Unattended Birth Diary of Ellis

The morning of April 4th, I started losing my mucous plug. I spent the day with my mom and my daughter going to a couple different stores and came home later in the evening. I put my daughter to sleep around 9 and thought I was feeling contractions while lying in bed with her.

I got up around 9:30 and sat down at the computer desk and after a few minutes realized my water had started leaking - thank goodness it wasn't a huge gush like with my daughter!!

I then started feeling the contractions more, but they weren't too bad. I tried laying down in bed because I was tired and realized I was going to probably be up all night, but it was too uncomfortable to lay down. I sat in the bathtub for a while, which actually did help this time, and I didn't have too much pain with my contractions.

At 1:30 a.m, I called my mom - who lives in the building next to us - and told her I was kind of starting to feel the need to push, so she said she'd be over in a few. She got there at 2 a.m. and by then I really did feel like pushing.

I tried laboring on our bed but it was still uncomfortable, so I sat on the toilet for a few minutes since that position was comfortable. After a few minutes of that, I figured I would jump in the tub, maybe run some warm water for a little while, but as soon as I squatted down in the tub I had a very big urge to push, so my husband held me up since I was a bit weak as I squatted down.

My mom caught him and handed him to me, and he nursed right away. I held him until his cord was pale and had stopped pulsing, and then my husband tied it off and cut it because it was too short for me to get up and still hold him to my breast.

My husband held him while I got out of the tub and went and laid in bed. He was born at 2:36 a.m., on Monday, April 5th, 2010, and weighed 8 lbs. 4 oz.

I laid in bed feeling more contractions for the placenta, but the way I was laying it was unable to come out, so I had to have my husband hold him and finally passed the placenta when I sat on the toilet - glad Kevin didn't see that, he would have been totally grossed out. We were asleep by 5 a.m., and woken up around 9 a.m., by our daughter, who was delighted to see her new baby brother!

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