Assalamualaikum.. salam ramadhan everyone.
Usually, moms who support or practice homebirth or natural birth are proud with their birth story. They will share on the web about the chronolgy on how they gave birth 'successfully'. I am not neither the person who practice natural birth nor homebirth supporter. I am an allopathy believer with sometimes also practice homeopathy when necessary. ;)
Wafa Amani, the name given to my fifth child, see the world from my womb by spontaneous vaginal delivery (SVD). Alhamdulillah. I think this time the process was better than previous deliveries. I was quite relax and know what to do time to time.
Starting had 'pink' spot on 8 june after zuhor without pain or contraction. On that day husna and nazhan at home. Kids were on school holiday. adam at kampung, aisha at taska and abah was working. Because I had no contraction, i decided to go to DIY to buy them toys as a reward for their good attitude in that week.
I never had this sign before. During my previous deliveries, my waterbag broke (adam) and had contraction (aishah). My friends suggested to check baby's heart beats and we went to hospital after asar. After done with registration, wait for midwife check the os. They were busy with so many cases on that day. Finally, I met her at 6pm. My husband came and bought some food as all of us were fasting. I started having mild contraction!
After check up and underwent CTG monitoring, she said 'U better go back, os not open yet'
'Can you check again as now i already have mild contraction' I replied
'Erm.. 1.5 cm, u can go back'..
'but i think i want to stay at hospital.. pity to my husband need to send me to hospital at the same time need to take care of all my children'
After she called doctor, she allowed me to stay as doctor said, based on my history, duration between the first sign of labour and delivery was short. It took about 13 hours when given birth to adam and 6 hours to Aishah. Alhamdulillah. But i dont think it were short. She also said she wanted to check os again after maghrib but i want to solat isyak before she check. After settled everything.. i went to labour room, all procedures did in labour room. 3 cm was open. I request to have epidural, at 10.30pm epidural was given. I recited surah maryam slowly while contractions come and go. It makes me relaxed and didnt think about the contractions. I cant remember what time doc broke my waterbag. Baby was bo in my womb but the color of the water was still light mean the baby just did the bo. So, still can wait, no need to go for ceaser. Alhamdulillah.
The os consistently open after that. Less than 20 min per cm. And after Im done with surah maryam recitation, midwives asked me to push to make the baby's head going down. I pushed seriously about 4 times as i remembered. I just try and error. I practiced because when the real session with doctor, they will be no CTG. She called Dr after the baby's head at the opening of cervix and after pushed 2 more times in front of the doc, wafa was delivered at 3.10am on 9 june 2016. No episiotomy, natural tear. As expected, the baby was 3.8kg, third degree tear. No perineum massage during third trimester of pregnancy. Totally forgot to do that. I did massage during Aishah but end up with emergency c-section.
Ok, this is my birth story.. alone in the labour room. All the staffs very kind and give the best service to me and wafa. Thank you. nothing to be proud. Everyone has difference experience. Even the same person have different experience when giving birth to different children.
Ok. Babai.