12/24/2025
Birth Story PART 1:
I started having bloody show a couple days before my due date. This absolutely threw my off since I was fully prepared to go to 42 weeks. Looking back I’m so glad I went “on time”, that baby was certainly done cooking. I woke up several times the night of Sep 12, my due date, with stronger than normal cramps. I got up that next morning and was having very random, sporadic contractions. I knew this was likely early labor due to having bloody show over the past two days. I remember specifically around 10 am, I was talking to Brendon and telling him today might be the day, as I had just had several stronger cramps, but it was too early to know if he would be leaving work or not.
I think I started timing contractions around 2 pm, just trying to get an idea of how often they were. They were steadily 6-7 minutes lasting a minute, and I let my midwife and doula know. I was still very relaxed and things were not intense, but I just wanted everyone to have a heads up. I ended up on my knees leaning onto my couch, just breathing and trying to watch a show. I stayed there for longer than I probably would recommend, but it was really the only position I felt comfortable in.
Later that evening, I took a bath to try and help me relax, and it didn’t slow things down, which was encouraging at the time. I eventually made my way to my bed as things got more intense. I stayed in a hands and knees position, lying on a stack of pillows. I didn’t remember this until I looked back at my messages with my doula, but my hip pain had already started. If I’d known then how bad it would get… well, I’m glad I didn’t know.
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