I Had A Baby • Hannah's Birth Story

It'll be easy to get over Hi, I'm Hannah, I'm the Worlds of Chaos mom and if you haven't noticed, I was pregnant for most of last year and just before Christmas I had our third child. His name is Henry. the sweetest little thing and his

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definitely taught me that you can plan all you want and things can go completely off the rails anyway, so here's my

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story

last Friday. The doctor checked to see how dilated I was, which is like how open my cervix is. I came in so Friday I was at 1, which is pretty low, no big deal, but then Wednesday I was at 3, so my doctor told me to stop going to the office and work from home, so I've been doing that, but nothing.

It happened, I feel very accomplished, we got a crib and then in its little containers we will play fishing. I chose to be induced and first got through my pregnancy. I didn't want to go past 40 weeks to Henry's due date. very, very close to Christmas I didn't want to take Christmas away from my other children. I wanted to be able to enjoy Christmas with them and be home and not risk being in the hospital on Christmas the day after the

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season that the kids are in. a movie with Matt I don't feel an imminent birth I was really hoping it would come out on its own but it's just not happening.

I'm being induced tomorrow morning at the hospital, we have to get there at 5:00am. I have had some pre-delivery indications that worry me. Actually, TMI here you lose that thing called the mucous plug, which is like a lining that protects the

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from infection, like I think it seals the cervix and then another sign. that labor is coming is diarrhea I never thought I would be excited about having diarrhea, but I'm not going to lie, I was a little excited because I thought, oh, maybe it's happening, but it's just not happening, I'm not really hungry at all.

It's almost 1 o'clock and I still haven't eaten anything and I'm not hungry. My stomach has definitely drooped, it's quite small, it looks flatter and I lost weight at my last doctor's appointment, which is also a sign that I'm in labor. It approaches but still does not come. I definitely wanted to focus on the kids last weekend so we decided not to do phones or electronics so we did some baking, did some holiday prep and stuff so this is my last meal I've been craving these Spicy Korean rice cakes and crispy dumplings oh I'm so excited. I'm having a baby today, Monday.

I had to be at the hospital at 5:00 in the morning, so it was pitch black outside, but I wanted to. to make sure I had my hair and makeup done, how lucky I was to be induced and have the luxury of having my hair and makeup done for the birth. I'm completely shocked and I'm already having this baby. It's very bittersweet, not only is this the end of my last few pregnancies the last day is familiar what time ok we're in the car it was a slow start and we have to get there at 5:00am. yes, I was a little late but now I'm not going to start without me, it's like a wedding, you know, I was late to my own wedding because it wasn't going to start without me, it's the same for childbirth, you can't start without me, like that that my pregnancy was very calm, so I assumed that the birth would be just as easy and I was wrong.

I'm heading to the hospital. It's happening. We're here and then my robe. They asked me many questions. We have monitors. Look. It is a contraction monitor. Baby heartbeat monitor. I'm going to say goodbye to this lump. It's 6:00 in the morning. Yes, she is about 4 centimeters tall. I feel good. How do you feel? I'm nervous, but yes, I'm very nervous. Why are you nervous just because you're going to? I'm going through so much, the most common way to be induced is with an intravenous drip of what's called pitocin. It's synthetic oxytocin, which is the chemical that starts labor, so they put me on an intravenous drip of pitocin and I put it on the side of my wrist, so I have contractions probably four minutes apart, but they're not very strong and It's just a waiting game, it's seven, I love it and we're just waiting for the things that Supergrass buys, yeah, but they're getting worse, it hurts more and they turn up the pitocin, they say like a four out of ten, but Deandra's here, she's going to take photos.

The reason I decided to do my hair and makeup for the birth was because my friend Deandra agreed to come photograph the birth. If you've seen other videos, she appeared. in a lot of them because she photographs almost all of my family's milestones and she's our good friend so I was really happy that she was there to help document this, there's one coming up right now, yeah it all feels very tight, that's sober. that was the contraction, welcome, thanks for joining my TED talk trying to get it out. I think Matt was really nervous and that's why he was doing all the things I was supposed to do to feel better and calm down with me.

I don't have to do this you don't like my speech you're still here nothing has changed waiting it hurts more but I have to wait until 2:30 my water breaks boom the contractions are starting to hurt more they are closer together and I keep burping every time it happens , my mom has been there for all my births, she is a person who knows what to do in any situation, she is another mom, so when the fan hits, she is the person I call, but in real mom. What he did was when he found out that Deandra would also be in labor, he brought all the fixings for a full-blown charcuterie board and set it up in my hospital room and they all ate in front of me, idiots eating in front of me, yeah, look at these idiots with their delicious sandwiches that you're not supposed to eat during childbirth.

I was so jealous and ended up doing something I wasn't supposed to do, but it really was the best piece of cake I've ever had. I have ever eaten in my life hey mine is coming so as the day went on I was having constant contractions and they were moderately painful but I wasn't dilating at all and it became very clear that this kid wasn't going anywhere until my water broke , she just brought my water, this is not something I have experienced before and it was very strange, basically the doctor has this little hook that sticks there and hooks the water bag and opens it, oh, liquid comes out every time move now I've been having stronger contractions and they hurt I thought the contractions were painful before her water broke but I didn't know pain until after her water broke like everything was twisted inside your body and like torn apart from that and my mom were trying to press pressure points that are supposed to help with pain just for those of you who don't know what an epidural is, it's the pain management that hospitals provide during childbirth, my original birth plan was to get to The hospital hooked me up to pitocin.

I was already 3 centimeters dilated, so labor shouldn't have taken long and I wanted to give birth without needing an epidural. None of that happened. My pain is like 50 right now and I just remember it vividly. Matt and the nurse are talking about whether or not I should get an epidural. I waited and waited and waited and tried so hard not to ask for one and then this horrible contraction hit and halfway through the contraction I'm literally like what am I going to do, yeah, really, when you're in full labor. . There are no words to describe that kind of pain.

It is a pain that makes you vomit. I'm just tired while I was having the epidural. I realized there. There was a good chance it wasn't going to work because I could feel the baby's head descending as I received my epidural with each one. I kept telling myself that this is the last one you'll feel, Hana, this is the last one you'll feel. You'll feel your epidural kick in, you won't feel them anymore and then I'd get another one and then I'd say, "Okay, that's the last one, we'll feel the epidural kick in and it'll work and then I feel another one finally after so many contractions I realized I was about to feel everything, but fortunately my doctor could hear her little heels making noise down the hall, she was like running and hurt, he put on a medical gown at home and it was time to push Oh and just like that Henry. he was here he was healthy and well they placed him on my chest I was crying he started crying they're like cleaning them all and looking at him while he's on my chest and and I'm just looking at my baby's face and it's like, who was there all this time and it was amazing and that's when my epidural decided to kick in, so we stayed in recovery for 24 hours, which is the minimum you have to do.

We stayed to make sure everything was stable with the baby and then we got out of there and drove. home so the kids could meet their new little brother Wyatt. Come here. I really wanted to document this and show what a birth can be like for someone other than yourself. The thing to keep in mind is that it can take so many different forms that you literally never know what's going to happen with the common goal of keeping the child alive. baby safe and mother safe and everyone healthy, so birth looks like many different things to There are so many different people that this is just a small version of what it can look like, so that's all I have for today.

I'm Hanna and if you've given birth, let us know in the comments, tell us your birth

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and if you've given birth, tell us your birth story. any reaction or thoughts on mine leave it in the comments too now if you'll excuse me this guy's time is here oh oh Bobby has to go to bed.