pinkie77
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Hi ladies, finally getting round to posting my birth story now life seems to be settling down a bit!
As some of you know, I was set on having a homebirth pretty much as soon as I found out I was pregnant. I'd planned one with my last pregnancy too but it didn't happen as I was induced 13 days past my due date - unfortunately I didn't know then what I know now! So all through my pregnancy I'd been conscious that I could well go overdue again.
And then, surprise surprise, my due date came and went with no signs of impending labour
Just a few niggles but nothing to get my hopes up. My midwife offered me a sweep and I had that last Tuesday. I'd been pretty unsure but after loads of reading thought I had nothing to lose really!
Tuesday night, I was awake most of the night with irregular but annoying pains. I finally got to sleep properly once my kids were at school on Wednesday and when I woke up again, back to square one. No pains, no nothing So basically I sulked for the rest of the day 
Later on in the evening I had a show but didn't tell anyone - didn't want to tempt fate
And then, pretty much at 12am Thursday on the dot I started getting the pains again. I really wasn't impressed, thought my body was playing games with me, so I tried to sleep anyway and I was that tired I was dozing off between them anyway. I carried on like that through the night, only this time they didn't stop 
They were still erratic but a lot stronger than the night before.
So, Thursday morning I packed the kids off to school and finally told my birth partner, my mum, that I thought I might be in early labour. She arranged to have the day off and spent the rest of it stressing about me every time I did anything lol. And as I decided the house needed cleaning (again) she did a lot of stressing! I managed to wear myself out by about 2pm, contractions were still coming but had slowed right down which put me in a bad mood again so I took myself off to bed for a couple of hours. Sods law meant the moment I laid down they started up again but I really had the hump this time and refused to take any notice!
When I got up again at about 4pm, the contractions were about 6 minutes apart but I didn't say anything and insisted I was fine when mum asked. I think she was fed up of having her head bitten off by then so left it but she didn't beleive me I was scared that if I said anything, they'd go away again!
My daughters had to be picked up from majorettes at 7pm and I decided I wanted to go for a ride too lol. Then we got some chips on the way home and I finally admitted to my mum that I thought we'd better ring the midwife. That was about 8.30pm, we caught them just as they were about to change shift. I agreed I should be ok if they sent the midwives out as soon as they'd done that - by this point I think my mum thought she was going to be delivering the baby herself!
To say mum was releived when the midwives turned up and I was still pregnant would be an understatement! It was pretty much all systems go from then on. I was already 7cm dialated and my waters went within minutes! After that, I just seemed to go on autopilot. As well as the two midwives there was a student there as well. One of the m/w was lovely and just let me get on with it but the other one was a bit annoying. I did vaguely think about telling her to go away but it seemed like too much effort!
I tried out a few different positions and ended up sort of half-crouched on my knees with one leg in the air! I think I (accidentally) kicked the annoying m/w too
I was coping fine with the pain, with each one I just sort of withdrew into myself if that makes sense? Suddenly they got a bit too much for me though, but instead of asking for the gas and air like I meant to, I yelled 'I don't want to do this!' Phoebe arrived a few minutes after that and was immediately put on my tummy. After a little while she started rootling around and found my nipple and latched on, where she stayed for nearly an hour!
I wasn't really aware of all the clearing up after but once Phoebe had decided she'd had enough sucking lol I went and had a bath while she was checked over, cleaned up and dressed. When the m/ws had gone I spent the rest of the night staring at my beautiful baby girl
And the look on my kids faces when they came in the next morning to find their baby sister had arrived was wonderful! Yes, they'd slept right through the whole thing!
It was a wonderful experience, it's almost a shame that I won't be having any more children cos I'd love to do it again! My mum hasn't stopped telling people about it since either, she's totally converted! She had been a bit apprehensive - fear of the unknown I suppose. Oh and my homebirth was the student's first birth that she'd seen - she left being very enthusiastic about home births too.
Hope all that made sense lol. I'm just so happy that I got the birth I wanted this time and it all went as I wanted. Fingers crossed that as many other homebirth hopefuls as possible have the same
And my good little baby has slept right through me typing this up!
