So Cameron turned two yesterday! I can hardly believe that it was over two years ago I delivered him in the water at the North Shore Birth Center. It was really a great birth and I think fondly back to it. It was fast. I started contracting at 930 or 1015 the evening of the 30th and delivered him at 1:47 am four hours later! But it was really intense! The contractions were bearable, and we left for the birth center around 1130(?) and they were still 5 or so minutes apart. I remember walking around the birth center where the appointments are held because there was another woman in heavy labor and I could hear her and it was making me a little nervous. So Andy and I walked around the other side of the building and were joking around a little bit. The other woman delivered her baby and the midwife had to connect me to the monitors (by law - boo) and when she did that my contractions skyrocketed. They got really painful and I remember saying may I PLEASE go in the water now , may I PLEASE go in the water now and demanding that someone give me a lower back rub. hahah SO after 10 or 20 minutes of the monitor, Andy filled up the tub and I went in. I spent some time and there and at 1:35am (I think) my water broke - let me rephrase that, it popped. I heard and felt it pop. It was very strange. Maybe I could hear and feel it because we were in water. But anyways, a few minutes later Cameron was pushing himself out - the contractions were pushing him through the birth canal. I remember thinking, um I guess I am pushing. I must have pushed a couple more times because he was born at 1:47 am and I remember thinking HOLY MOLY that was FAST!!!!
To be continued....
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