{"id":7732,"date":"2022-11-11T11:33:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T10:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mojababica.si\/my-birth-story-begins-on-sunday-september-18-2022\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:47:20","slug":"my-birth-story-begins-on-sunday-september-18-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mojababica.si\/en\/my-birth-story-begins-on-sunday-september-18-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>My birth story begins on Sunday, September 18, 2022<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I&#8217;m also sharing my birth story. Because I know how much they help and might relieve some of the fear for others. I was never afraid of childbirth; each time, I was just &#8216;concerned&#8217; about how it would begin. During my pregnancy, I read countless stories and watched all sorts of videos because I was genuinely interested in how things unfold, what experiences others had, and roughly what I could expect, and these written stories always helped me.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">The story begins like this&#8230; <\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our plans were completely different, as we had planned a family lunch for Sunday to celebrate my birthday. So, on Saturday afternoon, my darling and I were preparing things for the celebration. Everything was as usual; my belly had been hardening for two weeks already, and I had no idea I might go into labor. <strong>No signs, no different feeling. The day passed completely normally, and so did the evening.<\/strong>   <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Around 11:00 PM, my darling and I went to bed, as we were both a bit tired. I fell asleep thinking that tomorrow would be another wonderful day spent with family, but then around 1:00 AM, I was woken by slight cramps, which I&#8217;d also had on previous nights, so it wasn&#8217;t unusual for me. I fell back asleep.   <strong>At 3:30 AM, however, it was as if something burst inside me.<\/strong> I got up and went to the toilet. Nothing unusual, I had to empty my bladder at least 3 times every night anyway. I returned towards the bedroom when I felt something flowing.   <strong>I paused, looked, it didn&#8217;t stop, did my water break, I wondered? <\/strong>I stood for a while, trying to convince myself that maybe it had already started? I took a step, a slight contraction. I grabbed my phone, opened the app, and waited. A second contraction came, then a third after 3 minutes, quickly a fourth&#8230;<strong>the app warned me it was time to go to the hospital. How? If not even 10 minutes had passed?<\/strong>    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided to wake my partner, &#8220;Hey, umm, my water broke, I think we need to go, well, the app says so :)&#8221; <strong>The contractions are really frequent but very manageable<\/strong>. He got up and called his mom to come watch our older daughter. We waited for her for about 10 minutes; in the meantime, I jumped in the shower, grabbed my bag, breathed through a contraction, and my darling was already waiting for me at the entrance with a look that said, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t it high time we left?!&#8221; We said goodbye and drove off. Luckily, the maternity hospital was about 5 minutes away.     <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we arrived, it was around 4:10 AM, and we rang the bell. A nurse came, and my partner remarked that we had come to give birth \ud83d\ude42 <strong>I laughed.<\/strong> She invited me to the delivery ward; my darling stayed outside until I called him to come in. The delivery ward was empty.   <strong>A wonderful midwife greeted me and gave me instructions.<\/strong> I changed into a gown, and then they hooked me up to the CTG. It detected strong contractions, which I was easily breathing through. She examined me and said, &#8220;You&#8217;re about 5 cm dilated, let&#8217;s go straight to the delivery room.&#8221; I agreed. I lay on my left side, she connected me to the CTG and said we would slowly fill out all the paperwork now. Slowly? A <strong>strong contraction came, she just said &#8216;breathe&#8217;&#8230;I breathed, it eased. Another came, I repeated the exercise. That&#8217;s when my body started to push.<\/strong>       <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-pale-cyan-blue-background-color has-background has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"> <strong>\u201cMadam, don&#8217;t push, it&#8217;s not time yet.\u201d<\/strong> <strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">My answer: &#8220;I&#8217;m going to give birth now!&#8221;<\/mark><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She came, looked at me, and said I should call my partner. In the meantime, she quickly changed, gave me instructions. The room filled up instantly. My partner entered; I could see on his face that he didn&#8217;t quite know what was happening, or rather, he realized things were moving fast. The midwife said, &#8220;Now take a breath, pull your knees to your chest, and push.&#8221; I obeyed, they encouraged me, &#8220;The head is visible!&#8221; she said! <strong>We repeated the exercise, the head was out, &#8220;Would you like to touch it?&#8221; she asked me. I agreed.<\/strong> I waited for the last contraction, and our little princess was in my arms! Wait?! How?! So fast? The whole time, I only had one contraction so strong that I said to myself, &#8220;Ouch, is this what it feels like?! I hope this won&#8217;t last 3, 4, 5, or more hours!&#8221;            <strong>I was in shock that you could give birth so quickly \ud83d\ude42<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">At 5:04 AM, our little princess was born. I felt like I hadn&#8217;t given birth at all! No tears, no stitches, I wasn&#8217;t even tired! This was my second birth. Both were wonderful experiences for me, with the difference that the second one unfolded from start to finish in just over an hour.    <\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m also sharing my birth story. Because I know how much they help and might relieve some of the fear for others. 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