Evah is Born! Part 1 of 3
A lot of friends of mine have been having babies lately. I’m guessing, I’m getting into that age when that tends to happen. One obvious trend I’ve noticed is they go missing for a while. Right after you see a few photos of the baby on facebook. To be honest, I’m left yearning to hear the full story while respectively allowing the space needed to the expanding family. So as a new father myself, I have tag teamed with my wife and made the time to at least write to you all about our wonderful experience, and to share life in one of its purest forms!
A slight tangent from Pigment occurred during this time which was tough because we just released our first shirt. It so happens, this tangent, worked out for the better as we plan to revisit the BOL design while we continue to develop our other designs. So on to the story…
Late night July 22nd on a Friday my wife, Carolina, began to have very minimal contractions which we kept an eye on as they increased through the night. We were at home having dinner and taking it pretty easy for the most part. A lot of this process we had preplanned having read books, watched videos, attended classes and had talks with our Midwife about what to expect. Early on we had decided to go the natural route. I think the documentary “The Business of Being Born” played a huge part in this decision having watched it long before we had even been married. Finding out we were pregnant sparked an urgency to get ourselves educated on the matter even further and to find a place that would respect our decisions as a couple in what we wanted for our birthing process. We chose to have our baby at the Baby Love Birthing Center over in Cape Coral. Yes about 35 minutes away from our home. Trust me when I say the benefits outweighed the drive and horrible toll bridge, haha.
Caro’s contractions were about 4-5 minutes apart and seem to increase in intensity. We gave our midwife a call letting her know the process was starting and she advised us to relax and wait until the contractions were about 2-3 minutes apart. Caro went about her breathing exercises, took a nice warm bath, and we all went to sleep. About 3 or 4 in the morning, July 23rd, Caro woke me up coming out of the bathroom telling me that I should call the midwife again because the contractions were getting stronger and closer. I had my timer in hand keeping track of each contraction as it occurred to get a good estimate on when we should head to Cape Coral. The contractions were varied some at 2 minutes and 30 seconds others upwards of 5 minutes but I gave her a call anyway and she asked,
” Does she feel ready to come in?” I quickly passed the phone over to Caro for her to make the decision.
At 6:00am we were packed and heading off to the Birthing Center.
written by: Chris
