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Beautiful Newborn Baby Girl

Writing by Jason on Thursday, 20 of September , 2007 at 10:51 am

Hi, this is Jason chiming in with our little bundle of joy that was born yesterday. “Princess” Falk (soon to be named) was born at 3:30pm on Wednesday the 19th of September. At 2.95kg (6.8 pounds) she was just 36 weeks old and beautiful healthy looking baby.

The Birth was very different than what I have been used to. As you know this is our forth child and having them so close together it was very routine for us, so much so in fact that Bree was so in control it was amazing. Never have I seen her so relaxed and at peace than with this birth. For those that don’t know we had complications with Sam our third child who is now 17 months old. Not wanting to go down that path again there should have been MUCH anxiety and stress leading up to and during this birth. Praise be to God however that through prayer we were able to find peace and Bree was able to find something that she has never had before, that is complete calm during the labor.

Bree was hooked up to the drip about midday and was breathing through all the contractions easily up to about 2pm when she requested the gas. From about 2pm she was really in pain but able to breath through all contractions remaining very focused. I was shocked at how “in control” she was and indeed the midwife was also impressed. Around 2:30pm she was wanting to push and this is when the pain was getting a bit much and she let out a couple of loudish moans. After trying to push on and offer for about 30 minutes Bree settled down again and it seemed the contractions were easing, at this point I thought we may be in for the long haul remembering our 3rd child Sam took about 7 hours to birth.

It was about 3pm and the contractions were seemingly getting stronger again, Bree was wanting to push all the time at this stage and although the baby was head down and getting closer and closer it was not showing itself yet. I was starting to get concerned at this stage because with Sam this exact thing happened and his heart rate started to drop, rapidly which is very dangerous for the life of the child. Because the birthing process is so strenuous on the baby it can actually die if the heart rate drops too much, and Sam (our third) was at the very dangerous level with the heart rate down to 70 beats. Optimal heart rate is 130+.

At 3:20 Bree was starting to yell “I’m ready”, “this is it”, I’m 10cm” etc. The midwife who had been on & off with her gloves & face mask was replying with “just breath through them Bree”, “You not quite there yet” etc. Bree was not having that however and She gave some big pushes and really started getting into it. After about another minute Bree gave a huge push and the head popped out! No time to get the gloves on the midwife frantically called for assistance and yelling to Bree don’t push while trying to get the cord from around the baby’s neck. But no sooner had she said “don’t push” that Bree pushed and POP out she came like a wet bar of soap squeezed out of your hand!

After much excitement, a trainee midwife’s frantic push of the “emergency” button and a room full of nurses and midwives all thinking that the worst had happened (the trainee pushed the wrong button!) the relief of our baby being born hit! It was so amazing. We were all a bit shocked at how fast the baby came out and Bree & I were glad she was laying on the bed at this stage and not hovering over the floor!!!

Baby let out a little squeak straight away which was a good sign, Bree & I didn’t even know if it was a boy or girl as everything happened so fast but after a quick lift of the leg we were elated to see she was a girl, not that it would have mattered!

Going a purple color rather quickly the midwives were starting to rush through the process to get oxygen to the buba, I was asked to cut the cord (which I really wanted to do) but I said “you cut it” as I could see things needed to happen quickly to get baby breathing properly. After the cord was cut they got here to the table and rubbing her back while blowing oxygen onto her she started to pink up real fast which was GREAT! I knew right then that everything was perfect and we had ourselves the most perfect gift, thank you GOD!

As I write this Bree is in hospital and should be back home today sometime, Lord knows she would love to come home and indeed wanted to come home last night but they needed her to stay 24 hours to monitor the progress understandably!

Thanks for reading this I hope to add some more, Bree will likely add some bits with a new post in the next couple of days when everything is back to normal

Category: Pregnancy

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