The birth story

It's not long and I'm awake, so I figured I'd type it all up now. I woke up at 6 am this morning with contractions I couldn't sleep through. Aaron got up to go to work, so I decided I better time these contractions and find out whether he should go to work or not. They were 20 seconds about 5-10 minutes apart and were bad enough to bother me a lot. I called the midwife who told me she'd be on her way. Aaron stayed home to clean. Midwife came at about 8:45 and started setting everything up. Sometime later she decided to check my progress. Baby was crowning, so no need to check anything. I hopped in the pool that had barely enough water in it. It felt great, but it slowed things down. (I didn't mind sitting there.) The bag of waters just wasn't breaking, so midwife broke it. Next contraction I pushed the baby all the way out. Then we sat around. Cut the cord. Gave baby to Aaron. Sat around. Finally I got out to go to the bed to push out the placenta, but while I was standing getting dried off it fell out. So, that was it. Oh, baby arrived at 10:58am. She weighs 8 pounds, and measures 21 inches long. She's absolutely beautiful.