Baby Versus Turd – great VBAC story!

I absolutely loved reading this birth story about a mom who had 2 very different birth experiences.

Her friend called her a “birth outlier”

I also cannot have imagined 2 entirely different labors, as the first was a 42-hour ordeal ending in a c-section, and this one was about 42 minutes of intensity before the baby pretty much just slid out and said, “Hey y’all!”

This birth she had an unexpected unassisted homebirth

I call for Mike, who leaves the bath water running and had heard the change in my labor noises. That’s where he found me semi-standing over the toilet and saw hair–but not MY hair! I remember saying, “This isn’t poop!” and laughing hysterically. I mean, wouldn’t you after playing the “Baby v. Turd?” game in your head?

I love that she used Hypnobabies and said,

I never, ever would have dreamed that I would just have a baby on my kitchen floor with just my family in the house and not even miss a meal. I never actually expected to not experience pain. I kept waiting to yell the “Why did you do this to me?” and “I can’t do this!” statements during transition, but those never happened!

The whole story is just great, funny and wonderful. Go on over and read the whole thing. You know you want to!