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Timothy Malik Sex: boy Born: 29 June, 2008 Age: 0 years & 71 days Birthday in: 294 days Starsign: Cancer Development: See the 2 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Type of delivery: Vaginal (without pain relief)
Duration of labor: About 36 hours
Weight @ birth: 8lbs 4oz
Length @ birth: 20in

Timothy-Malik-`s birthstory

On Friday the 27th I started having contractions that were about 15 mins apart. My MW said that morning at my appt that I probably wouldnt make it through the weekend, and she was right!! I went to work, w/ contractions but by 3pm I couldnt take it anymore and went home early. It was my last day of work anyway as my due date was Sunday the 29th and I was getting sick of working.

I woke up on Saturday around 6.30am and contractions were about 5 mins apart all day. I knew it would be that evening or on Sunday morning because they were getting stronger even though they were not getting closer together. We called the MW around 6 and she told us to call her when the contractions were about 3 mins apart. We went for a walk around 8pm and i walked through the contractions without stopping and at 9pm my water broke. It was so funny to see my family staring at my pants looking for the water!! I had a pad on because I just knew it would happen that day.

The contractions were still not 3 mins apart, so we stuck around and finally they were getting pretty intense and I told hubby that we needed to go. I used about 3 towels from my water leaking.. it was pretty stunning. Especially when we arrived at the hospital and water continued to leak onto my flip flops. When I arrived I was already 8cm dilated and it was truly the best news I could`ve heard all night!!

After being monitored for 20 mins, my MW let me go in the birth tub.. it was wonderful, and I got to joke around w/ hubby, my mom and my doula who is also my bff from 8th grade. I joked around until about 5am when the contractions were coming pretty strongly and I couldnt focus on relaxing anymore. My doula called my MW and she checked me and I was 10 cm but the baby since he was posterior, was stuck on a small lip of my cervix. She stuck her hand up there and pushed on the lip (which hurt like hell on earth) and told me that I needed to push her hand out.. I wanted to kick her in the face because it hurt so bad.

Finally I was sick of being in the water and she told me that the maneuver would work better if I was on the bed, I agreed and got the heck out of the water. (The only reason I really wanted the waterbirth was for the pain reduction, but at that point i knew that it was useless because of the baby`s position.. it was still gonna hurt like hell but prob even moreso because she couldnt help me the way she needed to) So i got on the bed and held on to the back of the bed while she pushed the cervix to the side which hurt like nothing else i can ever compare it to on the planet.. I screamed and hollered like I`ve never done in my life!! LOL!! I couldnt believe that was me hollering like that.. and she said those are the kind of pushes that i needed to continue doing... i was stunned and I got scared because that kind of pushing really really hurt.

So she told me to get in a more traditional position and had my hubby and my mom hold one of my legs up while i held on to my thighs and pushed. I couldnt believe it... I guess I really had no idea at all what kind of pain i was getting myself into.. but man, I wanted to beat the daylights out of my midwife. She kept telling me to keep pushing like that and I really didnt want to.. LOL. But in the end, my body pretty much led me to push like that whether i liked it or not. So i gave in.

After an hour or so of pushing, i got to pull my baby up to my chest.. it was awesome!! But I hemorrhaged and they had to give me an IV w/ oxytocin and a shot of pitocin... then my MW proceeded to massacre my belly by shoving her whole arm into my uterus and pushing down on my belly w/ her other fist.. I almost kicked her in the face for being a barbarian, but I didnt since i know that she knew what she was doing, even though i wanted to die the whole time.

Anyway, needless to say i was traumatized for the rest of the day and could not fall asleep thinking of what had happened. I also couldnt fall asleep because I couldnt stop staring at my beautiful son`s face.... he i so gorgeous!!! I couldnt be happier w/ our baby.. I love him soooooooooooooo much and it is true, the pain, the suffering, the bleeding and everything else... he is worth it all!! He`s the sweetest, calmest little munchkin and I`m soooooo in love with him!!!

We got to go home the next day and he`s already had his first bath at home .. he seems to really like it here and we are so happy to finally have him with us and in our arms when we want!!

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