On the night of November 12th, I couldn’t sleep because of contractions that were very infrequent and happening every 10-20 minutes. I called Jen my midwife and she said to wait it out till morning. I called her again the next morning and reported that there was no change so she said to go ahead with the scheduled appointment I had later on in the day. So Justin and I went to the appointment and I was 3 cm dilated. So she swept my membranes and she gave me a verbena "cocktail" to help induce real contractions. This cocktail consisted of lemon verbena, almond butter and apricot juice. By the time I got home at noon I had more frequent contractions. Then the verbena concoction started to kick in around 2 pm. I had a shower to help ease the discomfort and around 3:30 my husband heard my moaning and called Jen. We arrived at the birth center at 4:10 and I was fully dilated. So I got into my birth tub, (my spa!) and I pushed for about 40 minutes and little Ella was born at 5:22 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 6 oz and was 19 inches long.
We would have been able to be home that night except I had fourth degree tearing in which my under area had to be reconstructed so we went to the hospital and I had to have surgery and had to stay overnight. Little Ella just popped out way too fast.... that's why I tore so bad. Other than that, everything went perfectly!
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