Colin was delivered on Wednesday, April 1 at 7:37AM weighing 6 pounds and 13 ounces. Everything went super smooth and he is 100% healthy. Our midwife gave him a perfect APGAR score of 10/10/10 (APGAR=Activity, Pulse, Grimace, Appearance, Respiration). A score which she has given to less than five people over her twenty years of working. We feel very blessed that everything went so perfectly.
So here’s the story: Natasha started getting contractions around 9:30PM Tuesday evening which were about half an hour apart and lasting about a minute. She thought these were just false labour and so I went to bed for the night. Natasha woke me up around 1:30AM because the contractions were still coming, but now they were 10 minutes apart and I could tell by the look of pain on her face and the fact that she couldn’t get up off the floor that it was the real deal. At this point, I started to record the time between contractions and their length. From 1:30AM-2:30AM the contractions went from 10 minutes apart to 2 minutes apart and brutally painful. So we called our midwife at 2:30AM and she came to our house soon after.
The midwife and I coached Natasha through the rough contractions until 4:45AM at which point we decided it was time to head to the hospital to start active labour. In the labour and delivery room, Natasha tried standing over the bed, “relaxing” in the inflatable hot tub, stretching out on the bed, and finally using gravity by squatting on a birthing stool. Natasha only needed to use the laughing gas which really helped take the edge off. Hour by hour went fairly quickly and the hardest contractions started around 7AM. Colin eventually plopped out at 7:37AM and started crying immediately which is a great sign. He was cleaned up and put directly on Natasha’s chest, which is the recommended way of transition. Both of us were SO relieved.
Natasha was so starved and thirsty after giving birth, she must have drank a couple litres of orange juice and water and ate whatever she could get her hands on. One of our friends visited us soon after so I took that opportunity to dart home, tidy the house a bit, and grab the car seat and diaper bag. While I was gone, Natasha was up walking with the nurse and midwife and fainted. It was no big deal but just strange. We got to go home around 2PM because the midwife said everything was looking good and she would visit us at home a few times during the day. She did an awesome job throughout the entire process.
Colin is doing very well at home. So far we had 4 diaper changes and when he isn’t feeding, he sleeps adorably. Here are a few snapshots of this incredible day.
So here’s the story: Natasha started getting contractions around 9:30PM Tuesday evening which were about half an hour apart and lasting about a minute. She thought these were just false labour and so I went to bed for the night. Natasha woke me up around 1:30AM because the contractions were still coming, but now they were 10 minutes apart and I could tell by the look of pain on her face and the fact that she couldn’t get up off the floor that it was the real deal. At this point, I started to record the time between contractions and their length. From 1:30AM-2:30AM the contractions went from 10 minutes apart to 2 minutes apart and brutally painful. So we called our midwife at 2:30AM and she came to our house soon after.
The midwife and I coached Natasha through the rough contractions until 4:45AM at which point we decided it was time to head to the hospital to start active labour. In the labour and delivery room, Natasha tried standing over the bed, “relaxing” in the inflatable hot tub, stretching out on the bed, and finally using gravity by squatting on a birthing stool. Natasha only needed to use the laughing gas which really helped take the edge off. Hour by hour went fairly quickly and the hardest contractions started around 7AM. Colin eventually plopped out at 7:37AM and started crying immediately which is a great sign. He was cleaned up and put directly on Natasha’s chest, which is the recommended way of transition. Both of us were SO relieved.
Natasha was so starved and thirsty after giving birth, she must have drank a couple litres of orange juice and water and ate whatever she could get her hands on. One of our friends visited us soon after so I took that opportunity to dart home, tidy the house a bit, and grab the car seat and diaper bag. While I was gone, Natasha was up walking with the nurse and midwife and fainted. It was no big deal but just strange. We got to go home around 2PM because the midwife said everything was looking good and she would visit us at home a few times during the day. She did an awesome job throughout the entire process.
Colin is doing very well at home. So far we had 4 diaper changes and when he isn’t feeding, he sleeps adorably. Here are a few snapshots of this incredible day.
thanks for sharing the details about the journey.
ReplyDeletei am glad everything went so well.
he is really cute!
congrats to you both!
colleen