Phoenix82
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So my bump turned pink on 6th March 
I struggled to sleep from 10 weeks preggo due to sciatic nerve pain and hip pain on the Wed I had a restless night sleep and had been having backache and dull tummy ache which I thought meant labour was coming in the next week or so. The following evening we went to bed at 10.30pm and I woke up an hour later thinking I had wet myself! I didn't until then but thought I must've as I was a tad wet down below, I got to my ensuite when suddenly there was gushing and my waters started to go however they were red (blood) which panicked me.
The oh heard the noise and found me in complete mess and called the birthing centre to ask for advice, we were asked to come straight in. Being a strep b carrier they needed to induce me. As my waters had spontaneously ruptured with no contractions present.
At this point I think it's important to say if being induced via a drip don't let them turn the level up too quickly and opt for the epidural!
I arrived at hospital and had antibiotics due to the strep b and they started the induction drip at 2ml per hour. After the first 4 hours I was 3.5cm dilated, after the next 4 I hadn't changed. They broke my back waters and stretched the membrane and then reviewed after another 4 where nothing had changed. I ended up labouring for 18 hours before anything happened, in this time the drip went up to 28ml per hour and the max is 32ml per hour.
I had my tens machine and that was it but they kept trying to make me use other pain relief and I said I didn't need it as is was managing.
Then they decided they no longer wanted me to use mobile monitoring as the labour was taking a while and they wanted to put a clip on the babies head. I said no unless there was any real need which there wasn't it was just their preference!
Anyway after a long time with no improvement they told me my contractions had been as they should be to start pushing for hours but I wasn't dilating this was due to being over sensitised by the induction drip that was now up too high!!!! So they turned it down! They couldn't see why I didn't need pain relief.
Then after 18 hours of agony I lost it, I told them they were killing me and I needed an epidural ( sounds ott I know but my heart was overdoing it and I was trying to pass out as I was exhausted and my body either shuts down or makes me violent).
After the epidural and full spinal block and the clip I didn't know they put in while I was numb! (It took 2 top ups for it to be effective as only one side went numb). They gave
me another 4 hours and checked me again, to my joy I was fully dilated (4hours I'd gone all that way)!!!
It was down to the stress my body was under on the drip, my body was releasing too much adrenalin - if they'd told me I'd've had the epidural a long time before then.
Anyway they left me for an hour then I started to push (not that I could feel anything) due to baby being back to back she was in a bad position and her hb dropped. The midwife hit the emergency buzzer and the room filled up.
We were rushed into theatre given another epidural top up - where they attempted suction which failed and then forcep delivery. I still had to push until LO was born which tough when you cannot feel anything down there.
But I escaped c section by the smallest margin.
Baby turned her head on her way out so was marked during delivery and I was cut, I also had a lateral tear.
Once she was born the rest was irrelevant although my poor oh said he couldn't unsee what had been going on in theatre.
I'd,lost quite a lot of blood when trying to remove the placenta as the cord snapped,.
After a few weeks the stitches healed, the blood flow slowed and I'm starting to feel more like me if not shattered!!!
The hardest but most rewarding thing ever!!
I struggled to sleep from 10 weeks preggo due to sciatic nerve pain and hip pain on the Wed I had a restless night sleep and had been having backache and dull tummy ache which I thought meant labour was coming in the next week or so. The following evening we went to bed at 10.30pm and I woke up an hour later thinking I had wet myself! I didn't until then but thought I must've as I was a tad wet down below, I got to my ensuite when suddenly there was gushing and my waters started to go however they were red (blood) which panicked me.
The oh heard the noise and found me in complete mess and called the birthing centre to ask for advice, we were asked to come straight in. Being a strep b carrier they needed to induce me. As my waters had spontaneously ruptured with no contractions present.
At this point I think it's important to say if being induced via a drip don't let them turn the level up too quickly and opt for the epidural!
I arrived at hospital and had antibiotics due to the strep b and they started the induction drip at 2ml per hour. After the first 4 hours I was 3.5cm dilated, after the next 4 I hadn't changed. They broke my back waters and stretched the membrane and then reviewed after another 4 where nothing had changed. I ended up labouring for 18 hours before anything happened, in this time the drip went up to 28ml per hour and the max is 32ml per hour.
I had my tens machine and that was it but they kept trying to make me use other pain relief and I said I didn't need it as is was managing.
Then they decided they no longer wanted me to use mobile monitoring as the labour was taking a while and they wanted to put a clip on the babies head. I said no unless there was any real need which there wasn't it was just their preference!
Anyway after a long time with no improvement they told me my contractions had been as they should be to start pushing for hours but I wasn't dilating this was due to being over sensitised by the induction drip that was now up too high!!!! So they turned it down! They couldn't see why I didn't need pain relief.
Then after 18 hours of agony I lost it, I told them they were killing me and I needed an epidural ( sounds ott I know but my heart was overdoing it and I was trying to pass out as I was exhausted and my body either shuts down or makes me violent).
After the epidural and full spinal block and the clip I didn't know they put in while I was numb! (It took 2 top ups for it to be effective as only one side went numb). They gave
me another 4 hours and checked me again, to my joy I was fully dilated (4hours I'd gone all that way)!!!
It was down to the stress my body was under on the drip, my body was releasing too much adrenalin - if they'd told me I'd've had the epidural a long time before then.
Anyway they left me for an hour then I started to push (not that I could feel anything) due to baby being back to back she was in a bad position and her hb dropped. The midwife hit the emergency buzzer and the room filled up.
We were rushed into theatre given another epidural top up - where they attempted suction which failed and then forcep delivery. I still had to push until LO was born which tough when you cannot feel anything down there.
But I escaped c section by the smallest margin.
Baby turned her head on her way out so was marked during delivery and I was cut, I also had a lateral tear.
Once she was born the rest was irrelevant although my poor oh said he couldn't unsee what had been going on in theatre.
I'd,lost quite a lot of blood when trying to remove the placenta as the cord snapped,.
After a few weeks the stitches healed, the blood flow slowed and I'm starting to feel more like me if not shattered!!!
The hardest but most rewarding thing ever!!
