Born really, really fast on our kitchen floor at 9.50am this morning!

Introducing Byron, weighing in at 3.86kgs, 51cms. Born really, really fast on our kitchen floor at 9.50am this morning. Wasn't exactly the waterbirth we had planned but we are ecstatic with our new addition. 💙 

Here is my story:

I had been up since about 3am, the odd surge - irregular, fairly short, really easy, but mainly just feeling restless and uncomfortable being in bed. So I was pottering about the house, listening to my affirmations and doing some stretching, forward leaning and relaxing.

By about 7am things were starting to warm up so I woke my husband and we called my sister to come and get our 2 year old. He went at 7.30am, so I called my beautiful Doula Vicki & Midwife Malita to let them know that we were in early labour and thought today was going to be 'the day'.

Then we set up the tarp and inflated the pool, relaxed as, earphones in, surges still coming but didn't feel like we were in any great rush. 

At about 8.30am I texted Vicki to say we were pretty much set up, and were going to chill out and watch a movie. She suggested a comedy to get the oxytoxin flowing. I got comfy over the C.U.B and we got 15 mins into the movie before I felt like I needed to change my undies - was my plug and a bit of fluid. No big deal, clean up, back to the movie, 5 minutes in - Oh, pause it again, I think my membranes just released...   😂

The last hour went really, really quickly. 

We put on the birthing prompts and I paced around the kitchen between surges, trying to keep my breathing slow and deep.

I told Mark that I needed him to call the ladies right now. It seemed too soon, but I was getting anxious. 

I'd like to say I was the picture of a composed, hypnobirthing goddess at this stage, but I wasn't really! I went between yelling at my poor husband to "fill the pool! fill the pool! No! Wait - come back and heeeeeelp meeeeee!". 

He hadn't really seemed to pay much 'attention' to my hypnobirthing training, but he surprisingly absorbed more info than I expected, reminding me to breathe, keep my pitch low, relax my jaw, breathe.

At this stage, I needed to get down on my hands and knees on the kitchen floor, on a towel. Mark got Vicki on speakerphone and she was trying to keep me calm while she drove.

The urge to push was strong - it was so different to my first birth where I was 'told' to push once I reached 10cms but I never really felt like I needed to. My body and baby really led the way this time. I gave a couple of pretty loud, shouty pushes (sorry neighbours, sorry Vicki's ears) and then Midwives Malita and Jane arrived.

I have never been more happy and relieved to hear footsteps in my whole life. Vicki was there minutes later and she did some sort of magical pressure on my hips, and lower back.

Byron arrived earthside maybe 15 minutes later at 9.50am.

The pool was about 10cms full. 

Despite it not going exactly to "plan" - it was perfect, and so is this little human!

Melissa x

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