{"id":181,"date":"2014-06-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/2014\/06\/28\/birth-story-of-zachary\/"},"modified":"2020-10-25T20:42:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T01:42:34","slug":"birth-story-of-zachary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/birth-story-of-zachary\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth Story of Zachary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zach.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-418\" src=\"https:\/\/clanstellhorn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/zach.jpg\" alt=\"zach\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a> I knew S and S from the church my husband was working as a youth minister.&nbsp; A couple months before her due date, S asked me if I would be willing to be her doula for her second birth.&nbsp; I absolutely love home birth, but more than that, I love serving women to have the birth they desire in the birth environment that brings them comfort. During her 39th week, the labor journey began.&nbsp; S texted me at 4:17 in the morning of May 28th, stating she was certain this was labor.&nbsp; Contractions had her up since midnight, that slowly became closer and longer.&nbsp; We talked about resting while it was possible and staying hydrated.&nbsp; An hour later, S asked me to join her. I arrived to find S rocking away on her birth ball.&nbsp; When a contraction would come, she would breathe through it and began chatting as it passed.&nbsp; Soon S asked me to do a cervical check to see what progress had been made.&nbsp; Her cervix was 5cm dilated, 90% effaced, and baby was at a 0\/-1 station.&nbsp; Baby felt like he was acynclitic, so we discussed what we could do to help that. S walked the stairs to help reposition baby&#8217;s head. Dad was nervously making snacks in the kitchen, and fed big brother W when he woke.&nbsp; As 7aam approached, the contractions seemed to make that shift and S stated they were feeling much stronger. The decision was made to call the family watching big brother.&nbsp; Dad got him together and took W to get situated.&nbsp; S was feeling that she was close to ready to be in her birthing place. We did a final cervical check close to 8am, and found the cervix to be about the same, but definitely very stretchy! A little after 8 am, we left for the hospital. S was taken to triage to be monitored to assess if they felt she was in labor.&nbsp; Soon they agreed this was labor and moved S into a room. S was blessed with an amazing nurse who was very supportive of her plans to have a natural birth.&nbsp; The heplock was put in and the monitors on.&nbsp; S stood beside the bed, rocking her hips through the contractions.&nbsp; Her initial cervical check at the hospital was 5\/80\/-2. The baby was seen to have some variables in his heart rate, so the nurse asked S to lay on her left side.&nbsp; The decels improved, and we were able to move S into hands and knees to make sure baby boy behaved.&nbsp; S found that position much more comfortable than he side. S labored so calmly and peacefully.&nbsp; Her doctor came in during the lunch hour briefly, and talked with her about augmenting her labor by breaking her water.&nbsp; She declined and he agreed to her desires.&nbsp; He did mention that he would be unavailable for delivery after 4pm for an hour, which meant whoever was on call would be delivering.&nbsp; That was not the preference. S alternated between standing and walking around her room and sitting, rocking her hips on the birth ball.&nbsp; The contractions were getting more serious, taking much more concentration to focus on breathe through them.&nbsp; S began feeling more pressure in her back, and I began applying counter pressure to her back with each contraction. It wasn&#8217;t long, and S was feeling pushy with contractions.&nbsp; She asked to be checked a couple of times after the doctor left, but the nurse said consistently that she was 7-8\/90\/0. A little after 2, S began seriously considering having her doctor come in to rupture her membranes to see if it would move her labor along.&nbsp; She had been at the same place for a few hours, and she was ready to meet her little one!&nbsp; Her doctor was called.&nbsp; S chose to get in the bed and lay on her side, resting well between contractions. Her doctor arrived just shy of 3pm.&nbsp; He ruptured her membranes, and felt around.&nbsp; Her cervix completely dilated, and baby dropped further.&nbsp; Her doctor encouraged her it was time to push. S got in a semi reclining position.&nbsp; Within a couple pushes, the head began to be seen during pushes.&nbsp; Another couple pushes and the head was crowning.&nbsp; Sweet baby boy was birthed and brought to his mama&#8217;s chest at 3:29pm. The doctor &#8220;milked&#8221; the cord four times before having dad cut the cord.&nbsp; Baby latched quickly and breastfed like a champ. So privileged to get to serve S and S in the empowering birth of the their second baby.&nbsp; S&#8217;s first birth was a stressful induction that ended with several interventions she was unhappy with.&nbsp; This birth was different as S states.&nbsp; Recovery better, and the birth experience more peaceful and empowering. Welcome to the world sweet Zachary Owen!&nbsp; Born on May 29, 2014 at 3:29pm, weighing in at 7.14#.&nbsp; I am so blessed to have been part of your birthing day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew S and S from the church my husband was working as a youth minister.&nbsp; A couple months before her due date, S asked me if I would be willing to be her doula for her second birth.&nbsp; I absolutely love home birth, but more than that, I love serving women to have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":182,"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":[2,9],"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 Zachary - 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-zachary\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Birth Story of Zachary - Clan Stellhorn\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I knew S and S from the church my husband was working as a youth minister.&nbsp; 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