Christina & Christopher
Welcome Christian Alexander
a fast, natural hospital birth
My second pregnancy was going fine until I
got to 34 weeks. I had already started to dilate,
but I had also been experiencing contractions.
At my 36 week visit, I was sent to labor and delivery to be monitored as I had dilated further
and my contractions were 3 to 5 minutes apart.
We all thought that I was going to have the
baby by the end of the day.
and 2 hours of pushing. I went about my day
only having mild contractions here and there
and feeling a lot of movement, all of which I
chalked up to the pelvic. I decided that it was
a great day to get Chloe out to the park before
the storm rolled in that evening. I walked a
mile and played on the equipment and still felt
great.
By the time we got to L&D, my contractions
slowed down to 8 to 10 minutes apart and
I was showing no signs of progressing, so I
was sent home. I had my mom pick up my
23 month old toddler, Chloe, for the night
because at that point we all agreed that my
contractions were being caused by stress and
exhaustion. As the next couple weeks went by,
I progressed more and I was still having on
and off contractions, which they said was being caused by an irritable uterus.
Later that night, the
the lightning
lightning started to
flash beautifully across started to flash
beautifully
the sky and I even
stepped out on to the across the sky
deck to take a video
of it. Soon after I started feeling the urge to use
the bathroom but each time I went nothing
would come. The final time I sat down to try,
I felt a gush of fluids come out. I figured with
the little pushes that I had done to try to go to
the bathroom it was probably just pee. I stood
up and even more came out. My water had
broken. I started making attempts to call my
husband, who was working 2nd shift in a factory, as well as call my mom to get Chloe. After
6 attempts and one call to the security desk, I
finally got a phone call from my husband that
he was on his way.
On June 30th, 2014, I had my 38 week appointment and for once went in not feeling
like I wanted to say, “Let’s get this baby out.” I
hadn’t made much progress from the week before which disappointed me some but I was at
least progressed further than I had with Chloe,
who I went into labor and delivery only 1 cm
dilated and had her after 17.5 hours of labor
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