littlemiss83
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Here's my birth story of Kayden James - born 27/10/11 @19:16 - 7 days late.
I started getting pains on Monday night, only got about 4, but felt like contractions, I shoved it to the back of my mind thinking it was just my body preparing. On Tuesday, I was booked for a sweep with MW, she told me I was 4cm dilated & that baby would come that night. We arranged a babysitter & got prepared. On Tuesday night started getting contractions, but were bearable. Also started losing plug. Contractions were all over the place, one every hour or so & were still manageable. On Weds night the contractions were more regular, every 20/30mins & getting alot sorer, around 1am I couldn't handle it anymore & phoned the hosp, to be told I was better off waiting til they were 5min apart. In the early hours they were still irregular but very sore. When I woke on Thurs they were absolute agony, I couldn't sit or lie down, I couldn't even sit on the toilet w/out it bringing on a massive contraction, had to pee on a towel that I held between my legs. My contractions were between 5&12 mins. By 5pm I was literally screaming in agony with the pains, convinced that baby was no-where near coming due to irregular contractions & waters still intact. By the time OH got ready & our taxi came, I was screaming the house down & at one point was lying on the floor crying & screaming in pain. I screamed all the way in the taxi & couldn't sit the pressure in my privates was immense.
Eventually got to the hosp (i'd phoned & told them I was coming even tho pains weren't regular) only took about 30mins for them to turn into no breaks in between. Anyway, couldn't get out the taxi had 2 press all sorts of buzzers & walk along corridors to get to the assessment unit. I was still screaming in pain with OH holding me up, the MW asked me to give her a urine sample, get on bed & take off bottom half clothes, I couldn't open my legs enough to do the sample & couldn't get on the bed, I was lifted on & was screaming my lungs out in pain, OH said I was realllly screaming they didn't check me just rushed me straight to labour room on the trolley.
The MW gave me Gas & Air which was brilliant when you've had no pain relief for days, She starts saying baby ready to come & I had to push. 45 mins after arriving at hospital Kayden was born, i felt his head coming & gave a massive push, it kinda got stuck & I pushed again & that was the head out, then another small push & body out. The pain was absolutely immense, compared to my previous birth in which I had epidural, diamorphine & G&A this was excruciating. OH said I was screaming a hell of alot more with this one.
He was born with the cord wrapped around his neck twice & once around his body & he was turning blue. MW's had also said his heart rate was dropping & he was getting tired (before he came out) I wish I had gotten to hosp sooner, but it didn't help with them saying i had to be 5min between contractions - oh and neither of us or MW's know when my waters broke, but they were intact when I got to the hosp. I thought being induced was a hard birth but this one with only G&A - big difference going through majority of it with no pain relief, was a hell of alot harder, but pushing stage was shorter.
We got discharged from the ward at 12 lunch time today. Last night he was perfect & didn't cry once but all the rest of the babies did.
He's absolutely perfect & I'm chuffed to bits to have a baby boy! He's such a content wee soul, when he wakes up he just lies there & looks about & doesn't cry!
Here's 1 pic for now, i'll post some better ones when I get them!
but well done xx
