Beauty of Birth Series | Chelsea Sinden

I woke up to contractions on Friday February 20th at 9:30am. I was 32 weeks & I knew it wasn’t just Braxton hicks. I was in pain all morning and finally decided I needed to go to the hospital at 2, they checked me at 1.5cm and monitored me for 3 hours with no change so they sent me home. At 11pm I was curled up in unbearable pain, called my midwife and met her at the hospital. I was 2cm and they admitted me. My contractions were 2-7 mins apart and lasting about 45-60 seconds. They were painful but I wanted to do all natural. So I was in labour all that night, all day Saturday and all night Saturday, I had progressed to 4cm by early Sunday morning & I knew he was coming. My boyfriend thought It was a joke and had no worries but I knew it. They checked me 4 hours later and I was 6cm and they said they were going to break my water, my boyfriends face was priceless, it went blank & WHITE. He thought were were going home without a baby after 2 days in labour… ? we had nothing ready for him and he was going to be 7 weeks early. I knew they were going to take him away to the NICU right after so I was pretty upset. After they broke my water my contractions were stronger than ever. I have amazing pain tolerance & was doing well natural but i had been in labor for 2 full days, my body was exhausted and was trying to push him out at 7-8cm. The OB told me if I didn’t relax or get an epidural I was going to tear my insides apart or need an emergency c section, my midwife and boyfriend told me to just relax and get the epidural. I got it at 8cm, my body immediately relaxed and the rest of my labour went by quickly and smoothly. I started pushing at 6:23 and Gavin James was born at 7:03pm on February 22nd 2015 ? even though It was long and hard, I loved labour and delivery and would do it all over again. I’m in love with my son & his dad was amazing through the whole thing & I love him more than ever now that I see how much he loves us. ??