Christian UC: Unassisted Childbirth

The Unassisted Birth of Abraham

Well let's see.........Friday night I tried nipple stimulation for about an hour which did cause some good contractions. Once I stopped to go to bed they lost the intensity and became hard braxton hicks. I had them all through the night while I slept. I was still having hard braxton hicks when I woke up. I had been having ones like this for about a month though so I wasn't thinking I would go into labor.

My husband and I went into town and walked trying to get things started. It didn't work because the braxton hicks stopped totally and I wasn't having anything. We came home early afternoon and the rest of Saturday afternoon I didn't have any contractions. I laid down around 4pm to nap and I started having the hard braxton hicks again. Around 6 pm I had two real contractions and after that they started coming every 2 to 3 minutes. They were not too painful at first so my husband and I left to run to get some videos for us to watch as a family and some butter at the grocery store. While we were at Blockbusters looking for videos they started to get really hard and painful. I was holding onto my husband John during the contractions. We left there and ran really quick to the store. John went in and got the butter while I waited in the car. We arrived back home close to 6:45pm. I was continuing to have the contractions every 2or 3 minutes. I decided to get in the bath hoping that the hot water wouldn't slow down the labor. After I was in the bath the first few contractions went to 7 minutes apart but than they went back to 2 or 3 mintues apart and they remained this was for the remainder of the labor. I stayed in the tub for the rest of the labor until I could feel I was going to be ready to push. While I was in the bath my husband got all the birth stuff set up and everything ready for the baby's arrival.

I got out of the tub and had about 3 contractions and began to push. It took about 2 or 3 contractions to get Abraham's head out and 2 to get the rest of his body out. I birthed on my knees and my husband was behing me. We think Abraham was posterior as I never had any pushing contractions or the urge to push. I could feel Abraham on my tail bone during the contractions. I prayed during the last contractions and felt him moving down so I decided it must be time to push and I did. It hurt worse than any of my other labors because of the baby on my tailbone. I didn't want to push but knew I had too.

When Abraham was born he was very purple. My husband wiped him up and rubbed him and he let out a little cry. About 5 minutes later I felt the urge to push and I pulled our basin over, gave a little push and out came the placenta. My husband just checked it and it was intact and whole. We waited until the cord turned white and then cut the cord. My husband and a friend who arrived about 5 minutes before abraham was born cleaned him up and weighed him. They then gave him to me and I nursed him. I then called a midwife friend of mine and she arrived about 30 minutes after the birth and checked me and Abraham. I had no tears from the birth although I thought I had because it hurt so badly when I was pushing but thank God I didn't. I just sat on the floor for quite awhile and rested. Our 6 other children came in and looked at the baby and we all just talked and shared. It was so peaceful!

Abraham's birth was so wonderful! After it was over I felt like I had accomplished something so amazing! I had my unassisted birth!!! YIPPEE!!! During the birth God's presence was so real. I told my husband during labor that we weren't alone because God was with us!

All glory be given to God for my first vbac and my planned unassisted birth!

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