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posted 20th Nov

on the 19th of November at about 1:15am, I woke up feeling quite strange, so I went to the bathroom thinking i needed to pee, and nothing came out, so i stood up and some what i thought at the time was pee came out so i sat back down, and actually pee'd this time so i thought nothing of it.
I still felt strange so i went and sat on the couch..... it happened again.. i thought Id pee'd lol so back to the bathroom I went, but on my way half way down the hall, my waters started gushing out! and i thought... well crap.... lol i looked at the color, and it was pinkish clear..so I woke Dave... and called my midwife to let her know what had happened... we decided to meet at the hospital at about 9am since i wasn't having any contractions yet.. just some cramping.. so i decided to get more sleep and i just could not get comfy... then by about 3am I had my first real contraction. it wasn't too bad... so i thought ok.. i'll see how far apart that one and the next one was... and sure enough... the next one came about 15 20 minutes later...so i got up and timed them... the next few contractions were quite irregular, but really intense. I knew then that I wasn't going to make it to 9 am!!
by about 4:30am, they were about 5 minute apart... and really really strong. so strong i couldn't talk or walk through them.
so I got my Dave up again, and told him to call my midwife. told him to tell her we would be leaving now. we also called a friend to come pick up Ethan to have him for the morning. and so we jumped in the car and headed for the hospital. on the way I called my mum and told her to get to the hospital as fast as she should lol
at about 5:30 5:45am i cant really recall, we got to the hospital and headed up to the birth suite.. my midwife wasn't there yet but i was taken to my room where I could be laboring and giving birth... I remember being walked down the hall to my room and hearing a lady who was in the room next to me screaming at the top of her lungs. I cringed thinking to myself, thats going to be me in a few hours.....
I got into my room and sat straight on to a birthing ball... bounced and rolled around between contractions to help bring the baby down more..walked around the room some and leaned up against Dave and rocked my hips, whenever I had a contraction..
mum got to the birth suite at about 6 am and around
6:30 7:00am , I wanted in the shower for a while, mum had the water spraying my lower back, and she was massaging my shoulders which really helped...Dave was standing in front of me so I could lean into him when ever I had a contraction.
it was not long before I grew tired of the shower and wanted the bath. so kate my midwife filled it up for me and as soon as it was filled I hoped in. and omg, it bought relief!! I felt so relaxed!! the bad thing was, it was slowing down my contractions and by this point I just wanted things to happen fast. and in fact they were but not fast enough for me... so I got out after about half an hour....
I walked around some more, and pretty soon my contractions were so bad and on top of each other...i couldn't do it any more but I knew I had to keep going... I kept yelling, it hurts! and trying to break my mum and daves hand lol let me tell you. the both of them together were just amazing.. they got me through it !!
by about 8am I tried kneeling down on my knees and rolling back and forth on the gym ball.. then when i thought it was too uncomfortable, i tried leaning over the bed and squatting with each contraction.. this is when I realized things were happening and, fast... I realized I needed to push. I was grunting and making pretty bad animal noises too! haha...
I wanted to use the birthing stool, cos I needed to sit down on something I was exhausted!! so with Dave behind me with his hands around my belly, me leaning against his body... and my mum beside me... my midwife in front, with a torch (so she could see what was happening) I started pushing. Pushed for about 15 minutes. and with in two pushes, Alexander James was born! weighing in at 8 ibs 3 oz. his length was 52 cm's so quite a long baby! but so tinyyyy... they lifted him up to my chest as soon as he was born and i held him till my placenta was born... I got up on to the bed as i needed stitches. I had to have gas and air for those because it would have cained!!!! so I tried latching him and he fed for 2 whole hours!!! yes, even while i was being stitched up!!.
we stayed in the birth suit till about 3 pm and came home at about 4:30pm. He's been such an amazing baby so far! doing well!!!

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