As some of you know, I was set on having a homebirth pretty much as soon as I found out I was pregnant. I'd planned one with my last pregnancy too but it didn't happen as I was induced 13 days past my due date - unfortunately I didn't know then what I know now! So all through my pregnancy I'd been conscious that I could well go overdue again.
And then, surprise surprise, my due date came and went with no signs of impending labour
Just a few niggles but nothing to get my hopes up. My midwife offered me a sweep and I had that last Tuesday. I'd been pretty unsure but after loads of reading thought I had nothing to lose really! Tuesday night, I was awake most of the night with irregular but annoying pains. I finally got to sleep properly once my kids were at school on Wednesday and when I woke up again, back to square one. No pains, no nothing
So basically I sulked for the rest of the day Later on in the evening I had a show but didn't tell anyone - didn't want to tempt fate
And then, pretty much at 12am Thursday on the dot I started getting the pains again. I really wasn't impressed, thought my body was playing games with me, so I tried to sleep anyway and I was that tired I was dozing off between them anyway. I carried on like that through the night, only this time they didn't stop They were still erratic but a lot stronger than the night before.So, Thursday morning I packed the kids off to school and finally told my birth partner, my mum, that I thought I might be in early labour. She arranged to have the day off and spent the rest of it stressing about me every time I did anything lol. And as I decided the house needed cleaning (again
) she did a lot of stressing! I managed to wear myself out by about 2pm, contractions were still coming but had slowed right down which put me in a bad mood again so I took myself off to bed for a couple of hours. Sods law meant the moment I laid down they started up again but I really had the hump this time and refused to take any notice! When I got up again at about 4pm, the contractions were about 6 minutes apart but I didn't say anything and insisted I was fine when mum asked. I think she was fed up of having her head bitten off by then so left it but she didn't beleive me
I was scared that if I said anything, they'd go away again!My daughters had to be picked up from majorettes at 7pm and I decided I wanted to go for a ride too lol. Then we got some chips on the way home and I finally admitted to my mum that I thought we'd better ring the midwife. That was about 8.30pm, we caught them just as they were about to change shift. I agreed I should be ok if they sent the midwives out as soon as they'd done that - by this point I think my mum thought she was going to be delivering the baby herself!
To say mum was releived when the midwives turned up and I was still pregnant would be an understatement! It was pretty much all systems go from then on. I was already 7cm dialated and my waters went within minutes! After that, I just seemed to go on autopilot. As well as the two midwives there was a student there as well. One of the m/w was lovely and just let me get on with it but the other one was a bit annoying. I did vaguely think about telling her to go away but it seemed like too much effort!
I tried out a few different positions and ended up sort of half-crouched on my knees with one leg in the air! I think I (accidentally) kicked the annoying m/w too
I was coping fine with the pain, with each one I just sort of withdrew into myself if that makes sense? Suddenly they got a bit too much for me though, but instead of asking for the gas and air like I meant to, I yelled 'I don't want to do this!' Phoebe arrived a few minutes after that and was immediately put on my tummy. After a little while she started rootling around and found my nipple and latched on, where she stayed for nearly an hour!
I wasn't really aware of all the clearing up after but once Phoebe had decided she'd had enough sucking lol I went and had a bath while she was checked over, cleaned up and dressed. When the m/ws had gone I spent the rest of the night staring at my beautiful baby girl
And the look on my kids faces when they came in the next morning to find their baby sister had arrived was wonderful! Yes, they'd slept right through the whole thing!It was a wonderful experience, it's almost a shame that I won't be having any more children cos I'd love to do it again! My mum hasn't stopped telling people about it since either, she's totally converted! She had been a bit apprehensive - fear of the unknown I suppose. Oh and my homebirth was the student's first birth that she'd seen - she left being very enthusiastic about home births too.
Hope all that made sense lol. I'm just so happy that I got the birth I wanted this time and it all went as I wanted. Fingers crossed that as many other homebirth hopefuls as possible have the same
And my good little baby has slept right through me typing this up!
The one thing I'm unsure of, is whether I will like my MWs? I don't know why.. as I haven't really met one yet that I didn't like!
And welcome to your new little girl! 
