Ohhhh ladies. Do I have a birth story for you!!! I got my membranes swept at 11:20 this morning and had been having contractions all afternoon but I wanted to stay home until my water broke. H comes home with dinner around 7:30. I eat all while having bad contractions. I tell him I'm pretty sure tonight's the night but I want to get in the tub for a while to be sure they're not BH. Very quickly afterwards they get to be unbearable and I tell him we need to go and I feel like I need to push. We live 12 miles from the hospital and halfway here I push and my water broke. He's going 100 on the highway trying to get us here. We call to let them know we're coming.
We get off the highway at 9:02. I tell him I need to push and he's telling me not to (HAH!!). We pull up to the door and he's able to get in because someone was walking out. The doors lock at 9 and the registration desk shuts down then too. He gets on the phone to tell them I'm in the car with broken water and is soon met with a team of staff.
What they don't know is that I really had to push and I felt her crowning. I pulled down my leggings and felt her head. I pushed again and her head was out. I pushed a third time and delivered my baby girl all by myself in the car 25 feet from the hospital door.
She was taken to nicu for testing and should be back here in my room any minute. She was born at 9:08 weighing 7 pounds 7 ounces and is 19.5 inches tall.
WOAH! @DrillSergeantCat that is amazing! Norah is beautiful! Congratulations on both her arrival AND delivering her yourself, I hope you are both doing great and going home soon!!
Ahhh!!!!!!!!!! That's quite an entrance she made!!! I'm SOO impressed by you & your strength & just knowing what to do - you're incredible!!! She's beautiful & I'm so happy for you!!!! Congrats!!!
Wow how amazing! Congratulations! I'm glad to hear you are both doing so well. She's beautiful. I would have loved to have seen the look on your husband's face when he got back to the car
Wow how amazing! Congratulations! I'm glad to hear you are both doing so well. She's beautiful. I would have loved to have seen the look on your husband's face when he got back to the car
Bewildered. He looked in and saw me sitting there holding her to my chest and looked confused at first then scared. It was amusing.
Welcome Norah! Congratulations! What an incredible story..... I'm just speachless. Our bodies are so amazing and I hope you're feeling well this morning!
Holy cow!!! Thats a birth story for the local news at least- you're totally my hero! And welcome to the world little miss Norah! She's so cute I cant stand it! Congratulations to you and your husband!!!
Re: Norah is here!
Samantha - 4/5/2017
DH: 33
Furbaby: Walther, 4 year old Rottweiler/Coonhound mix
EDD: 3/7/17<img
DH: 37
DD: 03/17/17
DS: 12/06/19
Me: 39 DH: 40
Married: 12/6/2014
BFP#2: 10/28/15 MC: 11/24/15
BFP#3: 3/20/16 MC: 4/26/16
BFP#4: 7/15/16 DD: 3/18/17
BFP#5: 5/1/18 EDD: 1/12/19
married to M since 6.13.09
T - 3.3.14
A - 2.24.17
She's so cute I cant stand it! Congratulations to you and your husband!!!
Way to go, mama!
Congratulations! She is precious.
Me 28 DH 28 Married 2012
TTC #1 since March 2015
Metformin + Femara + Gonal F + Trigger = BFP 6/24/16
EDD 3/3/17
Found out it's a girl! 9/23/16
I hope you are both felling well! HUGS!
Married: 04/14/12
DS: 10/15/13
BFP #2: 7/22/16 EDD 3/25/17
DH: 39 Me: 38
DD 6.14.14