Diary of a planned homebirth

[ChocOrange05]

While I am waiting for my HB I thought I would write this thread for all those other first timers who are planning HB's. I am a first timer and I have no idea whats going to happen or whether it will result in a successful HB but I thought this could be useful to others in my position...

Hope it is all still going smoothly ChocO

I'm on the wine so no tea for me thanks!

keep going choco!!!

I think this is the point where we just chat amongst ourselves

Im going to have a drink and settle in this chair for evening I think x

Sorry if I have kept you waiting. DH and I were just about to sit down and watch Brokeback Mountain (not seen it yet) when some more waters started coming out, but as it has been doing so all day I just let it, until I moved again and got a huge gush of water coming out - luckily I was sitting on the waterproof birthing ball. So I tried to get upstairs to the bathroom with a towel between my legs gushing all the way and I had no idea what to do so just stood in the bath and stripped while DH helped and watched me look like I was peeing myself - how is this man ever going to want to have sex with me again???

So lots and lots of water has left my body now and I sat in the bath for 5 mins just to rinse off but since this happened (at about 7.10pm) I have had no more contractions.

DH is now upstairs birth-proofing the house with plastic sheeting and old sheets, bless him, and as the birthing pool takes 1-2 hours to fill we might start that soon and keep it maintained. Ohhhh think a contraction is coming.......

Not a comtraction but felt like it might be, I am rocking on my birthing ball again in the hope of kicking things off!

I had a 'lull' just before my contractions came back thick and fast. Walk up and down the stairs a few times - Too cold to walk outside

OOOOh smell the cake
blow out the candles..

Oooh, v exciting!
(don't worry he will want you again!! )

get that pool filled it was fab for me!

Oh gosh, the spelling mistakes have started.... probably won't have time to maintain thread and spellcheck so please forgive me!

That sounds like progress! Keep moving. (And your dh will want to have sex with you - you are doing the most marvellous wonderful thing- whether you ever want to have sex with him again afterwards is another matter )

once you start to lose watwers, IME things start to move quickly.

am not at all

how long have you got to go Misdee - a week or so?

oooh, choco; the calm before the storm. I hope the MW is on her way over.

have you got the emersion heater on for the water tank?

DH topped up the pool a couple of times whilst I was in there.

so excited for you!

a week for me. am in early stages. and fed up now.

Bloody hell - just gone through my 5th pair of knickers for the day and zillionth maternity pad - I am now onto the really attractive maternity knickers. Could I be any more sexy????

You could always give up on knickers? just a thought....

sit on a towel if you aren't comfy with nothing....

Or get in the pool and you won't notice

i'd ditch the pants. dressing gown on and sit on a pampers care mat now i think.

Absolutely ditch the knickers! Nobody ever tells you about all the oozing that goes one when your in labour do they?

Oh thanks misdee I don't have any of the pampers mats but I think I may have spotted one in the birth bag from the MW. I shall have a look.......

Oooh and Good Luck Misdee

Yes - why does no one tell you about all this damn leaking?!?!?!!?

or sit on an old towel?

oooh, meant your body being calm before things kick off, not that it's going to be a stormy ride

I know ChocO, after my waters went with a huge gush I thought that would be it, but every time I had a contraction I gushed even more. My feet were sloshing in my boots (cheap fake uggs) by the time I got to the delivery ward.

How is DH doing?