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Very happy to announce the birth of my beautiful son Joshua.
Due date rolled round on Thursday August 8th and i woke up in one of the strangest moods. Not angry, not frustrated, not sad, Just very odd. I had a rant at my OH the poor bloke. I think my hormones must have gone sky high.
At 3.45am on friday morning - i woke up, stood up to go for a wee and my waters gushed down my pj bottoms!
I stuck a pad in and very quickly started losing my plug.
At 5.45am i rang the hospital and was told to go in at 9am.
9am i was examined and was only 2cm dilated and cervix was far back so she moved it further forward and sent me home. Booked me in to get things started for 6.30am the next morning.
10am or just after i got home and within the hour the pains has tripled and contractions were coming every 2 minutes.
12.30 - Back to hospital at about. Examined and only 3cm but was kept in. Managed to get in a bath at the hospital at about 1pm, then the pool room became free about 2.45pm and i had the privilege to get it which i wasn't expecting at all.
Somewhere between 2.45 and 3.50 - Just before i got in the pool i had to be examined again and was 7cm so i started on the gas and air!
So, the pool was run for me and in i got at 3.50pm!
At around 4.10pm the midwife said that if baby hadnt arrived by 7.15pm then she would need to do get a catheter and take my urine. I wasnt happy at the thought of contractions until that time.
To my surprise (and the midwives i think) babys head started crowning! A few pushes and head was out and wasn't as painful as i thought it would be. I wasn't on gas and air once head started crowning but it seemed so quick between head out and body out that i think the effects were still lingering.
He arrived at 16.42! Which was exactly 13 hours after my waters broke.
Went to deliver the placenta on the bed, simple. Examined for tears. Only a first degree and no stitches and lost very little blood.
20.43pm we were discharged and i had a shower, we got Joshua ready and left the hospital about 9.45pm
So pleased i had my water birth! xx
Due date rolled round on Thursday August 8th and i woke up in one of the strangest moods. Not angry, not frustrated, not sad, Just very odd. I had a rant at my OH the poor bloke. I think my hormones must have gone sky high.
At 3.45am on friday morning - i woke up, stood up to go for a wee and my waters gushed down my pj bottoms!
I stuck a pad in and very quickly started losing my plug.
At 5.45am i rang the hospital and was told to go in at 9am.
9am i was examined and was only 2cm dilated and cervix was far back so she moved it further forward and sent me home. Booked me in to get things started for 6.30am the next morning.
10am or just after i got home and within the hour the pains has tripled and contractions were coming every 2 minutes.
12.30 - Back to hospital at about. Examined and only 3cm but was kept in. Managed to get in a bath at the hospital at about 1pm, then the pool room became free about 2.45pm and i had the privilege to get it which i wasn't expecting at all.
Somewhere between 2.45 and 3.50 - Just before i got in the pool i had to be examined again and was 7cm so i started on the gas and air!
So, the pool was run for me and in i got at 3.50pm!
At around 4.10pm the midwife said that if baby hadnt arrived by 7.15pm then she would need to do get a catheter and take my urine. I wasnt happy at the thought of contractions until that time.
To my surprise (and the midwives i think) babys head started crowning! A few pushes and head was out and wasn't as painful as i thought it would be. I wasn't on gas and air once head started crowning but it seemed so quick between head out and body out that i think the effects were still lingering.
He arrived at 16.42! Which was exactly 13 hours after my waters broke.
Went to deliver the placenta on the bed, simple. Examined for tears. Only a first degree and no stitches and lost very little blood.
20.43pm we were discharged and i had a shower, we got Joshua ready and left the hospital about 9.45pm
So pleased i had my water birth! xx
xxx
