My unplanned home birth
Jami90
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So, I woke up this morning around 4:01 to go to the bathroom. While there, I had a contraction. I didn't t think nothing of it as I had been having them for the past few weeks. Another followed about 10 minutes later. The next ones were pretty irregular, but each became stronger than the one before.
I made tea, refilled my water, and did some laundry. Each task was done between contractions. When I felt like I couldn't take it any longer, around 5:15, I woke my husband and ask him to call my midwife. I got on the floor because it was comfortable for me. Once .he told her about the contractions, she told him to bring me in to L&D (5:30). As soon as he got off the phone and tried to get me dressed and off the floor, I told him to call 911, because I knew I would not make it up off the floor.
(5:36)The dispatcher asked him questions and my water broke! She asked if the baby was crowning and he said yes! I felt a sudden urge to push. I pushed a few times and her whole body was out at 5:39! The paramedics arrived a couple of minutes later and my placenta followed about 10 minutes after that.
Once I had the energy to get off the floor, the medics put me in the ambulance and took us to the hospital I was set to deliver at and we arrived around 6:30 to a team of happy nurses and my midwife. It was the end of the medics and nurses shift, but they said it made for a memorable shift.
Although my childbirth experience did not go as planned, I loved every minute of it!! Best wishes to all the other June Mommas!
Re: My unplanned home birth
crashing from September....that's wild!! It reminds me of my home birth that was planned, which was a good thing, because I would have been like you - not going anywhere and starting to push. It was 2 hours total.
You had an incredibly fast labor (FTM right?) and those are such fun stories to tell people. My mom and I have surmised that we must have undetectable contractions while we sleep and basically wake up nearly in transition, as hers were a couple hours each. Something was doing a lot of work to dilate and position baby for an efficient birth. Enjoy your new LO!
My fiance is thinking this will happen to us too because he works 45 minutes away at night and the hospital is 30 minutes from me. I think its so funny when he brings it up and tells me to call him the minute I feel the first contraction, because I've been having them for weeks.
What an amazing birth story. Congrats!