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MY HOME BIRTH

Tanossa - posted on 02/07/2009 ( 3 moms have responded )

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I had my son @ home..It was the best! He is my middle child. I was pregnant with my first child @ 19 being so young I was in no way prepared for what my body,mind, emotions went through. Too make it worse the hospital staff treated me horrible as if I was an idiot. During Sarayahs labor her father, who was an older man shut himself in the bedroom while I labored all over the house going CRAZY! by the time we made it to the hospital I was pushing! This crazy nurse lifted me up, put me on my side and told me to stop. CAN U IMAGINE?! I was crying telling her I can't it's doing it on it's own! Out popped Sarayah on the bed without any assistance. Needless to say...I am not fond of hospitals. Six years later after sharing that experience with my New Husband...The awesome man he is took charge. He took me off work so I could focus on the growing baby inside, then we found BRADLEY. Wonderful, our bradley instructor gave classes out of her huge trailer. She was awesome. We found a midwife who was balanced in her beliefs about hospitals and homebirthing. When it came to it I ended up laboring for 19hrs at home, It was great my mom , mother in law and aunt was cooking. A doula accupressure friend of ours supported and our midwife....LEFT. After the 16th hour my son was still high, I was only 4cm, she had some errands 2 run. Exhausted I took a nap..Only to be woken by an excruciating pain ripping across my back! I jumped up looked at my husband who was dead to the world and said in true Bradley fashion "Oh that was a good one!" I woke up my husband so we could get in the shower together, LOL he declined. So I decided maybe I'll just lay here too...until another pain ripped through me and as I jumped up a large gush of warm water cascaded out of me. My husband jumped up out of his sleep ran to tell everyone...who was getting ready to sleep, it was 12 a.m. I for some reason locked myself in our bathroom sitting on the toilet . I was so comfortable there, I felt so secure but my husband was getting frantic as were everyone else..So I let him come in, convinced him that I needed to get in the shower. We did, and when I returned from my visualization underneath my waterfall in the Bahamas, birds chirping, the smell of honeysuckles... I threw up my brownies which pushed my son all the way to the ring of fire!! My poor husband was pleading for me to make it to the bed.With each step taken my son was descending. I made it to the bed, my husband was behind me, I was on my knees and we, together guided our son out of his bedwomb. He landed on the bed I scooped him up placed him on my chest and my husband laid us down. When his cord stopped pulsing my husband cut it. Then he and my aunt massaged my belly till the placenta came out. He examined it, It was whole. After cleaning up my aunt and doula wrapped me in linens....Midwife? never came back..not even to get her scale or doppler...The best experience of my life!

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Becky - posted on 03/01/2009

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My daughter was just over a week late and i was booked in for an induction (in the UK they don't like you getting to 42 weeks) so off i went for my induction all excited. It was HORRIFIC 33 hours of stop start labour, they kept telling me the brithing ward was full and no room for me. Then they said they were going to give me sleeping tablets so i could sleep through the contractions and deliver the next day, my husband zipped up his coat the midwife handed me the tablets but before i could take them my waters broke. I managed to attempt a pool delivery but was so sleepy i feel alseep and it stopped my contractions so they got me out took me to a room put me in the bed gave me an epidural i slept for only 45 mins when they woke me told me to push! My poor husband was curled up in the corner and woke to find me pushing! Needless to say baby did not want to come so they told me i would have a c-section! That was teh worst thing ever for me and panic set in, then off we went to theatre, but the doctor decided forceps would work! And finally after 33 hours my princess was born on the 23.01.2006!



Needless to say when i found my self pregnant in May 2007 i knew one thing for sure..............................NO INDUCTION. As my due date approached my Midwife tried booking me in for an induction, but thanks to my NCT classes i had enough balls to say NO WAY! I told them that i would not consider an induction until after 42 weeks as i felt that my pregnancies were not STANDARD 40 weeks. I think some medical staff don't like the fact that its not an exact sceince! I won that arguement. I had a sweep to try and help bring on labour when i was 41 weeks pregnant. NOTHING. I had already been eating a whole pineapple a day, taking raspberry leaf tablets, eating VERY hot food, having bumpy car rides with my husband, any old house wives tale i was willing to try it! Needless to say i went into labour at 15 days over due. It was so funny as i had never naturally started a labour i thought i had a tummy bug!!



I birthed at home within 5 1/2 hours, even had my own birthing pool (but feel asleep in it agian lol), i had not pain relief and loved every second of it. I felt incontrol, i ate when i wanted (something the hospital did not let me do for 33 hours!). My midwife and the training midwife were briliant very supportive. I had my husband and sister with me also, my sister making sandwhiches and passing out the chocolate!



Only down side i had to have a cut to help deliver Oliver then the cheeky midwife said it was a bad one and she could not close it at home so went to hospital (the same one i had Jessica in) to be closed. The doctor was so angry as it was not a bad cut and turned out the midwife was two hours over her shift! Despite that the next baby i have (and no matter what my husband says we are having one lol) will be at home!

Vashti - posted on 02/16/2009

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Thankyou for your story, encouraged me so much, has given me hope and courage! I think hospitals are for sick people. And giving birth is not a sickness its been done forever.

Danialle - posted on 02/08/2009

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That is an amazing story! So glad it went so well! My midwife was in our kitchen most of the time I was in labor talking to her assistants and drinking coffee. My mom and husband were my main support. They had to hollar for my midwife when I started pushing without say a word. They had told her I was bulging, but she didn't come, she knew I could do it. She only came when they told her I was crowning. I was glad she was there though, because my son had to be pushed partially back in and turned because his shoulder were stuck. I basically did it myself. She also told me to try not to push, but I was thinking "Are you crazy" and pushed anyway and out came my little Aries! He came so fast he didn't even realize he had been born and was still in the fetal position and wouldn't breath or cry! After some oxygen and rubbing, he decided to "wake up". It was beautiful and miraculous!

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