A Beautiful Labor, A Tough Decision

I was attending my clients birth last week, Wednesday evening Catie and I went about 11pm. Mom was doing beautiful, scene was right, nice music playing, grandma to be come in shortly thereafter, dad is filling the aqua doula up. about 4 hours later, we called the midwife, contractions were 3 min apart lasting about a minute. When she got to the home about 1 1/2 hours later, mama was 6-7cm. She decided to get in the pool which was really nice. I have never seen a mother and daughter work so amazing together. They were just awesome. We had candles lit, music playing, the water, the support, everything was just beautiful. Mom labors a few more hours and the midwife notices that the baby was ROT. Mama is changing positions and baby ends up posterior, not what we wanted. Her water eventually broke and there was mild meconium. Baby was doing great though. Mama's back was really hurting her. We all took turns massaging her back, supporting her, coming up with new ideas on how to get baby turned around again, so he would come down, and she would have the urge to push. No such luck. After many hours, at least 3 1/2 of that, the midwife asked her what she wanted to do. She said go to the hospital. So we scurry around to gather what we needed to transfer in. Get to the hospital and in the car she was finally feeling pushy. Staff checked her and she was plus 2 station. BABY HAD MOVED!!!!! To be quite honest, the staff was terrible, really inconsiderate of the laboring mama and her support team. Nevertheless, mama pushed her baby out shortly after we got there. Mom and baby were both great. I am really sad she didn't get the birth she dreamed of but I am so very happy that she is smiling and has her baby in her arms. This will go up there with one the most emotional births I have attended. I learned a lot though...especially if baby is OP walk down the stairs and into a car, drive around the block a couple times and get back home. Might just do the trick! :)