As I mentioned in my last post my best friend was overdue with her first baby. A boy, yesterday morning she woke up with contractions, so I started to ring periodically throughout the day, after my last post I rang to check on her and found her contractions were between six and four minutes apart, so while her husband got the car ready, I began timing her contractions properly over the phone. Her normal midwife was on vacation and her cover midwife didn't want my friend in until she was three to two minutes apart for at least an hour. I began to have reservations about this as my friend was forty minutes away from the hospital and we were expecting a tropical cyclone to hit over the weekend. My friend was shaking and her contractions were coming on much faster, after only a half hour on the phone to me she was a minute apart, with instructions to hop off the phone and call the midwife back, I left her alone.
Sure enough, midwife was ready for her, so she and hubby headed off to the hospital, during which her waters broke and she threw up (something I had warned her might happen). She got to the hospital at half 12, and was seven centimeters dilated by then. She was blessed with a wonderful easy labor and had her son an hour and a half later at 2am surrounded by her husband and her mother in law.
It was my first ever experience of coaching someone through labor, it was the most amazing thing to support a friend through one of the most special days of her life. I am absolutely in awe of her, she did so well, never made a sound through her contractions and I even managed to make her laugh.
Congratulations on your first born my love. Thank you for letting share in your labor.
More so I now know I am on the right path. I have never felt like I belonged as much as I did helping you through it all.
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