Birth story, a little late

Hey ladies, I'm a little late on this, but finally got a chance to write my birth story for my July baby which ended up being an August baby.

EDD was July 23rd but she made her arrival on August 2nd, 10 days "late". It started in the evening on the first, when at 11pm my water broke. We called my midwife, and she told us to stay at home as long as possible, so that I could be in my familiar environment during the first contractions.

BUT: my contractions started immediately quite heavy, like under 4 minutes apart and for over a minute long. And, as a ftm, I didn't know better so I thought they very pretty intense as well. So by 2:30 am, in the middle of the night, husband and I drove to the hospital. We met our midwife there, she checked me and said I'm at around 4 cm. So it was the right decision to come there.

We went to the delivery room and that's when the contractions got really bad. I didn't get an epidural, because I'm allergic to many meds so I wouldn't risk any complications due to me not handling the meds well. So I'm laboring, screaming, growling, whining.....

Then my midwife told me it's getting time to start pushing and I thought, yay, almost done..

But I ended up pushing for a loooong time, in almost every position you an imagine. She took a long time to come out because she was quite big and I'm not. In the end a doctor had to push on my belly while my midwife helped my girl to find her way out.

Finally her head came out, but her body was still in there. I had to wait for the next contraction to finally push her out. That were the longest 1 or 2 minutes of my life. Little girl was down there, head sticking out and already screaming like a champ.

After the next push she finally arrived outside at 7:43 in the morning, 8.5 hours after my water broke. Not tooling for a ftm they say.

She was put on my chest immediately.

Oh, what an emotional moment, painful as hell, but full of love as well.

I got a 3rd degree tear and am still in pain and bleeding to this day. But I love my precious little rainbow baby so damn much!

After two years of trying and two miscarriages I can finally say I'm a mom to the most perfect little wonder.

She is now 3.5 weeks old and the days are pretty challenging sometimes, but I won't change it for anything. I was made for her!