My Amazing Birth Story
I don't even know where to start! Get some popcorn because this is long lol but entertaining! So lets start with my false labor I experienced Wednesday, August 6th, I remember being so uncomfortable and restless. My heart and soul knew I could not keep Callie in until Saturday for Mikey's 3rd birthday party. I sat on the bed and calmly told God "your will, not mine" and at that moment I had total peace that I wasn't making it to Mikey's party.
So on Thursday, August 7th Caliph and I hit the sack around 10pm, around midnight I started having braxton hicks. I been having those since I was 30 weeks so I just went back to sleep. At 12:56am I had my 1st true contraction, at 1:23am another, 1:59am another, and 2:31am. At this point I decided to text my doula just to let her know they were 30 mins apart but definitely manageable. So after I text her I had another contraction at 2:48am and 3:02am only 15 mins apart. I was still in the bed at that moment until 7 mins later at 3:10am the contraction hit hard and I had to get up to walk thru that one. Caliph woke up and asked what could he do to help, I was clearly in denial when I told him "go back to sleep it's prolly just false labor again" lol. Then I got another contraction 7 mins later and it was another hard one, Caliph was out the bed helping me. From 3:22am to around 4:15am my contractions were 3 mins apart and I hit a place of no return I said to Caliph "I want an epidural and a c-section, I can't do this another second" Clearly I was in transition and when you hit transition you say some crazy things lol. So Caliph knowing I wanted a successful vbac did what any other man would do he said "Let's call Nina (doula)". I could hear Nina asking how long have the contractions been under 5 mins, Caliph took my app on my phone and said "an hour" and Nina said "head to the hospital now, I'll meet yall there" When I heard that my brain shut down to 50% lol! I was walking around trying to get all my things while Caliph called his mom and told her to meet us at Texas Children's to get Mikey. Meanwhile I'm in the restroom when all of a sudden my water breaks!!!!!!!!!!!! How lucky was I, I was over the toilet:-)! It was a lot of fluid so at that point my brain went from functioning at 50% to about 10%. I screamed to caliph to bring me a big towel, Nina told me if my water broke at home to keep a towel under me at all times. Boy was she right! So I finally made it out of the restroom and to my dresser to get my pants when there was another release of fluids. Now my brain was almost shut down. I was in so much pain, I labored for hours with Mikey and it didn't feel like this. I began to worry because the pain was so intense. Funny note I was talking to everything lol the wall, dresser, I was delirious! So I was in the garage pleading with the Jeep door to open more so I could climb in the backseat but that wasn't happening because the door was next to the garage wall. So after I realized the door would not open any wider I paced in the drive way until Caliph and Mikey came out. It was now 4:34am and we were headed to the hospital. Mikey was up alert and talking away lol, I was on the phone letting the hospital know I was in labor and headed to TCH, they asked me how to spell my last name and I did and Mikey was like "I'm a Hairston, my name is Michael Hairston" LOL. So now we were on 288 and Caliph was flying and Mikey screamed "Daddy slow down, you're going to fast" lol and I was like "please Caliph slow down!" He wasn't hearing neither of us he keep going. So Caliph asked me what to put on so I said Erica Campbell "Help" (on repeat) and as I was breathing through my contractions I had an outter body experience! I could see myself in pain, sweating, breathing, looking like I was in and out of consciousness, then the lyric on the song said "Somebody laying in the hospital, hellllpppp" and I snapped out and we were at valet. When I got out of the Jeep and grabbed my towel there was bright red blood everywhere and everyone was nervous, the valet guy said "you in wheelchair, I take you!" then he told Caliph "I take her now!" and he wheeled me in the hospital. The help desk lady was like "is she going to make it" the valet guy said "I do not know" I'm really like what's going on! So we get in the elevator and there's a nurse, she asked me "do you need to go to floor 9 or 11" I told her at the tour they said to go to 11 first. When I said 11 the valet guy hit 11 lol! That's when the nurse saw all the blood and once we got to 11 she took the wheelchair I was in and told security "I need to get her to labor and delivery NOW!" So the man said are you alone?" I said "no my husband is here" and he responded "I'll get your information from him go, go, go!" No really he said it like a coach "go, go, go!" LOL! So the nurse took me to a room and left me with 2 nurses they told me to take my pants off, I asked them about the blood but they never gave me a straight answer just that the doctor will be with me soon. So the lady checked me and said "She's complete! We have to get her to labor and delivery" At this point I don't know what complete is and I don't know what's going on. Caliph walks in and the nurses are throwing all my stuff on the bed and wheeling me out, they told Caliph "Let's go Hubby we're going to labor and delivery" They rushed me faster then they did for my emergency c-section with Mikey. SO we get to the ninth floor and we go in and it's like 5-7 nurses and doctors and I just remember them being so calm and peaceful and they said "Welcome Marguerite" so I'm just like what the heck is going on lol! Finally a doctor introduced herself and said "Your complete, 10 cm dilated, 100% effaced, Dr. Dryden is on her way, you're going to have your daughter soon and looks like you're having her natural" Then Nina came in, she massaged me, helped me with my breathing, and encouraged me until my doctor came.
