re: my water broke a week ago. still no labor.

<blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" you don't have to go in the second your water breaks, in fact thats usually the cause of the infections ... [snip!] ... midwife are monitoring properly, she and baby will be fine. My water leaked off and on for 10 weeks and my baby was just fine."</blockquote>




Ten WEEKS?!?!?! OMG
Lol I cant go that much longer (38 weeks today?

Quoting ☮ Phuket:" <blockquote><b>Quoting ♥ darah ♥:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ... [snip!] ... be starting doula training and becoming a LC.... It's just hard with 3 little ones. By the time I'm 35 I'm hoping to be a CNM"

I have 3 little ones and am a doula, it is a challenge but with a good support network anything is possible. I bet you'll be awesome at all of those! I wanted to be a midwife too but I get so squeemish watching stitches, I don't think I'd be very good at it, lol

I think you know your own body better than anyone else on here. If your midwife, a medical professional, says you're safe to stay at home then I'm sure she wouldn't steer you wrong. While you're much braver than me, I support everything that you're doing here. You deserve to have the home birth you've wanted and I wish you the best of luck, frand!

<blockquote><b>Quoting ☮ Phuket:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ♥ darah ♥:</b>" <blockquote><b>Quoting ... [snip!] ... be starting doula training and becoming a LC.... It's just hard with 3 little ones. By the time I'm 35 I'm hoping to be a CNM"</blockquote>




Oh that is so awesome!!! I've had a doula for every birth. They are wonderful people and it definitely takes a special person to do it. <3 I would love to be a doula too :-)

<blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" I have 3 little ones and am a doula, it is a challenge but with a good support network anything is ... [snip!] ... all of those! I wanted to be a midwife too but I get so squeemish watching stitches, I don't think I'd be very good at it, lol"</blockquote>




So what's it like having an unpredictable schedule?? Who comes and watches the kids if hubby is working and you have to leave for a birh?

I almost had my baby on the triage table since I waited a week after my water broke. They had to roll me into the LandD room and lift me onto the other bed and I pushed once and she came out. My midwife did not make it in time and neither did the hospital doctor on call. A nurse delivered her..or well caught her for me lol.

Since your doing a home birth you don't have to worry about getting there in time  

it was awesome though, so much faster then 23 hours with my first just sitting and waiting in the hospital...ugh

<blockquote><b>Quoting Blythe.:</b>" okay okay my bad. I read and it wasn't as bad as I thought. Is this your first home birth?"</blockquote>




Yes, my first was in a free standing birth center 8.5 years ago, and my second in a hospital. Never doing hospital birth again! Here your only options are home birth or hospital.

Quoting ♥ darah ♥:" <blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" you don't have to go in the second your ... [snip!] ... weeks and my baby was just fine."</blockquote> Ten WEEKS?!?!?! OMG Lol I cant go that much longer (38 weeks today?"

Well for much of that we were all making efforts to keep him in since my water broke at 29 weeks, his head then plugged the rupture point with him engaging so friggen quickly (which was hella painful) and slowed the leak enough that they were confident to give him and me the time that he needed for the hole to hopefully reseal. It did reseal but it was either not all the way resealed or it just was never very strong again after that because every week or so I would leak a little bit again. the last preterm time I leaked was at 37 weeks and I just did another round of antibiotics, then I didn't get any more leaking until 39 weeks, then the next day my water fully broke again.

<blockquote><b>Quoting BTJ&A:</b>" I almost had my baby on the triage table since I waited a week after my water broke. They had to roll ... [snip!] ... in time   it was awesome though, so much faster then 23 hours with my first just sitting and waiting in the hospital...ugh"</blockquote>




This sounds like my last birth. My water breaks first every time. Last time it was one push and dne. Water broke, 12 hrs later I got induced and then 3 hrs after the pit started baby was birthed   not sure if its connwcted to waters breaking first?

Quoting ♥ darah ♥:" <blockquote><b>Quoting Blythe.:</b>" okay okay my bad. I read and it wasn't as bad ... [snip!] ... years ago, and my second in a hospital. Never doing hospital birth again! Here your only options are home birth or hospital."

Do you do this on your bed?

Quoting ☮ Phuket:" <blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" I have 3 little ones and am a doula, ... [snip!] ... it like having an unpredictable schedule?? Who comes and watches the kids if hubby is working and you have to leave for a birh?"

I have a few friends who are stay at home moms and I just clear up which ones will be able to be on call for me if a client goes into labour and then I take them over. All of my kids are really good sleepers and will go back to sleep pretty easily for anyone. Now that my youngest is 1.5 I put them all with the same person unless she's unavailable, before my youngest was 9 mos I would put the older two with one person and then the baby with someone else just because he took more effort and I didn't want to burn my babysitters out. I also only take on one client a month right now because I think it would be too hard on my kids to shuffled around more than that. I've also just started looking into a few of us doulas in town getting together as a group so that when a client takes us on she's taking on whichever one of us is available to do the birth.

<blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" Well for much of that we were all making efforts to keep him in since my water broke at 39 weeks, his ... [snip!] ... another round of antibiotics, then I didn't get any more leaking until 39 weeks, then the next day my water fully broke again."</blockquote>



That is exactly what is happening here! It was never like this before.. my water broke and would have a very steady stream that was worse with bh contractions.

This time its like once a day or in this case, once every few days. It's the weirdest thing. Didn't even know this was possible.

<blockquote><b>Quoting Blythe.:</b>" Do you do this on your bed? "</blockquote>




You can wherever.. bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, hell even outside if that's wherw the wind takes you. For the bed we just put waterproofing supplies on it, then throw old sheets on there. Also have a birth pool setup.

Quoting ♥ darah ♥:" <blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" Well for much of that we were all making ... [snip!] ... time its like once a day or in this case, once every few days. It's the weirdest thing. Didn't even know this was possible."

sorry, I jsut read that I said my water broke first at 39 weeks, lol no we wouldn't be trying to keep him in at that stage, I ment to say 29 weeks!

<blockquote><b>Quoting A, E & W's mommy:</b>" sorry, I jsut read that I said my water broke first at 39 weeks, lol no we wouldn't be trying to keep him in at that stage, I ment to say 29 weeks!"</blockquote>




Lol its okay I figured you didn't stay pregnant for 49 weeks ;-) that would probably be a record