BIRTH ADVENT CALENDAR 2023 - DAY 7
The doctor said he was lucky to have such an easy pregnancy, but Adam knew, as much as his doctor, that the birth was not going to be easy.
The first months went as smoothly as they could: almost no morning sickness, no pain or discomfort, nothing of being an emotional rollercoaster or anything.
But as he grew month by month, watching his body change and his belly swell huge and gravid with life, Adam knew it wasn’t going to be an easy birth.
By the moment he reached the mark of seven months, he was huge. He looked almost ready to pop.
The doctor told him to take it easy. There was nothing to worry about —after all, there was a history of big babies in the family.
But by the moment he reached the awful last month, Adam was more than sure he was having a big baby.
Not only because of the obvious: his belly was huge, even compared with his usual athletic frame, hanging in front of him heavily. But he could feel it, how heavy and big his baby was, moving around inside him, kicking and squirming and making it hard for his daddy.
“Oh, you sure it’s just one in there?”
Yes, of course he was sure.
But even with how huge his baby was, he and his husband still decided to go with the intimate, calm home birth they wanted since the moment the test showed positive.
And now, the day had come.
As he timed his latest contractions, Adam felt his husband’s hands wrapping around his contracting stomach from behind. Andre rubbed his swollen stomach with firm hands, allowing Adam to lean against him and breathe.
Breathe deeply. To pass the actual pain of the contraction, and to prepare himself for what was about to come.
“So?” Andre asked, hands massaging his hips.
“It's… uf… very low.” Adam moaned, “I can feel it. And… fuck… it’s big.”
Andre let out a small chuckle, leading the pregnant man to the birthing ball in the middle of the room. Nothing that they already didn’t know, and Adam wanted it that way.
“I know. Big, just like his daddy,” he exhaled another laugh, helping Adam bounce slowly.
When another contraction hit him, Adam let out a loud whimper, leaning forward to fall into Andre’s arms.
His husband’s arms wrapped securely around his contracting middle, rubbing his back and mumbling soft, loving encouraging words.
And, finally, when the last one passed, Adam pulled away from Andre’s hold with a sigh. His face scrunched up with effort, looking down at himself and his massive belly.
Adam could feel it. The baby’s head was huge, and so low on his pelvis.
He was almost scared, but with Andre by his side, it was bearable.
But still, his contractions were becoming faster and stronger, the baby was so low he couldn’t even walk without feeling uncomfortable. He knew that soon, his water would break and, well, the inevitable would happen: push, honey.
He would have to push that huge baby out of him.
In one of those tricks from life (more from his body than life this time), Adam felt something warm running down his legs and all over the birthing ball.
From the birthing ball to the birthing tub, Adam was already almost fully dilated, and it only took a few more minutes until Andre checked him again and found that he was ready.
He pushed, and it wasn’t that bad, his contracting stomach feeling nice against the warm water and reassuring hands of Andre. But as soon as the head positioned itself against his lips, ready to start crowning, it was awful.
He knew the head would be big, but he didn’t think that he would almost draw blood from his lips from biting and trying to push as hard as he could. Andre remained telling him to take it slow because he didn’t want any tearing.
But the pressure and the need to push were so bad that Adam barely listened. Everything on him was focused on pushing and getting the head out, and when it finally happened, Adam found himself pushing for nothing.
“No, fuck! It’s… stuck!” reaching between his legs to feel his crowning pussy. “It’s stuck, Andre, babe!”
The bulge was there, painfully stretching him open, but no matter how hard he pushed, it wasn’t moving.
“Listen, breathe” Andre instructed gently, taking Adam’s hand and pulling him forwards. “Let’s change positions.”
Gravity had to help, and with a grunt, Adam pulled himself into a squat. Reaching once again between his legs, his fingers draped around his bulging lips to feel the huge head that stretched him wide.
“Ugh!” with a groan, he pushed with another contraction.
The head didn’t move a single inch despite his best efforts. When another contraction came, he tried to push again, but it still didn’t budge.
“Fuck, damn…” with a low whimper, his knuckles turned white as he gripped his husband’s shoulders. “One, two, three… nhgn!”
He was pushing again, his body urging him to, but the head still wasn’t moving. Adam was starting to get desperate because he needed to push, but the head wasn’t going anywhere.
“Baby, it isn’t moving!” Adam moaned, bending forward with another straining push.
Andre reached between his legs to cup his spread lips, feeling the indeed huge head. Slowly, his fingers tried to open his husband, stretching his lips around their kid’s head.
“Okay, try pushing with the next contraction, baby” Andre instructed, one hand over Adam’s crowning cunt and the other on his lower back.
He did as told, his face scrunching up in concentration as he felt the next contraction take over him. Biting his lip, Adam pushed.
The head slipped out a little bit, gently guided by Andre’s hand, but as soon as his body eased the contraction, it slipped back inside.
Adam let out a frustrated scream, and Andre leaned in to press a small kiss on his temple.
“Hey, take it easy,” he said, rubbing at Adam’s lower back. “Just breathe and push”.
With a shaky breath, Adam nodded. He felt how another contraction took over his body and pushed.
The head moved. With gritted teeth and another push, his lips spread around the huge head when the ring of fire came.
“Ugh, ow!” He whimpered, his legs closing together in an unconscious attempt to escape the pain.
Andre had to spread his thighs apart wide again, a hand still firm on the crowning head and the other now on Adam’s leg to keep them open.
“Push, babe” he encouraged, squeezing at his thigh. “You got this.”
Adam nodded, taking some deep breaths. Another push, then, he pushed once more, screaming into the air when the head started making his way out.
Now, gravity seemed to be doing its job, because the pressure was so much Adam only could think of pushing it out. He knew he couldn’t rush, he had to take it slowly to avoid tearing, but his mind couldn’t really conceive the primal urge to push that was starting to take over.
When he pushed again, using all his force, Andre’s hand was there to stop the head from popping out of him.
“Easy, boy. Don’t rush it.” Adam heard his husband’s voice above him, his own panting filling in the silence between them. “Slow. Slow.”
Another push, another cry of release. Then, another push, more of the burning feeling and the hellish pressure on his cunt. The head moved again, stretching him even more –Adam didn’t know it would be possible– and Andre’s hand was there to guide it slowly.
Slowly enough, the head finally started to emerge from him. Adam grunted, his eyes closing shut as he focused on pushing, his own hand now over Andre’s as another contraction shook him.
With two more pushes, the head finally popped out of his burning lips with a gush that left his legs shaking.
Andre caught it, and Adam switched positions from squatting to back to lying on the warm water. He breathed, reaching down to feel the baby’s head – huge, that he just pushed out. A miracle he didn’t tear.
When another contraction took over him, Adam screamed as he pushed again. The shoulders were easy compared with the head, and soon, Andre was there to catch the rest of the body as Adam popped it out with a grunt.
“There you go. That’s it…” Andre muttered, a huge grin on his face as he placed the baby on his dad’s chest. “Say hi to daddy, boy.”
Adam, with shaking legs and a labored breathy laugh, hugged his boy against himself.