stacey2404
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Ok firstly I want to apologise for taking so long to post this but I did not enjoy my birth experience and feel quite upset every time I try to write about it. It's not a bad story really and people have had FAR worse but I can't help feel upset about it.
So I went in on the Saturday morning for induction to begin and got a pessary inserted and told it would work within 24 hours. This along was quite traumatic for me as I have vaginismus and find vaginal examinations near impossible and could never have a smear test done. However I've had a few since I got pregnant and the midwives have been brilliant and I was feeling really good about my labour as I had managed them all!
The pessary went in at 8.15 with no problems however at 1pm it fell out so my partner buzEd for a midwife and I asked her to reinsert it and explained my fears with this. She didn't care. She started and it really really hurt so I asked her to stop so I could calm down and then try again. She said NO and simply kept going to which I was crying and begging her to stop. She eventually got it in and then after when I said I hated that she had done that to me she said 'it was easier for everyone' she scared the hell out of me!
Then after 6pm it came out again and I felt very panicked about getting it back in but the next midwife was lovely. Vaginismus was now back full force however and getting the pessary in was impossible so she gave me gas and air and I managed that way.
At 8pm I had bad contractions but was told to wait then out and see what happened. By 10pm I was in a bath and on agony! So they hooked me up to the machine to Monitor contractions and it was a good job because I was having a hypersensitive reaction and getting regular contractions with no break period between so bubs heart rate was going sky high.
Consultant came in and pessary was removed he also wrote I. My notes that he recommended epidural was given ASAP in labour do vaginal examinations could be conducted with ease. And i was given morphine for pain. I slept until 7am on Sunday morning then and was woken up to say I would be getting gel induction that afternoon. I got gel at 11am had regular contractions from 12.30 and waters broke at 2pm so I was then to labour and delivery. By this point I was in agony. The contractions were ok but I kept telling them I had an odd pain in my back which the senior midwife insisted was a contraction and I simply was not coping! I begged for an epidural and she said not until I was 4cm so I would probably not get it until after midnight!
Another midwife took over at 7pm took one look at me and went for consultant as she felt something wasn't right. But 7.30 I had an epidural. THANK GOD!!
Epidural worked great. Then 2 hours later I had feeling in one side of my bump but not other. My body was not absorbing epidural effectively. I then had 2 top ups 2 hours apart as it was not working well.
By 7am I was pushing. Epidural had started to fade a bit and I felt wonderful as midwife was telling me how excellent I was dojg and that most people don't push this well. Baby was going to be here within half an hour and she could see the head!
Then PANIC baby's heart rate went really high and my BP went to 58 over 43!
Consultant came in and decided that I was to have forceps delivery as he was 90% sure that would work.
As epidural wasn't working I got a spinal in theatre and had screamed my way down the corridor with this terrible back pain again I told them it felt like his shoulder in my spine. I was reassured he was in the right position and bit wasn't this.
Went to theatre and he wouldn't move with forceps. So I had an Emergancy c section there and then.
And guess what?! He was on his side with his shoulder stuck in my back! So with every contraction he pushed into my spine.
But wow! When they lifted him over that green surgical curtain at 08.57 it was worth every minute of agony! My fiancé told me it was a boy and I instantly burst into tears. He is so beautiful!!
I was told all the way through my pregnancy I was going to have a very small baby as I only measured 33 weeks. My god were they wrong my little pudding weighed 8lb 11 and measured 56cm. He was apparently just hiding out in my back!
Moral of the story. Trust our mummy instincts in labour. If my feels wrong, your probably right!
So I went in on the Saturday morning for induction to begin and got a pessary inserted and told it would work within 24 hours. This along was quite traumatic for me as I have vaginismus and find vaginal examinations near impossible and could never have a smear test done. However I've had a few since I got pregnant and the midwives have been brilliant and I was feeling really good about my labour as I had managed them all!
The pessary went in at 8.15 with no problems however at 1pm it fell out so my partner buzEd for a midwife and I asked her to reinsert it and explained my fears with this. She didn't care. She started and it really really hurt so I asked her to stop so I could calm down and then try again. She said NO and simply kept going to which I was crying and begging her to stop. She eventually got it in and then after when I said I hated that she had done that to me she said 'it was easier for everyone' she scared the hell out of me!
Then after 6pm it came out again and I felt very panicked about getting it back in but the next midwife was lovely. Vaginismus was now back full force however and getting the pessary in was impossible so she gave me gas and air and I managed that way.
At 8pm I had bad contractions but was told to wait then out and see what happened. By 10pm I was in a bath and on agony! So they hooked me up to the machine to Monitor contractions and it was a good job because I was having a hypersensitive reaction and getting regular contractions with no break period between so bubs heart rate was going sky high.
Consultant came in and pessary was removed he also wrote I. My notes that he recommended epidural was given ASAP in labour do vaginal examinations could be conducted with ease. And i was given morphine for pain. I slept until 7am on Sunday morning then and was woken up to say I would be getting gel induction that afternoon. I got gel at 11am had regular contractions from 12.30 and waters broke at 2pm so I was then to labour and delivery. By this point I was in agony. The contractions were ok but I kept telling them I had an odd pain in my back which the senior midwife insisted was a contraction and I simply was not coping! I begged for an epidural and she said not until I was 4cm so I would probably not get it until after midnight!
Another midwife took over at 7pm took one look at me and went for consultant as she felt something wasn't right. But 7.30 I had an epidural. THANK GOD!!
Epidural worked great. Then 2 hours later I had feeling in one side of my bump but not other. My body was not absorbing epidural effectively. I then had 2 top ups 2 hours apart as it was not working well.
By 7am I was pushing. Epidural had started to fade a bit and I felt wonderful as midwife was telling me how excellent I was dojg and that most people don't push this well. Baby was going to be here within half an hour and she could see the head!
Then PANIC baby's heart rate went really high and my BP went to 58 over 43!
Consultant came in and decided that I was to have forceps delivery as he was 90% sure that would work.
As epidural wasn't working I got a spinal in theatre and had screamed my way down the corridor with this terrible back pain again I told them it felt like his shoulder in my spine. I was reassured he was in the right position and bit wasn't this.
Went to theatre and he wouldn't move with forceps. So I had an Emergancy c section there and then.
And guess what?! He was on his side with his shoulder stuck in my back! So with every contraction he pushed into my spine.
But wow! When they lifted him over that green surgical curtain at 08.57 it was worth every minute of agony! My fiancé told me it was a boy and I instantly burst into tears. He is so beautiful!!
I was told all the way through my pregnancy I was going to have a very small baby as I only measured 33 weeks. My god were they wrong my little pudding weighed 8lb 11 and measured 56cm. He was apparently just hiding out in my back!
Moral of the story. Trust our mummy instincts in labour. If my feels wrong, your probably right!
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