Expect the unexpected.
I gave birth December 12th 2011 to a beautiful 9 pound baby boy. It was a good thing I wasn't expecting anything during labour, had not decided I wanted to give birth this way or that, or I would have been sorely disappointed. What I had planned, was to deliver in a birthing home with my midwife. That didn't happen. When my water broke, my contractions started right away and I ended up at the birthing home with Sam. Everything was going well until she decided to listen to my baby's heart and heard an irregular beat. She immediately called the ambulance and had us tranferred to the hospital for a closer monitoring. My baby had slight arrhythmia. They kept me at the hospital, which is where I gave birth, but with my midwives. It was a natural birth with no epidural. And it was very painful. When I think of getting pregnant and subsequently giving birth again, part of my insides shrivel up and die. I'm told I will forget this pain. Still waiting. I hemorrhaged and was kept...