My birth story! (It's long lol) This is my little Uriah. I can't explain how much love I feel looking at his face. The…
My birth story! (It's long lol) This is my little Uriah. I can't explain how much love I feel looking at his face. The pain was completely worth it. So I was awake after watching a movie with my mom and I decided to get some food and go up to dh. After I ate my water broke because I did squats lmao!!! I did 3 squats and on the third one my water burst, that was at 2:43am, I then went down to tell my mom but didn't have any contractions yet. I got to the hospital around 4:15 and at 5 they came and checked me and I was still a 2, they said I had to be monitored for a while and tried to say they were going to start pitocin and I said no. I'm doing this naturally. And they said well how do you plan on doing that, and I said I'll walk around to help myself dilate. So I did that and at 7 I was a 4-5 90% effaced, came back at 11 and I was 7cm 50% effaced, they checked at 12:30 and I was 8cm 0% and then at 1:30 I was 8-9 0%. So she had me turn on my side because my cervix was sitting up high on my right side. I had two strong contractions laying on my left side and then he dropped and my body started pushing without me doing it. They had me lay on my back as I was a 10 and they could see his head and I did two big long pushes and he was out! Did immediate skin to skin for two hours and he nursed the whole time. ?? Also if it wasn't for dh I would have probably tried to get up and go home and say forget it we aren't having a baby today lmao! I went from crying from contractions at 7cm to being able to breathe through them so quietly and calmly that they didn't hurt as bad at even 9cm. My mom rubbed my back for me the whole time and I'll forever be grateful to her for doing that. I'm so happy with my little prince and his daddy just cried when he saw him. So much love in that room.
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Thank you!!! @manda, it took a lot of will power and dh said I was that difficult patient every nurse doesn't want because I refused any help from medicine. I didn't mind though lol I just wanted my birth to go the way I had planned. I'm glad I didn't have to go off my plans but I was prepared to if necessary.
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Ahh I'm so happy to hear you had the birth you wanted. Based on your last post I was nervous for you, I wish more doctors would realize babies CAN be born without pitocin!
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@the7 really? Yeah the midwife and Doctor were pretty obnoxious at first since he's my first and I'm 23. So they were like yeahhh ok sureeee. But I did it. That sucks that they don't ask people if they want to try without it. I had to tell them no they aren't putting it in and I didn't want an iv. They gave me a hep block but that's it and didn't put saline in it because I said I wanted to keep myself hydrated by drinking water.
And thank you pp!!
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Awww congrats boo
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Congratulations! My water broke and I didn't have contractions and I was 5cm when I got to the hospital. They started me on that piticoin stuff and I hated it, they almost had to stop my labor because it sent my body into overdrive and then I almost needed a c-section. I wish I would have known I could have tried without it.
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Thank you!!! ❤️❤️
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Your story is amazing. You're amazing! Congrats on the handsome little man!
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I drank at least a cup of water every hour, enough to not get nauseous for an over supply of water during contractions and enough to not dehydrate, it was almost 12 hours in total of my water being broken to when he took his first breath. It was 7 hours that I was in active labor!
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Tips/advice on how you stay hydrated enough to avoid IV fluids?
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Thank you ladies! We were discharged already and are now all home! Such an exciting and crazy experience lol! I had a "skidmark" of a 1st degree tear on the side but everything else was great!
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So sweet congrats
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Congrats!!! What a beautiful baby
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Thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Congratulations, mommy!
~Rose~
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Congratulations? Awesome birth story & he's so cute ?
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That's right no epidural, no iv fluids(saline), and no pitocin. All natural
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congratulations, he's beautiful ?
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Congratulations!! He's adorable. So you did it with no epi??
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Thank you! That means a lot!!! ❤️
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That is amazing. Good for you! This is one of my favorite birth stories I have read on here
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Thank you!! ??
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Congratulations love he's beautiful ?
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Thank you ladies!!! ???? ugh I can't stop staring at him lol I feel like a creeper hahahaha. You ladies made me feel I could stick to my guns by all your advice! So thank you so much everyone for your support! I'm such a big gush ball of love right now lol so excuse me ?
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Congrats he is soo cute! ???
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Heeey little guy! You made it :) I'm so happy for you momma. Good job!
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Congratulations!!! Such a beautiful story.
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That's AWESOME!!! Sounds like everything went perfectly! Congratulations mama, and good for you for sticking to your guns. HES GORGEOUS. ?
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Congratulations! He's perfect! This gives me hope for my natural labor plan
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Such a beautiful birth story! I can't wait to do this again! It's a reminder at how wonderful the process can really be
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Thank you!!!! I definitely just tried to survive lol!
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Congrats girl! Sounds like you rocked labour.
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Thank you!
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Congrats ?
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Thank you!!!
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Congrats! ????
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Thank you!! ❤️
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Congratulations on your beautiful baby boy! ?
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Thank you!!!! I wasn't expecting it to be like that either! Dh didn't either!
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Wow what a positive, wonderful birth experience! Congratulations on your new baby! Good job mama!
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Thank you ladies!!!! Yeah I've heard it makes the contractions sooooo much stronger!
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Awwwww he's so cute. Congratulations ??? you did great.
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I tried with ds2 but couldn't do the pain past 5! I was screaming in pain but next time I won't be getting pitocen (sp) either lol
You did great!
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Thank you all so much!!! My advice if you do, create no other option for yourself. Believe in yourself and trust your body! I believed I wouldn't need it but trust me there were times I almost changed my mind. Make sure you have a really good support group to remind you of your plan and trust in it!!! But if you get one that's totally fine too! Just how I managed!
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What a beautiful birth story! Congratulations! He is just perfect❤
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Congrats!
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Congratulations he is handsome
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Beautiful birth story!!
Makes me want to have a 3rd and go all natural! Lol
He's a handsome little guy! Congrats ?
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Thank you!
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It's mainly that he's skinny and long lol dh is tall too and skinny lol
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He's so long! He looks bigger than 7lbs. What a great story:)
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Thank you @Tennessee!! It was hard at times when they all kept doubting me, made me feel like I was inadequate for the task. They said they've rarely seen anyone stick to going all natural and they were all proud of me. It was a great feeling to be able to fight for the birth I wanted and get it. It was equally as hard to get it as well though lol.
@aromatics that's so cool! Dh picked out the name!
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Lol congraculations on your beautiful son. I am also naming my son Uriah but it is going to be his middle name.
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Also he was 7lbs 3oz and 19.5 inches long! ☺️