https://www.wildflowerbirthcollective.ca/blog daily 0.75 2025-05-19 https://www.wildflowerbirthcollective.ca/blog/annas-home-birth-y-hospital-birth monthly 0.5 2025-05-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d80f8408f684dab86904e/07654d17-fffb-4180-9b10-7a44fed49358/Anna1.jpg Blog - Anna’s home birth-y hospital birth I’m sitting on the toilet (again, haha) when there was an audible pop and a sploosh. My waters had broken (exploded!) I immediately felt baby drop and tremendous pressure. The shower was forgotten. I was most comfortable labouring standing up at this point. Stacey said that was absolutely not a problem, but that if we wanted Grady to help deliver baby that I needed to get on the bed. I made that choice, and was helped on to the bed. 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They then brought him back to me and my partner and I started crying. Everyone started to clear out of the room, leaving my little family, my mom and the midwives. After it settled the midwives then started doing the initial look over of Jack, making sure that he was perfect and seeing how much he weighed. I didn’t fully realize what was happening with Jack. I remember asking and no one letting me know. All the nurses were either preoccupied with Jack or the charting. The midwife and the student midwife as well as the OB, were then focused on me birthing the placenta and then suturing me up. I was so numbed out down there from the epidural that I didn’t feel anything, which was a blessing. I had ended up with a 3rd degree tear. Once Jack was able to breath, he gave a big cry from the warmer. They then brought him back to me and my partner and I started crying. Everyone started to clear out of the room, leaving my little family, my mom and the midwives. 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Got my cervix checked around 430 am and I was 6-7 cm dilated with a very stretchy cervix and a bulging bag of waters. The nurse said she was surprised at how far dilated I was because of how I was acting and able to talk.. They then admitted me and started all the paperwork and looked at my birth plan. They said they did all that already so we should be good. By around 530am I think I was feeling a little bit pushy, because the OB did a cervical check again (I was curious) and I was 8-9cm dilated still with a bulging bag of waters, that the OB offered to rupture (refused twice). I started feeling a stinging pain around my bladder every time a contraction started and I started also having poopy pressure (as I put it). Tried labouring in the shower for a little bit to help with the back pain and the bladder pain which felt awesome. But as soon as I started feeling more pushy they urged me to get to the bed. So I laboured hunched over the bed for a little bit and then eventually got on all fours hunched over the head of the bed when it was time to push. My doula was incredible and helped me with the glorious hip squeezing and applying counter pressure to my sacrum. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e5d80f8408f684dab86904e/0f65ead3-4a1c-40ec-b4d9-4d138e06534d/Megan+Nik+2.jpg Blog - Megan’s Birth Stories - He was born at 609am (called it) and they laid him next to me with the cord attached. I got to cuddle him and I didn't the pitocin shot like I asked. However because of this the nurses seemed more skittish and wanting me to push out the placenta faster and were talking about getting the OB for cord traction. I found out a couple months later that there was a gush of bright red blood that came pretty quickly after Nik came (my doula thinks this was when my placenta seperated from my uterine wall). 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