sallybee
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Well I thought I'd do my birth story while I have a spare half hour...
Woke up on the morning of Friday 30th with a heavy feeling in my stomach, but I thought I'd just held my per in too long overnight lol. I'd promised to take OH to Costa for breakfast as it was payday and he was bored so that was about 9am. The heavy feeling was getting a bit painful and I was rocking back and forth but it just felt like I needed to poo!
I couldn't go when I got home and after half an hour of trying fell into bed exhausted - it felt like I was going to poo myself but couldn't :/ so I fell asleep until maybe 12 when my friend came to see me.
I ended up lying on my living room floor talking to her cos I was in pain and that seemed to help, she asked if I thought I could be in labour and I told her no I was just constipated. Anyway the pain was in my back a lot and she offered to run me a bath before she left so I said yes. I was also feeling really sick.
As soon as I got in the bath I had my first real contraction and I knew straight away what it was. Got OH to sit on the toilet and time them - they were about 4 mins apart and lasting 30 seconds.
After a while I sent OH away got on the toilet and finally had a massive clear out (gross) while having contractions still and shouting to OH to time them lol. i also had my bloody show.
Rang hospital but they told me to hang on as it was my first and I would probably be a while yet. So I waited til they were about 2 mins apart and rang again, they were getting really painful and the hospital told me to come in.
So me, OH and my mum (my other birth partner) arrived at the hospital at about 4pm where i was examined and found to only be 2cms
but the midwife said she could tell i was in pain so I didn't have to go home. She gave me two diacodeine (?) and left to let me get on with it.
2 hours later the drugs had done nothing for the pain at all (the back pain was horrific as baby was leaning back or something) and had just left me reality stoned as well as slowing my conttactions to 5-6 mins and I was told I was going to go home. It was the end of that midwife's shift but she told me she was on the following night and would probably deliver my baby then!
I was in such bad pain that it took me 20 minutes to get back to the car we drove home and OH made me some food but I hardly ate as I felt so sick.
At twenty to eight I suddenly felt this ovrwhelming urge to push which terrified me as i had always heard not to as if i wasn't fully dilated it would hurt me and the baby. I started screaming for OH to help me but it was out of our control and with the first push I felt my waters go.
The hospital told me to come straight back in so after changing my pants and trousers and putting a pad on we drove back, I was screaming from trying not to push but my body was doing it anyway and I could see my bump changing shape with every contraction.
I got wheeled up to the exact same room I'd been in before, and was examined immediately by a new midwife. She told me I was fully dilated and to start pushing with the next contraction! my mum was called but the midwife said she probably wouldn't make it which really upset me. However I just kept pushing, it felt really good as it no longer hurt just felt like pressure and an urge. Then the midwife said i still had some waters intact but she could see meconium in them and asked if she could break them, i said yes so now all of a sudden I was sat/laid in a huge pool of poo, blood and waters lol.
My mum walked in about 2 minutes before Cathy's head came out and watched with OH as she emerged (even though I'd told them not to!) Cathy was born at 8:33pm and plonked on my tummy for a few seconds before being whisked away to check she was OK and get the meconium out of her mouth. The midwife cleaned me up and announced I had no tears yay
baby Cathy was perfect and weighed in at 7lbs 6oz.
My birth experience was fantastic but sadly my aftercare was lacking, nobody showed me how to latch her to my breast til 3:30am after she had been grizzling for 3 hours and I wasn't taken to the post-natal ward til 5:30am by which time I was beyond tired and unable to sleep.
We had to stay 24 hours because of the meconium but we were allowed to take her home Saturday night which was great and started to become a proper little family!
Woke up on the morning of Friday 30th with a heavy feeling in my stomach, but I thought I'd just held my per in too long overnight lol. I'd promised to take OH to Costa for breakfast as it was payday and he was bored so that was about 9am. The heavy feeling was getting a bit painful and I was rocking back and forth but it just felt like I needed to poo!
I couldn't go when I got home and after half an hour of trying fell into bed exhausted - it felt like I was going to poo myself but couldn't :/ so I fell asleep until maybe 12 when my friend came to see me.
I ended up lying on my living room floor talking to her cos I was in pain and that seemed to help, she asked if I thought I could be in labour and I told her no I was just constipated. Anyway the pain was in my back a lot and she offered to run me a bath before she left so I said yes. I was also feeling really sick.
As soon as I got in the bath I had my first real contraction and I knew straight away what it was. Got OH to sit on the toilet and time them - they were about 4 mins apart and lasting 30 seconds.
After a while I sent OH away got on the toilet and finally had a massive clear out (gross) while having contractions still and shouting to OH to time them lol. i also had my bloody show.
Rang hospital but they told me to hang on as it was my first and I would probably be a while yet. So I waited til they were about 2 mins apart and rang again, they were getting really painful and the hospital told me to come in.
So me, OH and my mum (my other birth partner) arrived at the hospital at about 4pm where i was examined and found to only be 2cms
but the midwife said she could tell i was in pain so I didn't have to go home. She gave me two diacodeine (?) and left to let me get on with it.2 hours later the drugs had done nothing for the pain at all (the back pain was horrific as baby was leaning back or something) and had just left me reality stoned as well as slowing my conttactions to 5-6 mins and I was told I was going to go home. It was the end of that midwife's shift but she told me she was on the following night and would probably deliver my baby then!
I was in such bad pain that it took me 20 minutes to get back to the car
we drove home and OH made me some food but I hardly ate as I felt so sick. At twenty to eight I suddenly felt this ovrwhelming urge to push which terrified me as i had always heard not to as if i wasn't fully dilated it would hurt me and the baby. I started screaming for OH to help me but it was out of our control and with the first push I felt my waters go.
The hospital told me to come straight back in so after changing my pants and trousers and putting a pad on we drove back, I was screaming from trying not to push but my body was doing it anyway and I could see my bump changing shape with every contraction.
I got wheeled up to the exact same room I'd been in before, and was examined immediately by a new midwife. She told me I was fully dilated and to start pushing with the next contraction! my mum was called but the midwife said she probably wouldn't make it which really upset me. However I just kept pushing, it felt really good as it no longer hurt just felt like pressure and an urge. Then the midwife said i still had some waters intact but she could see meconium in them and asked if she could break them, i said yes so now all of a sudden I was sat/laid in a huge pool of poo, blood and waters lol.
My mum walked in about 2 minutes before Cathy's head came out and watched with OH as she emerged (even though I'd told them not to!) Cathy was born at 8:33pm and plonked on my tummy for a few seconds before being whisked away to check she was OK and get the meconium out of her mouth. The midwife cleaned me up and announced I had no tears yay
baby Cathy was perfect and weighed in at 7lbs 6oz.My birth experience was fantastic but sadly my aftercare was lacking, nobody showed me how to latch her to my breast til 3:30am after she had been grizzling for 3 hours
and I wasn't taken to the post-natal ward til 5:30am by which time I was beyond tired and unable to sleep.We had to stay 24 hours because of the meconium but we were allowed to take her home Saturday night which was great
and started to become a proper little family!
