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Baby fresh arrived at 4.43pm after a 12 hour labour and natural but assisted delivery, at 7lb3, he was prenatally diagnosed with down syndrome and a blocked bowel so we had to go to john Radcliffe hospital in Oxford for birth
Contractions were very gentle building up, woke up at 3 am ish for wee, and about 4am i think, started getting feelings, like i needed a poo, tried going and couldnt, after a while noticed they were sort of regular...started timing, every 10 mins for 60 secs, sent OH to work as still wasnt sure what they were; twinges i thought, false labour, etc
20 mins after he left my waters went; a dribble; about 7.45 I think, phoned hospital, they said to make way in, timings down to every 8 mins, fine breathing through them; but car journey was not the easiest, starting to get uncomfy, arrived about 10 to hospital, seen and checked with trace and internal; 4cms!
Taken to delivery suite, from here on all sketchy...
felt like just pressure down there, was fine breathing til about 5 cms, G&A was great after that, kept the focus on the breathing, its great stuff, contractions were painful just before 10cms but a gradual build up so you get time to climatise i think, but again it was the pressure that hurt not the contractions; can't describe it; well I can; felt like you need to push to release pressure, but can't...felt like I had to poo!
G&A was fine to cope with it, despite asking for more at points; was refused meptid due to diagnosis, I know I didn't need it I think, contractions were getting very hard in holding back pushing; needed to push! considered epidural but when they examined me I was 10cms
Pushing; I couldn't do it, wasn't doing it right
pushing didn't hurt, but i couldnt seem to get force behind them, think my body was holding me back, i was screaming a bit; not for the pain; for the energy, i needed to push and annoyingly enough the screaming seemed to help, said I wouldn't be a screamer lol
they decided to try ventouse to give little one a hand, he was coping well with birth, so numbed me for ventouse, just a couple of injections; didn't hurt, he popped out with 2 pushes/pulls, I thought this would be the worst bit, it wasn't, hardly felt him come out; it was surreal, they flopped him on me, I didn't know what to do lol neither of us cried oddly enough, he was just so warm and slippy wet, I was still just amazed we had had such a quick labour, without hardly any problems! They took baby off to be sorted, he had to have tube in tummy for bile drain
Numbed for a couple of small tears, stitching not pleasant but not painful, they numbed me further
I'd do it again in an instant!
Though feeling a bit sore today
Worst bit of all, contractions for last hour approaching 10 cms, went so quick that hour though and it still wasn't that bad, and the internals; baby very head low down, internals for me were quite painful; more so than everything else I think; because of where baby was sitting I think more than anything; so dont be put off ladies!, think I had about 4 attempted internals and only 2 were successful in their aim!
(4cm success, probe on babies head fail, dilation check about 9cms fail, 10cm success)
All in all done on G&A, 2 paracetamol and couple of locals for ventouse, so feel like it was a very positive experience; was amazed how easy it felt when I'd spent my while life terrified of labour! Yet in the last 9 months I totally chilled
Little man now in HDU where he is awaiting an op for his blocked bowel
We are in a little room on the wards, just feels empty now, everyone's babies are crying and mine is stuck 10 mins away with tubes here, there and everywhere
Hubby very proud daddy though, so pleased with him think he has bonded better than me so far! Think I'm so scared of what's ahead for little man I feel detached til we can get him well and home and in my arms with no drips or anything roll on that day...
Contractions were very gentle building up, woke up at 3 am ish for wee, and about 4am i think, started getting feelings, like i needed a poo, tried going and couldnt, after a while noticed they were sort of regular...started timing, every 10 mins for 60 secs, sent OH to work as still wasnt sure what they were; twinges i thought, false labour, etc
20 mins after he left my waters went; a dribble; about 7.45 I think, phoned hospital, they said to make way in, timings down to every 8 mins, fine breathing through them; but car journey was not the easiest, starting to get uncomfy, arrived about 10 to hospital, seen and checked with trace and internal; 4cms!
Taken to delivery suite, from here on all sketchy...
felt like just pressure down there, was fine breathing til about 5 cms, G&A was great after that, kept the focus on the breathing, its great stuff, contractions were painful just before 10cms but a gradual build up so you get time to climatise i think, but again it was the pressure that hurt not the contractions; can't describe it; well I can; felt like you need to push to release pressure, but can't...felt like I had to poo!
G&A was fine to cope with it, despite asking for more at points; was refused meptid due to diagnosis, I know I didn't need it I think, contractions were getting very hard in holding back pushing; needed to push! considered epidural but when they examined me I was 10cms
Pushing; I couldn't do it, wasn't doing it right
pushing didn't hurt, but i couldnt seem to get force behind them, think my body was holding me back, i was screaming a bit; not for the pain; for the energy, i needed to push and annoyingly enough the screaming seemed to help, said I wouldn't be a screamer lolthey decided to try ventouse to give little one a hand, he was coping well with birth, so numbed me for ventouse, just a couple of injections; didn't hurt, he popped out with 2 pushes/pulls, I thought this would be the worst bit, it wasn't, hardly felt him come out; it was surreal, they flopped him on me, I didn't know what to do lol neither of us cried oddly enough, he was just so warm and slippy wet, I was still just amazed we had had such a quick labour, without hardly any problems! They took baby off to be sorted, he had to have tube in tummy for bile drain
Numbed for a couple of small tears, stitching not pleasant but not painful, they numbed me further
I'd do it again in an instant!
Though feeling a bit sore today
Worst bit of all, contractions for last hour approaching 10 cms, went so quick that hour though and it still wasn't that bad, and the internals; baby very head low down, internals for me were quite painful; more so than everything else I think; because of where baby was sitting I think more than anything; so dont be put off ladies!, think I had about 4 attempted internals and only 2 were successful in their aim!
(4cm success, probe on babies head fail, dilation check about 9cms fail, 10cm success)
All in all done on G&A, 2 paracetamol and couple of locals for ventouse, so feel like it was a very positive experience; was amazed how easy it felt when I'd spent my while life terrified of labour! Yet in the last 9 months I totally chilled
Little man now in HDU where he is awaiting an op for his blocked bowel
We are in a little room on the wards, just feels empty now, everyone's babies are crying and mine is stuck 10 mins away with tubes here, there and everywhere
Hubby very proud daddy though, so pleased with him think he has bonded better than me so far! Think I'm so scared of what's ahead for little man I feel detached til we can get him well and home and in my arms with no drips or anything
roll on that day...
