who had the easyest labour...and birth?

i would like to hear about every 1's labour and birth storys....I think i was real lucky with mine....

at 3am i thought my waters broke..so i went 2 the loo 2 see if i was write..well i felt like a waterfall..i called my midwife marissa and she told me to met her at the hospital at 1pm...by 1pm nothing had happened but i met her anyway..she done an internal and didnt think it was my waters that broke and that she thought it was jus excess fluid.
so i went home and watched t.v and felt like sh*t then about 3pm it got worse....i started having contractions at bout 5pm but they got really bad at 7pm..at 8pm marissa called and my mum talked to her...she would ring back in an hr.by the time she called back i had had the show!and babys head was crowning i met her at the hospital 10 minutes later...they tryed to put me on the moniter but i couldnt stay still..marissa arrived and took me to my room and told me to take my pants off...i couldnt...so im trying to get on the bed through a contraction with my midwife and my mum tryna take my pants off a minute later she told me to push...and me being a blond...i asked if IT was fully dilated and after 15 minutes of pushin i had my little boy in my arms...he weighted 7lb 6oz...i named him Khayle James Browning..hes really long(they dont measure babys anymore)..and the best bit HE CAME ON HIS DUE DATE

Edited by Tami

well it started on monday morning (15th August)about 7am when Jamie and I were laying in bed and I thought I had 'lightened' a little... untill he moved and thought 'no not today' Jamie and I were talking about him taking the day off and thats when I broke down and said Id had enough! well... 8am rolls around and he gets up and rings his works and tells them a little white lie... Trish has been having a couple of contractions so I wont be in today! (some of this maybe TMI but just letting you all know excatly what happened)He comes back to bed and I was really horny so start playing(with him)... I told hime to take his pants off... well poor lad.. starts too and then... BANG! I got this sudden 'cramp' and all of a 'dribble of water' I told Jamie to get me a towel and quickly sat on that.. Jamie was like whats wrong' well I didnt have a clue! I told him to look away as I was embarrassed as I just thought I had wet myself! I got up and went to 'freshen up in the bathroom' and when I looked at the towel.. there was the show! I told Jamie to ring the midwife and see what she thinks it was. He rings(its about 8.10am), I speak to her... she says tell jamie to keep track of your contractions and ill ring you back later this morning.. ohh and go have a bath it might help. I go and run the bath when I get another one. I get in the bath.. Jamie is trying to get me some food but every time he went to do something Id get another contraction. at this stage they werent very regular.. 5-10 mins apart.. lasting anywhere from 30-90 secs... I tell jamie to ring the midwife and tell her I want to go to the hospital as I needed pain releif and I was vomitting non stop with every contraction! then at about 9 they started to come every minute lasting 60 secs.. 9.15. Jamies on the phone to the midwife again saying they are a min apart and 60 long with a pain scale of 8(10 being worst)She said she would be there by 9.30, at this stage im naked in the bedroom standing up leaning over the bedside cabinet as I couldnt sit as it hurt! I couldnt have anythig touching my back as it really hurt aswell. 9.45.. she was still not there I told Jamie to ring her again as the pain was getting worse and sometimes I would have 2 contractions together lasting 90secs.. 10am shes here, She tells me to lay on the bed as she needed to check how far along I was.. she had to do it quick as I started to get another contraction... 8cm Dialated!!! yes that is not an error! I had Dialated to 8cm in 2 hours! She she she couldnt believe how quickly I had gotten that far.. she rings chch womens hospital to tell them Im on my way.. when she is told that we cant go t here as they are in the middle of having a bomb scare! yes a bloody bomb scare! So of too St georges I go (was originally my first choice of hospital, untill the new chch womens opened) one problem... we dont have a car!... midwife suddenly clicks that she is going to have to take us.. in the car.. inbetween contractions.. Im telling her which way to go LOL Jamie in the back seat was telling her the bloody long way GRRRR... well after a 5 minute car ride..(which seemed to take for ever) we arrive.. straight up to the labour room... I asked for pain relief... only allowed the gas as I 'was too far gone; for anything else, take a couple of sucks.. 'its not working and threw it away' turns out they hadnt turned it on! well finally on the gas :D and I was ready to push (ohh btw the only way I could get reasonably comfortable was standing at the end of the bed leaning over a bean bag(which was on the bed) that was when I stayed, I pushed his head out and had to wait for another contraction for his body to come out.. well that was the longest minute of my life! I though I was going to tear in two! I get another contraction and Here he is :D It was the most wonderful and weirdest feeling in my LIFE! she hands him to be via underneath(im still standing over the bed half asleep from the gas) and I start crying! I was so over the moon the it was finally over!

