Hello!
He’s here!
It’s been a crazy week! I was induced and had contractions over the night and they were quite close together, pretty intense but I managed to breathe through them! They were a little irregular at times! I’d have a few milder ones super super close together or a big one with a bigger break inbetween! But even then the biggest break between was maybe 5 minutes apart.
His heart rate dipped on all bigger contractions so they kept a closer eye on the monitoring.
I was then checked in the morning and was quite hopeful that I had made half decent progress, it had started to get a little more painful and not something I could easily breathe through and was told I was only 1-2cm so I’d gotten quite upset.
My partner was already on the way to the hospital I was going to tell him to head up if they were planning to break my waters. He left about 9.30am from home to get there and arrived 15 mins later. By the time he had arrived I’d had a few BAD contractions. They had gone from just bearable to excruciating immediately after the examination/she had done a sweep too. I was in tears when he came in and convinced I’d have to have a c section because babies heart rate dropped to like 50-60 every time with these ones.
Midwife got someone to look at the monitor and they were talking about putting a mionitor on babies head for heart rate. But I was begging for something better on pain relief! They saw how bad my reactions to the contractions were (don’t think they quite believed they’d gotten so painful so fast) and saw how low the heart rate dipping and offered me gas and air pretty much straight away and said they were going to check me again! So in fifteen mins I’d gone to 4-5cm but the doctor said I was very soft and stretchy so baby would be here very soon. A new midwife had come in to take over, no time for monitor on babies head to go on, a couple of contractions later and my body was trying to push by itself so they had a quick look and they said to try a little push, and could already see his head come down! I think it was possibly about four pushes later (I mostly didn’t do anything, when I tried to push they told me to do a smaller push so I didn’t tear badly!) he was out.
To say it was a total shock of a labour is an under statement! I went from being so upset to only being 1-2cm dilated to baby arriving within an hour! If my partner had waited for me to say when to come up (he had our son) then he could have missed everything!
Oh and my waters had trickled out with the last few contractions but most of the waters were stuck behind him and the midwife who had taken over delivery had been in the room for three whole minutes had gotten a right good splash, luckily it missed my partner (he’s squeamish haha)
Baby was 4 pound 10 and a lot smaller than they estimated a couple of weeks ago (I was expecting him to be closer to 6 pounds by now)
He breastfed really well straight away and had to be kept in overnight for blood sugar tests and to ensure he could maintain his temperature, but got home the next day!
He’s my little tiny munchkin!
don't worry about the work items - you get your sweet baby boy!!
