Bradley Method Home Birth Story- Positive Natural Birth

The Bradley Method Home Birth Story of Micah Bobby Gene. This is a positive natural birth story.

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Contractions started sporadically the day after my due date. I had plans that evening to go out with some blogging friends that live in the area. I was really excited to get together with them. They are all successful and talented bloggers, and there was no way I was missing it for a few signs of possibly early labor. Now this was against my better judgment, because I had to drive an hour away from my home to go to dinner and I did have my third child pretty quickly (as in, in the van.) But, I knew I could leave if things turned around. Thankfully, I just had a few sporadic contractions during dinner and nothing alarmed me that anything was happening soon.

That night I continued to have contractions about every 30 minutes or so. They were strong enough to keep me from sleeping, but they weren’t getting any closer together. I was still convinced this had nothing to do with real labor and i would still make it the full 41 weeks.

The next morning they almost completely stopped. I had a few random contractions throughout the day, but I pretty much forgot about it and wrote it off as Braxton Hicks.

By one in the afternoon the contractions were back. They started coming more regularly at about every 10 minutes. They weren’t getting closer together, but they stayed consistent and I had to lay down and relax through them. I couldn’t just walk around and keep talking during them.

Around 2:30 I started getting things ready in case this really was the real thing. I made some padscicles and put them in the freezer so they would be ready. I spread a vinyl shower curtain on the bed under our fitted sheet and put waterproof pillow cases on the pillows. The birth bag had been sitting in the bathroom incomplete and untouched, so I brought it out and looked over the list to see what I was missing. I brought out more towels, baby blankets and a knit hat for his/her tiny head.

I was still pretty much in denial that I could possibly be in labor this close to the due date, but didn’t want to be fumbling over preparation stuff if the more difficult active labor was on the horizon.

By the time my husband came home from work at 3:30, I was pretty sure real labor had actually begun. I already needed to lie down and get my body into a fully relaxed state to get through the contractions without pain.

I will discuss this more later, but the premise of the Bradley method is that our bodies can only experience pain when tension and fear are present. With total and complete relaxation, the contractions are extremely powerful but not painful. You let them happen, instead of fighting them.

CALL THE MIDWIFE
Pride and denial makes this call difficult for me every time. What if it’s not really labor? I would hate for her to come all the way out here and then things fizzle out! I decided to go ahead and call her just as a heads up. She told me to call her back if they got any closer together at all, so she could hurry. Otherwise she would start making her way out here in another hour or so. She was in a town an hour away at the time.

Around 5:30 I called her to say they were down to every six or seven minutes.

I had my husband apply counter pressure to my lower back. During a few contractions it was very helpful, but by the third I told him to stop right away. It was no longer working.

By the time my midwife arrive at 6:45 contractions were one on top of the other. I had a few where I started to tense up and get a little panicky, but then I was able to reign it in and relax on the next few. The difference between a tense contraction and one where I rode the wave out letting my body do what it needed to do was incredible.

My midwife waited quietly by my side to find a moment in between contractions to check my blood pressure and the baby’s heartbeat. She had to be pretty quick about it because they were about a minute...

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