Share your birth stories with me!?

Question

Birth stories are so beautiful. Share with me the details of your child(ren)'s birth(s) & I'll give 10 points to the most detailed or heartwarming. Thanks! :)

I would also accept links to pages where I can read birth stories (especially home births & water births). Thanks!

Answer 1

Oooh...I know you'll like this one from iVillage.

http://messageboards.ivillage.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=iv-praug06n&msg=15624.1

Enjoy!

Answer 2

Well I was induced three weeks early so I went in the night before to get the process started. In the morning hey started the pitocin and broke my water. After that they let me take a short bath. Then the labor began, after about 5 hours I got an epidural because the pain was becoming too much. Then about another 5 hours later I started to push I pushed for about a half hour then my beautiful baby boy was born. My husband cut the cord and I got to hold my son. After that they took him to weigh him and then my husband cut to trim the umbilical stump down to a good length and then we got to spend some family time together.

Answer 3

I had 3 miscarriages before having my son, and I almost lost him at 29 weeks due to Placental Abruption. He was at Children's Hospital in Seattle for almost 10 weeks (coming home 1 week before his due date). He was so tiny. 2 lbs, 15oz. He will be 2 on Thurs and is now a healthy 25 pounds and no developmental delays at all. He speaks better than some other 2 year olds that were born full-term. I now am 21 weeks pregnant with my 2nd baby.

Answer 4

my son was breech, we had planned a c-section but the night before my water broke. i had no contractions until i got to the hospital and within an hour i was in surgery. the c-section was the wierdest thing i ever experienced. i was numb from the armpits down, i felt like i was suffocating because i couldnt feel my chest rise when i breathed. i started to hyperventalate.
the operating room had a radio on, it was the eagles. the anestisiologist was singing right above my head. i thought it was funny because he was way off key, but it gave me something else to think about. then he said "he's out" and my husband said "he's beautiful" and i started crying. then i heard his little cry and they took him out of the room, i hadn't seen him yet.
the doctors said they would bring him right back. i told my husband to go with him.
then all the sudden i was so tired. more exhausted than i had ever been in my life. it must have been my body experiencing shock. i wanted to see my baby, but i was fighting to stay awake. my face was itching so bad from the drugs they gave me. i rubbed so hard my face was bright red. i was almost asleep when my husband came back in and showed me my baby. he was perfect. the most preciouse thing i ever saw in my life.
then my husband took him in the hall to see our waiting family and we all met up in recovery where i nursed him for the first time and gave him the once over.( toes? check! fingers? check!)
now he is 5.5 months old. he has 2 teeth and is starting to crawl. he's a mamma's boy.
i never knew i could love someonwe so much.

Answer 5

I was 24 when I found out I was pregnant...pregnacy went along normally... I had just started my every 2 weeks visits when they asked if minded being seen by the NP...Not a problem...then it's just a simple check of labor signs, check heart beat..measure...an entire 10 min. tops... I went in and Anne came in and did the heart beat..measuring etc...when she went to check me..she asked me if I was feeling okay...Being my first pregnancy, first child...I was like.."WHY?!" The doctor was across the street at the hospital delivering a baby...he was called over to the office...he came in, in scrubs...and checked me...He then asked the same BRIGHT question that Anne had asked..."WHY???????!!!!" I started crying...he then looked at me and said...Cause you're 6-7 centimeters dialated sweetie...You're ready to have this baby... made the weekend..had my baby shower on April 29th, 1990~ Kellie Lyn came into this world..April 30th, 1990! ( I was in total labor...less than 1.5 hours!! NOT BAD FOR THE FIRST TIME?!) I have 3 other birth stories...but really not enough time to go into details...the last one is needing a diaper change... Thanks...

Answer 6

I think that giving birth is the greatest thing in the world. I couldn't imagine how i would feel when i was finally able to hold my daughter. I gave birth on July 6, 2004. MAny people say they are scared to give birth but i wouldn't see why. When i gave birth to my daughter i couldn't believe i did it it went by so fast, and when i finally got to see my baby i couldn't believe how beautiful she was.. Now sh e is the greatest thing in my life. I couldn't see my life without her.

