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How wonderful is this! A woman
in her power listening to her instincts. She and her hubby are one of
my HypnoBirthing/calmbirth couples.
Birthing with confidence
Diane
Born: 20th
APRIL 2005 AT 9:20PM
Weight:
8 pounds 6
ounces
Length: 51
cms
Head Circumf:
34 cms
Official
Labour: 2 and 1/2 hours
Rudy's Story:
Mum and Dad visited the
hospital at 9am, on the morning of the 20th April for my 41 week
appointment.
My little heart was listened to
for half an hour and was beating strong.
I had a scan to check the
levels of my amniotic fluid, as sometimes it can get quite low after 40 weeks
and the doctors all wanted to make sure I was safe and sound.
We were all looking forward to
a natural birth, at the Family Birthing Centre. A special place that
Mum and Dad had picked for us, that would allow us to have as natural birth as
possible with very low intervention. No epidurals! No Forceps! No forced
birth. They had also said I could stay in mum's tummy a bit longer,
as long as everything was ok!
We went into the doctor's
office for the result and were told that I would have to be induced within 24
hours as my amniotic fluid levels were low!!!!
Safe levels were a
reading between 5 and 25, and I was only 4.6!! The Doctor gave Mum an
internal and noticed I was ready for action and 1cm dilated already, which would
mean a very good induction.
Rats! So close to birthing
on our own!!! I was going to have to think
fast!
Mum and Dad knew, that for my
safety, they were prepared to sacrifice all other plans. Being induced
meant that Mum would be in the regular labour ward and we wouldn't be able to
stay at the Birth Centre. She was scared of being induced and a little
upset. It also meant that Dad couldn't sleep over, like we had planned and
we only had a few hours to come to terms with it all! Secretly....I
readied myself for action.
One of the midwives made us
feel better by giving us her secret castor oil recipe for natural labour
inducement and told mum they would break her waters at the birth centre first,
before she went to the labour ward, to see if she could still go into labour
herself before the induction. This was very special to us, as the birth
centre don't normally break your waters unless absolutely
necessary!
We all went home and began
calling everyone to let them know......
Meanwhile, Mum had been having,
what she thought were the old "Braxton Hicks" contractions; completely pain free
regular tightening. She had thought they weren't anything worth getting
our hopes up for as she'd had them for a few months throughout our pregnancy. It
wasn't until Diane asked her if she was timing them that she realised they were
more than Braxton Hicks.
Grandpa and Gran in Scotland
were next on the list of phone calls, when slowly but surely I started to get
things moving! We had no time to waste!
Just after 6:30pm, mum had a
show and the castor oil kicked in! The surging contractions became more
intense around 6:50 pm and she told Daddy she was definitely in labour and that
I was going to make it into the world before the doctors had a chance at
me!!
Sometime between 7pm and 8pm,
Mum decided that she had a few hours of labour ahead of her and these surges
were pretty intense down the lower back, so she got dad to run her a bath for
her to relax in!
But uh oh! things were getting
more intense and between 8pm and 9pm, while mum was in the bath, those surges
were not only really regular, but slowly mum already felt the urge to
push....and so she did!
Dad moved round and packed the
car up ready for the hospital. Grandad was in the lounge, thinking we had
heaps of time to get to the hospital as most mums have at least 8 hours of
labour with their first baby.....but Grandad didn't count on me! The birth
centre was called and they listened to mummy having a couple of surges and they
said if she was no longer comfortable at home then she should come into the
hospital! Nanny was on her way home from work to spend the night at our
house, and she was going to drive us all to the hospital. She was
about 20 minutes away, and mummy felt she couldn't wait that long, but everyone
thought we still had plenty of time! Even mummy didn't know I was planning
such a quick escape!
9pm - 9:20pm and it's all a bit
of a blurr!
Daddy held mummys hand
throughout her surges and her body started pushing me out more and
more! Her water's broke when daddy left the bathroom for just a minute or
two and by the time he came back mum had some big news!!!
"I don't thing we're going to
make it to the hospital" she said!
"What?!!!!" Said
Daddy
"I can feel the head
honey!" Said Mummy
"S*!t" Said
Daddy!
Grandad was instructed to call
an ambulance at 9:10pm and began instructing daddy on how to deliver a
baby!
When Nanny arrived home from
work, she calmly walked inside and called out hello, when she was told by
Grandad to get herself in that bathroom as I was being born right
now!!!
She walked into the bathroom to
discover yours truly popping my head out and Daddy leaning over the bathtub,
making sure I didn't come out all by myself.
Mum gave another push and out I
came to her great delight and relief!!!
(She was secretly pleased just
at the moment of everyone elses panic, when my head started to show, as she
knew it was all going to be over soon!!!)
So Nanny and Daddy and
Mummy delivered me together under Grandad's expert
instruction.
The paramedics arrived soon
after and Mum and I went to the hospital, safely and snugly into our Birthing
Centre room, while the troops cleaned up the hallway carpet and the bathroom
(Nanny said that Daddy missed a spot or two!) and Daddy called Gran and Grandpa
all the way over in Scotland to tell them the happy news.
Rudy had arrived!!! |
