Then I got to talk to my doula on the phone and she calmly told me she was at another birth, which had never happened before! She knew I was in serious labor because I couldn’t talk to her through a contraction. When Sarah came over around 9pm and saw me in the bath, she saw how serious my pains had become and how quickly it had escalated. I texted Tara, my doula, and she said to get into the bath because it would relax me. She said she’d come over to bring me a calming natural drink she had used just a year ago with her own contractions, (her third child has the same birthday now as mine). Then I texted my friend Sarah who lives about a mile away. It wasn’t even a matter of suggesting to take me to the hospital. I bent over my yoga ball and texted my husband to let him know I was in pain and struggling to get the boys ready for bed. Duh! Little did I know as I played on the floor with my toddler that I was, in fact, in labor. My two-year-old thought I was playing and hopped on top for a ride! Surprisingly I was super calm and never stopped to think that this could be actual labor.
I remember it being so intense that I dropped to all fours when another would come. Before I knew it, the pain was growing stronger and I had to lean over the counter and brace myself with each contraction. I literally thought right then and there, “what if my water broke here?” I got the boys home around 7:20 to get them ready for baths and bed, but before that I remember eating some leftovers from dinner in the kitchen. The cramps kept getting stronger and stronger in just the short time we were there. I was having pain, but I dismissed them as Braxton Hicks. At 6:30 pm on a Tuesday night, I drove my boys to their belt ceremony at karate. Regardless of my labor experience, both babies were born healthy as can be and I’m grateful! So now with this third pregnancy, I think that the unpredictability of it all was a bit unsettling for me and knowing that no matter what I could do to prepare and plan, ultimately anything could happen- every pregnancy, birth and child can be entirely different. It was a harder labor and I had an epidural put in. I had been induced one week before my due date because of excess swelling and high blood pressure. With my second pregnancy, I didn’t practice any of that and actually dealt with depression. With my first pregnancy, I had prepared my mind and body by practicing yoga, hypnobirthing, and meditation and had a great natural, drug-free birth at the hospital. "Going into my third pregnancy with a third baby boy, I was unsure and a little freaked out by “how I was going to get this baby out”! I think having already experienced labor twice before, and just knowing that such a big challenge was awaiting me had me struggling with the whole idea of doing it again.
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