It WAS the best birth!

Dear Sarah,
My husband and I had what I consider to be a perfect childbirth experience… and are now the proud parents of what I consider to be a perfect baby girl! She was born on January 21 and is the picture of health and beauty!

My intention was to have a drug-free labor… but my birth “plan” was more of a wish list than anything in the end. I was in labor for 23 hours. I labored at home for the first 7 hours and made it drug-free for another 12 hours at the hospital. Long story short, I stopped dilating at 6 cm and spent a solid 5 hours at that stage before they started Pitocin and I begged for an epidural.

I had always heard bad things about Pitocin – basically that hospitals push it in order to maximize how many babies they can deliver in a day by speeding each delivery up as much as possible. Something you said in your class though was so true that it stuck with me and changed my perspective on the issue. You said that the doctors and nurses have one motive – keeping each delivery safe for baby and mom. So when Pitocin came up, I felt perfectly confident that it was necessary.
And I had my beautiful baby 4 hours later. (And she began breast feeding immediately following her delivery when they placed her on my chest – it was an AMAZING thing to watch her find her own way to food!)

Thank you for your class. It made a stressful day easier to put my trust the medical professionals caring for me and my baby. Plus, my husband was an awesome partner to me during the best and worst times of labor and I honestly believe he would have been clueless without your class (shh).