Homebirth General Discussion #1

[petasunn]

Oh to have a 10 min birth how fabulous! The shortest I could manage was 45mins of active labour!

[Tegam]

Oh to have a 10 min birth how fabulous! The shortest I could manage was 45mins of active labour!

Well i guess i shouldnt complain and it was very lovely but i wouldnt order for another. My 1st was 7hrs (38+5 posterior), 2nd 2hrs (36+posterior) and the 3rd (38weeks) was like

" i feel like a shower, DH talk to me while i shower". Get out of the shower, sit on side the bed. DH says, ill just go make you a cup of tea, i say No i want you to stay with me, Dh why, 1st contaction (low period pain sore but not too bad), Me: call the MW, DH dials and is asking me why?? MW asks why i want her Me: I just do.... 2nd contraction: oooooohhhhhh, 3rd contaction Me: get the mirror i need to see whats going on, 4th contraction: Is that the head or cord 5th contraction WATERS EXPLODE EVERYWHERE AND ALL OVER DH, he almost falls through the sliding door as he jumps back so quick
6th contraction. head... .shoulders.. ..placenta... . Oh its a boy, baby cries. Dh cuts cord as i want to move and cord VERY short. I say call MW tell her baby born all ok and to let herself in....


Look at phone...10mins exactly since first call!

WOW talk about quick, intense and beautiful.

Took MW 40mins to arrive and she found us having our first BF in bed with DH! I get up, have a shower, strip the bed while DH and MW weigh and dress baby, go out to the lounge room and have that cupper... Normal day really! Older kids get home and meet their new brother!

I think id go back to the 2hr one next time if i could pick, but more sure that it will just pop out when i bend over for something! Only planned homebirth as i was warned that the next would be quick. Thats was the only reason that the MW could think of while i didnt go into shock. LOL Poor DH didnt even really think it was the real thing til my waters broke LOL.

All fun

[mixy]

wow that was fast! thats fantastic! yes i like to know whats happening, i would like 2 hrs, but we dont get to choose thes things! i was already 5 cm dialated (self checked) so was a little ticked hat it still took 4 hours lol

[Smoke Jaguar]

I've booked the second midwife - she's due back from holidays two days before my EDD, so we'll see if I need a back up for the back up
Also booked the birth pool because the one I was going to borrow might still be needed by my friend - she's 3 weeks ahead of me, but you never know, I don't want to rush her if it comes down to the wire!
My GF was at the last middie meeting and she's very excited and very on board with it all.
I've been talking to DS about the birth etc, but he won't have a bar of being read My Brother Jimmy Jazz! Anyway, he is getting to know the middie and in the bath I talk about how he came out of me and that the baby will come out of there, too. Sometimes he'll lie back, pat his belly and say that he has a baby in his tummy, too He's no longer in denial about the baby, though!
I'm thinking I might watch the Deva Premal (mantra music) video my sister gave me during labour, as she says lots of babies are made and born to her music! Anyway, wanting to keep it zen, but I will make a variety of playlists on iTunes, in case I change my mind about what I want to listen to at the time...

[Smoke Jaguar]

Been quiet in here - where are all the homebirthers??
Ok, so, the time is near, just don't know how near! The house is set up and ready to go - birth pool got a great test run and it's half-inflated, I got my salt lamps, candles are ready to light, my oils box and electric vaporiser have been getting daily workouts, I made up some aromatherapy products for myself and for DS (a face spray, cos he'll want some when he sees me use one!) and my music playlists are good to go.
DS is really looking forward to meeting his sibling in the birth pool and sharing BFing

[Lolli]

**pokes head in** do I count? I'm technically a home birther now even though it wasn't planned that way...

I wanted to tell someone anyhow- I get it now. The idea of hb always appealed to me but I found it scary. Now I understand why everyone raves about it. It was so much nicer, for all concernced, to have dd at home. My only regret is we had to transfer to the hospital afterwards.

If I ever have another one, there is no way I would go to the hospital. I would find dome way to birth at home. I just wish there was some way I could describe exactly how it feels to all the hb sceptics out there

Maya, you sound all ready to go hun You've got to be excited. Abd I bet your ds can't wait. Just for curiousity, are you worried about him seeing you in pain? (if you are in pain, I think I recall your ds's birth was pain free)

[Smoke Jaguar]

Lori, you ARE a homebirther now, huh?? I'm so, so glad you got to experience it and the whole 'oh, puhlease, I so don't believe I'll be safer in hospital' to your DH Please don't regret the transfer - it happens from time to time in planned homebirths (Tracy Bartram had to transfer after hers!), doesn't make it less of a homebirth
I never worried about DS seeing me birth. His birth was not a loud, vocalised affair (just the way it worked out, and the way I visualised it was for serenity, I do know vocalisation is an important part of it for others!) - I worked through all the sensations using the HypnoBirthing. I guess I'm assuming it will be the same this time round! If it's not, I'm not worried, still - the midwives and DP will talk him through it and I'll give him tranced-out snuggles to let him know I'm ok. The environment will be too nurturing for him to think I'm in danger, so he might just be confused if things get vocal, but hopefully not alarmed.
Yeah, it's not so weird and foreign to plan a homebirth...even 'normal' people do it Not that I'm one of them...