Cyrus' Birth
I was sure I was going to give birth on Friday, but I had had a
cold
and I think my body held off for a day to give me some extra recovery
time. I had some birthing waves on Friday, but never closer together
than 10 min. and very irregular. I had birthing waves all night, but
slept through most of them, probably because I let my Hypnobabies
maintenance play list play all night on my ipod.
I woke up at 5 am on
Saturday and I knew it was the day. I was having a lot of birthing
waves, but I didn't feel like timing them so I waited for someone
else to wake up. When DH got up I told him to get my mom and I had
her time waves and call the doula. The waves were about six minutes
apart. The doula got here about 7 am I just hung out around the
house having pressure waves until about 10 am when I felt a little
nauseous and I had the doula check me and I was 5 cm. we left for the
hospital (30 min. away) as soon as we got into the car the waves
picked up to about 3 min. apart and about twice as long.
We got to the hospital and I was giving some serious thought to
an epidural. I
was checking in with the nurse up front and she was asking me a
million questions but finally they took me to triage. The nurse in
triage jokingly gave me a hard time because I couldn't give a pee
sample, I peed, but missed the cup.
When she finally got around to checking me a few minutes later
she was shocked to announce that I
was 10 centimeters dilated. We went to delivery and Cyrus was born
50 min. later after an episomoty due to the fact that he was
posterior!! No one thought to check because I had such an easy
labor.
He was 8 lb. 7 oz. and he is super cute. I am so happy about
my birth experience, I can't believe everyone doesn't use
Hypnobabies. I was asked to rate my worst pain in retrospect due to
the fact that there wasn't time in the moment) and I gave it a five.
I think next time I will practice the finger drops more because I was
having a hard time with my light switch during my birthing time. All
in all I am completely satisfied with the experience!!