I WILL BE OUT THERE IN THE AFTERNOON AND WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE AS WELL. SATURDAY, MAY 2ND. IT IS A DAY THE STONE FAMILY WILL NEVER FORGET. THIS IS QUITE THE STORY, NOT ONLY BECAUSE A BABY WAS BROUGHT INTO THE WORLD, BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF HOW HE ARRIVED. MOM. REBECCA STONE SAYS SHE WANTED TO HAVE A NATURAL BIRTH, BUT NOT AT HOME ON HER KITCHEN FLOOR. LUCKILY, SHE WAS SURROUNDED BY ALL THE RIGHT PEOPLE. HERE’S LINDSEY KLEIN. IT JUST ALL WENT FROM NOTHING TO EVER LIKE, DONE IN SIX MINUTES. REBECCA AND WILL STONE’S NEWEST BUNDLE OF JOY, BABY JONAH, MADE HIS WAY INTO THE WORLD ON MAY 2ND, BUT IT’S HOW HE ARRIVED THAT WILL SHOCK YOU. WE WERE ALL JUST KIND OF WORKING TOGETHER TO HANDLE THE CHAOS. REBECCA HAD INITIALLY GONE TO THE HOSPITAL FOR HER CONTRACTIONS, BUT NURSES TOLD HER THE MONITORS WEREN’T QUITE PICKING THEM UP REGULARLY, AND THEY DIDN’T THINK SHE WAS IN ACTIVE LABOR. SO THAT’S WHEN THE STONES DECIDED TO GO HOME AND WAIT IT OUT. AND AT HOME WAS LIKE TORTURE. MY MOM WAS OUT HERE IN THE LIVING ROOM. MY MOM WAS A LABOR AND DELIVERY NURSE. I’M TIRED OF 37 YEARS. THANKFULLY WE HAD HER COME UP. HER MOM WAS DEFINITELY AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. SHE RAN IN THERE. I’VE NEVER SEEN HER COME SO FAST BECAUSE TWO HOURS AND TEN MINUTES AFTER GETTING HOME FROM THE HOSPITAL, BABY JONAH DECIDED HE COULDN’T WAIT ANY LONGER AND THEN LEANING OVER THE KITCHEN ISLAND LIKE DURING A CONTRACTION, MY WATER BROKE LIKE, QUICKLY AND WE QUICKLY REALIZED LIKE IT WAS THERE WAS NO TIME. LIKE IT BROKE. FROM THE MOMENT IT BROKE, IT WAS SIX MINUTES BEFORE I ACTUALLY HAD HIM. SHE HAD ONLY MADE IT FROM HER BATHROOM TO THE KITCHEN FLOOR. THE FLOOR WAS THE LEAST COMFORTABLE PLACE WHEN YOU’RE PREGNANT. I DID NOT WANT TO GO DOWN THERE, BUT SHE SAID WE WOULD HAVE RUINED THE COUCH AND I COULDN’T HARDLY GO ANYWHERE. IT WAS THE WORST PAIN AND OF COURSE, IN THE WORLD. HER HUSBAND, THE HIGH POINT FIREFIGHTER ALONG WITH HER MOTHER, HELPED HER THROUGH IT ALL. IT WAS JUST TERRIFYING BECAUSE MOM WAS BEHIND ME. SHE DELIVERED TONS OF BABIES, BUT I COULDN’T SEE HER AND SHE KEPT FUSSING AT ME TO TURN, TO TURN OVER ON MY BACK. BUT WITH THE FLOOR SO HARD WITH IT, THE LAST THING I FELT LIKE I COULD DO WAS MOVE TO. SO I DELIVERED FULLY HANDS AND KNEES. SIX MINUTES AFTER MY WATER BROKE. AND THAT’S WHEN THEY ALSO CALLED THEIR NEIGHBOR, WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE A DOULA. I SAID, HEY, IT’S WILL, I HATE TO BOTHER YOU. I’M OVER HERE. I’M HAVING A BABY AND I HAVE A BABY. YOU SAID YOU’RE ABOUT TO CATCH A FLOOR, BABY. YEAH. AND I LITERALLY JUMPED OUT OF THE BED LIKE IN MY PAJAMAS BETWEEN HER MOM, HER HUSBAND, AND HER NEIGHBOR, THEY WERE ABLE TO HELP DELIVER LITTLE JONAH. I LOVE HOW IT TURNED OUT, AND I’M REALLY THANKFUL. I THINK THAT GOD DEFINITELY PUT THE RIGHT PEOPLE IN. LIKE IN AT LEAST HERE. THAT NIGHT I HAD A NURSE, A FIREFIGHTER, MY DOULA. I REALLY HAD THE DREAM TEAM. YES, A HAPPY ENDING FOR THIS NOW FAMILY OF SIX. I’M THANKFUL ON HOW IT TURNED OUT, BUT IT WAS KIND OF LIKE KIND OF TRAUMATIC. FOR THE FIRST FEW NIGHTS. I COULDN’T SLEEP AFTERWARDS, BUT SHE SAYS SHE STILL HAVE ANOTHER BABY. JUST HOPEFULLY IT WILL ALL UNFOLD A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY NEXT TIME. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO REALLY PREPARE FOR A HOME BIRTH NEXT TIME, I GUESS, AND MAYBE PLAN IT BETTER. NOT THE KITCHEN FLOOR. WOW. THAT’S AMAZING FOR KIDS TALKING ABOUT NEXT TIME, I KNOW. ALL RIGHT. AND KATIE THE DOULA SAYS THAT THIS HAPPENS MORE OFTEN THAN PEOPLE THINK. IT’S WILD. YES, SHE SAYS, IT’
‘It was just terrifying’: Woman gives birth in kitchen after being sent home from hospital
