William McKoy Price: Born March 13, 2010 at 6:22am. He weighed 8 lb 3 oz. and really wanted to get here.
Here is his story.
At 34 weeks I was put on "house arrest" by Karen, my midwife. I was having contractions every 3-7 minutes, dilated to a 3 and 70% effaced. Things were quite stressful. Bill was traveling a lot for work and I was terrified he was going to miss the birth. What was I going to do if the middle of the night came and I went in to labor? What was I going to do with Paisley?
I had so much help from my Ward, it was amazing. The Relief Society President, Julie, just happens to be my visiting teacher. She was on top of things so quickly. I had several new friends from the ward volunteering their time and energy to help me, no matter the day or time! One dear friend even printed up a 6 week schedule for me so that I knew where she would be if I couldn't get a hold of her!
Anyhow, I had decided I wanted to go natural with this pregnancy early into the 2nd trimester. I had heard of Hypnobirthing from a few people and looked in to it. Bill and I took a four week class on this style of birthing and I knew its what I wanted to do.
To make a long story short. I had spent weeks and weeks practicing my hypno therapy at home, but I just couldn't relax myself enough to get in to it. I would get all ansy and itchy the minute I would lay down to concentrate. Though it was difficult, I still tried to do it at least once a day. I was just so stressed with Bill being gone, that I was losing sleep and gaining anxiety.
After weeks of stress, contractions, and no sleep, Karen decided she would strip my membranes for me. Again, I had heard that this did not work for most people. Never the less, Karen told me to pack my bags and on Mar 12th, she would strip my membranes at the end of the day.
(Key note: another added stress was the hour drive to Ogden Regional Hospital to deliver the baby. I loved my midwife so much, I had decided in the beginning to go with her. I didn't realize the stress this hour would cause me.)
So, we packed our bags. Bill was home, Paisley was with us and we were quite hopeful. My 4:30 appt came, she stripped me twice in 10 minutes and told us to go watch a movie and give her a call. We went and spent time with Courtney and Layna, grabbed some dinner and then walked around the mall.
I called Karen at 9:00, my contractions were coming every 6 minutes. She told me just to go home, normally if it was anyone else, she would send to the hospital, but with me I had been contracting so long she didn't seem too alarmed by it.
So, we go home. I hit my pillow around 10:30 and at 3:30 woke up to some pretty painful contractions. They were coming every 4-6 minutes at this point and so I waited a whole hour just to make sure they were consistent. Boy, were they consistant!
So, we hop back in the car with Paisley grinning from ear to ear at four in the morning. She was stoked for some reason! At this point, the contractions started to get very painful, I couldn't even talk through them. Bill would get up to 90 mph and I would tell him to slow down, then a contraction would come and I'd tell him to push on the pedal!
We get to the hospital at 5:15, Bill is waiting for Tom to come and pick up Paisley and I head up to labor and delivery. I get to the front desk and they tell me they have paperwork for me to fill out. I tell them I can't wait I need a room. They rush me back and I demand an epidural. Nurse checks me. Tells me its too late, I'm already dilated to a 10. I tell the nurse I am ready to push and she tells me I can't, I have to wait for Karen.
Bill plugs the headphones into my ears, loads my hypno therapy stuff and BAM I instantly relax. Karen gets there and I am still relaxed. No screaming, No loud noises, nothing but heavy breathing.
Now comes the time its okay to push. The back pain was so unbearable that it was really awkward for me to push. Normally you are suppose to bear down, but with each contraction I wanted to push up. I could tell Karen was concerned and something told me I need to do exactly as she says or else I would end up getting a c-section.
So against everything my body tells me to do, I do the opposite. I push like I gotta poop and sure enough it worked. One hour after I reached the front desk, our little boy was born. And it felt INCREDIBLE!!
Come to find out, the reason the pain was so harsh in my back, was because he was born posterior. But I did it. All, naturale. Any other births will be done the same way. I was up and moving around and feeling so great within the hour.
McKoy is such a good baby. He latched right on and nurses pretty well. He is sleeping great and I only have to get up once during the night to feed him. He truly is another perfect little baby. He is now 9 days old and we just love him. Paisley adores him. She wants to hug him every chance she gets. She gets all giddy when I change his diaper or nurse him.
I feel very lucky, I am now a Mother of two beautiful children. And a big THANK YOU to my wonderful husband. You had so much faith in me and knew I could do this natural. Thank you for loving me and believing in me and pushing me to do this. You make me so happy, so so so very happy!
