My week!

I've been apprenticing with the same midwife for about a year now. The way the cookie crumbled in the last week,
started with the most peaceful birth I have ever been at so far last Friday. She had a two and a half hour labor, delivered in water, mom delivered the baby and then she did a lotus birth. Then the next day, a 37 wk mama went into labor. She had a HORRIBLE first birth in the hospital, she needed this to go well. About 4 hours later...she gave birth in the bath
tub and did an awesome job. The really interesting thing is that her placenta wouldn't release. So after about an hour, we gave baby to dad, had mom stand up to let gravity try to help. Giving gentle traction by the main midwife...SNAP goes the cord. It happened to be a velamentous insertion. Midwife tried to go in and get it, but it was very fundal and time was against us, so we did have to take mom in and she ended up with a DNC. From the time we left her home and got her back, was 7 hours....pretty good for our climate! We were able to have Easter off and then Monday night, another mom who had been having early labor stuff all day, kicked in about 7pm. She delivered about 9:30pm. Tuesday....another mom that was about a wk "post due" was in labor and delivered that evening, also by herself in the pool, a very peaceful birth. And then this morning at 2am
a mom that lives in my neighborhood called to say her water broke. 20 min later she called back to say contractions were 5 min apart lasting a min. I went to her, set up, and about half an hour after I got there....she said she was feeling pressure. I checked her and she was 9. I called the midwife who is in route, but still half an hour away. Well, at 3:30am this morning I got my first catch!!! It was amazing. She delivered her baby girl in the water that we just barely got together in time. What an amazing week!!!