The Birth of Miles

After a couple days of consistant, close contractions and a "send home" from the hospital early Monday morning becaue I hadn't progressed past three centimeters, we returned Monday evening to find I had gone from a three to an eight in about 12 hours. My water just hadn't broken. I needed to get him out! My midwife was not on call...boo! But luckily my OB doc was and she does water births...so I asked her to break my water, which she did around 9:30 p.m. I immediately returned to the tub...MUCH nicer on the labor pains! The urge to push came rather quickly (at least it seems so to me, one with no experience in the art of childbirth!) and the nurse told me to push if I felt a strong enough urge to. I think she was being nice, thinking it wouldn't happen as quickly as it did. I pushed a while and at one point thought "this is coming, that one felt very different." I reached down and actually felt his head! Told the nurse to get the doctor and had to actually hold in a couple pushes until she got all her "stuff" ready.
Miles Benjamin Hill was born on Monday, September 1, 2008 at 10:50 p.m. He weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs. 12 oz. and was 21" long.
I'm very blessed and thankful that I was able to deliver him in the water with no drug intervention, just the way I'd hoped. When we went to the hospital the first time, there were no midwives from my office on call and the on call doctor did not do water births. Miles knew to wait for the right moment!

We spent that night and the next at St. Joseph Medical Center and have been home enjoying each other. I will write more later, but wanted to get some pictures up of our little man.