MrsR
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15th October 2010;
9.00 pm. I had mixed Clary Sage oil with a carrier oil and massaged it into my bump just before bed time. I was dubious as to whether it would do anything but I was 2 days over due and intensely fed up so was prepared to try anything. Although surprisingly I had spent the last two days very upbeat and laughing a lot and just enjoying time spent with OH and DD.
11.30 pm. I was lying in bed when I rolled over onto my side and felt a popping sensation very low in my back. I sat up and a small gush of water followed. Immediatly I felt my first contraction and got ridiculously excited! I knew I should try to sleep but I just couldn't do it! OH ran me a bath and set up the candles and oil burner in the bedroom. Every contraction I felt made me feel like I needed to wee so I was going to the bathroom every 10 minutes. On one of these trips I'd just got into the bathroom when another gush of water occurred, I knew it wasn't wee as I couldn't stop it from happening but I wasn't entirely convinced it was my waters either!
16th October 2010;
2.00 am. I phoned the hospital as it said in my notes to call them if you think your waters have gone. They asked me to come in as no one was available to come to me (I was hoping for a home birth). We phoned MIL and woke DD up. We gathered her bag and my bags and tripped off to the hospital. The short version is I was examined, told I hadn't lost my waters, was only 2 cm and sent home at 4.00 am. I was told you are only in labour when the contractions are every 2-3 minutes all the time.
9.00 am. Once we got home at 4 I tried to sleep. My contractions were getting stronger and were fluctuating between every 7, 10 and 4 minutes. I was using breathing techniques and popping in the bath now and again. At 8.00 am they were getting very very painful but I was still coping, using my OH to lean on and he was brilliant! The contractions still weren't regular but by 9.00 am they were starting to make me feel sick. I still felt in control and that I was coping well. At 9.30 am though I decided I wanted extra pain relief (entonox) and phoned hospital. We were told that there was still no one available to come to us so we phoned MIL again and she turned up at 10.00 am!!!!
10.00 am. We were back on the way to the hospital. It felt like the longest car journey of my life! I was very much in pain and halfway to the hospital I knew I was going to be sick. I tried to wind the manual (why couldn't they have been electric?!) window down! I couldn't do it fast enough and eventually just forced my head out of the window and chucked! MIL pulled over and I threw open the door and carried on! What I didn't know at the time was that when I'd first started being sick, because we were still moving, it blew back into the car-straight into my OH's face! Lmao!
10.25 am. I was admitted to hospital and shown to a lovely room. I was examined and told I was 8 cm! I could of kissed the midwife! I very nearly thanked her! Lol! I was given the entonox and enjoyed two contractions on it. During those two contractions the midwife was monitoring baby's heart rate and on both contractions it dipped really low. They took the entonox off me and whisked me, bed and all, to the high dependancy unit. There I transferred to another bed, had one more puff of entonox and then a desire to push. I was examined again and I was 10 cm. By this time there was 6 midwives (the 2 from low dependancy plus 4 from high dependancy), a doctor in scrubs and a paediatrician. I started pushing and 3 minutes and 48 seconds later at 10.49 am my gorgeous boy was born! He was a horrific blue colour and didn't cry! I was terrified as to why he wasn't crying! The paediatrician whisked him into a corner and suddenly I heard him cry! I whisked my top off and accepted him for skin to skin! My OH watched my baby arrive and was in tears of happiness! He says it was the most amazing experience ever! I have been in love with Sebastian Alexander ever since!
9.00 pm. I had mixed Clary Sage oil with a carrier oil and massaged it into my bump just before bed time. I was dubious as to whether it would do anything but I was 2 days over due and intensely fed up so was prepared to try anything. Although surprisingly I had spent the last two days very upbeat and laughing a lot and just enjoying time spent with OH and DD.
11.30 pm. I was lying in bed when I rolled over onto my side and felt a popping sensation very low in my back. I sat up and a small gush of water followed. Immediatly I felt my first contraction and got ridiculously excited! I knew I should try to sleep but I just couldn't do it! OH ran me a bath and set up the candles and oil burner in the bedroom. Every contraction I felt made me feel like I needed to wee so I was going to the bathroom every 10 minutes. On one of these trips I'd just got into the bathroom when another gush of water occurred, I knew it wasn't wee as I couldn't stop it from happening but I wasn't entirely convinced it was my waters either!
16th October 2010;
2.00 am. I phoned the hospital as it said in my notes to call them if you think your waters have gone. They asked me to come in as no one was available to come to me (I was hoping for a home birth). We phoned MIL and woke DD up. We gathered her bag and my bags and tripped off to the hospital. The short version is I was examined, told I hadn't lost my waters, was only 2 cm and sent home at 4.00 am. I was told you are only in labour when the contractions are every 2-3 minutes all the time.
9.00 am. Once we got home at 4 I tried to sleep. My contractions were getting stronger and were fluctuating between every 7, 10 and 4 minutes. I was using breathing techniques and popping in the bath now and again. At 8.00 am they were getting very very painful but I was still coping, using my OH to lean on and he was brilliant! The contractions still weren't regular but by 9.00 am they were starting to make me feel sick. I still felt in control and that I was coping well. At 9.30 am though I decided I wanted extra pain relief (entonox) and phoned hospital. We were told that there was still no one available to come to us so we phoned MIL again and she turned up at 10.00 am!!!!
10.00 am. We were back on the way to the hospital. It felt like the longest car journey of my life! I was very much in pain and halfway to the hospital I knew I was going to be sick. I tried to wind the manual (why couldn't they have been electric?!) window down! I couldn't do it fast enough and eventually just forced my head out of the window and chucked! MIL pulled over and I threw open the door and carried on! What I didn't know at the time was that when I'd first started being sick, because we were still moving, it blew back into the car-straight into my OH's face! Lmao!
10.25 am. I was admitted to hospital and shown to a lovely room. I was examined and told I was 8 cm! I could of kissed the midwife! I very nearly thanked her! Lol! I was given the entonox and enjoyed two contractions on it. During those two contractions the midwife was monitoring baby's heart rate and on both contractions it dipped really low. They took the entonox off me and whisked me, bed and all, to the high dependancy unit. There I transferred to another bed, had one more puff of entonox and then a desire to push. I was examined again and I was 10 cm. By this time there was 6 midwives (the 2 from low dependancy plus 4 from high dependancy), a doctor in scrubs and a paediatrician. I started pushing and 3 minutes and 48 seconds later at 10.49 am my gorgeous boy was born! He was a horrific blue colour and didn't cry! I was terrified as to why he wasn't crying! The paediatrician whisked him into a corner and suddenly I heard him cry! I whisked my top off and accepted him for skin to skin! My OH watched my baby arrive and was in tears of happiness! He says it was the most amazing experience ever! I have been in love with Sebastian Alexander ever since!
