Positive Home Birth Story

*I am going to keep the dates private because I don’t like sharing my kids birthdays publicly*

Light one evening, right before bed I started, noticing that I was having some light cramping… it felt like period cramping and right away I knew it was most likely a sign that labor would be starting soon. I went to bed in hopes that I would get a good nights sleep before things ramped up. I also didn’t wanna get my hopes up because I had had already thought that labor had started a few times just to get my hopes dashed and for the contractions to go away.

I woke up around 4 AM and the cramping was getting worse, so I called my husband, who had already headed out to the gym.

My sister was home and we started cleaning up the house since the night before we had had a slight family emergency and the house was a pretty bad mess! In between cleaning, the contraction started picking up pretty quickly. I started having back labor and my husband and sister took turns putting pressure on my back while I went on all fours.

I had done tons of research into breathing in labor positions, and I found that being on all fours or bending over on my knees, and leaning on the birthing ball helped me the most.

Right around 9 AM is when the contractions really started hurting and getting close enough together that I could no longer keep cleaning or distracting myself, and my husband and sister became really attentive to all of my needs and waited on me for when the contractions would hit so that they could come over and put pressure on my back and comfort me.

Then labor really hit fast.

We call the midwife, who is only 10 minutes away, and she rushed over.

We had already started setting up the birth tub, but by the time I got it, I was already pushing within one more contraction.

I could tell once I started pushing that this was my biggest baby yet. My other two children or 7 pounds and just based off of the pure pressure I was feeling I knew this was going to be a big baby. Sure enough later on we found out he was 9 pounds. However, I did not tear and I was able to push him out within just a few minutes!

I had told my midwife. I wanted to reach down and pick him up myself, but when it actually came to that point, she had to grab him for me because I had no energy left! As soon as she put him on my chest, I just sat there and soaked up the moment.

My perfect, precious baby was here with us , and I couldn’t have been happier in that moment.

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