Jojo84
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here's my labour story 
So i went in on Saturday 1/3/14 for induction prior to my duedate on 2/3/14 due to anxiety connected to reduced movement and also lower fluid than they would like.
I went in at 2:30, monitored for a while, then examined. they inserted my first pessary at about 4pm. Went for a walk around the hospital for a bit and backache started to creep in about 6pm. i bounced on my ball and hubby went home at 8pm, with the instruction to return if i went into labour or showed significant progress at my 10pm check.
10pm check came and i still wasnt dilated, cervix rhick and far vback so they gave me another. I didnt sleep at all that night - hideous back cramps and spasms mixed with the most uncomfortable bed in the history of the world! in the morning they checked me again and i was still no further forward so they put in the 3rd pessary and said they'd leave it for 24hours before checking and deciding on plan of action... they said most likely that they would either decide that morning to do a c-section or to give me 24hrs rest before trying one more pessary before a section would be organised if nothing had happened enough to pop my waters.
this is when my labour experience took a bad turn... a stupid registrar came in to introduce herself and told me that if it didnt work my cinsultant may chose to abandon the attempt to induce and send me home for 72 hours before bringing me back in and starting the process again... i told her thats not the information that the mw gave me, to which i wad told that she was a doctor and midwives couldnt guide me on doctor issues. (DISRESPECTFUL!) she then went on to tell me that there was no way that was safe to dliver a baby as my bmi was high and epidural was oput of the question even if i wanted one. she made me feel like my baby was going to die and i asked her to leave... she kept going on about my bmi and how unsafe a c-section was for anyone let along someone with a bmi over 35!
I was in tears by this point - tiredness, hormones and fear especially as the REASON i was induced in the first place was due to a sheer terror that my baby was going to die and anxiety. she told me that some babies just die and there was no way to predict which ones!
I started to panic and she left, saying she would send a mw but she never did and after a good few minutes of crying, hyperventilating i called for m=the mw... it took them 15 minutes and a rather large dose of oxygen to get me round to a point where i wasn't verging on passing out. They had to monitor me as Baby's heartrate had shot right up.
I went balistic 0 as did my mother - and i spent hopurs terrified my baby was going to die. nin the end the mw called the consultant and got him to come and see me. he reassured me and said even though protocol suggests waiting 24hrs after 3rd pessary to check cervix he said he would give me an investigation to see if we could break waters esrly.
they found i was 1cm dialated so managed to break waters at 5pm.
By 9pm i was in agony with my back pain and spasms and transfered to another room with a better bed that could go straight to theatre if i needed a section. i was in absolute hell and at some point that night they offered me gas and air so i took it... it was amazing! loved my gas and air
by 4am i was still only 1cm dialated!
by 5am i was still not having contractions, however mw observed me for 30 minutes and decided my back spasms were far too regular to just be back spasms and despite the minitor not picking up anything at all in the way of contractions she decided i was in fact contracting, I asked for an epidural despite being dead set against it - the mw told me there wasnt anywhere to do it, but gave me some diamorphine which allowed me to sleep for the first time in 2 days.
at 7am i was 2cm dialated.
at 9am i was 4cm dialated and was classed as in "active labour" they gave me an epidural and i was so relaxed ans managed to sleep but at 10am they asked if a student could examine me for practice i said yes and she said i was 7cm dialated! the mw didnt beliueve her but on further investigation ssaid i was in fact 7-8cm dialated! closer to 8cm
then things started to get blurry and i was sick, veryu sick (sidenote- my mum caught my projectile vomit in a kidney dish with AMAZING skill!) and at that moment the baby started to get distress and his heartbeat slowed down considerably. they took some blood from his head and ran a test and daid they needed to take me into theatre to do either an emergncy forceps delivery, if that failed theyd try vontouse and if that failed d have an emergency c-section... next thing i knew people were all aound ,e with about 5 different people examining me for different things, 2 anethiatists, a student, a midwife, a consultant and a registrar! i had people taking off my nailvarnish while they rushed me down to theatre and i was terrified i was going to lose my baby.
they decided against forceps as baby was getting very distressed at this point and his oxygen levels were falling. he was already basically crowning so they had to pull his back into the womb with forceps before they could deliver him!
I was lucky and had an amazingly beautiful little boy at 12:32pm weighing 7lbs and 11oz... ith freakishly long legs lol.
I stayed in a few days as he couldnt latch due to a nipple issue - in fact he didnt feed properly for 48hours so his weight had dropped to borderline when he was weighed today -so im now expressing his feeds every 3 hours and bottle feeding. hes beautiful and i love him already so very very much.
my birth was a little traumatic but i dont car e- as long as he got here safely i dont care how he got here.
we named him Luke John Steven after my grandad who passed in 2012 and my hubbys dad who passed in 2000.
