"Labor" Day

Saturday Noveber 15, 2008

Saturday was just a relaxing day at he Kinzler household of watching football, going to a NNU basketball game and watching some more football. Beth decided to put a little kink in the relaxing part by starting to have contractions about 8:30 in the evening. The first contractions were about 30 seconds long and about 10 minutes apart. This sequence of events lasted about an hour and then we called our doula. She said to just wait it out until the contractions were about 6-7 minutes apart and call her back. Well, as labor goes the contractions were constitantly getting closer togethr but they were not getting harded or longer, still lasting about 30 seconds or so. At around one o'clock, as we saw it labor was progressing steadily and contractions were between 2-4 minutes so we called the doula back and she asked several leading questions to find out how Beth was doing. Amazingly Beth was talking and joking between contractions so the doula still didn't think we were very close. Although Beth's mom had three hour labors so we all decided to go to the birthing center to finish labor, so we went about 2:00am. When we got to the birthing center the doula was there and ready for us and she got to witness Beth's contractions. We were a little more relaxed at the birthing center so the contractions backed off to about 5 minute and still about 30 seconds long.

So things progressed good until about 6 am and then Beth really started having some serious labor, from my perspective it was really cool to see her really turn the corner and Sydney decided she was ready to arive in our world. Beth was still talking a laughing between contractions so the doula still didn't think she was that close but at about 7:30 she called the Midwife and said she should probababy make her way down to the birthing center, but no need to hurry. At about 7:45 Beth turned another corner and the pain intensified to another level.

Here comes the goods, the midwife got there and checked Beth and she was 9 centimeters at 8:05am, the water was ready in the bathtub so beth jumped in for the water birth and labor continued rapidly and at 8:20 am on Sunday November 16 Sydney Marie Kinzler was born into our world. Needless to say from me, this was an amazing experience and now I have the most beautiful daughter in the world, I'm really not biased either:)