Mindy's Birth of Korben
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Korben’s Story - October 1st, 2009
I woke up Wednesday, September 30th, feeling fine, then late in the morning I had some weird pain in my hips of all places that seemed to be 20-30 minutes apart for maybe 2 hours then stopped. Thought maybe I had to pee LOL…yeah you get weird pains when you have to pee and you’re pregnant.
Found some bloody show in the bathroom, which seemed promising! Called the midwife and she came over about 1:00 pm and checked me. I was 5cm dilated and effacing. The “pains” stopped and now were replaced by a backache and nausea. She said I was in early labor and that she would stay on this side of town and to call when things picked up or changed. I didn’t believe her as things seemed to have stopped, like they have done a many times in the past few weeks.
Later in the evening, 8:00 pm or 9:00 pm the pains came back but irregular averaging 15 minutes apart so I texted the midwife just as a heads up. She told me to sleep some so I went to bed at 9ish. Finally fell asleep and then got woken up at 11:00 pm with a sharp pain that i couldn’t ignore…7 minutes later another one. I figured it’d have to stop at some point. I took a shower but nope didn’t go way, after a couple of hours of 7 then 6 minutes apart of these “contractions” I texted the midwife. We then talked, and since they were steady and getting stronger we figured I could get in the tub.
At about 1:30 am I got into the tub for the first time, it helped. Finally at 2:30 am the midwives showed up. I was managing but they were hurting… this continued, stronger, closer, etc… like a normal birth should. I have to admit that even laboring with a breech baby the thought of “i can’t do this anymore” “it’s too much” “I’m too tired” etc.. .NEVER crossed my mind but it did repeatedly with this one!! My hips hurt more than ANYTHING, they burned more than pained and nothing relieved it. I finally had to give in and ask for help!!! Which i never expected to do and I more than once was yelling at myself for not hiring a doula, in my head!!!
Thanks to Sherry and Tiffanie for jumping in when I couldn’t do it by myself any more. I never felt so helpless or alone than then, but I knew the end was near if this is how I was feeling. This birth I remember far more and was FAR more coherent throughout the whole labor. I remember more, I was having conversations between contractions. I remember that I felt like pushing but that it hurt! Something’s not right, so she checked and I had a little lip left at the front of his head. Finally got that out-of-the-way and I could finally feel the need to push for real!! Wow! Weird how your body takes over, it was so instinctual my body just did what it had to do and it felt great!
At this point we woke up my 2-year-old daughter to come witness. She and daddy sat and waited. Well I pushed for maybe 30 minutes. It was a world of difference the pushing this time, I was accomplishing something with every contraction and there was no retreating baby this time!!!! But I don’t remember pushing for more than a couple of contractions… maybe 4? Then he was here. And swollen LOL and quiet just like his sister although it was almost like he was tired and kinda just chilled for a long while. He eventually decided he was cold enough to cry for us and we moved on.
We cut the cord, I got out and finished up with everything else. Measured this moose and he was 10lbs even and 24″ long, the dang newborn Pampers diaper wouldn’t fit! I didn’t have to go to the hospital this time, placenta didn’t come out right away but I pushed it out. I heard it was sizable and the person encapsulating my placenta called to tell me she ran out of capsules and had to go buy more because it yielded so much LOL…
Well after all that they handed him back to me he was hungry and latched perfect first time and has been nursing like a champ since.. and pooping OMG this kid poops!!! Did I mention he sleeps?? The first night I was able to get 3 straight hours of sleep! And it has continued like this. It has been fantastic in comparison and so less stressful than the birth of my breech daughter.
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