03/03/2025
It's a gorgeous day for a birth story, women of strength! Meet Kristin, about her birth she writes:
"I had my C-section in 2022 due to failure to progress. My OB told me “history tends to repeat itself,” so I switched to a midwife so fast when I found out I was pregnant again. Spoiler alert: that’s not true! Fast forward 2 1/2 years, I had prodromal labor for about a week, so I got a membrane sweep when I was 41+4 at 1PM. By 4PM, I was having contractions every 4 minutes but was convinced it was prodromal so we went to Best Buy, HEB, and dinner with friends. In hindsight, I was swaying in the aisles because I couldn’t walk and sitting on my hands at dinner, so maybe I should’ve known. I got in the shower when we got home, thinking they would go away, but they picked up to 2 minutes. After trying different positions to slow them down, I finally admitted it was time and we met our doula at the hospital at 1AM. Around 4, I started to feel pushy but was only at a 7 (100% effaced). I started to get super anxious about my cervix swelling with the involuntary pushing, so I made the call at 5:30 for an epidural to help calm down, but by the time the anesthesiologist got there at 6:15, my "noises changed” and my midwife came in and could see a little bit of baby's head. She told me to keep pushing without ever checking me and the anesthesiologist that he could go! Our sweet baby boy joined us at 7:16! My water never fully broke so he was also born partially en caul. It was such a surreal moment. My husband just kept looking at me saying, “You did it.” I’ll never forget that feeling."