Saturday, May 2, is a day the Stone family will never forget, not only because a new addition was brought into the world, but also because of how he arrived.Rebecca Stone says she wanted to have a natural birth, but not at home on her kitchen floor. Unfortunately, that is how it unfolded. But luckily, she was surrounded by all the right people.”It was just, all went from nothing to, like, done in six minutes,” said Stone, who gave birth on her kitchen floor nearly two weeks ago.Her and her husband’s newest bundle of joy, baby Jonah, made his way into the world May 2, but it’s how he arrived that is quite shocking.”We were all just kind of working together to handle the chaos,” Stone said.She had initially gone to the hospital for her contractions, but nurses told her the monitors were not picking them up regularly, and they did not think she was in active labor.So, that is when the Stones decided to go home and wait it out.”And at home was, like, torture,” she said. “My mom was out here in the living room — my mom’s a labor and delivery nurse, retired of 37 years. Thankfully, we had her come up here.”Her mother was in the right place at the right time, because two hours and 10 minutes after getting home from the hospital, baby Jonah decided he could not wait any longer.”She ran in there,” Stone said of her mom. “I’ve never seen her come so fast. And then, leaning over the kitchen island, like, during a contraction, my water broke, like, quickly — and we quickly realized, like, there was, there was no time. … From the moment it broke, it was six minutes before I actually had him.”She had only made it from her bathroom to the kitchen floor, of all places.”The floor was the least comfortable place when you’re huge and pregnant,” she said. “I did not want to go down there, but she said we would’ve ruined the couch, and I couldn’t hardly go anywhere.”Her husband, a High Point firefighter, along with her mother, helped her through it all.”It was just terrifying, ’cause mom was behind me. She’s delivered tons of babies, but I couldn’t see her,” she said. “She kept fussing at me to turn, like, to turn over on my back, but with the floor so hard, with, the last thing I felt like I could do was move, too, so I delivered fully hands and knees six minutes after my water broke.”And that is when they called their neighbor, Kati McCutcheon, who happens to be a doula.”I literally jumped out of the bed, like, in my pajamas and ran out of the house,” said McCutcheon.She arrived just in time to help.Between Stone’s mom, neighbor and husband, they were able to deliver little Jonah safely.”I love how it turned out,” Stone said. “I’m really thankful. I think that God definitely put the right people … here that night. I had a nurse, a firefighter, … Kati is a doula.””Yeah,” added McCutcheon. “We really had the dream team.”Stone and her husband drove to the hospital about an hour and a half later with baby Jonah still attached.”It was freaky,” Stone said. “Will drove, and I had the baby on my chest, still attached. They wrapped me in blankets and towels, and they met us outside with a hospital bed.”It was a happy ending for this now family of six.”I’m thankful at how it turned out,” said Stone. “But it was kind of, like, kind of traumatic. For the first few nights, I couldn’t sleep afterward. I was so exhausted and kept replaying it in my head, the last six minutes.”However, Rebecca says she would still have another baby — just, hopefully, it will unfold a little differently next time.”We’re going to have to really prepare for a home birth next time,” Stone said. “And maybe plan it better — not the kitchen floor.”The doula, McCutcheon, says this actually happens more often than you might think.She adds that this is a good reminder to advocate for yourself and your health.
