Thank you, Jacob has had the last few days of going back and forth under the phototherapy light, but since Sunday I have been given parent accommodation on the ward and he's in my room, I actually feel like his mummy now rather than his visitor, he so amazing! His levels are lower again now but till his immune system kicks in they will continue to rise (come on immune system)!
Love my little boy so much!!!
So my labour story..... On Friday 3rd August I had some exceuciating back pains in the early hours that woke me from my sleep, I did manage to get back to sleep after but then when I woke at approximately 5:30 I went to the toilet and I had some blood when I wiped, I called the hospital who told me to put on a pad and monitor the bleed, so I did i was told to call back if it continued. I then awoke again at 7:30 and there was blood on the pad and again when I wiped so I called the hospital, they told me to get some breakfast and get to the hospital but not to rush, so I called my husband home. At 8:50 I had sorted some buts in the house and eaten my breakfast, I went to get up from the table and I felt a gush. I ran to the toilet and looked at the maternity pad I had on, I wasn't sure but was pretty convinced my waters had broken. My hubby got home at 9 and we got straight to the hospital. Firstly I wet to triage, they put me on a monitor and checked the pad and confirmed my waters had gone but they were very bloody and they were not sure if they saw maconium too, but it was confirmed not, I had my cervix checked where I was 1cm dialated. I was sent up to delivery suite where i was put on another monitor and to be checked further, on delivery they decided to start me on steroids and to keep an eye on me. So I was sent to ward. Different doctors saw me over the following couple of hours and basically told menu should go into natural labour within 48hrs but if not they'd monitor me till 37 weeks and then induce me. Nothing muc happened from there more of my waters kept gushing away etc but no contractions etc. so I got myself settled and went to sleep feeling disheartened that my baby hadnt come yet. In the night I woke with very mild period pains and thought is this it (got a little excited but tried not to get my hopes up) and went back to sleep, I woke up later and my pains had stopped, so I waited for my dh to get to me and we had a stroll around the hospital grounds (we didn't venture far at all lol). Come 12 o'clock I got what felt like a mild back pain and a tightening, it lasted about 20 seconds, so I told my husband that I thought it might be starting, well at 12:40 after 40 mins of contractions lasting about 30 - 40 seconds and being about 4 mins apart I let the midwife know who gave me some co-codamol, this continued through visiting hours where I entertained my friend from 2:30-3:45 and by 5 the contractions were approx 50 seconds long and every 2-3 mins so we called the midwife who came and put me onto a monitor, after about 10mins they decided to take me to delivery as the monitor was recognising strong contractions. I got to delivery suite and got changed into my delivery nighty, and had an internal check done I was 6cm dialated (at this stage I was still maintaining conversation). Because baby as coming prematurely the midwives wanted to monitor me so I had more monitoring on and different drs nurses and midwives came in to us. The midwife was checking baby's hb and had said the base rate was approx 155bpm which is safe but the dr decided it was 165bpm and said baby was stressed and needed to be got out immediately, the midwife called the head midwife who rolled me onto my side and checked baby again and agreed with the first midwife that it was 155bpm and perfectly safe. I was here for a bit havin different checks etc and started using gas and air for the contractions, after a while I started to get a fever so the midwives and my hunny stripped me and pu me in a really light cotton nighty and my husband was mopping my head with a sponge and running off to get me more water etc. I was now just waiting throug contractions to start feeling an "urge to poo" lol, well all of a sudden I had a crazy urge to wee, the midwife had to lift me onto a bed pan, and I had to basically try to p whilst lying on my back lifting my ass in the air lol, well I managed that. The pain now had started to get unbearable and as much as I had said I didn't want an epidural, I asked for one, but was unable to have it because of my fever so they offered me pethadine, I refused this for ages. By 8/8:30pm ish I decided to have the pethadine as I was in too much pain, I felt this made me drowsy but didn't get rid of the pain at all, I told the midwife that "I'm crap" when she told me I was doing well, and continued to make whale noises on the gas and air. All of a sudden I felt this immense urge to push I looked at Mikey and said I need to push the midwife got excited and went to the bottom end of the bed, with my next contraction I was encouraged to push, I managed 3 pushed and rmthen the urge had gone so I waited the next contraction, this went on for a bit and baby was crowing for a while, my hubby even had a look and saw baby's hair!!! After a few more contractions and pushing my baby was finally here, they lifted him to me whilst my hubby cut the cord, then the midwife told us we had a little boy, it was amazing, I felt such love, I have a son, baby Jacob born at 9
5pm saturday 4th august. The midwife then explains that due to him being do prem, they would need to just check jacob over, when they were doing he checks Jacob pood, there was blood int he poo, the midwife told me she needed to send him to neo natal to get him checked over, he was wrapped in a towel given to my husband for a cuddle and then my husband passed Jacob to me, I had a very quick kiss and a photo and he was taken away, I then lay there on the delivery table to be checked for tears, I had about 5, 2 of which were 2nd degree, so I had to be stitched, once they'd done this my dh and i made some calls and I went for a shower with my husbands supervision, we got back to the delivery room to be greater with a hot drink and were then taken to see our little boy on neo natal where he was in an incubator, about 12
5am I went to ward leaving my baby boy on neonatal to try and get some sleep, I was heart broken I wanted him next to me, I couldn't believe he was not with me. From then Jacob had been traveling thought the severity levels of care and is doing really well, hope to get him home soon.
. The last 2 days were hard, I was stopped from holding him, to get the light to him 24/7, and last night he had a temperature, seemed lethargic and they were concerned about his heartbeat and his breathing. Today weve got there and we were allowed another cuddle, were back and forth from the hospital constantly at the moment, were shattered, cant wait to get him well and home, so he wears me out rather than the hospital lol.
Really hope he well enough to come home soon. He's so gorgeous 
Look forward to seeing your post to say he's home x x
Only got 3 weeks left on thurs lol. Going camping with my sister and her kids, be nice to chill out, so gonna make sure everything is done by then, so I can totally relax 
