Hello ladies I'm back!
FFO congratulations! I hope you and your baby will get discharged soon!
I'd like to share my birth story and it went like this:
So after a few days of random contractions and frustrastions I woke up at 3am for a wee and felt a gush of waters, called the hospital, was told to come in but might be send home if there weren't any contractions. They started 30mins later in the car every 5 mins and the pain was managable. I thought yupi I can do this! arrived at the hospital at about 5am and was asked to walk around for a bit and see how my contractions were going to develop. Ok, so I did. They were still 5 mins apart but grew in intensity and had to stop and breathe, pain was getting bad. After two hours got checked and I was only 1cm dilated at which point I decided to abandon my original plan of waterbirth and get epidural instead. Midwife said ok but only when I am minimum 4cm dilated. I was in great pain...she offered me some codeine and paracetamol and said will be checked again in 2hrs. I asked for g&a and this was a no also. The following 2hrs were painfull, I was punching the walls, crying, vomiting and having nasty bowel clearing. I was so looking forward to get checked again and be 4cm. After those 2hrs of agony asked the midwife to check me again and she said THERE WAS NO PROGRESS AT ALL - still at 1cm!!!! Gutted. i started crying and beggining for some kind of pain relief, she said she would speak to the dr nicely and ask for some pethedine for me to send me to sleep and relax mode. I was begging for epidural and the answer was still no. Got the pethidine injection and lied on a bed sleeping between the contractions which were somewhere between 2-3 mins apart and painful like hell, found it difficult to breathe. Oh my God I felt so stoned lying there, the pethinide didnt make the horrific pain go away but made me care less and relaxed me. 2 hours gone I was calling midwife and praying to be at 4cm so I could get the epidural. She checked and she went: ok you are 9,5cm dilated and I will be delivering your baby and you can still get the epidural if you want but it wont be much longer. I was shocked, my OH was shocked. I didnt know what to do but contraction came and I pushed and couldnt control it. I said to midwife to get me in the pool asap so I can have my water birth as planned. I begged her to hurry up. 5 mins later was in the pool it was lovely and I had gas and air as I was pushing with each contraction which werent painful any more, they just felt like lots of pressure. A few good pushes and the pressure was enormous as baby head was about to crown. Crowning wasn't as painful as I thought it would be, a little burning sensation but not bad at all, think water helped! After about 20-30 mins in the water Her head slowly emerged and she was born at 12:45 on Friday 8th of September. The feeling was surreal. I found it difficult to believe she was my child, my little person.
About 10 stitches internally and 3 small ones on the outside. Got discharged the next day. Enormous pain for a few days but starting to feel better down there already.
It feels like she's been with us for weeks already, but it's only been a few days. I am slowly growing to love her more and more everyday.
She's been a devil in the night and angel during the day so far. I am exhausted and had a breakdown last night thinking God what have we done. Midwife said it is just my milk coming and hormones are playing up.
Congrats to those who had September babies already and good luck to those who are still waiting.
