So I gave birth last September 9 to a beautiful baby girl at 5:05am in the morning at the Birthing Clinic of the Cathedral of the King. It was around 1am, early Sunday morning, when I felt like going to the bathroom to make #2. I felt constipated but got through it anyway after a few attempts. Right after that, I felt a heavy pressure on my lower back--something very similar to what I felt when I went into labor with Caitlin. I told my husband, "Hon, parang malapit na ako. I'm feeling what I felt with Caitlin last year." So we went back to bed, and because Caitlin woke up, I nursed her lying down. I was feeling contractions already getting stronger by the minute. I suddenly felt the urge to stand up, then I felt something trickling down my legs. I couldn't see what it was because it was dark. When my husband turned on the light, it was blood! The contractions were very strong then and so we called Mama Chato right away. She told us to prepare already and she will see us at the birthing clinic. We got there at 2:30am...
Many thanks to Mama Chato Flores, a registered midwife, for her anointing! It was my first time to give birth naturally... as in no medicine, no anesthesia, nothing at all! Just God's grace and favor upon me and my baby. I couldn't thank my husband, Mon, even more, for being there with me all the way. I couldn't have done it without his strength guiding me and supporting me.
Yep, that's me and Catherine Elise just minutes after giving birth. Such an ecstatic feeling I had at this time--yes, there was pain, but the beauty of seeing your baby and getting to hold her right away is incomparable to anything else in this world!
