my home birth story

well all of you that have been pregnant right along with me know that i was put on bed rest at 28weeks everyone thought that as soon as i came of bed rest i would go into labor andthe baby would be here

well i got of bed rest Feb 14th and it just happened that myself and my whole family was really sick so we were still trying to keep my poor little guy in

37week appointment

i was swollen from head to tow and dizzy i told my midwife that my lil man needed to come out something was wrong well she seemed very annoyed and told me that i just wonted to be done being pregnant and that nothing was wrong so i tuck her word for it at that appointment i was also dilated to a three and 80persent and soft i had also been having contractions every 15min for the last few weeks

febuary27th was a wednesday and i was set on not going to my 38week appointment so we needed to get things moving if the baby was going to get here before 1:30 on Friday so we went out for spicy food and then went grocery shopping i was miserable i started having really hard contractions in the store so we came home and within an hour my contractions had spaced back out to every fifteen minutes i was so upset i started to cry my hubby gave me a big hug and said don't worry the baby will be here tomorrow so try and get some sleep i said yeah right this lil one is never coming out

3am i woke up with the worst belly ache and acid that was enough to start a fire so i got up and drank a glass of milk and had a contraction nothing bad so i went back to bed my hubby wakes up to ask if i'm OK i say yes go back to sleep

3:30am

i tried really hard to get to sleep but i just couldn't i kept thinking about the lil one inside of me wondering if we were having a girl or a boy whether or not the baby would have hair all the things mom's think about and right as the clock hit 3:30 i had a horrible contraction that lasted for a minute and a half it was a wow were did that come from? contraction i turned over away from the clock i just kept thinking i need to go to sleep so i closed my eyes and again bam there was another contraction so i turned over to look at the clock it had been five minutes i got up to go pee by the time i got back to bed it had been six minutes and i was like well it looks like they will spread out again and just as i had finished my thought i has the worst contraction yet well from then till 5:45 whine my hubby wakes up they stayed four to five minutes apart and lasting between a minute and a minute a half at this point you might be wondering why i hadn't woken my hubby up and called the midwife the answer is i could tell that i still had hours to go and that my hubby needed as much sleep as possible

5:30am

my hubby wakes up and looks at me sitting in the corner are you ok he asked my hands had been going numb for the past few weeks so seeing me sitting up at this hour wasn't unusual i said i'm fine thinking that it would be best to let him wake up a little more before springing the fact that i was in labor on him so he got up and had a drink and ow another contraction he looks at me and i see him look at his watch he doesnt say anything he just stands there with the fridge open looking blankly inside much better the contraction is over he Say's wow that lasted a minute and a half i said yeah it felt long he watches me without acting like hes watching me i have another contraction keep in mind that i don't make any noise during contractions and there is only one very dim light on but my hubby can still tell that i'm having another contraction he looks at his watch again and Say's hon it's only been three minutes i said yeah i know i have been in labor since 3:30 he gets the biggest smile i told you that you would have the baby today i stick my tongue out and ask him to help me make the bed up with clean sheets and a shower liner he asks why i didnt wake him up and i tell him he says well i wish you would have but thank you for letting me sleep have you called the midwife yet? i say no i'm not ready i think we have a while left to go and i don't want her here anymore than i have to have her here i should say that i really do not like the midwife i had this time she was loud and just generally obnoxious

6:30 go to work

i tell my hubby to go in and get his guys ready for the day my contractions are still at 3 minutes apart so i figure that we have some time he only works a few miles away so he can be home in five minutes i tell him I'll call him whine that get closer so he went to work very reluctantly i sit in bed watching birth stories timing my contractions and wondering how big my baby really will be

7:45am i finally call the midwife to let her know what is going on my contractions are still three minutes apart but are stronger now i tell her not to rush out that i think i still have a little while to go she's Say's OK call me in an hour

8:45am contractions are two minutes apart and pritty strong i call to let her know she Say's shes an hour away and she will be here soon i call my hubby and tell him i need him to come home

8:55am my hubby gets home and apologizes for it taking 10 minutes instead of 5 to get home he makes me laugh my son wakes up he usually wakes up at 7am so him sleeping in was wonderful he has seen me having contractions for the past few weeks so every time i close my eyes he Say's mommies having a contraction my hubby tells him that the baby is coming out today this make him do a dance and sing I'm a big brother I'm a big brother

11am the midwife finally gets here she brings another midwife that i have never meet and their gose my nice relaxing time they come in like a blur i have my blood pressure taken my temp taken they listen to the baby that was nice and then it's time to get checked no fun i'm a five that makes me sad only a five?

the baby is laying the wrong way the midwife says lets go walk and see if we can get the baby to turn over to the other side so we walk and every time i stop to have a contraction the midwife pounds on my back with her fists i ask her to stop it hurts worse than the contractions she Say's it will help the baby move over to the right i had never heard of this but she's the midwife i can't take the pounding anymore so i walk through the contractions it hurts but not as bad as her hitting me we stop at noon and her and the other midwife decide to go get lunch that makes me very happy

1:00pm

the midwifes get back we go through the hole routine again i'm a seven i'm tired i tell her to brake my water she Say's the baby might still turn it will hurt really bad to push the baby out with it laying on the left i say i really don't think that the baby is going to turn i need to get this done i can't still be doing this at midnight she looks at my hubby and he Say's do it she has a really high pain tolerance and i can tell she worn out so at 1:30 she brakes my water

maconeim

there's maconeim in the water my hart skipped a beat i know this could be bad she looks at it and Say's this if from about a week ago the baby must have been stressed i feel my face get red i had told her something was wrong i hated her in that moment but i couldn't focus on that i can see my hubby's face has fallen he smiles for me and Say's everything is going to be OK

things get hot and heavy fast

i start to make noise there is no stop between contractions my hubby is standing in front of me my face is barred in his chest my hands are in his back packets pulling him towards me i keep saying dam it! the midwifes are laughing at me for using a kid curse my hubby rubs my back so gently it feel so good like he is taking some of my pain my midwife touches me to my surprise i yell don't touch me! she leaves me alone i start to push i put my hand gently on his head man oh man dose that hurt and he is out i hear him cry they are suctioning him i hear there's no meconium in his lungs i see my hubby cry i cry from relief is it a boy or a girl? it's a boy anther boy i am so happy i hold him he has hair lots and lots of really dark brown hair he looks like me a huge contrast to his brother he was born bald and looks just like his dad

my second son was born at 2:42pm

he weighed 10lbs on the dot

and was 20 and a half inches long

i tore a little bit and you can bet i'm still a little sore down there

i love him so much there's not enough hours in the day to spend with my boy's

thanks for all the stories and advise and compassion that you have all give to me over the last few months i'm on baby's.com now so please keep in touch

wildberry.