willowblossom
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A tad late in posting this but been a bit busy! lol
so i'm well pleased that i got my homebirth. my daughter arrived on new years eve!
I had been having regular and sometimes painful braxton hicks for over a week and was getting really fed up. on the 29th December i woke up in the early hours to go to the loo. when i got out of bed i felt a gush of fluid. I woke my hubby up to tell him that i thought my waters had gone. as it was early hours i thought i would put a pad on go back to bed and see if more water came out.
i woke up in the morning with a dry pad. in the end i had to go up to the maternity unit to see if it was my waters that had gone. i had a speculum test thing and the midwife didn't think it was my waters, so home we went!
so two days later i was laying in bed awake tossing and turning for about an hour, Then all of a sudden had a very painful contraction. (this was about 3.30am) they started coming every 5 minutes and were quite painful. i phoned the midwife who arrived at about 4.15 ish. by that time we had just inflated the pool, but hadn't started filling it. my contractions were coming very quickly but would describe them as short but sharp! the midwife came and quickly decided she should call for another midwife as didn't think we had long. so we quickly started filling the pool. I finally was able to get in at about 5.30 and was so relieved to be in the water. the second midwife arrive with only minutes to spare, as all of a sudden i had the urge to push and 2 pushes later my daughter, Scarlett was born! she weighed 7lb 7oz and was still covered in vernix (perhaps thats why she same so quick! lol) i was lucky and didn't have any tearing or grazes.
it was an amazing experience and compared to my first labour it was so quick, easy and stress free. I dare say i even enjoyed it. i didn't have any pain relief and it was so nice to get out the pool and go and lay in my own bed with my baby and my husband!
if anybody is thinking of having a home birth then please please go for it! 
so i'm well pleased that i got my homebirth. my daughter arrived on new years eve!
I had been having regular and sometimes painful braxton hicks for over a week and was getting really fed up. on the 29th December i woke up in the early hours to go to the loo. when i got out of bed i felt a gush of fluid. I woke my hubby up to tell him that i thought my waters had gone. as it was early hours i thought i would put a pad on go back to bed and see if more water came out.
i woke up in the morning with a dry pad. in the end i had to go up to the maternity unit to see if it was my waters that had gone. i had a speculum test thing and the midwife didn't think it was my waters, so home we went!
so two days later i was laying in bed awake tossing and turning for about an hour, Then all of a sudden had a very painful contraction. (this was about 3.30am) they started coming every 5 minutes and were quite painful. i phoned the midwife who arrived at about 4.15 ish. by that time we had just inflated the pool, but hadn't started filling it. my contractions were coming very quickly but would describe them as short but sharp! the midwife came and quickly decided she should call for another midwife as didn't think we had long. so we quickly started filling the pool. I finally was able to get in at about 5.30 and was so relieved to be in the water. the second midwife arrive with only minutes to spare, as all of a sudden i had the urge to push and 2 pushes later my daughter, Scarlett was born! she weighed 7lb 7oz and was still covered in vernix (perhaps thats why she same so quick! lol) i was lucky and didn't have any tearing or grazes.
it was an amazing experience and compared to my first labour it was so quick, easy and stress free. I dare say i even enjoyed it. i didn't have any pain relief and it was so nice to get out the pool and go and lay in my own bed with my baby and my husband!
if anybody is thinking of having a home birth then please please go for it! 
xx
