Cora's Home Birth
This post comes with a little warning. It involves an obstetric emergency and details of what happened. If you don’t feel in a place to read this please don’t, but it IS a positive birth story and proof that things don’t always have to go perfectly to plan for a birth experience to be a positive one.
When I fell pregnant with her, our third baby, I knew straight away I wanted another home birth. I also knew straight away I'd have to fight for it.
After reading lots, I honestly believed that for me, the positives of being at home far outweighed the risk. The home birth team were happy to look after me and I trusted them.
A healing home birth - Noah's Story
At 12:04am that night/early the next morning, I woke up to quite a strong contraction. I got out my phone and started to time them. The midwives had told me at previous appointments that because my last labour with my eldest, Luca was so quick, I needed to ring them when I was having contractions 1 in every 10 minutes, to give them time to get to us in case I laboured really quickly again.
After about 6 contractions I realised I was already contracting 2 in every 10 minutes, but I lay in bed not really believing I was even in true labour never mind having them so close together so soon.
After about an hour I got up to have a wee and at that point, they ramped up a level. I decided it was probably a good idea to wake Ant up and let him know that I thought I might be in labour.