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Birth Stories Emma's
Birth Story Dear Dena, Marc
and I had our baby girl! Emma Claire was born October 7th, at
8:04 PM. She weighed 8 pounds 11 ounces, and was 21 ¼ inches
long. Emma was due October 1st and we were scheduled for an induction
on the By the morning, they were 5 minutes apart for two hours. Marc and I both listened to the rainbow relaxation to kill time before we called the doctor. (We had been listening to it every night since class.) The doctor said to come into the hospital. When we got there at 10am and my surges had slowed to 8 mins apart and longer, and I was 4-5 cm. They gave me the option to go home, or stay and hang out and use the big tub and relax. We opted to stay. We were both very relaxed, and my surges were never closer than 5 mins apart. We both got a few little naps in between activities. (Showering, bathtub, walking, yoga ball.) At 5pm, I decided to let them release my membranes, since I was not progressing at all. That really got things going. Unfortunately that's when I started to have back labor. I wasn't expecting it, since I knew the baby was facing the right way. I tried to do the polar bear, but I couldn't without throwing up. My surges stayed at 5 minutes apart or more, they got more intense, but I was able to keep using my deep breathing. The last hour or so, I felt like they were right on top of each other. Marc said I would become so relaxed between surges, I would basically fall asleep, and wake up for the next one. At the end, deep breathing became too difficult, but the quick breathing we learned really came in handy. I remember saying, "I can't do this anymore" and that's when the doctor came in and said it was time to have the baby. The
nurses didn't believe that I was ready to push, since I was so
relaxed and my contractions had stayed to far apart. They asked
me if I wanted to breath my baby down, and I said yes. When the
time came, they made me push because the baby was The first push was difficult, because they told me to hold my breath, and I had been so focused on breathing. At the second surge, I had a good push and the head came mostly out. I let out a large scream, (totally involuntarily) and the doctor yelled "stop screaming and push!". With the third push she popped right out. She was blue, but after seeing so many birthing videos, we knew that wasn't a problem. The pushing stage of labor only took 6 minutes. She is doing great and so are we. The hypnobirthing worked very well for us. I was cursing it my last few minutes of labor, and almost ready to ask for drugs, but at that point it would have been too late anyway. We did a lot of fear release scripts during the pregnancy, and they really helped. I was having a problem with breast feeding after she was born, so we did a fear release replacing "birthing" with "feeding" and it worked great. We listened to the rainbow relaxation every night to help us get to sleep, and we still listen to it most nights. It was great to listen to in the hospital after she was born. It helped me get the rest I needed between feedings. The nurse told me "She has seen hundreds of births, and mine was awesome." The doctors said she was really impressed that I had a natural birth with such a big baby. I felt great afterwards. I recovered very quickly. There were 4 births that day, and I was the only vaginal, let alone natural. I felt a little guilty that I was feeling so good, and the other women in the maternity ward all looked like they had been through hell. Thank you so much for teaching us. We are so happy we took your class and that the birth of our daughter went so well.
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a bit of distress. (Her heart rate had dropped, and the umbilical
cord was wrapped around her neck). I didn't know any of this at
the time, but Marc was able to remain calm, keeping me calm.