Birth Stories of my three girls
In August I had my first born by emergency C-section. Not at all what we had planned. We took Bradley classes and read lots on homebirth and hospital birth. But we weren't ready to make the leap for a homebirth, money wasn't there and we thought we could do it naturally in a hospital. Long story short, my time ran out in the hospital, I had been there for the 12 hrs, so my doctor called the nurses several times and we ended up breaking my waters. Claire's cord came out first and we had to put me under to make us all safe. Come to find out later that Claire was too high and she should have never broken my waters.....After many months of anger and frustration we knew we would never do that again!! A year and half later, my friend delivered a beautiful baby boy at her home with Claudette. I was pregnant and struggling to figure out what we were going to do. I kept thinking I could never have Claudette, because I don't live close enough to her, but my friend was almost 2 hrs from Claudette. And I was 1 1/2 hrs from her. I interviewed many midwives, but we kept coming back to the fact that she is Christian, which is very hard to find in this field. As soon as I talked to her on the phone I knew this is who we would use. When you go to an appointment with her, she is all yours you can talk to her about anything. She will spend as much time as she can answering questions. During the appointments I learned more about my body than I ever knew. She knows so much and has seen it all. Then when it came down to the birth this is where she shines!!! She was amazing. When she arrived after a several hours of beginning labor she checked me and I was at 8 cm. I stalled there for many more hours, my waters again weren't breaking on their own. We prayed a lot, because my next decision would rely on trusting in God and in Claudette for knowing what was best for us. We had done everything we could do to move Catherine down to the correct position and she felt the next best thing was to break the waters. We all prayed together and separately then she made the bag weaker and my next contraction broke the waters, after that everything went so fast! 40 minutes later I had a beautiful baby girl in my arms. Such a blessing. God was there for us then and he was there for our third. My husband and I had moved farther away from Claudette so I was worried about her making the long trek up to the birth. I had nothing to worry about. In fact there were a few times I thought I was going into labor, so I was able to see how fast she could make it to me. I wasn't trusting God, but by the end of the pregnancy I had to. My labor this time around lasted almost an entire month. Many nights of thinking I was going to have the baby, but then nothing. Lots of practice. Lots of phone calls to Claudette, and lots of prayers. After she was 1 week past her due date we decided to try some herbs to speed things up. The next morning I lost my plug and Claudette came. I trusted that everything was going to work out for the best and it did. 5:30pm I was 3cm. I took Castor Oil, and 2 1/2 hrs later, I was at 6cm, and 20 minutes later Julia Marie was born. Julia is my beautiful miracle baby. She had an anomaly with her placenta that we didn't find out was there until after it came out. She could have yanked on her umbilical cord at anytime and died. God is good! Then at birth her heart rate dropped and was non existent for a time. I had complete faith in Claudette and Jesus that she would be okay and she was. 3 months later, she is bright and laughs all the time. So far my best behaved baby yet!! I love working with Claudette, I almost want to get pregnant soon so I would have an excuse to see her again.
Love you,
Carrie Armstrong
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