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She's born!
16 years ago
"Love Love is a verb
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath"
--opening lines to "Teardrop" by Massive Attack--
Love is a doing word
Fearless on my breath"
--opening lines to "Teardrop" by Massive Attack--
Yep, that's right my watchers, my daughter Katarina Loren is born! She was due August 26th, but she decided to come August 11th. Good thing too, cause even at 2 and 1/2 weeks early, she weights 7 1/2 pounds! I shudder to think what she would have weighted (and I would have had to push out without pain meds) if she'd been born on time.
And yes, I succeeded in giving birth to her at home, with my midwife, husband and two friends, without pain meds. In fact, the actual labor (the part where you push) only lasted 3 hours, and the previous parts of the labor (with the increasingly painful contractions) lasted maybe 3 as well. For those of you that don't know, for a first time birth, that is amazingly quick.
And, I also succeeded in working right up until my delivery day. Monday the 10th I worked as normal, with some lower abdominal pain, but it wasn't bad enough for me to think "I'm in labor or something". Really I just thought she was bearing down more, like they tell you the babies do weeks before they're due.
I got home from work at 10 pm and started having increasingly frequent pains that could not be overlooked. Tried to sleep, didn't succeed, and at 7am I called my midwife and told her I thought I was having false labor. She informed me that false labor would have stopped by then, and that she was on her way over, cause I was probably in labor.
She got here at 10am, and I did my thing from there. She was born at 2:26 today.
In any case, I thought I'd let you all know. All is well, she's healthy, I tore a little, but nothing big (just a few stitches), and we're all getting to know each other.
Any questions, feel free to ask!
And yes, I succeeded in giving birth to her at home, with my midwife, husband and two friends, without pain meds. In fact, the actual labor (the part where you push) only lasted 3 hours, and the previous parts of the labor (with the increasingly painful contractions) lasted maybe 3 as well. For those of you that don't know, for a first time birth, that is amazingly quick.
And, I also succeeded in working right up until my delivery day. Monday the 10th I worked as normal, with some lower abdominal pain, but it wasn't bad enough for me to think "I'm in labor or something". Really I just thought she was bearing down more, like they tell you the babies do weeks before they're due.
I got home from work at 10 pm and started having increasingly frequent pains that could not be overlooked. Tried to sleep, didn't succeed, and at 7am I called my midwife and told her I thought I was having false labor. She informed me that false labor would have stopped by then, and that she was on her way over, cause I was probably in labor.
She got here at 10am, and I did my thing from there. She was born at 2:26 today.
In any case, I thought I'd let you all know. All is well, she's healthy, I tore a little, but nothing big (just a few stitches), and we're all getting to know each other.
Any questions, feel free to ask!
I was also early, 5.8 lbs. They stuck me in an incubator. I was like "fuck this shit" and started trying to escape. They had to craft me some chin and knee pads because I rubbed the skin raw crawling around the incubator. The nurses told my mom they'd never seen anything like that before. Newborns are supposed to be almost entirely immobile. Don't believe that for a second though! My sister's newborn almost rolled her ass right off a changing table once.
Maybe it runs in my family? O__o;