The birth of my precious Baby Boy

This was a much anticipated birth for me, as I needed to prove to myself that I could have my baby at home after transferring to the hospital with my last home birth. I am very happy to say that I did it :-)

The evening of the 25Th the baby was still in a posterior position, however, I was not too concerned as I knew it could easily change. Well, later in the evening I was sitting on the couch trying to relax and the baby was going crazy and IT HURT!!! I was having to breath because the baby's extreme movement was cuaing me so much pain. When the baby finally stopped moving I poked and prodded, feeling its position, it had moved to the anterior position!!! I was so excited I told hubby and felt that maybe tonight or tomorrow I would be in labor.
Well at 3:30 am the next morning my 2 yr old woke up and came in bed with us. She kept tossing and turning and I remember I was getting a little grouchy. But I eventually started to drift off to sleep, I started dreaming that I had my period, and was getting cramps, LOL. I woke up and thought that I just had to go to the bathroom. When I came back to bed and tried to go back to sleep I was very uncomfortable and found I could not sleep. I quietly crept out of bed and went downstairs, I fixed myself some sprouted toast and drank some pregnancy tea. At this point I knew I was in labor. The contractions were intense and only 2-5 min apart. At this point I was kind of nervous because I had never had a labor start out painful before, I prayed a little, then I watched an episode of "House of babies", just to reassure me that I could in fact do this ;-) At 5:00 I called my Mom and told her not to take as long as usual because I thought that maybe the baby would come a little faster then the previous ones. I also made another pitcher of pregnancy tea and then took a hot bath, that was super relaxing, I hardly felt the contractions in the bath. I also was reading "Childbirth without fear" and that really helped reassure me also. Around 7:30 my 2 yr old came downstairs, I knew I would not be able to concetrate on relaxing with her by myself so we went upstairs and woke up hubby. I said we are going to have a baby today, he woke up a little confused and said "how do you know?", LOL. Anyways I went downstairs for while but by 9:00am I really wanted to be alone, so I told hubby I was going upstairs. During this time I took another bath, sat on my birth ball, walked around and really concentrated on breathing through the contractions at around 10:oo am my mom and my sister got to my house and they come upstairs, but after a few minutes I told them not to talk to me when I was having a contraction and they went away for awhile. At this point I took another hot bath and then went back to my birth ball. Around 12:15 the contractions really started to hurt and was beginning to feel like I just wanted to sleep (for me this is always a sign that the baby is coming soon) After a couple of really strong contractions I started to cry. Hubby came up and hugged for a little bit and I told him it hurt so bad and I was really crying at this point. He asked me if I wanted my mom to come up and said yes. So he went and got her from downstairs. She came up and the contractions were getting more and more intense and closer together. Funny thing: my mom was sitting on my birth ball and some how flipped off and landed flat on the floor and I was having a horrible contraction at this time, but I still laughed so hard. Anyways, at this point it was helping me to vocalize through the contractions rather then just breathe. I also started to have some lower back pain, so hubby heated up a towel and my mom put it on my lower back when I would have a contraction. I this point I was having a hard time handling the pain, I started saying things like; "I can't do this", "I want to be done" , "can I go to sleep now?", "how much longer?"......I know that for me this almost always means it is time for the baby to come out but I was not thinking that at the time, I was thinking that I was going to be in this much pain till the next day,LOL. My mom told me that I should try squatting through a few contractions, but I had to go to the bathroom first, after I went to the bathroom, I had a strong contraction and I felt the urge to bear down. My mom and hubby helped me get back in to the bedroom and with the next contraction I squatted, I instantly felt theurg to push and felt the baby come down the birth canal and the bag of waters broke, with the next contraction I felt the "ring of fire". I was so relieved at this point because I knew that it was almost over. At this point I tried to just breath the baby out, with the next contraction the baby's head popped out and my mom told me to just breath so I did, but then she told me I needed to push, I tried pushing but after the head came out I did not have another contraction, my mom told me to squat deep, but still nothing , the baby's shoulders didi not want to budge. I knew immediately that this was a case of shoulder dystocia, I knew I HAD to get on my hand and knees. I said to my mom "hands and knees?" and she said "yes". I don't think any body even had to help me I just did it. I t was like my thinking was perfectly clear, I was not panicking....time I had stood still.....I really did not feel any pain at this point. I was trying so hard to push, but it was very difficult without any contractions, my mom had tried to hook her finger under one of the armpits to turn the shoulders but that did not work either. MY mom said to me " OK. Amity you need to push with everything you have, we need to get this baby out". My mom had to hook one finger under an armpit and assisted the rest of the body with her other hand. I took a deep breath and said "Jesus help me to push this baby out" and with that I pushed with everything I had and out he came!!! Praise God!!!! He was only stuck for about 2 minutes total. When he came out, within 2 seconds he was making grunting noises and his heart beat was strong....after about 30 seconds he stared crying loudly and pinked up quite nicely. After we made sure he was breathing good we looked to see what he was...A BOY!!! Hubby was sooo excited :-) Even though we did have a small problem, it was still a beautiful birth!!! I thank God for his mercy and grace, allowing everything to turn out well. I am so thankful for my sweet mom, this time I really needed her. I only have a slight tear, I feel wonderful, so much better then I did after my last baby. amy precious boy is strong and healthy, he eats wonderfully...a very strong nurser. I am blessed:-)

Here is my mom with her grand son :-) Thanks Mom!!!