Posted by mare on October 09, 2003 at 18:23:27:
In Reply to: my birth story posted by Lynn on October 04, 2003 at 13:37:13:
: It was Sunday, septenmber 14th, 2003. I was at my moms house with my husband we had arrived the night before and were renovating her bathroom for here while she and my father were away on vacation. Sort of a "while you were out" idea. At 4:00am I woke up and just felt as though something wasn't right. I woke my husband and said I wanted to go to the hospital to get checked out. He barely woke long enough to tell me to go back to sleep and we'd deal with it when it was a little later in the morning. I couldn't sleep thinking about what might be happeningso I got up and did a little work on the bathroom. I eventually got tired again and went back to bed. At about 5:30am I had what I believed was a fairly strong contraction and then felt a strange "kick"from the baby. A few seconds later I realized that it was not a kick I had just felt it was my water breaking. I bolted out of the bed and woke my husband. "Adam, I have no doubt that my water just broke. We have to go." My mother's house is 2 and a half hours from ours so we grabed our bag and got in the car to head home. As soon as my water broke I started to have regular contractions. They STARTED at 3 min apart and were very intense. From the first one I had to stop and work through it. I wondered what happened to the irregular 10-15 min apart mild contractions they tell you to expect at first. Anyhow we had an overwhelming drive home. By this time it was only 6am so trafic was almost non existant as it was also Sunday. Every minute seemed like an hour and my husband was yelling at any car that was in his way or driving slower than 20km over the speed limit. I myself was screaming in pain with every contraction and once my contractions started to overlap my husband began to panic as he wondered if we would even make it to the hospital. Once we finally arrived at our home, we were met by our dula. I decided it was time to go to the hospital about half an hour later. When we arrived at the hospital, I was admitted immediately and they checked me to see how far I was. "100% effaced and 3cm" I was told. Although it had been only 3 and a half hours so far, it felt like forever to me. I was told haw good that was especially since I started from fully closed and not effaced at all and this was my first baby but all I could think was 7cm to go. I started to wonder if I was going to be able to have the all natural, unmedicated birth I had planned on. I went in the whirlpool for a bit and tried to walk around but the pain was so strong nothing seemed to help. With every contraction I would yell. " It hurts, it hurts" Only an hour and a half after my first check I started to feel like I needed to push so I was checked again. This time I was 8cm. Half an hour later I was at 10cm and began to push. I pushed for 15 minutes and immediately after was holding my precious baby girl in my arms. The moment I saw her, all the pain I had felt was replaced with complete happiness. The whole thing seemed like a dream. I was proud of my self for making it through with no meds and having no episiotomy. I received one stitch internally. We named her Madison Lynn. She was born at 11:47am, her apgars were 8 and 9. she weighed 6lbs even and was 20" long. She was 3 weeks early but completely healthy. In the almost 3 weeks she has been here she has become my world. I have never been so sleep deprived in all my life but I have neverloved anyone so much either. I know I have been truly blessed. To all those ttc, good luck and I promise it's worth all the heartaches now to have a precious baby in the end. To those pregnant. The end will come and you'll quickly forget what being pregnant was even like. The aches and fatigue, the weight gain, stretch marks, they will all seem like such a small price to pay in comparison to what you get in the end. And for all you new moms and old ones, you know what I mean. baby dust to all who need it and congrats to everyone else.
: thats a great birth story ... i am so happy for you and your family ... welcome to the world madison lynn!!! :)
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