Freja Leone Kohntopp

So Saturday early in the morning I woke up to a small puddle of water under me, I was so excited. I just assumed that the rest of it would come out when I started moving around, but nothing. So I went from excited to bummed. I took a long shower to sulk and then took a long nap to continue sulking. When I woke up I was having some really hard contractions so I got excited, and got on my computer to time them. I was having contractions 20-30 minutes apart so at this point I am thinking this could last all week. So I was sulky and really frustrated. I put my computer away. I had lost all hope of having my baby on Saturday. About five minutes later my water REALLY broke. Talk about an emotional roller coaster. I told Aaron right off the bat "this is going to go really fast". That was at about 1:30pm. I called my midwife who was teaching a class for the day. She told me her back up midwife would be here in about 15 minutes. I called Chauntel, my little sister, and she was here withing a half an hour, wait that was after about 15 minutes of me cursing her for not answering her phone. She was only expecting to watch my kids for me. Imagine her surprise when at about 2:50ish I had Aaron call her up to help support me. To make a short story even shorter...I delivered Freja at 3:19pm Saturday afternoon, less than 2 hrs after my water broke. The midwifes birth assistant did not make it in time for the birth, she showed up minutes after Freja was born. Everyone was gone by six and our home was plus one and all to ourselves again. I know there are those of you who think that I am crazy but I go through the pain for several reason #1: You should see how excited Aaron gets. I love how I can tell how it makes him feel to catch his own babies and be such a part of the experience. #2: I hate Dr. appointments, I hate vaginal exams, I especially despise annoying nurses, IV's and basically everything about hospital births...except those lovely epidurals, sort of. Lastly #3: I absolutly love having my children be here and feeling like a family right off.

Now a special shout out to my brave little sister, who has not yet had a baby naturally. She honestly had no idea how to be a doula, however, she did a pretty darn good job. I don't think it would have been near as comforting to have anyone but Chauntel here. But Chauntel "lift my chin to my chest on the next contration", what tv show was that on!?!? Just kidding you did great, Thank YOU!