Cails
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I am writing to announce the arrival of my beautiful baby girl Isla Anneliese. 
She was born September 26th at 10:32 in the morning. Here is my birth story-
On September 25th I was 8 days overdue. We were planning a home birth and I had just had an ultrasound to make sure she was doing ok in there. The doctor said she was getting too big and I would need to be induced.
We went to our midwife appointment and she said we could try a natural induction.
She performed a sweep (my third and most painful!) and arranged for her to come to our home the next evening to try an herbal induction.
The next night she came and gave me herbs. The sweep had made me extremely crampy and I was 70% effaced and 3cm dilated- ready to have a baby! So after 3 hours of the herbs we decided it was time to break my waters! She broke the waters (totally weird!) and I went into active labor straight away! Oh my!
Labor started out ok. It was 12:30am and I thought as I bounced on my birthing ball- “I can totally do this!” Contractions were about 5 minutes apart from the beginning and they progressed quite quickly. At around 4 in the morning I could no longer walk around or talk during contractions. I got in the shower and this helped for an hour while the midwives filled my birthing pool.
By this stage I was moaning and breathing through contractions. I was handling everything relatively well but was very tired. My OH was very supportive but I could no longer respond to him when he was talking to me as all my energy was going into riding the contractions.
At about 5am I got in the birthing pool. What a relief! All of sudden I was talking and even joking with OH. But that didn’t last long. I entered transition and was vomiting and contractions were coming at me a minute apart. I moaned and breathed and my back felt like it was being pulled apart. I barely remember much from that time. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life. I struggled to ride the contractions and panicked a few times but just went back into my breathing and moaning. I thought to myself “I totally CANT do this!”
Then it was time for pushing!!!! It was a little scary the strength of the pushing. It wasn’t coming from me- it was a force like nothing else. But my goodness it felt so right! The contractions didn’t hurt anymore and it felt so good to know things were almost done. Pushing only lasted 30 minutes! She came out in the tub (yes the burning is awful!) and I reached down and grabbed her and pulled her up into my arms. It was the most amazing thing!! I said to her “Hi I’m Mummy” about a million times! And she was beautiful and perfect and my OH cut the cord and then we got out of the pool and hopped into bed and snuggled!!!!! She took to the breast straight away with no problems.
Labour was a total of 10 hours. 2 hours transition, 30 minutes of pushing. She was born 9 lbs 7 oz. 9 days overdue! Perfect! We are so in love. If you are looking into a natural birth I cant endorse it enough. It was the hardest and best thing I’ve ever done.
She was born September 26th at 10:32 in the morning. Here is my birth story-On September 25th I was 8 days overdue. We were planning a home birth and I had just had an ultrasound to make sure she was doing ok in there. The doctor said she was getting too big and I would need to be induced.
We went to our midwife appointment and she said we could try a natural induction.
She performed a sweep (my third and most painful!) and arranged for her to come to our home the next evening to try an herbal induction.
The next night she came and gave me herbs. The sweep had made me extremely crampy and I was 70% effaced and 3cm dilated- ready to have a baby! So after 3 hours of the herbs we decided it was time to break my waters! She broke the waters (totally weird!) and I went into active labor straight away! Oh my!
Labor started out ok. It was 12:30am and I thought as I bounced on my birthing ball- “I can totally do this!” Contractions were about 5 minutes apart from the beginning and they progressed quite quickly. At around 4 in the morning I could no longer walk around or talk during contractions. I got in the shower and this helped for an hour while the midwives filled my birthing pool.
By this stage I was moaning and breathing through contractions. I was handling everything relatively well but was very tired. My OH was very supportive but I could no longer respond to him when he was talking to me as all my energy was going into riding the contractions.
At about 5am I got in the birthing pool. What a relief! All of sudden I was talking and even joking with OH. But that didn’t last long. I entered transition and was vomiting and contractions were coming at me a minute apart. I moaned and breathed and my back felt like it was being pulled apart. I barely remember much from that time. It was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life. I struggled to ride the contractions and panicked a few times but just went back into my breathing and moaning. I thought to myself “I totally CANT do this!”
Then it was time for pushing!!!! It was a little scary the strength of the pushing. It wasn’t coming from me- it was a force like nothing else. But my goodness it felt so right! The contractions didn’t hurt anymore and it felt so good to know things were almost done. Pushing only lasted 30 minutes! She came out in the tub (yes the burning is awful!) and I reached down and grabbed her and pulled her up into my arms. It was the most amazing thing!! I said to her “Hi I’m Mummy” about a million times! And she was beautiful and perfect and my OH cut the cord and then we got out of the pool and hopped into bed and snuggled!!!!! She took to the breast straight away with no problems.
Labour was a total of 10 hours. 2 hours transition, 30 minutes of pushing. She was born 9 lbs 7 oz. 9 days overdue! Perfect! We are so in love. If you are looking into a natural birth I cant endorse it enough. It was the hardest and best thing I’ve ever done.
what a wonderful story 
x
