Hi ladies, sorry I totally forgot to update you before I headed to bed.
About 3pm contractions started, not particularly strong ones but they really aggravated my sciatica so were causing me a lot more discomfort than they really should have been. I spent the day on birthing ball or on the bed whatever I could handle the pain/pressure with. I got a recurrence if the problem I had right at the start of the pregnancy where I couldn’t pee, that eventually passed but they felt was the head compressing my bladder somehow.
At 5.45pm they put the CTG back on me and caused themselves a bit of a panic when the lady next to me progressed fast and her water broke, they weren’t paying enough attention to me and hadn’t noticed my baby had had a big deceleration so all of a sudden the midwives panicked and called the doctor then one of them just realised I was too horizontal and that baby wa a probably just lying on its cord. So after another hour on the machine decided everything was fine and got the second pessary in - I was sure she had said gel the first time but turned out it’s tablets they are using.
Once that was in the contractions started increasing in strength and coming more regularly but again I knew it wasn’t really the contractions causing the majority of my pain but the effect of the contraction on my sciatica. I ended up back on a monitor and didn’t really get off it until 9pm. By 10pm I was feeling tired and tearful because I couldn’t stand, sit or lie without the pain in my legs being really bad. The midwife could see I needed something to calm me down and take the edge off so we decided on a liquid opioid that can be given two hourly and was unlikely to make me sick like codeine does. Begins with o but I can’t remember the name of it. It worked to take the edge of the pain, it seemed to stop me feeling the contractions as much and so I was mainly only feeling the sciatica and a lot of pressure. Decided to get ready for bed and watch an episode of a Netflix show. At midnight I asked if I could have another dose of the liquid painkiller and I felt that would probably get me off to sleep.
So that worked but I woke up half an hour ago and am struggling to get back to sleep. The contractions have stopped mostly although getting the odd tightening and pressure sensation. They’ll be in first thing to examine and give me another pessary. As far as I know though after that one they won’t do another one for 24 hours if it doesn’t work so hopefully a third will be enough to bring everything on.
hope everyone is doing ok, will try to remember to update you tomorrow with any progress! X
I know you were expecting it but fingers crossed you can get things going naturally in the next week.
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