Finally I have got around to doing my birth story.
I woke up in the morning of the 21/3/15 feeling frustrated that I was 4 days overdue, especially considering my first baby came 2 weeks early I just felt fed up and that he was never going to come! So I decided that today despite my SPD I was going to get baby out. I decided to do laps of the block and running up and down my stairs all day! I had been having regular contractions on and off for the previous two weeks which kept fizzling out to nothing so I wasnt surprised that I was contracting on my walk in the afternoon. By the time I got back I was having terrible backaches and the contractions were more painful than they had been so I decided to have a bath.
In the bath I had 3 really strong painful contractions in 15 mins and given that the bath certainly didnt help I knew it was time to call the midwives and make the call to mother in law to come and look after my toddler.
At 17.30 I called the oncall midwife to tell her I was in labour and remind her that I laboured fairly quickly last time. She said she would send the second on call midwife around as she was closer.
At 18.00hrs Rachel the first midwife arrived almost the same time as my mother in law arrived. At this point I was getting a bit panicky as my labour room was full of clutter that my husband was painting and was no where near ready for me to labour. So after a few choice words he started getting the labour room ready and fully pumping the pool up.
Rachel took my observations and had a chat inbetween contractions and encouraged me to have paracetomol and eat! I was far beyond eating as I was contracting 3 in every 10 mins.
At 18.20 second midwife Becky arrived. I knew her from where I used to work which was strange but she was amazing and a total rock whilst my husband was getting the labour room and pool ready. I started to use my microwave wheat bag on my back which Becky massaged into my back during a contraction. This was lovely pain relief and Becky had the best technique!
At 19.00hrs we discussed getting into the pool so hubby started filling it up. I was contracting very strongly by now but had no idea how far dilated I was. The midwives talked me into a vaginal examination whereby I discovered I was 8cm. By the time the pool was ready the original on call midwife arrived she was a little bit clumsy and kept falling over things- hehe! I was more worried about her than I was about me at times lol.
At just gone 19.30 I got into the pool. It was heavenly! Almost as soon as I got into the water I had strong urges to push so midwife encouraged me to go with my body. At 19.55 Baby Boy Jensen arrived weighing 8lbs 3oz using just paracetamol, heat and water!
It was an amazing feeling and I just sat for a while in the pool cuddling my baby. By far the best birth and would repeat it all 10 times over if I could!
Here are some pics of immediately post birth
I woke up in the morning of the 21/3/15 feeling frustrated that I was 4 days overdue, especially considering my first baby came 2 weeks early I just felt fed up and that he was never going to come! So I decided that today despite my SPD I was going to get baby out. I decided to do laps of the block and running up and down my stairs all day! I had been having regular contractions on and off for the previous two weeks which kept fizzling out to nothing so I wasnt surprised that I was contracting on my walk in the afternoon. By the time I got back I was having terrible backaches and the contractions were more painful than they had been so I decided to have a bath.
In the bath I had 3 really strong painful contractions in 15 mins and given that the bath certainly didnt help I knew it was time to call the midwives and make the call to mother in law to come and look after my toddler.
At 17.30 I called the oncall midwife to tell her I was in labour and remind her that I laboured fairly quickly last time. She said she would send the second on call midwife around as she was closer.
At 18.00hrs Rachel the first midwife arrived almost the same time as my mother in law arrived. At this point I was getting a bit panicky as my labour room was full of clutter that my husband was painting and was no where near ready for me to labour. So after a few choice words he started getting the labour room ready and fully pumping the pool up.
Rachel took my observations and had a chat inbetween contractions and encouraged me to have paracetomol and eat! I was far beyond eating as I was contracting 3 in every 10 mins.
At 18.20 second midwife Becky arrived. I knew her from where I used to work which was strange but she was amazing and a total rock whilst my husband was getting the labour room and pool ready. I started to use my microwave wheat bag on my back which Becky massaged into my back during a contraction. This was lovely pain relief and Becky had the best technique!
At 19.00hrs we discussed getting into the pool so hubby started filling it up. I was contracting very strongly by now but had no idea how far dilated I was. The midwives talked me into a vaginal examination whereby I discovered I was 8cm. By the time the pool was ready the original on call midwife arrived she was a little bit clumsy and kept falling over things- hehe! I was more worried about her than I was about me at times lol.
At just gone 19.30 I got into the pool. It was heavenly! Almost as soon as I got into the water I had strong urges to push so midwife encouraged me to go with my body. At 19.55 Baby Boy Jensen arrived weighing 8lbs 3oz using just paracetamol, heat and water!
It was an amazing feeling and I just sat for a while in the pool cuddling my baby. By far the best birth and would repeat it all 10 times over if I could!
Here are some pics of immediately post birth
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