So i went in on Saturday 1/3/14 for induction prior to my duedate on 2/3/14 due to anxiety connected to reduced movement and also lower fluid than they would like.
I went in at 2:30, monitored for a while, then examined. they inserted my first pessary at about 4pm. Went for a walk around the hospital for a bit and backache started to creep in about 6pm. i bounced on my ball and hubby went home at 8pm, with the instruction to return if i went into labour or showed significant progress at my 10pm check.
10pm check came and i still wasnt dilated, cervix rhick and far vback so they gave me another. I didnt sleep at all that night - hideous back cramps and spasms mixed with the most uncomfortable bed in the history of the world! in the morning they checked me again and i was still no further forward so they put in the 3rd pessary and said they'd leave it for 24hours before checking and deciding on plan of action... they said most likely that they would either decide that morning to do a c-section or to give me 24hrs rest before trying one more pessary before a section would be organised if nothing had happened enough to pop my waters.
this is when my labour experience took a bad turn... a stupid registrar came in to introduce herself and told me that if it didnt work my cinsultant may chose to abandon the attempt to induce and send me home for 72 hours before bringing me back in and starting the process again... i told her thats not the information that the mw gave me, to which i wad told that she was a doctor and midwives couldnt guide me on doctor issues. (DISRESPECTFUL!) she then went on to tell me that there was no way that was safe to dliver a baby as my bmi was high and epidural was oput of the question even if i wanted one. she made me feel like my baby was going to die and i asked her to leave... she kept going on about my bmi and how unsafe a c-section was for anyone let along someone with a bmi over 35!
I was in tears by this point - tiredness, hormones and fear especially as the REASON i was induced in the first place was due to a sheer terror that my baby was going to die and anxiety. she told me that some babies just die and there was no way to predict which ones!
I started to panic and she left, saying she would send a mw but she never did and after a good few minutes of crying, hyperventilating i called for m=the mw... it took them 15 minutes and a rather large dose of oxygen to get me round to a point where i wasn't verging on passing out. They had to monitor me as Baby's heartrate had shot right up.
I went balistic 0 as did my mother - and i spent hopurs terrified my baby was going to die. nin the end the mw called the consultant and got him to come and see me. he reassured me and said even though protocol suggests waiting 24hrs after 3rd pessary to check cervix he said he would give me an investigation to see if we could break waters esrly.
they found i was 1cm dialated so managed to break waters at 5pm.
By 9pm i was in agony with my back pain and spasms and transfered to another room with a better bed that could go straight to theatre if i needed a section. i was in absolute hell and at some point that night they offered me gas and air so i took it... it was amazing! loved my gas and air
by 4am i was still only 1cm dialated!
by 5am i was still not having contractions, however mw observed me for 30 minutes and decided my back spasms were far too regular to just be back spasms and despite the minitor not picking up anything at all in the way of contractions she decided i was in fact contracting, I asked for an epidural despite being dead set against it - the mw told me there wasnt anywhere to do it, but gave me some diamorphine which allowed me to sleep for the first time in 2 days.
at 7am i was 2cm dialated.
at 9am i was 4cm dialated and was classed as in "active labour" they gave me an epidural and i was so relaxed ans managed to sleep but at 10am they asked if a student could examine me for practice i said yes and she said i was 7cm dialated! the mw didnt beliueve her but on further investigation ssaid i was in fact 7-8cm dialated! closer to 8cm
then things started to get blurry and i was sick, veryu sick (sidenote- my mum caught my projectile vomit in a kidney dish with AMAZING skill!) and at that moment the baby started to get distress and his heartbeat slowed down considerably. they took some blood from his head and ran a test and daid they needed to take me into theatre to do either an emergncy forceps delivery, if that failed theyd try vontouse and if that failed d have an emergency c-section... next thing i knew people were all aound ,e with about 5 different people examining me for different things, 2 anethiatists, a student, a midwife, a consultant and a registrar! i had people taking off my nailvarnish while they rushed me down to theatre and i was terrified i was going to lose my baby.
they decided against forceps as baby was getting very distressed at this point and his oxygen levels were falling. he was already basically crowning so they had to pull his back into the womb with forceps before they could deliver him!
I was lucky and had an amazingly beautiful little boy at 12:32pm weighing 7lbs and 11oz... ith freakishly long legs lol.
I stayed in a few days as he couldnt latch due to a nipple issue - in fact he didnt feed properly for 48hours so his weight had dropped to borderline when he was weighed today -so im now expressing his feeds every 3 hours and bottle feeding. hes beautiful and i love him already so very very much.
my birth was a little traumatic but i dont car e- as long as he got here safely i dont care how he got here.
we named him Luke John Steven after my grandad who passed in 2012 and my hubbys dad who passed in 2000.
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