Surviving the Domestic Jungle

I was thinking and talking about the birth experience of my son last night and it had me thinking of a funny story that goes along with the whole experience. When I arrived at the birthing center, I was already 7 cm so it was getting pretty intense and I basically transformed into an animal or cave woman of some sort and from the depths of my soul came screams like I didn’t know I could create. I was SOOOOOO loud that when I look back on it, Im a tad embarrassed. I did have a big ass baby so I feel some of the screaming was totally justified. I just couldn’t help it. Once that contraction peaked, if I didn’t scream, I would have died. Im not even kidding. Anyway, the point of my story was that there was a woman next door who was not as progressed as me and was having her first baby. Here I am screaming my lungs off while this woman is listening probably thinking I am either psycho or holy crap, it gets that painful?? I am sure on some level I either entertained her, annoyed her or scared her. Either way, we both gave birth so it really doesnt matter and also she never saw my face…thank god! Way too embarrassing. I later find out, she was having a silent birth!!!!! I laughed so hard when I heard that because I had the exact opposite!! Really though, I felt terrible for her because here she is trying to have some serene, peaceful birth experience and bring her baby into a very calm, relaxing environment and I know I totally put a hiccup in her birth plan. I never heard her screaming so she stuck to her guns about the whole silent thing which good for her. I could have never done that nor do I care to do that! My baby is the third! He better get used to loud noises and yelling and all the things that come along with have siblings. Hailey is a chronic screamer. Having fun, angry it doesnt matter. She screams so loud! Hudson just sleeps right through it. I will always remember that woman as a part of my sons birth story and Im sure she will remember me!!