{"id":61619,"date":"2025-05-29T18:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61619"},"modified":"2025-05-29T18:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T18:13:37","slug":"baby-born-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=61619","title":{"rendered":"Baby born en."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-28-at-16.53.50.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-28-at-16.53.50.jpg 720w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-05-28-at-16.53.50-300x172.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After a long and challenging first birth, I was hoping for a smoother experience with my second baby\u2014and it truly was! At 41+3, I was admitted for induction on August 12. Since my cervix was already soft, we skipped cytotec and started pitocin at 9pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contractions were manageable at first, and with my doula\u2019s support, we used various positions, including the hilarious \u201cflying cowgirl\u201d with the peanut ball. That position kicked labor into high gear\u2014within 30 minutes, I was deep into transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 6am, I got the epidural but could still feel most contractions. At 7:40am, I was fully dilated and started involuntarily bearing down. My midwife calmly encouraged me to follow my body\u2019s cues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, she exclaimed my baby was being born en caul\u2014completely inside the unbroken amniotic sac! Nurses gathered to witness the rare moment. I gave one intentional push, and with the next contraction, her body emerged and the sac burst. I reached down and pulled her onto my chest\u2014eyes wide open, already alert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a magical, healing experience\u2014just 11 hours of labor, one push, and a perfect en caul birth. I\u2019m so grateful and still in awe of the beauty of it all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a long and challenging first birth, I was hoping for a smoother experience with my second baby\u2014and it truly was! At 41+3, I was admitted for&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61621,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61619\/revisions\/61621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}