Birth Story: Wombsister Sians Homebirth

Hello everyone! I thought I would share my birth story al the way from New Zealand 🙂 I love reading and watching all the mamas birth stories on here, you are all amazing!

My 3rd child (2nd daughter) - Ally Rai Voss was born on August 1st weighing 8pd5oz and 55cms long. I was exactly 39 weeks. We had a water birth at home - completely drug free.

Previous births were 3.5hours with 50mins of pushing and 1hour with 25mins pushing - both drug free.

I had been having contractions and cramping for a week and was becoming extremely ‘over it’ so I asked my midwife if she could do a stretch and sweep which she agreed - I was 4cm already. 2 days went by and I had a show. At 8:10am Cramping ramped up and the contractions were 5-7mins apart. I got my partner to fill the pool and started to phone my family and midwife. Family started to arrive and so did my midwife - she had checked me and I was 7cms and fully effaced but my waters were still intact. By now my lounge was full with family - 14 people to be exact + my midwife and her student midwife. I paced up and down my stairs until finally getting into the bath. The pain increased hugely in my back and I was uncomfortable- never get this in my previous births. It now was 11:30am and I was begging my midwife to break my waters as I felt so my pressure - she declined and said I can do it myself (happy she did as I don’t like any interference). 11:50 came and my waters broke - 2 pushes later and Ally made her entrance, head and body exiting all at once - her cord was around her neck and she came out sunny side up(posterior birth). She was healthy and screamed the house down for a good few minutes. We did delayed cord clamping and tied the cord with a tie that is special to our Maori culture. I had no tears or grazes much to my midwifes surprise.

This was my hardest birth and most painful birth - mainly due to her being posterior but I am so proud of myself for bringing her into this world but couldn’t have done it without my amazing (HUGE) support team!