marieb
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Holly, that's so cool you used a midwife...I never thought I would consider it, I thought I'd be the "epidural now!" typeBut my best friend had her first in the hospital and had an awful experience so her second time around she did her homework and ended up having a home birth with a midwife and loved it! So much so that she became a doula. Her experiences made me start researching and asking a lot of questions and the more I learn the more confident and convinced I am that midwives and home births just plain make sense if you have a healthy normal pregnancy. I'm grateful medicines there for when it's needed but I will not be one of those women who get force interventioned right into an operating room for unnecessary c section. So insane! How did you like the midwife experience. How did you feel about it In a hospital? Did you go natural?
I love hearing how people's births went....anyone else want to share theirs too? I know most of you are TTC #2
So my big news is that I did another cm check about an hour ago and the Ewcm is back and getting stretchier! (TMI? Lol well hey, if we can't share that stuff here where can we right?) so I'm going to OPK here in just a bit....
I had a not so great birth experience. I had prodromal back labor for five days leading up to actual labor which was really exhausting. I didn't even know thats what it was until the pain got so intense that I went to the hospital thinking I had some infection or a pulled muscle. Turns out I was contracting at least every 4 minutes. I was only 1cm dilated though so I got sent home. Continued to have contractions every 4-5 minutes for the next day and finally went back to the hospital the next evening. I was a 4 so they admitted me. I dilated to 5 pretty easily but after that I stopped, despite the contractions (back labor sucks) coming almost on top of each other. They were also super busy that night so I had to stay in one of those tiny rooms they use for assessments for 12 hours. Only left it to walk the halls and use the bathroom. Finally, that morning around 9 I got a room and opted to get the epidural since I had only dilated to a 6! They broke my water and gave me pitocin in order to encourage things to move along. My body didn't respond right away so there was some talk of a c-section but finally I dilated to a 10. I pushed for 2.5 hours and then DS was finally born! I was so exhausted that the first few hours of his life are a complete blur. I don't even remember hearing his first cry

His birth really showed me some of the problems with our maternal care system and that's why I decided to become a birth doula! OH and I both agree that next time we'll be having a midwife attended home birth.