11/22/09 Nikolai Arrives!

[stacyemmy]

We all have one..some of us have more then one...this is my birth story! (well my 2nd one)

It's 3am sunday morning and I have been laying here going on 3 hours trying to sleep. Ok I didn't lay there the whole time..I straightened my hair, did my nails, and chatted online. But I just COULD NOT fall asleep. Well it's 3:02am and I have just set my phone down from texting my fiance who for some weird reason woke up in the middle of the night at about 2:45am. Well I set my phone down and I feel this little gush..thinking to myself I don't think I had pee when I feel another gush..ok I KNOW I didn't have to pee...then it starts running down..now I'm thinking "don't panick but your water just broke ok we need to get up, wait no call robert, no yell for your mom, omg don't move it makes it come out faster..but now I have to pee and my daughter is in bed with me".

So after all this very quickly runs through my mind I have rolled onto the floor on my knees..ahh gravity just makes it worse..I pick up my phone and can't decide whether to text or call my fiance, well it looks like I found the call button..goes straight to voicemail so I leave him one..I yell for my mom as I hit redial and get up to go pee..I get on the toilet..I pee I think..I hit redial again on the phone..I tell my mom my water broke she finds me some undies and some pants and gets my daughter up and dressed as I fumble with putting on a pad and calling my fiance who anwsers this time..so I tell him and he gets on his way from ky. I get my daughters bag, my bag, and the infant seat. I realize I need someone to watch my daughter while I'm at the hospital I already have my aunt scheduled for sunday night but not sunday morning..my mom calls my grandma as I call my midwife.

My midwife tells me to head to the hospital she'll call ahead but don't expect her there til 6a..my grandma is going to watch my daughter..so we start to head to the car..but I have to run upstairs for my pillow..finally we're in the car. I am not yet having contractions..we take my daughter to my grandmas and talk for a few minutes..then mom and I are on our way to the hospital..we go over a bump and I can really feel his head in position..but still no contractions..I am getting nervous they might push pitocin when I get there..we arrive at labor and delivery..theyre waiting for us..I get the biggest birthing room in the building just by luck..its got the tub and everything..I sign papers and change into a gown..they hook the monitors up to me and start my iv because I am gbs positive. I am having small contractions according to the monitor..yay! I am dialated to 4 1/2. That's good. We're there about an hour I am guessing. TIme gets away from me while in labor..lol..and contractions start getting hard I want to get up and walk..I want to make it progress because I don't want pitocin! The nurses won't let me off the monitors they keep saying I have to wait.

Its now 6am and my fiance has made it there contractions are getting really hard to just labor in bed ugh! Finally my midwife comes in and says things are good and I tell her I want off the monitors and into the tub because they are VERY strong now to just be lying in the bed..she gets me the rocking chair for me to labor in while they switch me to a portable monitor because his heartrate hasn't been the greatest during contractions..and it takes a minute to fill the tub..the rocking chair is better then the bed by far..I rock slowly inbetween and relax and then hard and fast nearly breaking the chair during contractions...the tub is full and I am switched over YAY! I get in the tub and I instantly feel amazing..pressures gone..first contraction in the tub hardly noticable..I relax in the water..a few contractions later my labor is progressing and they change again..ok now I have to breath thru..and I stay in the tub til its time to push..during contractions I'd spread my feet wide and push on the sides ofthe tub while rocking my hips..

The last few contractions in the tub I am begging for some drugs..but they won't give them to me in the tub so I am not getting them..I want to stay in the tub forever! My midwife decides I need to get out of the tub..It's close to time to push if not time already. I get out..I take a few contractions kinda squatting/leaning over the bed..it hurts but I have no urge to push. I get into bed and they check me..I'm a full 10 and his heartrate is not great but ok..besides his head is RIGHT THERE a few pushes and he should be out..BIG PROBLEM I have no urge to push. But I have too because his stats are dropping with every contraction and he needs out. So they are having me push and it hurts so bad when I do! its somewhere between 1040a and 11a and he is in full distress..they try to keep me calm but I go into a panick attack and need oxygen so my midwife decides to vaccum him. Well she gets it on and the thing pops off flinging blood across the room (yuck). But  that was all I needed and I have this uncontrolable sensation to push! I rip off the oxygen mask and with one push he crowns another push and his head is out..they suction his nose then 3 pushes and his body is out..it's 11:07am and Nikolai William has entered the world...screaming might I add. I am so excited..they ask my fiance to cut the cord and he says no I demand him too and he is trying to get out of it and I say I just pushed this baby out of my damn vagina you can atleast cut the cord! He cuts the cord and they put him in the warmer to check him out cuz he was in distress. His o2 stats aren't great but they put a monitor on him and let me hold him..I can't nurse yet til his stats have been good for atleast 30 minutes..I deliver the after birth...thank god cuz I could feel it all hanging..ugh! I didn't tear or anything..they wipe me off kinda and put a clean pad under me and an ice pack on me down there and let me visit with my new man! lol..

All I can say is that this experience makes my daughter's birth look like a friggin horror movie. I am still shocked I did it all natural..imo it was all natural. Yes there was an intervention but it wasn't drugs and probably kept my son alive and out of the nicu.

I mean it was so great to experience..I was so shocked at how smoothly it went..no one suggested drugs or pitocin and actually when i asked for drugs i was told that I had requested no drugs and was no longer in my "right mind" to ask for them lol as I had stated in my birth plan to do. Which my birth plan was pretty much followed to the tee..I would've perfered a different pushing position but under the circumstances at the time it just wasn't possible..I had to lay on my side to keep his heart rate up and so I could push on my side or roll onto my back..which I chose to roll onto my back for contractions to push because i could atleast pull my legs back or kinda situp..whereas on my side i felt like it was doing nothing but making the pain worse.

[AmericanChild82]

Dec. 4, 2009 at 5:13 AM

Awww congrats momma. Nothing like bringing a new life into the world.