"Jenna Christie created a rather unique gift for her family's White Elephant gift exchange this year: a mug featuring the shell-shocked face of her husband moments after she gave birth in their car. "He's definitely a little more traumatized than I am about it," laughs the Canadian mom of two. "I feel like I am a bada--. It's the coolest thing I've ever done," she tells TODAY.com. "He doesn't feel quite that way.""
"When she was more than 40 weeks pregnant, Jenna started having contractions. She called her midwife on two separate days to let her know that labor had begun ... only to discover that she was experiencing prodromal (false) contractions. Jenna felt similar contractions a few days later but didn't take action because she assumed it was prodromal labor again. Because these contractions seemed more persistent, her husband Adam encouraged her to call the midwife around midnight."
"After following the midwife's advice to take a bath, Jenna felt assured that these weren't "real" contractions. So she went to bed to "try to sleep it off." But Jenna couldn't sleep. Her midwife came over in the wee hours of the stormy morning. As Jenna cracked jokes, the midwife examined her and discovered that she was already 8 centimeters dilated. It was time to get to the hospital ... quickly."
Jenna Christie planned a hospital birth with an epidural and midwife support for her second child but went into active labor after 40 weeks. She experienced prodromal contractions on multiple occasions and initially underestimated the onset of true labor. The midwife discovered she was already 8 centimeters dilated in the early morning and they departed for the hospital. During the drive with their sleeping two-year-old, Jenna's water broke eight minutes into the trip, and the birth occurred unexpectedly in the car while her husband reacted in shock.
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