Well thought id pop on quickly and give you all my wonderful ( not) birth story
AS i had a spontaneous rupture of membranes on saturday night, i only had 48hrs to go into labour naturally or i would have to be induced, as i was at high risk of infection.
Didnt have any pains so went to get induced at 4pm on Monday. Got there and had my 1st dose of Prostin at 5pm, which didnt do anything, after a VE i was told my cervix was very long still, and very posterior, which wasnt looking hopeful for it to be a successful induction, MW said that she thought i wasnt anywhere near ready to be in labour as my cervix was so high up
Had my next dose of prostin at 11pm, where it also came out that the 1st dose hadnt even dissolved, so in theory i had a double dose, and was hopeful this would get me going, but yet again, no joy, and spent the night with hardly any sleep as someone on the postnatal ward had a baby with a voice of a banshee
Next day i was examined again and given a 3rd dose of prostin, by this time i wasnt happy as i was just fed up of being in pain with the VE's they had to do to check my progress. I was 2-3cm dilated, exactly the same as i had been on Saturday night when my waters went
That night i asked one of the MWs how many doses of prostin i was allowed, and she said im only allowed 3 in 24hrs, so i was really upset as didnt want to have to wait another night before anything could potentially happen, so she went to see the doctor, who agreed i could go to delivery suite and be put on syntocinon drip........ i wasnt overly keen as knew this meant id be on continuous monitoring throughout the full labour.
Went to delivery, where i was examined and placed on drip, MW said it must have been my hind waters that had gone, and she was struggling to break my forewaters as cervix was still very high and posterior
Had 2 midwifes pushing down on my tummy, one holding my legs open while the other one broke my waters, lee looked petrified and i really dont think he was happy about how much pain i was in.
The drip was taking ages to do anything,i had dilated 1cm in 4hrs, and heard them talking about a caesarian as i wasnt progressing at all and baby blatantly didnt want to come out anytime soon.
Was having difficulty with the CTG as baby was moving too much so they put a clip on finleys head, which wasnt very comfortable as i had wire taped to the inside of my leg for the duration
I managed on gas and air until contractions were about 30secs apart, and asked for pethidine, which didnt do much, apart from make me feel dizzy, and asked for an epidural as by 2am i was so tired i really couldnt imagine id be in any state to deliver if i had to endure any more pain and no sleep.
Had epidural put in which gave me really bad shakiness, but i managed to sleep in bits, though finleys heart rate was a bit iffy so they kept waking me up asking me to change position etc,
Finally at about 5am i started getting lots of pressure down below, i was absolutely knacked, and getting concerned about Finley as the monitor kept beeping loads, started to push and MW said i had an anterior lip, so she had to push my cervix back to let the head come through the cervix, and his head was born pretty fast, i was so exhausted by this point i wasnt even thinking about the pain i just wanted to see my baby!!!!!
Took me about 5mins of pushing for him to come out, and found that his cord was wrapped around his neck 3 times, which explained why the heartbeat was taking a while to recover!!!!
He was born at 5.47am yesterday morning, weighing 8lbs 7.5oz, im over the moon and so is lee, hes so content, breasfeeding really well and quite happy!!!!!
heres a pic.....
AS i had a spontaneous rupture of membranes on saturday night, i only had 48hrs to go into labour naturally or i would have to be induced, as i was at high risk of infection.
Didnt have any pains so went to get induced at 4pm on Monday. Got there and had my 1st dose of Prostin at 5pm, which didnt do anything, after a VE i was told my cervix was very long still, and very posterior, which wasnt looking hopeful for it to be a successful induction, MW said that she thought i wasnt anywhere near ready to be in labour as my cervix was so high up
Had my next dose of prostin at 11pm, where it also came out that the 1st dose hadnt even dissolved, so in theory i had a double dose, and was hopeful this would get me going, but yet again, no joy, and spent the night with hardly any sleep as someone on the postnatal ward had a baby with a voice of a banshee
Next day i was examined again and given a 3rd dose of prostin, by this time i wasnt happy as i was just fed up of being in pain with the VE's they had to do to check my progress. I was 2-3cm dilated, exactly the same as i had been on Saturday night when my waters went
That night i asked one of the MWs how many doses of prostin i was allowed, and she said im only allowed 3 in 24hrs, so i was really upset as didnt want to have to wait another night before anything could potentially happen, so she went to see the doctor, who agreed i could go to delivery suite and be put on syntocinon drip........ i wasnt overly keen as knew this meant id be on continuous monitoring throughout the full labour.
Went to delivery, where i was examined and placed on drip, MW said it must have been my hind waters that had gone, and she was struggling to break my forewaters as cervix was still very high and posterior
Had 2 midwifes pushing down on my tummy, one holding my legs open while the other one broke my waters, lee looked petrified and i really dont think he was happy about how much pain i was in.
The drip was taking ages to do anything,i had dilated 1cm in 4hrs, and heard them talking about a caesarian as i wasnt progressing at all and baby blatantly didnt want to come out anytime soon.
Was having difficulty with the CTG as baby was moving too much so they put a clip on finleys head, which wasnt very comfortable as i had wire taped to the inside of my leg for the duration
I managed on gas and air until contractions were about 30secs apart, and asked for pethidine, which didnt do much, apart from make me feel dizzy, and asked for an epidural as by 2am i was so tired i really couldnt imagine id be in any state to deliver if i had to endure any more pain and no sleep.
Had epidural put in which gave me really bad shakiness, but i managed to sleep in bits, though finleys heart rate was a bit iffy so they kept waking me up asking me to change position etc,
Finally at about 5am i started getting lots of pressure down below, i was absolutely knacked, and getting concerned about Finley as the monitor kept beeping loads, started to push and MW said i had an anterior lip, so she had to push my cervix back to let the head come through the cervix, and his head was born pretty fast, i was so exhausted by this point i wasnt even thinking about the pain i just wanted to see my baby!!!!!
Took me about 5mins of pushing for him to come out, and found that his cord was wrapped around his neck 3 times, which explained why the heartbeat was taking a while to recover!!!!
He was born at 5.47am yesterday morning, weighing 8lbs 7.5oz, im over the moon and so is lee, hes so content, breasfeeding really well and quite happy!!!!!
heres a pic.....
