berit87
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I thought I would share the story of the birth of my third baby boy. It is interesting to look back at them one day and I love reading other people's stories.
Quick introduction, I got diagnosed with gestational diabetes at around 14 weeks of pregnancy. It was diet controlled all the way through and I never had any additional problems. I was determined to have a water birth as I had it with my second and loved it. The doctors told me I could labour in water but needed to come out for delivery as baby would have higher risk of shoulder dislocation. So, due to GD I had to be induced before my due date which was 28th February.
My induction date was set for 26th February. I got to the hospital and they put the first pessary of Prostin in (I was very against having my waters broken as even though I had to be induced I wanted to keep it as natural as possible. They have to leave it for 6 hours before they can put another one in. Needless to say nothing happened so they put another one in that evening. After a few hours I was getting quite bad pains but they stopped at 3am and got nothing after that. The following morning they were keen to try and break my waters but I said no so they put the third pessary in. That still did nothing, I was not feeling anything. I only had one last chance with one more pessary. So 11pm on the 27th they put the last pessary in. Half hour later I started getting bad back pains. About midnight I decided to go in the bath to ease the pains. After having sat in the bath with mild contractions until about 2am my fiancé called saying he'd come to hospital. Since it was in the middle of the night and I was still feeling good I said not to bother yet but he insisted.
He arrived 20 minutes later at 2.20am I was getting full on contractions and surviving on gas and air. Since it has been 3.5h since they put the pessary in they said they would not do an internal until 5am. It got to half past 3 when I said I needed to push. I was still in the normal bath so they started panicking that they needed to get me out and into the birthing pool. The birthing pool had only just become available which is why it was such last minute and they were still in the process of filling it up.
I told my OH to get midwife now or I will push baby out there and then. So in the middle of a crazy contraction they had to get me out of the bath to walk across the hall to the other room where the birthing pool was. I have no idea where I found the strength to move or walk. So I got into a half filled bath, midwife was still filling it. I felt one contraction and did one push and he was out. I told my fiancé and midwife that I'd pushed him out and neither of them believed me. Because the water was filling the bath they could not see clearly under water so they did not see my baby. I had to tell them 5 times he was out before they checked and realised he was swimming under water. They were in complete disbelief that it only took one push and no screaming - of course they thought I'd done a number 2! They should believe the mother - i can tell the difference between a poo and a baby dangling between my legs with a cord.
So once they checked and realised I was telling the truth they quickly attended to the baby, took him out, put him on me and had my partner cut the cord. He was born at 3.50am and weighed 8.9lb.
I then had to get out, was feeding the baby and delivered the placenta 30 mins later.
Regardless of the fact I was induced, because I got to do it as naturally as possible it was the most wonderful birth experience ever.
I love him so very much I will never be able to put it into words xxxxxxxxxx
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Quick introduction, I got diagnosed with gestational diabetes at around 14 weeks of pregnancy. It was diet controlled all the way through and I never had any additional problems. I was determined to have a water birth as I had it with my second and loved it. The doctors told me I could labour in water but needed to come out for delivery as baby would have higher risk of shoulder dislocation. So, due to GD I had to be induced before my due date which was 28th February.
My induction date was set for 26th February. I got to the hospital and they put the first pessary of Prostin in (I was very against having my waters broken as even though I had to be induced I wanted to keep it as natural as possible. They have to leave it for 6 hours before they can put another one in. Needless to say nothing happened so they put another one in that evening. After a few hours I was getting quite bad pains but they stopped at 3am and got nothing after that. The following morning they were keen to try and break my waters but I said no so they put the third pessary in. That still did nothing, I was not feeling anything. I only had one last chance with one more pessary. So 11pm on the 27th they put the last pessary in. Half hour later I started getting bad back pains. About midnight I decided to go in the bath to ease the pains. After having sat in the bath with mild contractions until about 2am my fiancé called saying he'd come to hospital. Since it was in the middle of the night and I was still feeling good I said not to bother yet but he insisted.
He arrived 20 minutes later at 2.20am I was getting full on contractions and surviving on gas and air. Since it has been 3.5h since they put the pessary in they said they would not do an internal until 5am. It got to half past 3 when I said I needed to push. I was still in the normal bath so they started panicking that they needed to get me out and into the birthing pool. The birthing pool had only just become available which is why it was such last minute and they were still in the process of filling it up.
I told my OH to get midwife now or I will push baby out there and then. So in the middle of a crazy contraction they had to get me out of the bath to walk across the hall to the other room where the birthing pool was. I have no idea where I found the strength to move or walk. So I got into a half filled bath, midwife was still filling it. I felt one contraction and did one push and he was out. I told my fiancé and midwife that I'd pushed him out and neither of them believed me. Because the water was filling the bath they could not see clearly under water so they did not see my baby. I had to tell them 5 times he was out before they checked and realised he was swimming under water. They were in complete disbelief that it only took one push and no screaming - of course they thought I'd done a number 2! They should believe the mother - i can tell the difference between a poo and a baby dangling between my legs with a cord.
So once they checked and realised I was telling the truth they quickly attended to the baby, took him out, put him on me and had my partner cut the cord. He was born at 3.50am and weighed 8.9lb.
I then had to get out, was feeding the baby and delivered the placenta 30 mins later.
Regardless of the fact I was induced, because I got to do it as naturally as possible it was the most wonderful birth experience ever.
I love him so very much I will never be able to put it into words xxxxxxxxxx
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