Dr. Dryden got there and said "ok, next contraction you're going to push" with a big smile. I was like already lol so with the next contraction I pushed, but it was bad lol I didn't know what I was doing Nina and the nurses were encouraging but it didn't feel right. After the 3rd push Dr. D said "you feel this?" and I said yes then she said "I want you to put all your energy here, that's how you're going to get to see Callie" after that I was a pro, because I had no medicine I could feel everything and it felt soooo natural. The pushing wasn't painful it felt right. So you know the nurses count to 10 while you push but on one push Dr. D said keep going her shoulders are coming so the nurses said "11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16" Dr. D "shoulders out, give her some oxygen" the nurses started to call me a rock star for pushing that long. I felt empowered! Finally 3 more pushes and she was out! My supernatual successful vbac, to God be the glory!!!! #nomeds #yestheresaSonmychest #everythingiprayedforandmore
I had prayed to be at least 8 cm and God gave me 10, I prayed I didn't want to push for hours God allowed me to push for 35 mins, I prayed for speedy delivery I labored for an hour at home. Most people know how traumatic my birth was for Mikey so I told God I knew he was with me for Mikey, clearly we were all healthy just didn't happen the way I planned but I prayed this labor I wanted to FEEL his presence and I did. I'm so glad all my praying, fasting, sowing, and interceding allowed me to have everything I asked for and more #1 A girl, #2 Best vbac doctor in Houston (my old Dr. told me I was too petite to delivery vaginally, oh but God!) #3. Doula (Mikey's Doula didn't show up) # 4 no meds #5 Successful vbac. I was literally on a natural high all day on Friday lol I didn't go to sleep!
August 8, 2014, 6:08am 8lbs 7 oz 20.5 inches
I'm so happy!
1st Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
So on Thursday, August 7th Caliph and I hit the sack around 10pm, around midnight I started having braxton hicks. I been having those since I was 30 weeks so I just went back to sleep. At 12:56am I had my 1st true contraction, at 1:23am another, 1:59am another, and 2:31am. At this point I decided to text my doula just to let her know they were 30 mins apart but definitely manageable. So after I text her I had another contraction at 2:48am and 3:02am only 15 mins apart. I was still in the bed at that moment until 7 mins later at 3:10am the contraction hit hard and I had to get up to walk thru that one. Caliph woke up and asked what could he do to help, I was clearly in denial when I told him "go back to sleep it's prolly just false labor again" lol. Then I got another contraction 7 mins later and it was another hard one, Caliph was out the bed helping me. From 3:22am to around 4:15am my contractions were 3 mins apart and I hit a place of no return I said to Caliph "I want an epidural and a c-section, I can't do this another second" Clearly I was in transition and when you hit transition you say some crazy things lol. So Caliph knowing I wanted a successful vbac did what any other man would do he said "Let's call Nina (doula)". I could hear Nina asking how long have the contractions been under 5 mins, Caliph took my app on my phone and said "an hour" and Nina said "head to the hospital now, I'll meet yall there" When I heard that my brain shut down to 50% lol! I was walking around trying to get all my things while Caliph called his mom and told her to meet us at Texas Children's to get Mikey. Meanwhile I'm in the restroom when all of a sudden my water breaks!!!!!!!!!!!! How lucky was I, I was over the toilet:-)! It was a lot of fluid so at that point my brain went from functioning at 50% to about 10%. I screamed to caliph to bring me a big towel, Nina told me if my water broke at home to keep a towel under me at all times. Boy was she right! So I finally made it out of the restroom and to my dresser to get my pants when there was another release of fluids. Now my brain was almost shut down. I was in so much pain, I labored for hours with Mikey and it didn't feel like this. I began to worry because the pain was so intense. Funny note I was talking to everything lol the wall, dresser, I was delirious! So I was in the garage pleading with the Jeep door to open more so I could climb in the backseat but that wasn't happening because the door was next to the garage wall. So after I realized the door would not open any wider I paced in the drive way until Caliph and Mikey came out. It was now 4:34am and we were headed to the hospital. Mikey was up alert and talking away lol, I was on the phone letting the