BabyBrain
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Well as most of you know Albert finished his pregnancy as much of a surprise as he started it lol.
After the amount of pain I had been in and hoping for a sweep the OH and I went to Day Assessment. As I thought the MW refused the sweep, saying it was better to let nature take it's course blah blah blah....to which my OH agreed, bloody traitor, and he even asked if they'd give me sedation!!!!
. Cue complete breakdown on my part, I started throwing my weight around and kicked the OH in the shin really hard right on his scar where I knew it would hurt the most. At first the MW was just going to send me home and then she said she would monitor me. Sent me out into the waiting room still having my mini breakdown and called us back when the monitor was free. Laid there for about 3 minutes and a senior mw came in looked at the read out and told us to go with her up to the labour ward, still rigged to the monitor to save time.
Bizarrely it still didn't occur to either of us that something was wrong. Got to labour ward, ended up with 3 consultants and the anaesthetist who said to my OH "if the hb stabilises by the time we get to theatre we might wait for another few minutes"......he looked at me I looked at him and we just both shrugged really lol, still not taking it in. He was taken away to scrub up whilst I was undressed, put in a gown and signing loads of paperwork I had no clue about. The next thing I'm having a spinal block and going tingly and numb. All this took less than 10 minutes. Still being so naive about the whole thing I told them I needed a wee lol, I didn't know I was catheterised by then and that they were cutting me open.
Spinal block is AMAZING and doesn't hurt in the slightest. It was actually so nice to feel nothing after all the pain. The only part of the whole thing I felt was when they pressed on my bump to force Bertie out, that was it. I pood myself as well but OH kept quiet about it lol. I was lying there discussing with my OH what my Dad was telling me on the phone earlier in the day and then had a baby placed on my chest all wrinkly and waxy.
"Oh he's nice" I said to the surgeon as if it was someone else's baby
. I was stitched up and we were wheeled to recovery. I was on my side completely numb with a baby suckling at my breast (badly I might add but that's a different thread) completely oblivious to everything that had happened. An that, ladies, is my best memory of what happened during the best time of my life.....typical I missed it lol xxxxxxxxxx
After the amount of pain I had been in and hoping for a sweep the OH and I went to Day Assessment. As I thought the MW refused the sweep, saying it was better to let nature take it's course blah blah blah....to which my OH agreed, bloody traitor, and he even asked if they'd give me sedation!!!!
. Cue complete breakdown on my part, I started throwing my weight around and kicked the OH in the shin really hard right on his scar where I knew it would hurt the most. At first the MW was just going to send me home and then she said she would monitor me. Sent me out into the waiting room still having my mini breakdown and called us back when the monitor was free. Laid there for about 3 minutes and a senior mw came in looked at the read out and told us to go with her up to the labour ward, still rigged to the monitor to save time.Bizarrely it still didn't occur to either of us that something was wrong. Got to labour ward, ended up with 3 consultants and the anaesthetist who said to my OH "if the hb stabilises by the time we get to theatre we might wait for another few minutes"......he looked at me I looked at him and we just both shrugged really lol, still not taking it in. He was taken away to scrub up whilst I was undressed, put in a gown and signing loads of paperwork I had no clue about. The next thing I'm having a spinal block and going tingly and numb. All this took less than 10 minutes. Still being so naive about the whole thing I told them I needed a wee lol, I didn't know I was catheterised by then and that they were cutting me open.
Spinal block is AMAZING and doesn't hurt in the slightest. It was actually so nice to feel nothing after all the pain. The only part of the whole thing I felt was when they pressed on my bump to force Bertie out, that was it. I pood myself as well but OH kept quiet about it lol. I was lying there discussing with my OH what my Dad was telling me on the phone earlier in the day and then had a baby placed on my chest all wrinkly and waxy.
"Oh he's nice" I said to the surgeon as if it was someone else's baby
. I was stitched up and we were wheeled to recovery. I was on my side completely numb with a baby suckling at my breast (badly I might add but that's a different thread) completely oblivious to everything that had happened. An that, ladies, is my best memory of what happened during the best time of my life.....typical I missed it lol xxxxxxxxxx
. Horrified at the thought that I could have lost him, am so so glad they didn't tell me that at the time 
, so glad your alright and so is Albert! 
