On the night of September 16th, Jon and I were enjoying (not really), more like forcing ourselves to drink some tea to help our very soar throats. I had some Braxton Hicks contractions (finally, hadn't had any in a couple of days) and Jon and I were just talking about how this baby will probably come on time (September 21st-23rd)
Anyways we went to bed, and at about 12:30am I woke up for a potty break, as many of you know at 39 weeks pregnant its hard not to wake up to go pee in the middle of the night. I went on with my business, and went back to sleep. I woke up about every half hour after that until 2:15am with a contraction, but they were not unbearable, just what Braxton Hicks usually felt like. Then from 2:15am-3:00am they became 6 minuets apart, but still not very hard, I was sleeping in between them, but still keeping track of the time just in case. I got up to go to the bathroom again to see if my baby bump had "dropped" yet. It hadn't , so I was like, this is probably false labor, but I woke up Jon anyways and told him.
From 3am-6am they were still ranging about 6 minuets apart, alittle stronger. At 6am they started getting very strong, and Jon called our midwife. He got our wood stove going and was making a place to birth inside where it was warmer then outside in our bathtub birthing room oasis. (it was 28 degrees outside).
By 7am the midwives came, and my contractions were still going strong, dilated to 5cm. Labor was moving right along and by 8am I was fully dilated to 10cm ready to push. I really wanted to have a water birth, like I had with Jeremyah and Charlotte. But I was too far along to move and had to do it on our futon.
Baby was born at 8:20am. This labor was the easiest out of my three children. Our baby girl was also the smallest, weighing 6lbs 13oz. Introducing Amariah Autumn Rose:
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