Submitted by Jocelyn in MN
I have one child and had a fairly easy and uneventful birth experience. I had contractions Saturday night in the middle of the night. About the time I was going to go into the hospital they stopped. The next day (Sunday) I had contractions on and off. We had a big family lunch that day (parents, siblings, grandma) and I ate like a pig. After lunch the girls all sat down to play cards and my contractions started in again. They were getting so bad I had to lay my head down on the table and breathe through them in between playing the game.
The contractions were coming pretty close so we finally decided to head to the hospital. We checked in around 4:30 that afternoon and I was dilated to 4. The doctor came in around 6:00 and broke my water and that’s when things really started happening. I was bound and determined to deliver without drugs, I figured if I could get through that I’d be able to get through anything as a single mom. After about a half hour of pushing, my daughter was born at 9:11 that evening.
