11:20 am
My belly was hardening, not painfully but I could tell Baby Valiant would be here soon. I had of course been pregnant and gone through labor twice before . My appointment was a crucial one because the Saturday before I had endured a procedure called "aversion" a very painful procedure where doctors try to move a breech baby from it's position to the correct position of head down. At the appointment my midwife had informed me that Valiant had gone back to his favorite position...breech. In a unique twist though he was not only breech he was transverse. Meaning he was laying across my belly, head below my right ribs and feet below my left. Needless to say I was in pain. I left that appointment dissapointed, I was sure that I was in labor. I had taken the advice of my midwife and gone to a chiropractor.
3:00 pm
My chiropractic visit was strange, I had to lay on a weird table so the doctor could adjust me. I had to lay on a weird table because I was of course pregnant, can't lay on the belly...ugh I felt like a whale laying on sea sponge. After the awkward table adjustment the doctor informed me that my last delivery was so close to this delivery that my pelvic bone had slipped an inch behind where it should have been (Note that at 30 weeks pregnant valiant was head down and suddenly at 35 weeks he was breech) that explained why he had tried to descend to the natural position but was blocked by my bone. I have always been against c-sections unless absolutely necessary. I was appauled some women opted for them when they were perfectly healthy enough to endure childbirth. By the way c-sections are much more difficult to recover from then natural childbirth. Not worth it in my opinion. Anyways the point is that I was not too happy I might not get to enjoy having my baby the natural way.
7:00 pm-10:00 pm
I had decided to go to Crystal Hot Springs, I was exhausted from the last nine months. Soaking in the springs helped my contractions, it soothed my aches and pains. Since my adjustment earlier in the day my contractions had progressed. I was in the uncomfortable stage of labor, but little did I know I was in active labor. The drive home was not much better. Since I had left the comfort of the warm water my contractions were rapid and every five to seven minutes apart and lasting about a minute. My kids were kind of freaked out by my noises. I was breathing through the contractions but every other contraction I would make a grunting noise haha. My oldest son couldn't really figure out what was wrong with me.
August 30th 2012 Birthday of Valiant River Colvin
12:00 am
I was home and decided I needed to get back in the comfort of water so I hoped in the shower for a good 45 minutes. The contractions were not tolerable at this point and I was grunting and breathing very heavily through each one and occasionally squinting my eyes (although I'm sure that didn't really help anything) I had finally decided something was happening and it was time to go to the hospital.
2:30 am
My husband and I dropped our kids off at my mother's house with my father and our good family friend Diedre. My mother and husband talked me through contractions on our way to the hospital but they were so painful I was not even listening. My first two births were easy, easy to breathe my pain out and easy to push my little one's out. This labor was proving to be way different...By the time I had walked from the car to Labor and Delivery I was not only clenching any surface I could grab... I was now screaming. Once a doctor came into my room he or she( all I could hear was a voice at this point I couldn't differentiate voices I just heard words) told me that I was only two centimeters dialated but I was in very active labor. According to the doctor a transverse baby is one of the most painful ways a baby can lay. My uterus was trying to push him into the correct position so therefore it was constantly contracting. Translation...I had no breaks from the constant pain. I felt like I was in a bad Hollywood movie, one where apparently every woman screams during labor and sweats profusely. I wanted it all to just be over I couldn't handle the pain. Never before had I endured pain of that magnitude. Despite my pain the doctor wanted to try another aversion so I could have a normal delivery. On my way to the operating room I was screaming in pain. Good thing it wasn't day time or I would have scared many pregnant women on that floor. I was being moved from the bed to the operating table and suddenly I had ruptured, my water had broken and my bodies natural instinct to bear down was kicking in. I had felt this before during my previous births but it was when I was 10 centimeters dilated! This was crazy and so surreal. A nurse kept saying "don't bear down!" well hello I can't help it!!! I just screamed I was in to much pain to make a comment about the ridiculous request the nurse was making. Immediately things went into "emergency mode" the anesthesiologist quickly explained a "spinal" which is way different then a normal epidural. I just nodded my head and hoped I would not feel the contractions soon. The needle went in my back and immediately my entire body was numb. So numb infact the nurse had to catch me from falling off the operating table. I was on the table and now pain free. The doctor said in a firm voice "incision" .I could feel the scalpel cutting through my skin. It was all so surreal and felt like a dream. Not even a minute later he says "Baby's out" and all the while I realized my husband was not even in to room yet!!!!!! He came in maybe 30 seconds after Valiant was out. 6 lbs 10 oz Baby Valiant was born at 3:16 am.
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