{"id":119,"date":"2014-04-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/2014\/04\/11\/birth-story-of-tatum\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T19:54:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T00:54:01","slug":"birth-story-of-tatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/birth-story-of-tatum\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Story of Tatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tatum.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-319\" src=\"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Tatum.jpg\" alt=\"Tatum\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a> F and J transferred care to me at 19 weeks along in their pregnancy.&nbsp; F had a home birth with her first baby and was seeing an OB for this pregnancy due to finances.&nbsp; It is hard to go back to an OB and plan for a hospital birth after having midwifery care and home delivery.&nbsp; We met for a consultation and connected and they immediately transferred care. F&#8217;s pregnancy progressed beautifully.&nbsp; It was apparent that this little guy was going to be bigger than her first baby.&nbsp; We estimated him to be 8-8.5 pounds at delivery.&nbsp; F&#8217;s abdomen was looking quite pendulous near the end, so discussed wrapping her belly to encourage baby to engage and take some pressure off her back.&nbsp; F loved it. F&#8217;s first baby came on his due date after four hours of labor.&nbsp; As her due date rolled around, she was expecting similar. 9pm the evening of her due date, F text me saying she had had a couple of contractions that felt different, and that she had been experiencing them since getting back from a walk.&nbsp; Since she delivered quickly last time, we expected this birth could be even quicker.&nbsp; I offered to come over and check her and see what we thought.&nbsp; After talking, F decided she would try a shower and see what the contractions would do after the shower. An hour later, contractions were coming every 4-5 minutes, lasting close to a minute.&nbsp; F asked me to come over and do a check.&nbsp; I arrived and did a cervical check.&nbsp; Her cervix was 4cm dilated, 70% effaced and baby was still quite high at a -3 station.&nbsp; F and I discussed her abdomen being pendulous and decided to wrap her belly to tuck and engage baby into the pelvis through some contractions.&nbsp; Contrary to all that I teach about optimal fetal position, I encourage F to recline and avoid forward leaning positions until we could get baby to engage. The first handful of contractions were 4-5 minutes apart.&nbsp; F would stop to breathe through them, but through the break we would chat.&nbsp; The birth pool was being filled and prepared.&nbsp; After a few contractions, F went to the bathroom and I went to unload my supplies from the car.&nbsp; Within 10 minutes, contractions were hard, and F asked to take off the wrap.&nbsp; She laid on her side in the bed, and the next surge brought tears to her eyes.&nbsp; When it was over, I encouraged F to get into the birthing pool. Transition was quickly upon F, less than an hour of me arriving.&nbsp; I checked in with my assistant to see how far away she was and quickly finished setting up supplies for delivery. After a couple contractions in the birth pool, F stated her water had broke.&nbsp; Immediately she began feeling the urge to push. As midnight appeared, F asked me to check her and see what her progress was.&nbsp; It had been just over an hour since we had done the initial check and found her cervix to be 4cm\/70%\/-3.&nbsp; Just an hour later, her cervix was completely dilated with just a small lip of cervix, 100% effaced and baby was at a +2 station.&nbsp; It was obvious the wrap was the trick! Within minutes, F was completely dilated and she began pushing at seven minutes past midnight.&nbsp; The head was soon visible and crowning just four minutes later.&nbsp; At quarter after midnight, F gave one final push that brought her sweet baby earth side.&nbsp; We brought him up from the water and to F&#8217;s chest. Welcome to the world Tatum!&nbsp; Born earth side on April 5, 2014 at 12:15am, weighing in at 8.0# and 21&#8243; long.&nbsp; So honored to have attended sweet Tatum&#8217;s peaceful, gentle water birth and to have served his amazingly strong mama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F and J transferred care to me at 19 weeks along in their pregnancy.&nbsp; F had a home birth with her first baby and was seeing an OB for this pregnancy due to finances.&nbsp; It is hard to go back to an OB and plan for a hospital birth after having midwifery care and home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13,14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Birth Story of Tatum - Clan Stellhorn<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/birth-story-of-tatum\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Birth Story of Tatum - Clan Stellhorn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"F and J transferred care to me at 19 weeks along in their pregnancy.&nbsp; 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