Unassisted child birth is not a common thing and yesterday the internet was on fire with the story of Shiko and Rama trending. Imagine this couple decided to undergo the child birth process by themselves at the comfort of their home without assistance from a medical birth attendant (midwife).
On that day, which is six days ago, the young couple did not know that Shiko was going to deliver on this particular day. Therefore, they went on their usual routine and at around 1PM, Shiko drove to the market to purchase some groceries.
While still in the market, she realized that the contractions were unusual since they were getting intense and consistent and so she called her midwife to inform her of the situation.
“I had been having Prodromal contractions for a while, at 1.30PM I called my midwife and told her you know what I think this might be the real thing because they have been pretty consistent. I had timed them on a contraction App and they were coming once every three minutes. After timing around 4 of them the App just stopped and said call an ambulance, go to the hospital”
However, the midwife was not around and that meant that she was not able to come immediately.
Prodromal labor
This is a type of labor that comes before active labor but does not progress towards delivery. It’s also irregular with contractions lasting for around 30-45 seconds giving the expectant mother around 5-30 minutes of rest in between contracts. Usually, they last for a period of around 8-12 hours.
Hurriedly, she drove back home to her loving husband Ramsey and told him that the surges were becoming intense and since the midwife was out of reach, they will have to undergo the process.
All these things are being shown in their 24 minute video. When the App informed her that things were serious, on reaching home she reported the info to the husband but since the surges had been happening for quite a while, the husband was confused whether the day had arrived or it was just the usual surges.
Shiko Nguru, a 34 year old mum of 3 now; 8 year old girl, 2 year old boy and newly born bouncing baby boy posted on her Vlog the entire experience from the time she started experiencing surges, actual labor and the delivery moment.
What is flabbergasting is the fact that they made it look so easy having taken only 44 minutes for the baby to come out.
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The birth process
The actual video of the birth process starts at 2.01 PM. During this time, the labor started and Shiko requested the husband to do some intense back massage. Ramsey continued to do the massage for a couple of minutes.
“He continued giving me those back massages and continued telling him to put pressure even I now have bruises on my back side”
“She insisted I use a lot of pressure, I massaged her with my fists”
At the time, the contractions were intense and were coming like every two minutes. “The pressure was need to counter the pressure I was feeling inside” Shiko explained.
“During her surges, I had to drop everything that I was doing just to ensure that I rel ieve the pain she was feeling”
She wanted to give birth in a pool and so they had discussed with their midwife who booked the pool for them earlier in the week.
So when she started experiencing labor, Ramsey started filling the pool.
At some point, Shiko wanted so much to get into the water and so she told rama
“Why don’t you go to our laundry room and get the water horseso that we can fill the pool faster.”
When Rama dashed to get the horse pipe, the unexpected happened, the contractions became more intense with an urge to push.
“Immediately he left the bathroom, the next surge I had was different from all the other surges because it came with this incredible pressure to push.”
It was now around 2.25pm, shiko did not think that the time for pushing had arrived since she had only been experiencing labor for an hour only. This shocked her and so she curled over.
Rama came in and dropped everything seeing the wife in a bad state. He then poured one more bucket and shiko got into the pool. It was 2.30PM.
Rama wanted to call the midwife again but shiko refused saying they will have to do the delivery by themselves. She then held her hand, comforting and encouraging her as she pushed.
That’s how Tawi was born; at 2.45PM.
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