missyeovil
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Here's my birth story...
On my due date (Monday) the midwives came out for a routine appoint. I asked them for a sweep as my sister was due to fly to Ghana on Saturday and was beginning to get worried she wouldn't get to meet baby! They did a sweep and I had a few cramps and a bit of show but not much else. On the Wednesday they rang and asked if I wanted another one so they came and discovered I had progressed a bit and were pretty convinced I would go into labour after that sweep.
Sure enough I started getting irregular pains. Sometimes they were coming every 6 mins but then they would switch to big gaps between them but just the action of standing up or going for a pee would trigger another. This carried on all day. There was one point u was sat between my daughter on the loo and my son on the potty, both with diarrhoea and I was mid contraction...not ideal haha!
About 8pm my husband went out to build his shed and I set about cleaning the kitchen. At this point I was contracting every 2-3 mins but only lasting about 30 seconds. I called hubby home again but then they slowed down again.
About 10ish they were still roughly 6 mins apart but getting pretty intense and I needed to breathe through them. I was also totally knackered by this point so I decided to go to bed and try and sleep a bit. I managed to sleep between contractions for a wee while but at 1am I decided to get up again and by 1.30 I called the midwives as they were very intense.
Midwives arrived about 2am and examined me, I was 6cm. I carried on having really irregular contractions but they were super strong. I tried some gas and air but it made me sick so I gave up. I'm not sure on times then but I started to feel the urge to push. Even at this stage my contractions were quite a way apart and irregular! My waters went and 4 or 5 contractions later out came my baby boy, 4.56am.
He was 9lb 2Oz! Way bigger than my other 2! I just had a wee graze as well so pretty pleased with that. He latched on straight away and is such a wee milk guzzler.
My 3 and 4 year old woke up about 6am by which point I was bathed and everything was tidied up so it was pretty perfect and they were thrilled to meet their baby brother
On my due date (Monday) the midwives came out for a routine appoint. I asked them for a sweep as my sister was due to fly to Ghana on Saturday and was beginning to get worried she wouldn't get to meet baby! They did a sweep and I had a few cramps and a bit of show but not much else. On the Wednesday they rang and asked if I wanted another one so they came and discovered I had progressed a bit and were pretty convinced I would go into labour after that sweep.
Sure enough I started getting irregular pains. Sometimes they were coming every 6 mins but then they would switch to big gaps between them but just the action of standing up or going for a pee would trigger another. This carried on all day. There was one point u was sat between my daughter on the loo and my son on the potty, both with diarrhoea and I was mid contraction...not ideal haha!
About 8pm my husband went out to build his shed and I set about cleaning the kitchen. At this point I was contracting every 2-3 mins but only lasting about 30 seconds. I called hubby home again but then they slowed down again.
About 10ish they were still roughly 6 mins apart but getting pretty intense and I needed to breathe through them. I was also totally knackered by this point so I decided to go to bed and try and sleep a bit. I managed to sleep between contractions for a wee while but at 1am I decided to get up again and by 1.30 I called the midwives as they were very intense.
Midwives arrived about 2am and examined me, I was 6cm. I carried on having really irregular contractions but they were super strong. I tried some gas and air but it made me sick so I gave up. I'm not sure on times then but I started to feel the urge to push. Even at this stage my contractions were quite a way apart and irregular! My waters went and 4 or 5 contractions later out came my baby boy, 4.56am.
He was 9lb 2Oz! Way bigger than my other 2! I just had a wee graze as well so pretty pleased with that. He latched on straight away and is such a wee milk guzzler.
My 3 and 4 year old woke up about 6am by which point I was bathed and everything was tidied up so it was pretty perfect and they were thrilled to meet their baby brother
