Post by snowmoon on Mar 24, 2018 11:26:06 GMT -6
I started having pretty uncomfortable contractions around 10:00 friday night. I was timing them and after an hour they wdre 2.5-3 minutes apart so I woke up SO and called my midwife. She made her way over sround midnight.
Labour was completely manageable until about 3:30 when I started to feel a lot of pressure and my back pain became incredibly intense. I had suspected that the baby was posterior but no one confirmed. I pushed a little bit but still had a lip of cervix left and breathing through those contractions was horrible.
I still didn't have a strong urge to push until my water broke around 5:00, I think. There was quite a bit of meconium in the fluid but baby's heartrate was still good so we waited through a few contractions to see if she'd start to make her way out. Half an hour later I was pushing but not making a lot of progress and was over it so we made the decision to transfer. As soon as the paramedics got here, I felt her move down and had to push. As she was crowning they realized that she wasn't posterior but she did have both of her hands next to her face. I delivered her head, hands, shoulders and elbows in one push. With the next, her whole body came out and I caught her and brought her up to my chest.
I had a good 2nd degree tear that the midwife was able to stich up herself so we didn't need to go to the hospital after all.
Edie Clementine was born at 6:04 and weighed 8lbs 14oz! She's nursing like a champ and looks just like her big bro.
Labour was completely manageable until about 3:30 when I started to feel a lot of pressure and my back pain became incredibly intense. I had suspected that the baby was posterior but no one confirmed. I pushed a little bit but still had a lip of cervix left and breathing through those contractions was horrible.
I still didn't have a strong urge to push until my water broke around 5:00, I think. There was quite a bit of meconium in the fluid but baby's heartrate was still good so we waited through a few contractions to see if she'd start to make her way out. Half an hour later I was pushing but not making a lot of progress and was over it so we made the decision to transfer. As soon as the paramedics got here, I felt her move down and had to push. As she was crowning they realized that she wasn't posterior but she did have both of her hands next to her face. I delivered her head, hands, shoulders and elbows in one push. With the next, her whole body came out and I caught her and brought her up to my chest.
I had a good 2nd degree tear that the midwife was able to stich up herself so we didn't need to go to the hospital after all.
Edie Clementine was born at 6:04 and weighed 8lbs 14oz! She's nursing like a champ and looks just like her big bro.
