Review of the birthing skirt

OK, so we didn’t get any pictures of me in my clown skirt during labor. I did wear it for probably the first half of labor. It was much handier than the hospital gown. Especially when I was going from laboring in a kneeling position, to in the shower, to the birthing ball, to on my side, etc…

But there reaches a point in labor (at least for me) where clothing just gets in the way! It was taking all my strength just to manage moving and breathing through contractions where the slighest hinderance was very frustrating. So you really don’t need any clothing for the last half of the whole process. Definitely glad I did not spend $60 on the authentic skirt. And it was nice to have the $15 one I made in the beginning. It was flannel and soft. I had a lot of trouble with the shakes off and on from the time my water broke to the time I showered after the birth – so the warm flannel helped a little with that. I just could not calm down between contractions for some reason. Very irritating because I needed the rest!

Kym and I watched two Lost episodes Wednesday night while I was having random contractions. We would watch and get stressed out. I’d feel a contraction coming on and get on all fours – Kym would press on my lower back to relieve some of the discomfort. I tried to go to bed afterwards, and when I still couldn’t sleep by about 1am, I took an Ambien that Trina had prescribed. Then my water broke at 1:40 and I went into active labor! What a waste of an Ambien!