Daley
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Thought it was about time I did my announcement.
During the weekend of the 2/3rd I had reduced movements, so my midwife spoke to my consultant and due to being high risk they called me in for an emergency scan. I had a registrar who scanned me and said everything was fine and booked me to come back in a week. My consultant looked over her results and decided he wanted to check one of the measurements she had taken. Good job he did, consultant discovered he was showing signs of severe anaemia, have me a steroid injection, sent me home for my bits and admitted me that night at 34+1 for induction.
Tue afternoon I was moved to induction and the 1st pessary inserted. They kept emphasising the fact that due to my gestation induction would take days if it even worked and I would probably end up with a csection. At 9pm they checked said my cervix had lowered slightly and that I was in for the long haul. They inserted the next pessary and I was having some tightenings every 5 minutes. I sent my partner and mum (who paid 1300 to fly home from hol to be with me) home to get some sleep.
My contractions became more regular and lasting longer, I was starting to have to really breath through them.
4am they checked again, said I was 1-2cm that they could possibly break my waters but wanted to wait until I had been moved to delivery but there was no beds free at the moment. Again I was told not to worry as I'd be ages yet.
The next few hours felt like days, I was having contractions every 2/3 mins lasting a while. I go really quiet when I'm in pain so I don't think the midwives took me too seriously. I asked for gas and air and was told I couldn't have any on induction, I had to wait until I was on delivery. They gave me two paracetamol.
11am came and I said to my mum/partner if I was only 2/3cm I wanted an epidural as I hadn't slept in 48hrs and I couldn't cope anymore. My mum asked them to examine me, I wish I could have taken a picture of her face. I was 8 1/2cm. All panic stations broke loose and I was suddenly rushed to delivery.
Things slowed a bit then as I asked for some stronger pain killers. Before I knew it I was 10cm and time to push. I refused to push until the paediatric team arrived.
Benjamin James was born at 4.11pm, he was barely breathing so was rushed off to neonatal. I didn't get to see him for 3 hours as they struggled to stabilise him and get lines in him. In his 1st 48hours of line he had 3 full blood transfusions and a platelet transfusion. The hardest thing I've ever had to watch, took 2 nurses 9 hours to manually pump in and take out his blood.
Anyway, he spent just under a week in intensive care before we were reunited together in transitional care. 10 days later we were allowed home.
He is gorgeous and such a little fighter. He weighed 5lb 15 1/2oz and is 6lb 1oz. His platelets are still low so have had a blood test today. Waiting for his results to come back, if they have dropped then its back the hospital for another transfusion.
Keep everything crossed girls xxx
During the weekend of the 2/3rd I had reduced movements, so my midwife spoke to my consultant and due to being high risk they called me in for an emergency scan. I had a registrar who scanned me and said everything was fine and booked me to come back in a week. My consultant looked over her results and decided he wanted to check one of the measurements she had taken. Good job he did, consultant discovered he was showing signs of severe anaemia, have me a steroid injection, sent me home for my bits and admitted me that night at 34+1 for induction.
Tue afternoon I was moved to induction and the 1st pessary inserted. They kept emphasising the fact that due to my gestation induction would take days if it even worked and I would probably end up with a csection. At 9pm they checked said my cervix had lowered slightly and that I was in for the long haul. They inserted the next pessary and I was having some tightenings every 5 minutes. I sent my partner and mum (who paid 1300 to fly home from hol to be with me) home to get some sleep.
My contractions became more regular and lasting longer, I was starting to have to really breath through them.
4am they checked again, said I was 1-2cm that they could possibly break my waters but wanted to wait until I had been moved to delivery but there was no beds free at the moment. Again I was told not to worry as I'd be ages yet.
The next few hours felt like days, I was having contractions every 2/3 mins lasting a while. I go really quiet when I'm in pain so I don't think the midwives took me too seriously. I asked for gas and air and was told I couldn't have any on induction, I had to wait until I was on delivery. They gave me two paracetamol.
11am came and I said to my mum/partner if I was only 2/3cm I wanted an epidural as I hadn't slept in 48hrs and I couldn't cope anymore. My mum asked them to examine me, I wish I could have taken a picture of her face. I was 8 1/2cm. All panic stations broke loose and I was suddenly rushed to delivery.
Things slowed a bit then as I asked for some stronger pain killers. Before I knew it I was 10cm and time to push. I refused to push until the paediatric team arrived.
Benjamin James was born at 4.11pm, he was barely breathing so was rushed off to neonatal. I didn't get to see him for 3 hours as they struggled to stabilise him and get lines in him. In his 1st 48hours of line he had 3 full blood transfusions and a platelet transfusion. The hardest thing I've ever had to watch, took 2 nurses 9 hours to manually pump in and take out his blood.
Anyway, he spent just under a week in intensive care before we were reunited together in transitional care. 10 days later we were allowed home.
He is gorgeous and such a little fighter. He weighed 5lb 15 1/2oz and is 6lb 1oz. His platelets are still low so have had a blood test today. Waiting for his results to come back, if they have dropped then its back the hospital for another transfusion.
Keep everything crossed girls xxx
I've been following on facebook and you both really are amazing! He's sooooo beautiful x
