My Birth Story

So my birth story feels crazy but I was so thankful to read other peoples birth stories that I thought I should share mine.

I had the midwife brew at 1:20 pm on January 7th. 2 and a half hours later and contractions started. They were hitting every 2 minutes and sometimes drifted to 6 minutes apart. After 3 hours of timing them they went to every minute. So we decide to go in.

I get to the hospital and check in, they hooked up the monitors and I was dilated to 4. Minutes after being in the room they have a few nurses and the doctor comes in, and they were pretty rushed looking. The doctor says the baby is in distress and we need to give you an injection to slow down your contractions to hopefully help his heart rate, and if that didn’t work he would be c section right away.

My husband has been in the police academy 2 hours away. He is gone Monday through Friday and I had called him just before finding out the baby was in distress to come to the hospital... I decided I wasn’t going to tell him until it was certain I was having a c section without him... I didn’t want to have him panic and drive fast.

They came in after 10 minutes and said his heart rate is handling it for now and we will move you to the labor and delivery room. Bring in the first room and hearing my baby was in distress, all the pokes and the IV and the oxygen mask was nothing to me... and I have a huge fear of needles...

After getting moved to the room I felt so much better knowing my baby was ok. My husband made it to the hospital! And I was on the yoga ball doing my thing. Then his heart rate dropped again... they put me right in the bed and the doctor came back in. She broke my water and was putting more fluid back in, they made internal attachments to the baby to monitor his heart rate. He seemed to be doing better, but as soon as my water broke my contractions got worse and worse to the point where I was screaming! There was no breaks in between... the worst pain that I could never explain... his heart rate went back down and within 10 minutes my boy was out, c section. Born 11:48pm.

Weighing 8lbs 9 oz

Length 21.75 inches long

All my fears of surgery, needles, everything disappeared as soon as they said he was in distress. He is so healthy and beautiful I don’t care what happened to me! Wishing all you ladies luck for your birthing journeys!! And you can take anything!

Here he is now! Over a week old