What a story! Trying to describe our first blessing is just really overwhelming. Everything started when i tried to sleep on july 1st but just kept waking up with some sort of diarrhea and discomfort. The next day to speed up the labor process Timmy and I went to the gym and i walked really fast. I felt something like the start of a period, and went to the bathroom to take a peek, and it was the famous mucus plug. After that nothing happened. Only at night i could not sleep and nor could my husband, since i was feeling pain, which just got worse. I think i took 11 hot showers in the back to relieve the back pain and relax. At 2 am of july 3rd my water broke, and it was like a warm waterfall falling all over the kitchen. At the time i was in pain walking in the kitchen. After that my midwife came and checked me and i was only a stinky 3 cm dilated. I Could not believe it! Hours of labor and only a measly 3 cm. It took a while until it got to 5 cm and could get in the warm cozy big tub, that we rented for $250. After 2 hours i was already 9 cm and needed a help from my midwife to go to 10 cm. During all this time i was doing a very fast breathing exercises with tim to go trough the contractions. He was the best help that could exist, better than any epidurals, and it was free! He even got in the tub with me and it was like he was also going trough labor with me. In my mind and body he was there. I wouldn't even let him go pee in the bathroom, because i was afraid that the pain would come back and i wouldn't be able to hold it by myself. I was pushing really hard and in one of these pushes i think i pooped in the tub and tim even asked: What are those things floating in the water? No one could even think about that at the time. I just concentrated on my pushing and trying to get natanzinho out, which wasn't working in the tub. I got out of the tub, and tried another position, that didn't work and I wanted to get back in the tub so we tried that to no avail. Back out, seated on the birthing stool pushing and the head came. I couldn't see it just felt it, a soft tissue coming with my hand. The first picture was my mom tearing doing a pain expression in her face. i guess it was an overwhelming moment for her. Unfortunately it got stuck and i wasn't feeling the contractions anymore, my pushes were not enough, I had to get 2 cuts like a V. ABNORMAL for an episiotomy and have the assistant push from the top of my belly as I laid down. After Natan was born he had to be resuscitated with CPR and it took him around 5 min to breath(no way to know exactly as it was quit the emotional moment) and he had to stay in the hospital for the first 2 weeks of his life. He made it to the family picture on july 18th though! It was defiantly not an orgasmic experience like described in our birth classes, but still a great experience.
I would say it was a gift from God and our first blessing. Our angel that is 9 month old and says dada all the time!
