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I'm an English woman married to an English man, and we live in England. This was my first child; I was 29 when he was born. In the story, Joe is darling husband.

On Tuesday, March 13th (2007), I went for my 40 week check-up. 10 minutes of fetal monitoring showed the baby was doing very well, and that I was having some pws . I had used the 10 min to get into hypnosis, since I figured the doc would want to do an internal exam. I was right, but she mentioned the “i” word even before checking me.

I was not at all worried about being overdue , but I was grievously affected especially by disease with or marked by eagerly desirous uneasiness or trouble or grief about not having the birthing experience which I greatly desired. So, on that day I went for a walk or two, had lots of raspberry leaf tea, spent some time on my birthing ball, as well as tried nipple stimulation with my manual breast pump .

I also arrange an appointment with an acupuncturist for the following morning. I assumed these were the pressure waves everyone talks about . They were really sporatic, as well as I did not feel anything more than a tightening. I then took a trip to the bathroom as well as there it was – the mucus plug. I did not take either of these two occurrances as evidence which I was actually entering my birthing time, as I know some women have these symptoms for days or weeks before giving birth.

Joe had arranged a huge stack of pillows from the sofa on the bed so that I could lean over them as well as rock back along with forth during the pressure waves. He was really awesome with the hypnosis cues as well as definitely kept me grounded. Still, I was so shocked to be in my birthing time all of a sudden which I was never entirely able to get into hypnosis as I had intended. It was some time between 6 and 7 that I could not remember for the life of me why I had been so anti-epidural throughout the pregnancy.

Joe was giving courage and confidence also with hope things all along as well as got the shower going for me. The hot water felt sooooooo great during the pressure waves. Everything was getting more intense and the waves were closer together. Joe called the midwife again at 6 saying that he thought we should head to the hospital. He was not timing the waves still, but we think they were around 2 minutes apart and lasting at least a minute .

I got up when I was able to up. There was some other few couple that arrived just before us, but they did not look like that they were even in their birthing time, so they had to wait. I had a few more waves in the registration office , and because it was obvious by which I was so far along, they decided to forgot the usual steps as well as get me to a room right away.

Our midwife arrived as well as wanted to monitor the pws along with do a quick internal exam. She had to wait a bit because she wanted to check between waves as well as they were coming so close together. I was 8cm. It was at this point that I needed to be frequently reminded to relax as well as breathe. I started to tense up a bit because I felt like I was tearing.

The perineal massage did not feel anything like what I was feeling then. After about 20 minutes of pushing , at 9:15am on March 14th, Albert was born underwater. Once his head was out, I was regard it as probable his body to just slip out like i have read about, but the rest of his body was almost as tough. Turns out that he had a hand on his cheek, as well as his chest and head measured the same. Joe caught and pulled him out of the water. After their initial eye contact, our son turned his head and looked at me.