My waters broke as baby was born every time. 1st & 3rd baby the waters bulged out and broke as the head came out (almost in-the-caul babies) and 2nd baby the waters broke while pushing, about 15mins before birth.
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My waters broke as baby was born every time. 1st & 3rd baby the waters bulged out and broke as the head came out (almost in-the-caul babies) and 2nd baby the waters broke while pushing, about 15mins before birth.
Be cool to see a baby born in the caul !
Kellbell, with DD2 I lost my plug as labour was starting - it looked like a big ball of snot with light streaks of blood.
Tegam - waters broke about half way through with DD2. I felt a pop and instant relief of pressure. DD3's birth was bizarre - no plug that I saw and waters must have come out behind her at birth. So nearly born in the caul. My m/w on the ph was a bit concerned she would have to coach us as we freebirthed a baby in the caul. I'd never heard of another birth without waters breaking or baby in the caul before that. But nothing about DD3's birth was predictable!
I actually get a bit nervous when I hear ppl casually mentioning having their waters broken. Why? There are risks with it and it's completely unnecessary! I don't understand why you'd mess with something when there's no need. I would not do well in hospital now. Lol And as for vaginal exams... I have three children and the only exams from birth were to check the peri afterwards. I feel like politely declining that if there's a next time too. I get why it's done, but I haven't torn so far and I HATE that check!
Goes to show that even our speedy freebirthed babies can shoot out without waters having already broken!
I've never had an internal exam in labour either but I tore and was stitched after my first birth and the experience left me traumatised. So, second birth I couldn't handle having a check for tears. We ended up leaving it but I still wanted to know how much I had torn (we knew I had torn but didn't know how 'serious' it was). So the next day my MW guided where she needed to look and had me do the touching and she just looked. So I told my MW for this birth that I wanted to do that again and it worked well.
Whatever was happening stopped - got a sick 3yo now so smart baby probably decided its safer in there :-)
Midwife coming tommorow but got a few weeks left in me I think
hello girls!
waters...my first and third broke well before labour and me second broke and labour started immediately. and i agree...it gives me chills when i hear of peeps having waters broken....all i can think of is malposition and the lack of room for bubs to wiggle into a better spot.
just watched the horror that is OBEM...the US version...does anyone else watch that and find it really weird how they are all labouring with epis? basically it is a show watching prone women on beds with relatives watching on. so weird! and to think that for all these people that is birth for them: that is their birth story. and that's their 'normal' birth. i find it so disconcerting. pushing on my back with feet in stirrups just looks like too much hard work :lol:
Midwife had to cancel appointment today, she is at hospital with the lady in labour that she promised me id go first! Most pregnant i have ever been. Feels surreal, just like every other part of this pregnancy, very odd to have it so different to all my other babies. DD2 would be almost 3 weeks old now…. Im crazy sore in the hips but even that i think is because I'm over it not actually that bad if you get what i mean. I really feel no different to when i was 32weeks. Do you think this baby is ever going to come?
I knew if I transferred to a hospital here they weren't getting me on a bed like that but I asked my MW if they would want me to wear a gown and she said yes, and it would be another thing that would really bother them for me to decline and they might try and insist! Ugh. The hospital system here is terrible! Very conformist.
Baby is helping you enjoy every last moment as a pregnant woman Tegam. And yes, they will be here very soon xx
Tegam: yup. baby will come. i always found it really weird after DD1 was born at 38 weeks that i had to 'wait' longer for the others. i also kept imagining how old my eldest was at the same time hahaha.
Meow: the room is full of so many randoms on that show...like a circus! i just cannot get out of my head how absolutely exhausting it must be to push out a posterior baby on your back in stirrups (as this chick on the episode was made to do). my posterior babies were all on my knees on water, so cannot imagine having to do it with gravity (and my spine) against me!
The bit i hate the most is watching them pull them out by their head straight after its delivered. i think of how long some of mine sat there waiting for the next contraction. Cant be nice to be pulled and tugged like that.
My mum laid on her back on bed with a friend and my older sister holding her legs back while pushing out a posterior baby at home. To this day I still don't understand?!
I find those "party in the labour room" things really weird.
I don't want anyone there! Meow you hid in a garage ;)
Its just that i feel fine, normal and no different to 32 weeks, seems like its a bad joke that everyone keeps expecting me to have had the baby! It is also cruel to make me wait the longest hehe
So my midwife had to cancel today, she had a hospital birth. i get a text this afternoon, "can you come to the clinic thursday afternoon at 4.30pm" when i said no she said "Friday 10.30am" I said "if i make it to then i will be 8 days more pregnant than i have ever been and with my history of quick births i don't think i will want to travel 35mins to come to you?" So she said "well you don't really need one so lets just make it next monday…. That will be a fortnight since i have seen her. Im not really worried but surely this isn't the time to dump appointments??? If i go into labour she will find the time to come so why wouldn't you find it tomorrow or wednesday? Am i being sensitive about this? I have never been this pregnant, i am having another home birth as i had a negative experience last birth, she knows i was upset that the last MW did come when i needed her at the end of my last pregnancy. I am paying $4000 for the comfort and support of a MW. And I'm going 2 weeks without an appointment….. My mum thinks its because she thinks i will birth before then but hey we ALL thought i would have birthed by now….. Baby is moving and i don't have any signs of there being any concern but she didn't even ask that? She didn't ask if i needed or wanted to see her before then…..
Please be honest, don't just be on my side, this feels odd but i am tired and hormonal :)
I'd be really cranky & upset if she couldn't make it one day I'd expect her the next day not the following week!
It's not what you need this late in pregnancy at all !!
I tell you honestly if she was mine I would not be happy
Can you talk to her about it ?
Tegam... I found at the end of the pregnancies alot of small things needed to be ironed out in preparation before birth. How you communicate with your midwife and trust her is not a small one, it's a big one. Even though you say she 'knows' your history, it's a little bit like having expectations of your partner, sometimes they need it clearly said what you want and need( again and again and again). I would ring her (text is not clear) and say you are feeling really vulnerable and tell her what is going on, give her a chance to respond, you can't guess why she is making the appointment the way she is, be clear, open and honest with her, if it is emotional show her... smooth it out... and if you do birth fast, do not going anywhere... I have super quick births and you need to feel safe and stay in xxx
Thanks ladybirdflies. Not sure how I'm going to attack it or if at all. True be told that I just don't want to cause too much stress. I don't want anyone here anyway. It was more the principle. Ahhhh I don't know what I'm rambling about xx
I would be devastated Tegam. I am one of those ppl that never want to put people out so acquiese rather easily to them (rather than speak up and demand the attention that I need).
That said, even for me, 2 weeks is too long between drinks so to speak, so i would call her up and beg her to come sooner as you are feeling emotional and not in the right headspace for the birth (speak openly about it, it's what she is working from ITMS). I am certain that she will come then...i think that once you are beyond that first or even second baby, you are treated as a bit of an 'old hand' that knows the ropes and our overworked IMs sometimes rely too much on that instead of showering us in enough love and support. Maybe go into character and try to remember how you were as a first timer and demand lots of answers and ask lots of questions lol! that might get her around haha!