I woke up at 6:30am on the 29th with painful contractions. I told Jesse he should call our midwife to let her know and to have her bring her stuff. She was heading to our house for our 40 week appointment later that morning.
Kate, our midwife, arrived at 9:15am. At 9:20am she checked me to see where we were at. To my surprise, I was 7cm dilated and 100% effaced and -2 station, contractions were 3 minutes apart. My reaction was, “wow I haven’t even done anything yet!”. Dylan’s heart rate was in the 140’s and he was doing great.
At 10:43am I got into the pool to relax a bit. It was awesome, felt better than an epidural! At 11:23am my water broke, my first spontaneous rupture and it was weird! My water was stained with meconium, but we weren’t really worried, Dylan still looked great on the Doppler. At that point the contractions were getting intense, but the water helped.
At 11:32am I got the urge to push although I wasn’t quite ready to push yet. Kate checked me at 11:39am and felt a small anterior lip and head, +2/+3 station. I also got to feel his head. At 11:48am after 13 minutes of pushing, Dylan Andrew was born into his Daddy’s hands weighing 8lb 13oz and 22” long. His APGAR scores were 9 and 10 and I avoided another postpartum hemorrhage.
The kids watched their brother being born and loved it.
It was just an amazing experience, my midwife was just awesome! I wish I would have had all the kids at home.
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