Well, it's only taken me 3 months! Here is Emma's birth!
I had been having pretty regular contractions for 24 hrs but I think 11am on the 13th is when my water broke and contractions REALLY got painful. The midwife and her assistant told me that the size of my contractions were the kind of a woman dilated to a 9 (so basically as big as they get) the entire day although I wasn't dilated at all (I believe it, they stayed the same size from water breaking till the end)! I didn't do ANY dilating at all until the evening after my midwife suggested Roger give me a blessing. She had pulled him out of the room and told him if I didn't start dilating they were going to have to take me to the hospital. After the blessing things finally started to progress. I don't think I've ever seen Roger cry so much as he did that day watching all the pain I was in. I didn't hardly even feel the contractions. It was just the pressure from Emma's head on my non-dilating cervix and my old "birth battle wounds" (AKA c-section scars). Once my body finally figured out what to do and I started dilating, I went from 0-10 in about 1.5 hrs! It was SUCH a relief from all that painful pressure to finally be able to push! I had her out in about 30 mins! She was (and still is) perfect!
Just ignore me in this picture. I look terrible (who wouldn't after very long, natural labor). Plus, I was unclothed and wet since I had been in the tub when the midwife said, "Get to the bed NOW! She's coming!!" But I'm posting this picture because I LOVE the look on Roger's face, he just looks so proud!!
Since she was born at 11:15pm the kids were asleep and got to meet her the next morning when they woke up.
Chance was happy to meet her too. He was really concerned the whole time I was in labor. He somehow knew when I was pushing too (not sure how he knew cause I had been in the bedroom all day and I wasn't even making any noise while pushing, no screaming like the wimpy women on tv, Ha! During pushing anyway, I'm ashamed to say, I did a bit of yelling "OW!" during labor. I apologized to everyone afterward for being a whiner but they all assured me I had done fabulous and had good reason to yell.), he sat outside the bedroom door and whined really loudly.