Answer 7

I had a waterbirth in my livingroom. It was so magical. My husband compiled a CD of relaxing music from delicate windchimes to crashing ocean waves. We turned the lights off and had a few candles lit around the room. The midwives had a flashlight to help them see my perineum under the water when I started grunting and pushing. There was complete silence other than the music and my occassional moan or grunt and i was able to retreat deep inside myself and listen to my body and allow it to do whatever it needed to deliver my daughter out from my womb. It was almost 3 yrs ago and all i remember is feeling at peace. Being emersed in a pool of water helped me relax and create mental imagery of being in a warm tidal pool by the sea, listening to crashing waves. When my daughter was born my husband and I held her face at the surface where she slowly began to breath and waited for the cord to stop pulsating. She did not cry, she just calmly started breathing- I don't think she realized that she was born.
It was all a very happy memory for me. when I think of birth i do not fear it, i imagine being at peace and feeling incredible happiness at seeing my baby.

Answer 8

Childbirth-what an expirience. I laugh at anyone who says men are the tougher sex.
Friday, Jan 6 10 pm: Standing in the kitchen, talking to Bobby. I laugh at something, and oops-did I just pee myself? God being pregnant sucks. Change clothes, go lay on couch to watch 'Numb3rs'.

10:15~What was that? I JUST went to the bathroom. Get up to change my clothes. Oh crap. MY WATER BROKE!! WHEEEE! The beginning of the end! Call midwife, she tells me to stay home until I can't talk through contractions anymore, or 7 am if my contractions haven't started yet. Fair enough.

11:00~My mom and Abuela arrive, more nervous than I am. Still no contractions. Decide to try and sleep for a few hours.

2:30 am~I am rudely awaken by cramping, mild but strong enough that I can't sleep through them. Finally, we're getting somewhere.

3:30~Arrive at hospital. Only dialated 2-3 cm. That sucks. Contractions are starting to become painful.

6:30~STILL ONLY 2-3 CM!! They decide to give me pitocin to make contractions stronger. "They'll become more painful, but the anesthesiologist should be here within a half hour."

7:30~ Writhing in pain, I reach a level of bitchy never expirienced before. The pain is excrutiating, I can hardly breathe. WHERE IS HE?! I WANT MY ******* EPIDURAL NOW!! I start to cry. There doesn't seem to be an end in sight. WHY THE **** DID I EVER WANT TO HAVE CHILDREN? I'M NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN! I'M NOT HAVING ANYMORE ******* KIDS!!

8:30~Still no ******* EPIDURAL! I start getting nasty with the nurses. WHAT is taking this guy so long?! He knew I was here, he knew I was going to need ******* DRUGS get him up here NOW!-and then he walks through the door. "I LOVE YOU!" I proclaim, and one of the nurses comments "I wish we got that kind of compliment". You're going to stick WHAT in my back? Ewwww....oh crap I can't feel my legs. Relief at long last. I nap on and off until a little after 9.

10 am~I need to push. Please. "Last time we checked, you were still only at 3 cm. It's still to early". Well, check again. PLEASE. Ohhhh...dialated to 8 cm in 1/2 hour. Almost time....****. I have to pee. Nurse-"I'll give you a cathater". Oh, please God, no. I beg her not to. She obliges and gives me a bed pan, but if that doesn't work, I'll have to get it. It works. Goodie. No invasive tubes.

10:15~Um....I can feel my legs. I'm not supposed to, right? Wasn't this stupid thing supposed to last SIX hours?! Nurse tells me "Oh that doesn't mean anything". I can't feel the contractions, but I can sure as hell feel the pain of a baby moving through the birth canal.

10:40~Time to push! WHEEEE!! I can feel more pressure. Are you guys SURE this damn epidural is working? Regardless, I can't have anymore. Too late. I CAN'T DO THIS! I CAN'T PUSH ANYMORE!! By this point, I am too exhausted to breathe, let alone push. Okay. Once more. THERE SHE IS! Her head is halfway out, and you want me to STOP?! NOOOO!! God, this burns. I thought I wasn't supposed to feel this? ******* OW!!

11:03 a.m. She's out!! OMG the cord is around her neck! They unravel it, and she starts to scream. Bob cuts the cord, they wrap her in a blanket, and put her on my chest. She's beautiful. Perfect. The pain? What pain? She's an angel.

Answer 9

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Answer 10

i have to boys they induced me both times the first one iwent in mon morning at 7 and didnt have him until tues night 6:01 they gave me epidural at 2 pm tues and i was asleep when doctor came in and said the head is out start pushing.6 pushes and he was out. My best friend yelled u squirted on me. Second one went in at 830am they induced me 5 mins later i was having very painful contractions had him few hours later at 12:01pm my husband and i cryed when his head came out.

Answer 11

My birth date is 06th March and timing 1:30PM and my daughter's birth date, day and time is same