Hi ladies. Well after my sweep on Tuesday things progressed. I started getting mild contractions but nothing regular. Wednesday morning we dropped the big kids at school and went to the hospital 'just in case'.
When I was examined I was 4 cm dilated and shown to a room for delivery. It progressed very quickly, I used the birthing ball in the bath by leaning over it whilst DH used the shower to relieve the pressure. I suddenly started contracting every minute so I got out and asked for some morphine. At this point the contractions were very painful - but they thought I would deliver in less than 4 hours, so morphine wasn't recommended. Within 2 hours of arrival I was indeed 10cm dilated and ready to push - I pushed for 40 mins - Kit came out with his hand up by his face fingers first!!
He went straight onto me and we had skin-to-skin for a while.
At this point things started going wrong....They couldnt get the placenta out, despite the midwives kneading my tummy with their hands - which bloody hurt - whilst the Dr pulled. When it finally came away it was not intact..they called for the oncall gynacologist who came in within minutes and told me quite frankly 'that I was going to hate her but she was going to fix things....'
She had to put her entire hand in 3 times to get the remaining pieces. I have never felt pain quite like it. Consequently I lost 1.5 litres of blood and had to have an IV to help contract the uterus.
Despite the trauma, I am back home after a 24 hour stay, a few stitches, a lovely 8lb 9oz baby, and a prescription for iron! Lol
Introducing Kit James - Before and After
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Congrats. Sounds a bit painful but at least you got a beautiful baby out of it. Hope recovery and all is going well

I hope you have a speedy recovery, that definitely does not sound pleasant!

And congrats on your little guy!

That sounds awful, but you're so upbeat about it!! Congrats on your little guy. I love the face he's making. It's so adorable!

Congratulations on your little man!! Sounds like it was hard work! Hope you have a speedy recovery

aw congrats! he is sooo cute!

Congrats!!!! He is SOOOOO adorable!!!!!! Omg! Seriously...beautiful baby!!!
Hope you are recovering well! Did you lose a lot of blood due to the low iron? Just curious as I am very low on iron at the moment.

I lost 1.5 liters, a regular vaginal delivery is usually half a liter. A c-section is 1 liter.
I feel fantastic though, memories are short lived and look what I got!

Awwwwww! So cute! Congrats!

Nice chunky baby! Mine was a tiny little thing. Haha. Congrats!