Umm - I dont think I should really be reading these, its a bit close to my due date!!

Aimee, I read heaps of birth stories before having Josef, I found it great because you could see how everyone's experience is different and you could know what to expect. It helped me not be so worried about the whole thing anymore. Anyway here is my birth story (it is a bit long I'm sorry!)...

My waters broke at 7.30am on Wednesday morning (17th August) just after I had told hubby that our baby would be here 10th September at the latest as we were sooooo sure he would be late

I didn't have any contractions so I sent hubby off to work and called my mum who was coming up from Nelson for the birth that she should come up some time that day. Called the m/w also at 8am to tell her and then I went back to bed to have a rest.

Hubby got back home at 9.30am as his boss sent him home!!! and mum arrived in Welly at 10.30am. Contractions had started at this stage but were pretty spaced out.

We pretty much sat at home all day watching telly etc. and the contractions slowly got stronger and closer together. M/w came to see how I was doing at about 5pm and said I should call her when contraction were every 3 minutes and lasting for about 1 to 1 1/2 minutes and had been like this for over an hour. Need less to say this started happening almost as soon as she left!... typical

We called the m/w finally at about 8.15pm after these contractions had been going on for aboput 3 hours and asked her to come. I had a shower while waiting to relieve back ache and basically walked around the house between contractions.

M/w arrived at 9pm and said we could go into the hospital at any time now as she could see I was pretty sore!! We left soon after and arrived at the hospital at 10pm - car ride was AWFUL!! I don't want to know what people that pulled up next to us thought, lol

Anyway, got to the hospital and was already 8cm dilated!! YAY! I want into the bath and had really strong contractions for the next hour - I thought I couldn't do it anymore but I was too far along for pain relief and once the contractions stopped I felt much better and got onto the bed to push.

I squatted on the bed and pushed for an hour and a half - I have to say I found contractions much more painful than the actual pushing! Josef Benjamin was born at 12.34am Thursday 18th August and weighed 7lb 13oz.

We went home from the hospital at 2.30am.

I had no tearing at all and apart from a bit of swelling I was already walking around and feeling great the next day.

My Hubby was a fantastic support person and seemed to know exactly what to do and my mum was a great support for him I think.

I can't begin to describe what a wonderful experience it was, it just felt totally natural and right.


Edited by newmum

I was pretty happy with my experience.

My waters broke with a pop just before I got out of bed on April 7th, I managed to make it to the loo and the fluid gushed out. I started getting aches and cramps shortly after, rang my midwife to let her know and she said she would be around sometime that morning to check on me. Not long after, pains got stronger and lasted longer, I was dry retching in the kitchen sink (hadnt managed any breakfast) and hubby was on the phone to midwife telling her to get here now! After midwife arrived, I started feeling like I wanted to push so we had a short drive to the hospital, where she did an internal and found I was fully dilated already, then told to push. 1 hour later, Ella was born. 5 hours from my waters breaking and she arrived.

Aww cool! I know of 2 people with the same birth date as me.

My friend had her baby on my birthday last year

be thankfull you didnt tear..i didnt but i was cut...its not nice i wasnt allowed to bend i wasnt allowed to hold anything heavyer then baby(who was 7 lb 6 oz)but one of the worst things was tryna have a bath.....it took me like 5-10 minutes just to get in then 30 minutes jus relaxing then 5-10 more minutes getting out...it was sooooooooo sore...dnt want that to happen again lol

i tore a bit and had stitches, but can honestly say i didn't feel it during or after. I had baths but apart from a little stinging I was fine!

datz cool jess.how many due dates did they end up tellin ya i no there were heaps