My Home Birth

I started having contractions at 1030am on the 14th of August. An hour later we headed out to Marni's(Dylan's grandma's) house. She noticed things were off and asked if I was having contractions. When she found out I was she was like walk walk. She had me walking around her living room and kitchen all day. When we headed to the house Dylan and I decided it was time to get the boys ready for bed. It was a little after 9pm at this point. When the boys were in bed Dylan went to the store to get some snacks and stuff to make labor drinks. They really helped keep my hydrated and alert while going through the labor. He got home right before 12am. At this point I was walking the house up and down and the driveway. We called my midwife and told her it was  time. She said "Ok I am on my way." We were still a little unsure if it was really time as I was only 37 and a half  weeks. When she got to the house at almost 1am I was around 3cm dilated and confirmed it was time. We decided at this point it was time to call our mommas and Jenn( my sis-in-law)to let them know it was time. Jenn was the one we had to watch the boys. After my mom and sister got here we decided to just go ahead and let the boys sleep; at this point it was like 2ish in the morning. I continued to labor steadily till around 7am when we decided to set up the pool. The boys got up around 8am and they just watched movies and played games in there room the whole morning with Kat. The pool felt so good it really helped to relax me while I was transitioning into the last part of delivery. Around 11am my midwife felt that the babies head was stuck on my cervix. She decided at this point to have me lay on my side to see if the babies head would just find its place and my body would relax. So I decided at this point to get out of the pool as it is hard to be on your side in the pool. I took advantage of this to lay down and try to get some rest. I had not slept since the night before. After 30 minutes my midwife deiced it was time to change positions and start pushing. I got up and walked a little bit but not much as the contractions were really strong. Then sat on what is called a labor stool while Dylan sat behind me and supported my back and helped me push. My midwife held the cervix out of the way while I pushed. I could not figure out what the was in my butt that felt so heavy. I had epidurals with both the boys. Finally a light bulb went off in my head that it was the babies head. I was like oh yeah duh I can do this and pushed harder I would say within five minutes of my light bulb moment baby was born. As I pushed my midwife her assistant and my mom were all there the head. My midwife no longer holding the head because it had come past my cervix. She just supported the babies head and then the head as the baby slid to the floor(covered in plastic). Everyone just sitting there going good job Mary. The baby started to cry and Dylan and I were just like what is it. I sat up going what do we have looking at the floor and I announced and screamed to Dylan(still sitting supporting me) "It's a GIRL!!" "We did it baby its a girl". I began to cry as I reached down and picked up my baby girl. My midwife and assistant and Momma(Kat came in to see) started cleaning up while I fed my baby for the first time. Dylan brought the boys to see there baby sister. They were both very excited it was a girl too! We went and took our bath and at some point Julie(Dylan's mom) and Marni showed up. Then everyone left and we were all by ourselves about 3 hours later. Wes, Jenn and Madi came over that evening for a couple minutes just to say hi. It was so nice being at home in our own beds with our own surroundings. Even though I had not had any sleep I still didn't feel tired. We were sitting on the bed that evening seven hours after being born and  Lilah looked up at her brothers talking to her and were following them with her eyes. I was so full of love, happiness, and excitement.