Question

Write a short birth story

Answer 1

Giving birth to a child is the most beautiful and satisfying emotion in the world. I am sharing birth story of my own child.

I was pregnant with my first child which is a boy. My labour started on Tuesday the 10th of October 2017 and my son, was born on Thursday. My labour and delivery was around 36 hours but like most people, it started out as just small cramps, so it wasn’t bad at all. I just knew something was happening, and I slept fine that night. I got through the day into the afternoon with me having regular and painful contractions. As soon as it started hurting, the instinct is to just hold your breath, but if you tell yourself to breathe through it, it’s honestly so much less painful.

I have opted ut for the home delivery through the help of a midwife and doula. I wante dto have my child at home instead of running fo the hospital. Home birth midwive came to check me twice during the day. In the evening, the pain got really really intense and soon after that I was in my active labour. I wasn’t able to eat at all or drink much while I was in labour but I knew the importance of it so I tried hard. I tried taking diamorphine just as an oral solution but it made me sick as soon as I swallowed it. Then I was given the gas & air and honestly it was a saving grace, I instantly felt so much better. A little spacey but so much less pain. Then, laying on my bed, my water broke!

After a little while I felt the need to push, so I started pushing. It took a little while at first as his head was coming out but then going back in, but once his head came his whole body followed all at once. With each contraction, I would breathe in the gas and air, then hold it as I pushed/bared down. It worked so well because the deep breath in prepared me to push, and because I was breathing the gas & air it helped with the pain.

I would say the contractions were a lot worse than the birth itself, thanks to breathing and gas & air. So there he was, layed on my chest, my little boy. My placenta came naturally so I didn’t need the thigh injection which I was very happy about because I have a needle phobia. I remember getting in the bath straight away after, probably because the t-shirt I was wearing was covered in amniotic fluid and some blood. Then after my bath I put on my big pants and massive maternity pads and was left alone with my new family. Every fear I had about going into labour and giving birth was disproved and it honestly went so well for me.