Having a homebirth??

[GBLiz]

i'm 37+5 so have my kit already delivered and midwives on call

i havent gone for a birthing pool as its not something i've been inclined towards. I did get in the bath for my first homebirth but got straight out as i didnt really feel right in there. My second i was at a midwife unit and i tried getting in the pool but it slowed my contractions right down so i got out. i feel a bit vulnerable in a pool tbh , feels weird like having someone watch you take a bath...... we are all different i must be a bit strange ha ha

 

[BecaM]

i'm 37+5 so have my kit already delivered and midwives on call

i havent gone for a birthing pool as its not something i've been inclined towards. I did get in the bath for my first homebirth but got straight out as i didnt really feel right in there. My second i was at a midwife unit and i tried getting in the pool but it slowed my contractions right down so i got out. i feel a bit vulnerable in a pool tbh , feels weird like having someone watch you take a bath...... we are all different i must be a bit strange ha ha

Not at all, as you say everyone is different. Some of my friends think I’m crazy having her at home “but that means you can’t have an epidural!”

 

[Shanivy]

I must have unsubscribed to my own thread lol. So interested to see how your birth experiences go! Xx

 

[Shanivy]

No homebirth yet GBliz? Come on little baby xx

 

[GBLiz]

not yet, ive got a growth scan today so hopefully find out if baby is in a good position etc....

 

[Shanivy]

FX hun xx

 

[BunnyN]

Hope you ladies get your home births. I have had 3 and they were all great .

 

[GBLiz]

all good, baby 'well engaged'....which i pretty much knew as i can barely stand!!!

 

[Shanivy]

Ooh I bet not hun, hopefully not too long for you now fx, come on then baby xx

 

[Shanivy]

Hope you ladies get your home births. I have had 3 and they were all great .

Oh fab hun, did you do a water birth with any of yours ? Xx

 

[BunnyN]

No, for some reason I didn't fancy being in water. My MW said she does lots of water births though and that lots of women love them.

 

[GBLiz]

Had my homebirth yesterday! Had a sweep friday at 38wks 3 days, hospital happy to do it early as i was so engaged and they were ready to book my induction due to my age .....(they didnt know i had to plan to go along with induction lol) woke up about 1.30am friday night feeling the odd contraction which felt more like a contraction than my usual stomach tightenings....wandered round a bit had some pasta lol....usual night time wakefulness......dozed off again between the contractions with no real concept of how frequent they were.....woke up again 4am thinking are they coming more often? started timing them and realised only 5 mins apart. waited til my toddler woke at 5.50am and hubby came down with him and i told him baby was coming and to get toddlersorted ....called midwife at 6 and a friend at 6.30am to come get kids.....put the tens machine on as was getting painful now......it really helped......time really slowed down tho and i just wanted the kids gone....had woken daughter by now to get her ready and midwife had arrived. i was 6cm dilated. she said baby would prob come fast as soon as kids were out the way. contractions got worse but not really more frequent. got on the gas and air. About 8am i asked her to check dilation and she said they normally only check every 4 hours but i said i needed to know if things were moving! so she did and she said i was8 cm with the waters bulging and if she kept her fingers in thru next contraction they would pop so i said yes please as i know how much pressure is relieved when the waters go. so she did and it was loadssss less painful for a while. i thought 'this must be what its like for people whose waters go first, and ive always had the unbearable pressure right til the end '!
i expected the baby to come right away then because thats what happened with my other 2...but no........then 2 other midwives came as the 1st had been on call for literally days and they took over. She wasnt as positive as the first but i had been given a heads up from a friend she was a bit more controlling and negative....sure enough she suggested i took the diamorphine but having got that far i wasnt about to. she got me moving about more to try to get the right position for baby to come out but i found it so hard to move and so awful if i had a contraction in a position where i felt stuck.......lots of waters were still coming out......about 9am she did another check and said "oh no youve got ages to go yet. the bulging waters would have streched your cervix to 8 cm but now theyve gone you're only 6cm. I was like "you're kidding me...i was 6cm 3 hours ago!" it was sooo disheartnening i nearly cried! she was like "yes theres still cervix front and back...." but she gave it some tugging and that brought on the urge to bear down and i was literally like "I'll show YOU i'm not only 6cm!!!!!" pressure got intense again it feels like a bowling ball needs to crack through your bum bones.........then i knew she was coming.....the pushing was more painful than i expected because that has always been the easier stage for me....but there was comfort in recognising the feeling and knowing it would be over soon. She started crying when her head was out and she hadnt even been fully born!!! felt the rest of her come out and it was over.....lay down with her and waited for placenta to deliver.....blood loss only 50ml, not messy at all! she weighed 6lb 12 oz.

 

[Shanivy]

Ahh hun congratulations on your little girl! Thank you for the birth story! Not a bad length labour too and I hope you're recovering well. Enjoy your bundle! xx

 

[BunnyN]

Congratulations! I went from 5 cm to pushing just after in your last labour. My MW couldn't quite believe it.