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Home Birthing Home Birthing Stories Birthing Rebecca at Woodlands
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 Rebecca Louise Cisera Rush was born on Saturday night August 30th, 2008
She was born at 8:17 after about a 5 hour labour in the front bedroom of Woodlands.
At 10am Maree's Parents came around because Maree was starting to feel some bite to the contractions.
Graham, (Maree's Dad) and I had to set up an Anti Wind Turbine demonstration at 11am and we manned it with a few others until around 2:30.
We came home to find Maree getting a bit more anxious and the midwife had been called.
I started managing the infrastructure, music, filling the pool, stoking the fires, feeding the dogs, setting up the Carlton/Hawthorn game for Graham, putting the chickens away, corking the Henshke. Of course, Maree gets the easy job while I do all the work, yet again!
I then handed over the very important infrastructure job to my assistant, Graham, and attended Maree with Jane and Kathy (her sisters).
About 7ish Anneke served dinner to all and sundry and I tag teamed Maree with the sisters.
 Maree had started to move into transition and couldn't move anywhere without a contraction, so she decided to go for a dip.
About 7:45ish they felt it was getting closer, so they dragged me away from the game (just caught Buddy's 100th) and threw me in the pool. Lucky I did, because three pushes later the head was out, one more push and I caught the slippery little bugger and handballed it smoothly to Maree. Thankfully the umpire didn't ping me because it was a one handed pass (quite impressive considering that it was my left hand!)
Maree dove to her right and dragged it down (just kidding)
Anyway, Rebecca came out with the bag intact, pre-wrapped. We pulled the bag off and she started breathing on her own. I was hoping to slip in a quick spank, but didn't get the chance.
We then chilled out for while until the placenta was delivered, Haydo jumped in for a dip in the murky waters and to say "Hi" to his sister. Half an hour later he was out again and the placenta slipped out intact.
We got ourselves organised and onto the bed for her first feed. Becky still had this "What the @#$% was that?" look on her face, but had started to settle down to her new reality (wait 'till she realises that I am her dad!)
Graham, Maree and I cracked the first Henshke in 9 months and toasted the birth together.
Sally, the midwife, did some checks and everything was fine. We bundled and bagged up the placenta and waited until the umbilical cord stopped pulsing about an hour after birth, then Haydo and I chopped it off. I believe this is very important, as it gives the kid a chance to re-balance it's blood supply and get rid of some of the waste created from the birth process.
Rebecca had sorted herself out, was bright and alert, had a feed and had good colour. - All was well.
The crowd started to dissipate and Sally went off to sleep in the spare bedroom.
I then made sure Maree was comfy and resting and caught a bit of "Star Wars, The umpire strikes back" on the big screen, finished off the last of the Henshke, and hit the hay.
Gotta ask yourself, does it get any easier than that! We should start up a business pumping out kids, could be a buck in it, and the work ain't too hard.
So far, so good. Rebecca is now a happy bouncing baby. She is feeding well and is starting on solids, the teeth are kicking in and she has started crawling around and getting into trouble.
Here she is at 6 months, in an "Anne Geddes" moment.
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