Ahzel Jullian was born on July 20, 2012. I gave birth at the Well-Rounded Maternity Center. I had the fastest delivery EVER for a first time mom and I felt it! Three and a half hours from being 2 cm dilated to finish with a roughly 73 minute labor (4cm dilation to birth).
My water broke at 1:30 a.m. on the 20th when I went to the bathroom, so Ben and I started monitoring the contractions while still in bed but we fell asleep in the process. The contractions really picked up early morning (~7 a.m. ) but were not consistent yet so we thought we had the whole day/night ahead of us. By about 9:00 a.m. they became more consistent and pretty much 30 to 45 seconds long and about 6 minutes apart.
By 9:30 a.m. they became more intense so we decided to get ready to drive to the center. The car ride was uncomfortable with all the bumps on the road. At that point the contractions were one minute long and about four minutes apart and I could not joke/laugh anymore. We got to the center at 10:30 a.m. Deb our midwife arrived shortly after. Deb checked me at around 11 a.m. and I was 2 cm dilated.
Then it went really fast! At around 1 p.m. I was four cm dilated. Forty minutes later I was fully dilated and started pushing. i pushed for 35 minutes and Ahzel was born.
Ben was awesome and is still awesome! I think he sweated as much as I did during the pushing part since I held on to him so strongly!
Cris & Ben, Milwaukee
