02/04/2026
{My Birth at Heartbeat}
We arrived at Heartbeat around 4 a.m. after being in labor for 23 hours. Our doula and the team at Heartbeat were amazing!
We got settled and did some Spinning Babies. I remember these being ABSOLUTELY the worst, but they helped. This part was so awkward for me because I had declined being checked my whole pregnancy, but I got a cervical check to see how far dilated I was, and sure enough, I was at an 8 with a slight pinched lip.
My midwife got the birth tub ready, and I labored in there for a while. I ended up wanting to SLEEP lol. I remember being so angry that I had to get up and let gravity take place, but I’m so thankful my midwife and doula made me get up. They both wanted me to get on the squatting stool, which I absolutely refused.
I got on the toilet and kept saying, “My butt is falling out!” I remember my husband sitting in front of me, praying that I would have strength. I can’t remember how long I was laboring before I heard the mom in the next room grunt super loud, with a baby cry following. Surprisingly, that gave me the strength to push our baby out (my husband’s answered prayer).
I got her head crowned, and I remember the midwife telling me to push, and I just looked at my doula very concerned and said, “I’m not.” Baby girl literally fell out — this was at 8:01 a.m. My doula and I find this funny because as soon as the baby came out, my doula had to hold me up to keep me from sitting on my baby.
I had a pretty bad hemorrhage, so I had to move to the bed, but I still got my golden hour! The midwives got Pitocin going to help stop the bleeding. After a while, baby got fussy, and this still cracks me up to this day — Carmen just comes up to us and says, “I know what you need,” then proceeds to pick up my b**b and gets baby latched.
This was the most addicting experience of my life. I absolutely loved having my baby at Heartbeat, and I can’t wait to have our second baby there. The midwives are amazing 💕
