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\"Micayla<\/a> M and C started care with me at the start of the second trimester of their first pregnancy.\u00a0 M’s mom had had home births and when M found out she was pregnant, it was only natural she followed that route.\u00a0 M and C soon started childbirth classes and found a doula, and were well prepared for their labor journey. Soon M’s due date came and went.\u00a0 As each day passed, M became more frustrated that her baby wasn’t coming.\u00a0 9 days past her due date, M text me that she thought her water broke right around midnight.\u00a0 I encouraged her to sleep and to come see me at 9am that morning. M and C came to see me.\u00a0 M was having some mild contractions and was continuing to leak through out the night.\u00a0 However, when I assessed her, everything came back negative for rupture of membranes.\u00a0 The amnioswab was negative, and although I felt no bag there was no fluid on the chux pad after the exam.\u00a0 M was 3cm dilated, 60% effaced and baby was at a -1 station.\u00a0 I encouraged M to go for a walk, eat lunch and come back and see me later that afternoon. Close to 2pm, M came back to the office and said her leaking was heavier.\u00a0 The amnioswab was positive this time.\u00a0 Her cervix was 4cm, 70% effaced and I could palpate a forebag.\u00a0 After talking over risks and benefits with M and C, they decided they would like me to break the forebag.\u00a0 I broker her fore bag and talked to her about going for a good walk. Within an hour or so, contractions came on, much stronger than she had felt and seemed to be coming every 7 minutes. As evening neared, contractions became stronger and closer.\u00a0 M called her doula over.\u00a0 At 7pm, I talked to M through a few contractions.\u00a0 They seemed to be coming every 3 minutes, lasting a minute long. I arrived at 8:45pm, and found M laboring standing beside her couch, leaning during contractions as her doula provided counter pressure.\u00a0 Contractions were coming every 2-3 minutes, lasting 80-90 seconds. A little after 9pm, we did an exam.\u00a0 M was 6cm dilated, 70% effaced and baby at a -1 station.\u00a0 The baby had been consistently LOA through appointments, but baby was clearly rotated in a LOP position. M did a set of the Captain Morgan position to help rotate baby’s head, then moved to laying in her bed on her left side.\u00a0 When we tried rotating her on her right, she spontaneously threw up.\u00a0 Every time she tried to lay on her right side, she would vomit. \"Micayla<\/a> Half past ten, M got out of the bed and did another set of three of Captain\u00a0 Morgan position on each side, followed by C holding the rebozo up to do a lift and tuck of M’s belly. Over the next couple hours, M continued to alternate positions around.\u00a0 She tried hands and knees, standing in the shower, and then doing sets of 10 lift and tucks with the rebozo to help baby rotate.At 1am, M moved back to the bed to lay on her left side to get some rest. At 2am, I did another check.\u00a0 M was now 7cm, 90% effaced and baby at a 0 station.\u00a0 Caput was on the head, and baby had rotated into an LOT position.\u00a0 We were happy with the progress! Contractions were coming about every 3.5 minutes apart, lasing 90 seconds.\u00a0 M moved to sitting on the birth ball, C helping her do lift and tucks of her belly with the rebozo.\u00a0 Then she instinctually moved back to standing, leaning against the wall, her doula providing counter pressure during contractions. \"Micayla<\/a> During the 3am hour, M decided to lay on her sides again in the bed, to try to get some rest.\u00a0 Contractions seemed to slow over the next couple of hours, coming every 4-4.5 minutes. At 4am, M got up and started moving around the house again.\u00a0 She tried hands and knees and sitting on the ball.\u00a0 She was ready for the birth pool.\u00a0 We finished warming it up, and at 5am M got into the birth pool. M began alternating between semi reclining and hands and knees instinctually as she labored.\u00a0 At the peak of some contractions, M said she could feel a small urge to bear down. As 6am neared, contractions were coming very infrequently, every 6-7 minutes apart.\u00a0 M was resting in the pool.\u00a0 At 630, I suggested she get out since labor was stalling. As 7am neared, we did another exam and found M to have no cervical change, and baby felt back into the LOP position.\u00a0 I talked with M and C about options and choices to consider since we were looking at minimal change since 9pm, and being ruptured for 31 hours.\u00a0 After talking, M and C decided they would like to transport to the hospital to continue their labor. There was a bit of hoopla in transporting as my back up’s hospital had no available beds.\u00a0 M and C decided they would transport to another hospital and we soon got loaded up and moved our birth location. At 940am, M and C arrived at the hospital.\u00a0 M was in triage for a couple hours. before moving into a room.\u00a0 M was 6\/90\/-1 at the hospital. At noon, contractions were every 6 minutes, 60 seconds long.\u00a0 Around this point, pitocin was started and anesthesia made their rounds to discuss an epidural and go over any questions M had.\u00a0 The anesthesiologist asked M, “How are you feeling?”\u00a0 She looked at him like he was crazy and replied, “Ummm pregnant?”\u00a0 She still had her sense of humor! Immediately, her contractions picked up and became stronger and closer.\u00a0 Just a little bit of pit was all she needed to get things to pick up again.\u00a0 Soon, contractions were coming every 2.5 minutes, lasting a minute long.\u00a0 M was sitting up in the bed, C and I gently helping her moan through surges.\u00a0 C was hilarious as he spouted off funny words of encouragement.\u00a0 My favorite being,”I thought your last name was Warrior Princess, Xena, the way you handle those contractions.” Close to 1pm, M decided she would try a dose of fentanyl in her IV to help her manage the contractions.\u00a0 The contractions kept coming closer and stronger.\u00a0 A little after 2pm, M asked to be checked as her contractions were harder to handle.\u00a0 She had made no change.\u00a0 Her contractions were finally at the level they should be at.\u00a0 M decided she would like to get an epidural.\u00a0 At 215pm, C and I stepped out while M got the epidural. We walked back into the room at 2:50pm to the nurse doing a cervical check.\u00a0 M was feeling lots of pressure.\u00a0 In a matter of minutes. M was now 10cm, 100% effaced and baby at a +1 station. M started pushing at 3pm in a semi reclining position.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before we could see the head sitting on the perineum.\u00a0 The epidural hadn’t taken affect yet, and M could feel the pressure of the head on the perineum. In another comical moment, M grabbed for the bar on the bed and missed and grabbed the nurses boob.\u00a0 M laughed and said, “I am so sorry.\u00a0 I just grabbed your boob.”\u00a0 The nurse responded with witty comment, and we all laughed. Soon the head was crowning, followed by the sweet baby at 330pm. \"Micayla<\/a> Welcome to the world Khaleesi, born earth side on May 7, 2015, weighing in at 8.0#, 19 5\/8″.\u00a0 Your mama worked so long and hard to bring you earth side.\u00a0 <3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M and C started care with me at the start of the second trimester of their first pregnancy.\u00a0 M’s mom had had home births and when M found out she was pregnant, it was only natural she followed that route.\u00a0 M and C soon started childbirth classes and found a doula, and were well prepared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1061,"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":[2,12,9,16],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBirth Story of Khaleesi - 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