<div class="FTQUOTE">Originally posted by: ambermarie03 For those of you who have had your baby, how was the delivery? Did you have a C-Section or deliver naturally?
i'm assuming this question isn't mutation specific-I have one DF508. The other is a rarer missense (see signature if interested).
My deliveries were wonderful. I was fortunate enough to doula assist at 4 births prior to my own, for my sister in law. I am not a cert doula, but have taken many classes and its a passion of mine. This was really helpful for me, to teach me to not be afraid of childbirth.
I really wanted a drug free birth and was fortunate to be able to do this both times. Since so much of my life is medicalized, it was really important for me, for my birth to be mine, provided the baby was always in safety, obviously. I didn't want IVs, drips, spinal epidurals, tons of doctors and nurses in and out...I just wanted my OB, my doula and the nurses needed, and my body to do the rest. I took alot of classes, and did alot of preperation to try to reach this goal.
My first birth, I labored at home from 10 pm till 7 am. Was at the hospital by 9 am and had my daughter at 6:30 pm. Pushing was hard for me, bc she was a posterior baby (she was face up instead of face down). It wasn't any more painful or anything bc of that, its just harder to put push out a posterior head. I pushed for 2 hrs. But thankfully I had a very experienced OB that had faith in her abilities and in me.
With my 2nd birth, I labored at home from 5 pm till 3 am-went in, labor stopped. I got sent home. It picked up again at 7 am, I labored at home till 9 pm and had the baby at 12 midnight. That was an exhausting birth bc I was up for over 2 days. But the 3 hrs in the hospital were fast and I only pushed for 7 minutes. Wonderful. I delivered my little boy while I was kneeling up on the head of the bed, bc it felt right and I had an awesome midwife...thats how to get a baby out in 7 minutes!
For my first birth I was picture perfect healthy the whole preg and whole delivery. My 2nd was more of a challenge. I caught a horrible virus the last 2 weeks of my pregnancy. I still went 3 days overdue and baby was in great shape. But I was so beat by that virus respiratory wise. I rested in bed alot to prepare for childbirth. In the end, all went great!
Any more detailed questions, please feel free to pm anytime.
kmhbeauty-Not to trick anything, but that is exactly how I feel when I'm very early pregnant. Supposedly its an implantation sensation. Try not to think about it. If it is...wow. If its not, you have a new month to prepare your body and get ready!