Saturday, May 2, is a day the Stone family will never forget, not only because a new addition was brought into the world, but also because of how he arrived.
Rebecca Stone says she wanted to have a natural birth, but not at home on her kitchen floor.
Unfortunately, that is how it unfolded. But luckily, she was surrounded by all the right people.
“It was just, all went from nothing to, like, done in six minutes,” said Stone, who gave birth on her kitchen floor nearly two weeks ago.
Her and her husband’s newest bundle of joy, baby Jonah, made his way into the world May 2, but it’s how he arrived that is quite shocking.
“We were all just kind of working together to handle the chaos,” Stone said.
She had initially gone to the hospital for her contractions, but nurses told her the monitors were not picking them up regularly, and they did not think she was in active labor.
So, that is when the Stones decided to go home and wait it out.
“And at home was, like, torture,” she said. “My mom was out here in the living room — my mom’s a labor and delivery nurse, retired of 37 years. Thankfully, we had her come up here.”
Her mother was in the right place at the right time, because two hours and 10 minutes after getting home from the hospital, baby Jonah decided he could not wait any longer.
“She ran in there,” Stone said of her mom. “I’ve never seen her come so fast. And then, leaning over the kitchen island, like, during a contraction, my water broke, like, quickly — and we quickly realized, like, there was, there was no time. … From the moment it broke, it was six minutes before I actually had him.”
She had only made it from her bathroom to the kitchen floor, of all places.
“The floor was the least comfortable place when you’re huge and pregnant,” she said. “I did not want to go down there, but she said we would’ve ruined the couch, and I couldn’t hardly go anywhere.”
Her husband, a High Point firefighter, along with her mother, helped her through it all.
“It was just terrifying, ’cause mom was behind me. She’s delivered tons of babies, but I couldn’t see her,” she said. “She kept fussing at me to turn, like, to turn over on my back, but with the floor so hard, with, the last thing I felt like I could do was move, too, so I delivered fully hands and knees six minutes after my water broke.”
And that is when they called their neighbor, Kati McCutcheon, who happens to be a doula.
“I literally jumped out of the bed, like, in my pajamas and ran out of the house,” said McCutcheon.
She arrived just in time to help.
Between Stone’s mom, neighbor and husband, they were able to deliver little Jonah safely.
“I love how it turned out,” Stone said. “I’m really thankful. I think that God definitely put the right people … here that night. I had a nurse, a firefighter, … Kati is a doula.”
“Yeah,” added McCutcheon. “We really had the dream team.”
Stone and her husband drove to the hospital about an hour and a half later with baby Jonah still attached.
“It was freaky,” Stone said. “Will drove, and I had the baby on my chest, still attached. They wrapped me in blankets and towels, and they met us outside with a hospital bed.”
It was a happy ending for this now family of six.
“I’m thankful at how it turned out,” said Stone. “But it was kind of, like, kind of traumatic. For the first few nights, I couldn’t sleep afterward. I was so exhausted and kept replaying it in my head, the last six minutes.”
However, Rebecca says she would still have another baby — just, hopefully, it will unfold a little differently next time.
“We’re going to have to really prepare for a home birth next time,” Stone said. “And maybe plan it better — not the kitchen floor.”
The doula, McCutcheon, says this actually happens more often than you might think.
She adds that this is a good reminder to advocate for yourself and your health.
