It took me 12 days, but it’s finally done! I’ve been wanting my husband T to add his perspective, which he will in a post later, but he told me to stop waiting on him and just finish it already! 
So, click here to read more.
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Congratulations!!!!!!!!!!!! I’m so excited and happy for you!!! I feel like you’ve been my VBAC/breech sister this past year. I’ve been rooting for you. Loved reading your birth story.
Enjoy your sweet new addition.
I’m so proud of you! He is perfect.
You so own that experience. It makes me want to cry with happiness. What a BIG baby!
Congrats! What a wonderful birth story! I had an unmedicated hospital vbac and really want a hbac next time. I love reading stories like yours
Congratulations Jen and family! A beautiful story and a geourgeous new baby boy!
Jen,
Congratulations, what a wonderful birth. I am so happy for you and it sounds like you did AWESOME!
Congratulations Jen! I’ve gone off-list as I’m trying to GIP (due May/June) but I was thinking of you the other day and finally remembered to look you up while online!
Your HBAC sounds like everything I want mine to be – thanks so much for sharing everything!
Best wishes and happy holidays,
Kendra
Congratulations Jen and family. What a beautiful birth experience. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Jen,
You are truly blessed! What a WONDERFUL story and thank you for sharing. You know, I desperately wanted a vbac and my husband was not supportive of that so, with Vanessa I ended up with c-section # 2. Vicariously through your story, I have more of a sense of how it should go. Congratulations!
I just got a moment to read your story!! Great job sister!
There were a couple of things that I really related to:
“I turned to T at one point and said, “I can’t do this.” I started to get scared and really felt like it wasn’t ever going to end. T was so incredible. He told me, “This is all going according to the book. It’s all normal. You are doing great.” We had this conversation at least a couple times. It was the most vulnerable moment of my life and he helped me cope. He was so calm, collected, and confident. What a moment to share.”
-My husband did this for me as well. In my moment of vulnerability and dare I say it, panic, he was my calm strong comfort. God bless our husbands!
“And I really resisted starting to yell, but it did feel so good to just channel that energy out of my body. I felt like there was this power going through me and I had to get it out and yelling helped me do that.”
-Oh my gosh, yes. I howled so much during Adam’s birth. I just had to. I had to get it out and put that energy somewhere. I am so grateful I wasn’t in an environment where I couldn’t howl. Very primal.
“I had tried a few times earlier in the day to labor in bed, and it just was to painful”
-I agree! I CANNOT labor in bed lying down! There is a Native American saying that if you lie down the baby is never going to come out.
“A doula friend of mine talked about how she attended a hospital labor where despite the fact that there was a poster on the wall showing various labor and delivery positions, the nurses insisted the mom labor in bed and deliver in bed, on her back. The difference between marketing and reality are gigantic.”
-I had never thought about this, but it is very true. I’ll remember that.
“My heroes are the women who birth in hospitals and manage to do it without pain medications.”
-My heroes too. I don’t know how they do it either. They are strong.
“It was less about “getting the experience I wanted” and more about making choices that would result in the best outcome for me and my baby. I think if more people knew how safe birth was, and thus how safe homebirth is, they would be filled with less fear and more confidence.”
-Yes. Yes. Yes. It isn’t about the experience. It is about the safest way to have a baby. And the easiest way to do it w/o the drugs. It’s nice that you get a great experience on top of it all. It’s the way it was intended!
- Thanks so much for sharing your story and your life through this website Jen.
Your hbac story is great. Love the site. My recent hbac was similar – a 9lb 12oz tough labor/birth. I cried when you mentioned how your husband told you he wouldn’t transport (unless dire) because he knew how much it meant to you. I feel like this is the only reason I made it – having midwives and hubby who were not going to give up on me (long after I had given up on myself.) So humbled and healed by the experience.