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Elsa Hoskis grateful for the beauties of childbirth.
The new mom says she had two days of “manageable” contractions before her active labor. Her doula guided her one night trying to induce labor through exercises and positions, like walking, doing yoga and pumping breast milk. Hosk also had acupuncture that night, and her water broke shortly afterward.
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To help the lip of her cervix to open, Hosk moves to the bed, where she says her body “goes into complete shut down and sleep” in between waves of pain.
“In this child’s pose I’m able to find enough power to push away the lip, and this is where my water breaks fully, flowing out all over the bed. I don’t care,” recounts Hosk. “I imagine Every sensation of pain is her pushing a little further down the birth canal.”
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The star muses that “birthing is really confronting yourself, your fears and doubts and coming through the other side.”
“Later, when a patch of her head is visible they bring a mirror so I’m forced to look, the team of course knows this will motivate me and to my great surprise it gives me such strength and power and it comes from somewhere hidden and deep, never in life has that power gear in me been accessed before and I push deeper, harder, to get that head out.”
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“All bloody and fluids are everywhere and she is pooping all over me, and she is looking for my nipple. And the most pain I’ve ever felt is forgotten, I am overwhelmed with love, proudness, happiness,” says the new mom. “She is here. I talk to her. I tell her I’m so proud of her. Her mom has been through war and yet she is so chill, her heart rate so stable.”
Hosk adds that “the room shifted from what felt like a horror movie darkness into a light sun-filled dream.”
“A few days have passed since and sometimes I look at her and I cry when I think about what we went through together,” says Hosk. “I feel such gratitude for the women around me, I look at the mothers around me with such deep respect and admiration and I feel such gratitude for the beautiful profession of the midwifes and doulas and I realize birth can be easy or hard, beautiful or dark, but every woman’s story is so sacred and so important. I love you.”
source: people.com
