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.