Jaymeson Richard Bruce
Born: August 24th 2011
@ 12:16am
10lbs 4oz
22 inches long
The story of our natural labor...
With our decision to give birth naturally and at a Birthing Center, came certain rules we had to follow. For example, the biggest opsticle we came to was that IF I did not go into labor by the 14th day past our due date, we would have to be admitted to the hospital for induction. So on Sunday night (day 11 late) we had a plan to try a natural method of induction, taking Castor Oil. We did the doses as directed and on Monday I had contractions all day. We went to the Birthing Center twice on Monday but I wasn't dialated enough and my contractions weren't strong enough so we were sent home.
Tuesday morning rolled around and our midwife, Kyla, called us and we decided it was time to try the Castor Oil again. So at noon, I took one dose of the Castor Oil and Justin went to work. Around 3pm my contractions started, but were faint and not very strong. So I drove myself to the Birthing Center at 6pm to meet with Kyla. Here we were, day 13 late. We were starting to come very close to our deadline. Kyla checked me out and I was dialated 5cm so she decided it would be a good time to break my water and see if my contractions picked up. I called Justin and he came straight over from work.
At 7pm Kyla broke my water. My contractions took off like crazy and were extrememly powerful. After 4 1/2 hours of HARD labor, it was actually time to start pushing! I felt like I would die at the time, but looking back, I can not believe how short my labor ended up being.
We did not have a set plan on how things would go but we ended up in the tub for the final stretch of labor.
It was now time to push, I was going to be finding out, any minute, if our sweet baby was a boy or girl. I looked up at the clock and it said 11:45pm.
If our sweet baby came out in 15 min or later, he/she would share forever the birthday of my Grandpa! The same Grandpa we would be naming a boy after. I could not believe that we started off with a due date of August 3rd, then August 10th and there we were, 12:16am on August 24th giving birth to the most beautiful baby boy in the world.
Sharing a birthday with my grandpa, who meant so much to me but passed away in 2009, is one of the most special signs of fate and love that this world could have brought to our darling baby.
Jaymeson Richard Bruce came into this world 100% natural and was absolutely perfect! Right away he had his eyes wide open and was looking around all over. We actually had to rub him a bunch to make him cry because he was so happy! He weighed in at 10lbs 4oz, so this momma couldn't be more proud of going all natural!
Because I didn't have any drugs running through my system and both Jaymeson and I were completely healthy, we were home sweet home by 6am, only 6 hours after he entered this world. Wednesday, August 24th was the best day of my life and we got to spend a whole 24 hours celebrating Jaymeson's Birthday : )
