January 23, 2011

Saturday morning (22nd) I dropped Kailey off at dance and went to Big Boy for some breakfast. While waiting for my food, my client called me to tell me she had been contracting 20-30 minutes apart since 3am, but they just stopped at 9:45am. She told me she was going to walk about a local museum and I advised her to take a nap instead. She was showing signs that labor was going to start soon.

At 4:45pm I called her to see how she was doing and what was going on. She told me her contractions just started back up and were 20-25 minutes apart. I told her to give me a call when she was ready for me to come over. 8pm rolled around and I decided to try to go to sleep, at 10pm I was finally asleep.

At 12:30am I was woken up by a dream that D had called and was ready for me to come over. 20 minutes later the phone rang and her contractions were 8 minutes apart but stronger. So I headed over.

D was experiencing back labor so I did some tricks to help relieve the pain while in the birthing pool, but her contractions were pretty spaced out still. Her midwives' apprentice arrived shortly after I did, then followed about her midwife. Thing were a slow go...2cm at 4:45am, but 4 hours later she was 6cm and asked for her water to be broken. Her midwife asked her to wait because baby was high and she was making great progess. A few more hours later she was still at 6cm and her water was broken. - sort of. S (midwife) thinks she ruptured the out layer of the sac because there wasn't a big gush and D obviously had a lot of fluid. So D got back into the the glider and worked through a couple contractions and then got back into bed to try to rupture the sac. D layed down on the bed and her water broke on it's own. D went back to the glider and worked through more contractions. Once they were about 3 minutes apart, we put more hot water in the pool and D got in and relaxed. She labored through about 3 contractions and then went into the squatting postion and said "I have to push!" S ran downstairs to get D's husband and children. D pushed for almost an hour and finally her baby girl was born at 12:02pm on January 23, 2011 weighing 9lbs 4oz and 21 1/2" long. She is simply adorable!

Tonight is our post-partum appointment and I can't wait for some tiny baby snuggles!!!