It started out Monday morning. I woke up not feeling the best and having back pain and it would come around to my stomach. I was thinking "oh my today is the day"! Called the hubby at work and told him he might need to take a half day. By lunch time I was feeling pretty crappy, so Aaron came home. Aaron and I headed to the hospital that evening only to hear that all my back labor had done nothing to further my dilation.... They sent me home.
After not sleeping all night and waking up in even more pain. I showered and tried walking the mall. That afternoon we headed back to the hospital. I thought for sure I would be almost ready to have a baby... They checked me and I was still only 2 centimeters... They sent me home with some percocet to help me sleep. I was so tired by this point and needed to sleep.
I was able to sleep that night from about 12:00am til I woke up @ 4:00am in even worse pain. The contractions were not to bad, but it was the back pain labor since Monday that was really hurting. If you have ever had back labor you know what I'm talking about. It's painful and it never stops even when your contractions do. So now it's Wednesday and we headed back to the hospital at about 3:00pm. When I got there I had finally dilated more, but it was only by 1 centimeter... I wanted to cry. At least this time my midwife suggested I stay and check in! I was so happy!!
So about a couple hours later my brother, mom in-law and best friend Sherrie came to see the action. Sherrie got me up and walking and my contractions really started coming and the back pain too. At about 10:00pm they check me and I was only 4 centimeters, so they suggested braking my water at that point. So after they broke my water I tried to rest for a little bit.
Soon after that I went into what they call transition stage. I was rocking myself back and forth and had my eyes closed. At about 2:00am I started having this un-controllable urge to push. They checked me and I was only 8 centimeters, but my body was ready to push! I tried to not push, but by 2:30 I could not stop the urge and began to push little Isaiah out!!
I had my friends and family there and it couldn't have been better! About an hour or so before pushing my back labor was gone and my pain was pretty much gone. God gave us amazing bodies and amazing things they can do. My body was releasing natural pain killer and it was working.
While pushing I had my eyes closed the WHOLE time. I think it's pretty funny looking back, but I was just in the zone. If you've had a natural delivery you know this crazy zone you go to. :) As my team yelled for me to push, push, push and push some more after 3 hours my little man was here!!
It was the BEST birth and really experience of my life! It was such an amazing and powerful feeling to push that baby out. God really blessed women by allowing us to give birth to life! This experience not only gave me another glance at the love Jesus has for me, but really grew my faith in him even stronger. I knew once I got pregnant this time around it was going to be a good and healthy pregnancy. I knew in my heart that God was calling us to have another baby (Isaiah) and that he was going to be a healthy full term baby and God never failed that promise he made to me. I also knew I wanted to have a natural and v-back delivery. In the back of my mind I never really thought I would be able to tough it out and not have medicine. Neither did my family.. I've always been a baby when it comes to pain. But I was gonna try. God really helped me and gave me the strength to go natural.
It's funny cause I've always put up a mister tough girl act since I was a little girl. I think with how I grew up I always felt I had to be the strong and tough one, but on the inside I really felt weak. It's amazing just how much God continues to show me just how tough I truly can be when I lean on him for strength. It's a great feeling.
The birth of my son was amazing and I couldn't ask for a better outcome!
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