Whilst we're on birth stories (a bit off topic), my wife wanted a home birth for No 1. After 17 hours of no progress she taken to hospital. 17 hours later - still stuck and a senior doc came in and said this baby needs to come out now. Five minutes later he was out - then they almost cooked him in the incubator whilst concentrating on my…
Whilst we're on birth stories (a bit off topic), my wife wanted a home birth for No 1. After 17 hours of no progress she taken to hospital. 17 hours later - still stuck and a senior doc came in and said this baby needs to come out now. Five minutes later he was out - then they almost cooked him in the incubator whilst concentrating on my wife who was rushed to theatre - leaving me alone in what looked like a butcher's shop, holding the baby... As I said to her, at least she got a bed! I had to sit in a chair all night!
Then two days later he was rushed back in - unresponsive: her milk hadn't come in. He's 25 now and has been no bother since.
What a crazy start to life! So glad he's been no bother since that opening scene!! Sounds like all 3 of you had a rough time :-(
And I'm sorry your wife didn't get the home birth she wanted then. I hope she got it another time?
Anyway...since you told me yours, I'll tell you mine :-)
I had a 40-hour labour from the waters breaking to birthing the placenta for my first. 24 hours of NO cervix dilation. Like a hospital would be fine with that. Ha! Then when everything was moving along, I had 4 hours in stage 2 labour with NO urge to push. Cervix was completely open and I could literally feel her head that whole time. Like a hospital would be fine with that either! Ha! BUT bub was fine. Heartbeat was good. Turns out there was a rather short cord and we had to wait until her highly-placed placenta detached from my uterine wall before she wanted to come out...and then she birthed herself, corkscrew-style! A bit of blood, too, but it was just from her placenta naturally detaching. I was fine. She was fine. She showed more patience in her birth than she's ever shown in life thus far ha ha! I can but hope she'll re-learn that virtue!
But imagine if I was in hospital and they'd used forceps and yanked her out at any point. Eeesh.
Second birth was 34 hours from beginning to end. Again, 24 hours with NO cervix dilation. In hospital I believe that would be 2x C-sections by now, right?! Anyway, the contractions ramped up something crazy (perhaps I shouldn't have have pressed so hard on all those acupressure points for labour whilst I had a closed cervix?!) and by the time he came, I was in the birthing pool, exhausted. My son had an even shorter cord than his older sister (WTF!) but at least his placenta was down low, not up high! He tried for an early exit 10 mins before I birthed him and all he succeeding in doing was strangling himself, scaring the shit out himself, literally, inside me (eeew), and partially detaching the placenta. So of course lots of blood again (I was dizzy on & off for 3 months after having him, think I might've been borderline for needing a blood transfusion!?) and I managed to birth his head before I ran out of contractions. So my midwife had to pull him out (nothing to it, he was right there ready to come out!). And then it turns out because of the cord issue, my son is borderline cerebral palsy - but you wouldn't know it now. We've done so much work and he's really good! He needed a manual adjustment a day after birth to his T4 vertebra - and then he lifted his (seemingly dead) left arm right after that which was super cool to see. I love the power of the Adjustment. He really banged himself up trying for his fast exit. Just as well his Mummy is a handy Chiropractor and also knows what to do, even under massive stress.
So no, not an 'ideal' birth - but for me, it sure beat having a C-section.
3rd birth was quick as, easy as pie, 4 hours from first contraction to birthing the placenta - and I had to wait 1 & 1/2 hours for that! So a 2 & 1/2 hour labour. Amazing what happens to your body when you quit gluten & dairy and stop poisoning yourself before you even get pregnant! :-D
Birthing stories, eh? They can be so wild!!! So glad I had my 3rd and got to experience a somewhat 'textbook' labour/birth! I think 40 hours down to 4 hours was a pretty good record ha ha!
Hopefully your wife had less crazy births for any subsequent children?! But....how did the other kids turn out? Nuts or nice?! :-D
Whilst we're on birth stories (a bit off topic), my wife wanted a home birth for No 1. After 17 hours of no progress she taken to hospital. 17 hours later - still stuck and a senior doc came in and said this baby needs to come out now. Five minutes later he was out - then they almost cooked him in the incubator whilst concentrating on my wife who was rushed to theatre - leaving me alone in what looked like a butcher's shop, holding the baby... As I said to her, at least she got a bed! I had to sit in a chair all night!
Then two days later he was rushed back in - unresponsive: her milk hadn't come in. He's 25 now and has been no bother since.
What a crazy start to life! So glad he's been no bother since that opening scene!! Sounds like all 3 of you had a rough time :-(
And I'm sorry your wife didn't get the home birth she wanted then. I hope she got it another time?
Anyway...since you told me yours, I'll tell you mine :-)
I had a 40-hour labour from the waters breaking to birthing the placenta for my first. 24 hours of NO cervix dilation. Like a hospital would be fine with that. Ha! Then when everything was moving along, I had 4 hours in stage 2 labour with NO urge to push. Cervix was completely open and I could literally feel her head that whole time. Like a hospital would be fine with that either! Ha! BUT bub was fine. Heartbeat was good. Turns out there was a rather short cord and we had to wait until her highly-placed placenta detached from my uterine wall before she wanted to come out...and then she birthed herself, corkscrew-style! A bit of blood, too, but it was just from her placenta naturally detaching. I was fine. She was fine. She showed more patience in her birth than she's ever shown in life thus far ha ha! I can but hope she'll re-learn that virtue!
But imagine if I was in hospital and they'd used forceps and yanked her out at any point. Eeesh.
Second birth was 34 hours from beginning to end. Again, 24 hours with NO cervix dilation. In hospital I believe that would be 2x C-sections by now, right?! Anyway, the contractions ramped up something crazy (perhaps I shouldn't have have pressed so hard on all those acupressure points for labour whilst I had a closed cervix?!) and by the time he came, I was in the birthing pool, exhausted. My son had an even shorter cord than his older sister (WTF!) but at least his placenta was down low, not up high! He tried for an early exit 10 mins before I birthed him and all he succeeding in doing was strangling himself, scaring the shit out himself, literally, inside me (eeew), and partially detaching the placenta. So of course lots of blood again (I was dizzy on & off for 3 months after having him, think I might've been borderline for needing a blood transfusion!?) and I managed to birth his head before I ran out of contractions. So my midwife had to pull him out (nothing to it, he was right there ready to come out!). And then it turns out because of the cord issue, my son is borderline cerebral palsy - but you wouldn't know it now. We've done so much work and he's really good! He needed a manual adjustment a day after birth to his T4 vertebra - and then he lifted his (seemingly dead) left arm right after that which was super cool to see. I love the power of the Adjustment. He really banged himself up trying for his fast exit. Just as well his Mummy is a handy Chiropractor and also knows what to do, even under massive stress.
So no, not an 'ideal' birth - but for me, it sure beat having a C-section.
3rd birth was quick as, easy as pie, 4 hours from first contraction to birthing the placenta - and I had to wait 1 & 1/2 hours for that! So a 2 & 1/2 hour labour. Amazing what happens to your body when you quit gluten & dairy and stop poisoning yourself before you even get pregnant! :-D
Birthing stories, eh? They can be so wild!!! So glad I had my 3rd and got to experience a somewhat 'textbook' labour/birth! I think 40 hours down to 4 hours was a pretty good record ha ha!
Hopefully your wife had less crazy births for any subsequent children?! But....how did the other kids turn out? Nuts or nice?! :-D