My water broke on Sunday afternoon, and we headed to the hospital. I was not having strong or consistent contractions, but I was GBS positive so I needed to go right away. My midwife said that if things didn't pick up we would need to do something in the morning. Things didn't pick up, but I did get to sleep! Much better than Zeke's delivery. So I had to go on pitocin. That was really scary for me because of Zeke's birth (posted as an earlier post). I actually "started" labor around 11. Our goal was to get me well into active labor, turn off the pitocin and see if my body would do what it's supposed to, then get into the birthing tub. My hope was to have a natural/drug free birth, but I knew the pitocin might make that difficult for me.
Things did progress and they turned off the pitocin and I kept having strong, consistent contractions! But I was still in so much pain I wasn't sure if I would make it without any pain relief.
I got into the water and it wasn't helping. Actually, it almost felt worse than when I had been standing or on the birthing ball. The nurse checked me about 15 minutes after being in the water and I was at 8cm. She went to go talk to my midwife, and my midwife wanted to come in check on me herself. She came in and I said (ok, I'm pretty sure I yelled) that I felt like I needed to push. 1 contraction and pushing and I was almost in hysterics I was hurting so bad (ring of fire anyone?) My midwife got my attention and said "Your baby is right here, you can feel him, reach down you can touch his head" I did. I knew he was right there! next contraction he was out!
I went from 8 cm to him being out in 10 minutes!
It was so hard and awful, and beautiful and amazing at the same time! I'm still fairly tired so if this was jumbled or didn't make sense or you feel like I missed something please tell me!
Zeke meeting Jasper for the first time
