Pizza Hut + Adjustment = I Didn't Get My Crying Moment!

Date : April 27,2009

I cannot explain the importance of Pizza Hut in my practice. In fact, no one can, but since Melody and I had a homebirth practice in Arkansas, everytime we went to eat at Pizza Hut, we had a great birth that followed. We tried it last December and it worked both times. We went yet again to see if it would work in January and it didn't fail us ....brought forth a fast and beautiful birth!

So after explaining the pizza hut thing to a client of mine who had been 4 cms for about 2.5 weeks, she asked if we could go to Pizza Hut. I said if I was able to soon , we would go!

She was going to come in on her due date for a regular prenatal and her sister was in town. I found an open slot and decided to ask her if she wanted to go to Pizza Hut that day after her appointment. It was perfect: raining + pizzahut +Dr Kristen (our chiro) coming in = BIRTH?

She had her prenatal and was 4cms with her cervix being dilated unevenly leaving me thinking the baby's head was kinked. We did the rebozo and she went ahead and had an adjustment and began to contract somewhat and she could feel a change in baby's position. We checked her cervix and she was 5 cms! She was in shock, and when her sister tried to call her husband, he wouldn't believe her! I had to convince him to go get his stuff and come right away. Meanwhile it was time for lunch and off we went to Pizza Hut!

While at Pizza Hut, My client began to contract but wouldn't believe she was in actual labor...
all I could do was laugh, cause I just knew we were having a baby that night. I told my client that she would be good to get another adjustment and as we left lunch, that's exactly where we were headed to do! THe contractions were coming closer together and more intense. I don't believe her husband could believe she was in labor. Her contractions would not come closer than every 5 minutes and I had asked her how she was coping. All she could say to me was how scared she was of it no being real and the pain intensifying. I immediately got Dr Kristen to do NET to work on her fear and emotional hangups and as soon as that was gone, she went right into active labor. She and her husband finally decided to call in their network of supporters and one by one , they all came in. They began to come in right about 6 o'clock that evening and she was coping beautifully. You couldn't even tell she was in labor! Around 8pm, she went upstairs to escape the crowd and begin to really focus. She was so calm , so quiet. I checked shortly thereafter and she was 8 cms! I was shocked! I gave her choices and knew she wanted to try for a water birth. She wanted to be over and she decided to change clothes to get in the tub. As I began to prepare the tub, I heard her husband yell she's feeling pushy and the SPLAT! Her water broke and went everywhere. The birth team quickly cleaned up and got her into the tub and two pushes later she was holding Baby Alyssa Anne in her arms. You couldn't even hear her push nor see it..it just happened. She looked at her baby and looked up and said "I didn't even get my crying moment!" She couldn't believe she came so fast...oh well, I guess the secret is in the sauce!