Birth of my little Baby C

[Bella29]

Awesome story eutra! Just lovely! U did an amazing job!!!

[jackrose]

I have been thinking about your awesome birth story over the last few days (as well as relaying it to a pregnant friend and a planning to be pregnant and homebirth friend ) I have found it so inspiring. I realised that your labour sounds very much like my first labour. Baby with a deflexed head, not applying correct pressure to the cervix, cervix not dilating properly, leaving me labouring with constant contractions for days.

The big difference between your labour/birth and mine though was that you had set yourself up with a midwife who knew what to do. You trusted her and you got your baby moving. I ended up with exhaustion, resignation and a c-section after my midwives shrugged their shoulders and looked at the clock. I made sure not to make the same mistakes in my second birth but I really take my hat off to you for figuring that all out for your first birth!

You ought to be very proud.

[e_p]

I have been thinking about your awesome birth story over the last few days (as well as relaying it to a pregnant friend and a planning to be pregnant and homebirth friend ) I have found it so inspiring. I realised that your labour sounds very much like my first labour. Baby with a deflexed head, not applying correct pressure to the cervix, cervix not dilating properly, leaving me labouring with constant contractions for days.

The big difference between your labour/birth and mine though was that you had set yourself up with a midwife who knew what to do. You trusted her and you got your baby moving. I ended up with exhaustion, resignation and a c-section after my midwives shrugged their shoulders and looked at the clock. I made sure not to make the same mistakes in my second birth but I really take my hat off to you for figuring that all out for your first birth!

You ought to be very proud.

jackrose, I'm sorry you didn't get the support you deserved during your first birth! Labour is tough enough without good support and expertise from the people in our birthspace. I'm sure you did a wonderful job in spite of the shoulder-shrugging midwives. I just read your beautiful VBAC story - YOU ought to be very proud!! So glad things went the way you had hoped the second time around xx

[e_p]

thank you everyone for your lovely comments! Still enjoying our babymoon so much - C started laughing last week! He gives us so much joy every day

[jackrose]

jackrose, I'm sorry you didn't get the support you deserved during your first birth! Labour is tough enough without good support and expertise from the people in our birthspace. I'm sure you did a wonderful job in spite of the shoulder-shrugging midwives. I just read your beautiful VBAC story - YOU ought to be very proud!! So glad things went the way you had hoped the second time around xx

Thank you for your supportive words, I did do a wonderful job with my first birth! I know I did and I have no regrets about how it all went when all is said and done. I just regret the naive decisions I made that got me into that situation and the state of our hospital system that can so often lead to the type of birth I had. That is why I just love stories such as yours (and I guess my own VBAC story) because in the end they are really just well supported births. Well supported is really cool whatever your birth style, method of delivery. Empowerment is what it is all about!