise I could produce at this stage :-) But it really did help to release the energy and move through the contractions.
The actual birth only took about 20 minutes. I'm still amazed at what my body managed to do. I was so overwhelmed and happy when I could finally hold my little girl. My first thoughts and words were "She is perfect". The second I held her I had forgotten the labour pain and it was all so worth it, such an amazing journey.
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