hospital know I was in labor and headed to TCH, they asked me how to spell my last name and I did and Mikey was like "I'm a Hairston, my name is Michael Hairston" LOL. So now we were on 288 and Caliph was flying and Mikey screamed "Daddy slow down, you're going to fast" lol and I was like "please Caliph slow down!" He wasn't hearing neither of us he keep going. So Caliph asked me what to put on so I said Erica Campbell "Help" (on repeat) and as I was breathing through my contractions I had an outter body experience! I could see myself in pain, sweating, breathing, looking like I was in and out of consciousness, then the lyric on the song said "Somebody laying in the hospital, hellllpppp" and I snapped out and we were at valet. When I got out of the Jeep and grabbed my towel there was bright red blood everywhere and everyone was nervous, the valet guy said "you in wheelchair, I take you!" then he told Caliph "I take her now!" and he wheeled me in the hospital. The help desk lady was like "is she going to make it" the valet guy said "I do not know" I'm really like what's going on! So we get in the elevator and there's a nurse, she asked me "do you need to go to floor 9 or 11" I told her at the tour they said to go to 11 first. When I said 11 the valet guy hit 11 lol! That's when the nurse saw all the blood and once we got to 11 she took the wheelchair I was in and told security "I need to get her to labor and delivery NOW!" So the man said are you alone?" I said "no my husband is here" and he responded "I'll get your information from him go, go, go!" No really he said it like a coach "go, go, go!" LOL! So the nurse took me to a room and left me with 2 nurses they told me to take my pants off, I asked them about the blood but they never gave me a straight answer just that the doctor will be with me soon. So the lady checked me and said "She's complete! We have to get her to labor and delivery" At this point I don't know what complete is and I don't know what's going on. Caliph walks in and the nurses are throwing all my stuff on the bed and wheeling me out, they told Caliph "Let's go Hubby we're going to labor and delivery" They rushed me faster then they did for my emergency c-section with Mikey. SO we get to the ninth floor and we go in and it's like 5-7 nurses and doctors and I just remember them being so calm and peaceful and they said "Welcome Marguerite" so I'm just like what the heck is going on lol! Finally a doctor introduced herself and said "Your complete, 10 cm dilated, 100% effaced, Dr. Dryden is on her way, you're going to have your daughter soon and looks like you're having her natural" Then Nina came in, she massaged me, helped me with my breathing, and encouraged me until my doctor came.
Dr. Dryden got there and said "ok, next contraction you're going to push" with a big smile. I was like already lol so with the next contraction I pushed, but it was bad lol I didn't know what I was doing Nina and the nurses were encouraging but it didn't feel right. After the 3rd push Dr. D said "you feel this?" and I said yes then she said "I want you to put all your energy here, that's how you're going to get to see Callie" after that I was a pro, because I had no medicine I could feel everything and it felt soooo natural. The pushing wasn't painful it felt right. So you know the nurses count to 10 while you push but on one push Dr. D said keep going her shoulders are coming so the nurses said "11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16" Dr. D "shoulders out, give her some oxygen" the nurses started to call me a rock star for pushing that long. I felt empowered! Finally 3 more pushes and she was out! My supernatual successful vbac, to God be the glory!!!! #nomeds #yestheresaSonmychest #everythingiprayedforandmore
I had prayed to be at least 8 cm and God gave me 10, I prayed I didn't want to push for hours God allowed me to push for 35 mins, I prayed for speedy delivery I labored for an hour at home. Most people know how traumatic my birth was for Mikey so I told God I knew he was with me for Mikey, clearly we were all healthy just didn't happen the way I planned but I prayed this labor I wanted to FEEL his presence and I did. I'm so glad all my praying, fasting, sowing, and interceding allowed me to have everything I asked for and more #1 A girl, #2 Best vbac doctor in Houston (my old Dr. told me I was too petite to delivery vaginally, oh but God!) #3. Doula (Mikey's Doula didn't show up) # 4 no meds #5 Successful vbac. I was literally on a natural high all day on Friday lol I didn't go to sleep!
August 8, 2014, 6:08am 8lbs 7 oz 20.5 inches
I'm so happy!
1st Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.