mdsremos
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Charlie was born on his due date of Sunday 23rd April at 3.48pm after a 16 hour labour, 3 hours of pushing, 2 attempts at a ventouse and finally an emergency c-section.
I went into labour on Saturday evening and managed with a tens machine at home until 3am when I had had enough and DH husband took me to the labour suite to find I was 4am dilated. Was given gas and air...wonderful stuff (remember telling my DH I was Pi**ed) and eventually gave into a dose of pethadine at about 11am.
After an extremely painful internal exam the doctor was unhappy as Charlie was starting to crown but seemed stuck and wouldnt come out and he had turned his head in the birth canal so his nose was at the 4o'clock position instead of 12o'clock so it was decided they would take me to theatre for a spinal block and try a ventouse and if that didnt work I signed to say I was happy for a c-section.
The spinal was the best thing in the world and didnt even feel any discomfort when they put the needles in, it was such a relief after 3 exhausting hours of trying to puch him out without success. They tried the ventouse twice but he had so much hair that it kept slipping off and they avoided an episiotmy and went striaght for the C-section.
Charlie had to be pushed back up the birth canal by my midwife whilst the dr struggled to pull him out of my stomach and after what seemed like ages they ran past my head with a bundle which was Charlie who needed help with his breathing as he was blue and floppy.
Luckily he was okay after some help and soon screaming the place down!!!
Spent until Thursday in hospital as I breastfed for 3 days but became too sore and my milk didnt come in anyway so we made the decision to bottle feed.
Was very traumatic at the time but we have a beautiful and healthy little boy who is a complete little character and just getting used to the ups and downs of parenthood.
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I went into labour on Saturday evening and managed with a tens machine at home until 3am when I had had enough and DH husband took me to the labour suite to find I was 4am dilated. Was given gas and air...wonderful stuff (remember telling my DH I was Pi**ed) and eventually gave into a dose of pethadine at about 11am.
After an extremely painful internal exam the doctor was unhappy as Charlie was starting to crown but seemed stuck and wouldnt come out and he had turned his head in the birth canal so his nose was at the 4o'clock position instead of 12o'clock so it was decided they would take me to theatre for a spinal block and try a ventouse and if that didnt work I signed to say I was happy for a c-section.
The spinal was the best thing in the world and didnt even feel any discomfort when they put the needles in, it was such a relief after 3 exhausting hours of trying to puch him out without success. They tried the ventouse twice but he had so much hair that it kept slipping off and they avoided an episiotmy and went striaght for the C-section.
Charlie had to be pushed back up the birth canal by my midwife whilst the dr struggled to pull him out of my stomach and after what seemed like ages they ran past my head with a bundle which was Charlie who needed help with his breathing as he was blue and floppy.
Luckily he was okay after some help and soon screaming the place down!!!
Spent until Thursday in hospital as I breastfed for 3 days but became too sore and my milk didnt come in anyway so we made the decision to bottle feed.
Was very traumatic at the time but we have a beautiful and healthy little boy who is a complete little character and just getting used to the ups and downs of parenthood.
