My Natural Birth Story
It all started April 1st, 2018, Easter Sunday. I was 39 weeks pregnant. I had what felt like menstrual cramps starting in the afternoon during Easter brunch at my parent’s house around 2pm. I had experienced the cramps for many weeks prior to that day , however, they were happening more often than normal. Around 7pm my husband Ryan and I went to my mother-in-law’s house to visit. We chatted on the couch with her and her friend when the cramps stopped and then came a pain that felt a lot different. My first inkling was that they were contractions and I knew it couldn’t be anything else. I felt as though I could plot them on a graph as the pain slowly got increasingly more intense and then the pain would slowly decrease after a peak. I timed them quietly while everyone chatted but they were inconsistent. I went to the restroom several times to pee. The last time I went to pee, I returned to my husband glaring wide eyed at me as he said, " Are you having contractions?&