“He never stopped watching her face. In the middle of it all, he knew where his priorities were. The scratches, the teeth marks on his shoulder, all became battle scars.”
‘Her grip on the bed rails quickly moved over to him. Her nails sliced through his shirt, like butter. They were in this fight not just to win, but to grow together.’
‘Our birthing tub wasn’t set up. I went into the Jacuzzi with my mom, butt naked. The water became murky. I knew I was close. I could feel it in my bones. And still no midwife.’
“The water was warm. I wasn’t making any progress. The water was too high and gravity was working against me. At this point, I wanted the baby out more than I wanted a water birth. I texted my midwife. She asked me if I wanted to push. ‘YES!’ I cried out.”
‘When she moved or kicked, the pain brought me to my knees. Maybe I had a stomach bug. Little did I know this was going to be the most terrifying day of my life.’
“I was strapped down so I couldn’t move. ‘What if I feel him cut into me?’ My husband sat at my head and wiped away the tears that ran down my face.”
‘The meaning of support. We were a team. I looked to my husband with tears streaming down my face apologizing for being a failure. He lifted my chin, and told me he was proud of me.’
“My husband was my rock, my foundation, and got my mind where it needed to be. He’s truly my king. It was the most intimate experience laboring with him.”
‘You are too skinny, not tall enough, and you have never delivered a baby before. You will have an unsuccessful triplet pregnancy.’ That’s what my doctor told me at my first ultrasound.
“’We need to get in the OR now,’ my doctor said. Then she turned to my mom. ‘You need to find Ryan. And pray. She has lost a lot of blood.’”
I’ve birthed an entire baby in the time it takes my husband to poop.
“I’ve actually done it faster! On two separate occasions, and one of those births was a set of twins. Twins!”
‘I had a C-section. And it was beautiful.’
“You aren’t having a baby for the 12 hours of labor ending with a beautiful natural birth. You are having a baby for the beautiful lifetime you get to spend loving him.”
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“I had been ready for the ‘go call’ for four days now… I was exhausted and I wasn’t even the one in labor.”
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“What’s more exciting than pulling out your own baby if you also don’t know the sex?”
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“I didn’t just give birth to a little girl that day, I also gave birth to a new woman who let go of doubt, insecurities, and went after her dreams.”
