Hey ladies...I posted on this thread a few months ago and then never came back. I see everyone due around me had their babies.
I had mine too, a girl. She was 7 pounds 6 oz and 20 inches long. At 6 weeks she's already 11 pounds. She's chubby, lol.
She was born at home. I didn't feel any pain, just squeezing pressure, and I didn't think I was going to have the baby. I tried to make DH go to work, but he called the midwife to come make sure the pressure wasn't labor. The midwife said it was, but I didn't believe her because it didn't hurt!
I decided to take a bath because I got sweaty walking around with my DH outside and feeding/watering the chickens...when I was in the bath I felt this strange noise, kind of like fingers snapping in my lower belly. Then a second later my water broke. The midwife checked me and I was almost 10 cm with just a lip of cervix left. After my water broke it was really intense and sort of painful, lots of burning but it didn't last long. I got out on the bed and my body started pushing and she was born 35 minutes later. Most amazing experience ever, I wish I'd stayed home with my first DD.
If you're interested in that sort of thing her birth story and a video of her birth are on my blog
here .
There are pictures of right after she was born
here .