The Jubers

…Then a light bulb went off. I remember reading in Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth about a mother making a horse lips sound as she pushed. I pushed making a silly horse lips sound, breathing air out of my mouth and it helped me relax everything and open up. “That’s it!” Gloria said. Keep doing [...]

Kathy told me to help you descend into the birth canal. I talked to you, encouraging you to move down. Even though I had not felt the urge to push yet, Kathy told me to try some practice pushes. At this point, I was sitting on the bed and when I would feel a wave, [...]

Finally, they wheeled me up to the birthing suite and got the tub ready with water.  I requested a saline lock instead of an IV. No way I was going to be attached to wires the entire time. I wanted to be as mobile as possible and eat/drink whatever I wanted. I got in the [...]

Around 1:30, the waves started to really increase in strength, but I was handling them very well with my peace breathing. I decided to lie down and take a nap. But as I was lying down on my side, suddenly there was a pain in my back. It wasn’t a wave (contraction). It was different. [...]

On Tuesday, Oct. 19th at about 2:30 a.m., I woke up to some pre-birth waves (otherwise known as warm up contractions). They were about 20-30 minutes apart, but not intense at all. Although not completely asleep, I stayed in bed until time to get ready for work. As I was driving to TCU to teach [...]

On Valentine’s weekend, 2010, we found out we were expecting you. It was such a symbolic weekend because it was the same weekend that “take one” was due. Each month leading up to that was more and more disappointing and we had decided to take a break from trying to time things exactly right. I [...]