I had my little girl on Monday! 2 days before my scheduled section.
I was just about to go to my pre op appointment when I heard/felt a huge pop and my waters went about 30 secs later around 1pm.
I had polyhydraminos so the amount of fluid was unreal! Never seen anything like it 😂
We arrived at the hospital at 2pm (appointment time) was put onto the monitor and was contracting every 3-4 minutes. I wasn't feeling anything just 'braxton hicks' as I kept telling the midwife.
She said you're definitely having contractions.
Because I wanted to still go ahead with the section they wanted to know if I was dilating so they knew how much time they had.
I was 3cm! I couldn't believe I wasn't feeling any sort of pain.
I was taken down almost straight away. I got my gentle section which was amazing.
We were able to watch the full operation (no drape) baby walked herself out after they got her head out. We got some fab pictures.
She was delivered straight onto my chest and stayed there until we got into recovery.
Was such a differeny experience than my last section.
The staff were so good and did everything I wanted or asked for. Lots of the people in theatre had never seen a gentle section before and they were amazed. I had staff coming to see me in recovery and telling me how lovely it was to watch.
Even though it was classed as an emergency section it didn't feel anything like that.
Halle Reese was born at 16:38 weighing 7lb 11oz!
She's feeding like a champ and we are so in love with her!