Sarah1508
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So I've finally got a bit of time to write my little guys birth story, warning in advance, whenever I tell stories I can't keep them short! 
At about 5 am the day after my due date I woke up with pains in my thighs, bum and a little bit in my lower back but I managed to get back to sleep and didn't think much of it because there was no pains in my tummy at all and I had no other signs of labour like waters breaking, mucus plug etc. For the next couple of hours I was waking up every 20 minutes with this same pain so I started timing the pains properly and they where coming now after about every ten minutes. I didn't want to wake my OH or my Mum up because it was still early in the morning and I was thinking it might just be braxton hicks again, but I still couldnt get back to sleep so I came on BnB as you do and posted how I had been feeling and some of you ladies where saying to me that it might be the start of real labour. So after reading that I woke up my OH and told him that I thought I was in labour but wasn't absolutley sure so we waited about and woke my Mum up aswell. By about 9 or 10 am the contractions started to ease off and become irregular, I was so pissed off! 
(thinking it was just bloody braxton hicks again!) So me and my OH went down the street (like we had planned to the night before to pick up my contacts and also a gym ball so I could hopefully get things moving) I was feeling more contractions when we where at the shops but not as strong as before and still ireegular, so when we got back to the flat my OH blew up the ball and I got bouncing! I was only on the ball for about 10 minutes when I started feeling strong pains again but I carried on bouncing on it for an hour and then went for a lie down but I didn't rest for long. The contractions where coming every ten minutes again so in the afternoon at maybe 5:00 (can't really remember) we tried phoning the hospital but no answer so we decided to just go in to make sure I was actually in real labour. When we got to the hospital I told the midwife how I was feeling and how often I was feeling pains etc and she told us that she wouldn't usually check to see if someone was dilated if there contractions where that far apart but she would check if we really wanted. Obviously I said yes check! straight away haha and she was really surprised that I was thinning out and was 1 cm dilated. Being only 1 cm I was told I had a while to go but hopefully we would have our baby here withing the next day, two days at the most! I was happy to hear that but slightly gutted I had to go back home 
A few hours after we got back to the flat ( not sure if it was even that) I started getting really strong pains and they where six minutes apart now, but we where told to wait until they where 3 or 4 minutes apart to phone the hospital so I went for a bath (which helped the pain a bit) then went for a lie down. I can't remember how long I managed to lie in bed before I was asking my Mam to phone the hospital because I was in so much pain, my OH was timing the contractions now and they where about 5 mins apart but I was having a less strong contraction between the really big ones (if that makes any sense? lol) so we weren't timing them because we thought that might just be the tail end of the strong contraction and not actually another one ( if that makes sense again haha) So when my Mam phoned the hospital they said I wasn't far enough along to come in yet, so my OH just kept on breathing with me and my Mam got some things together. Again I can't remember how much time had passed but it wasn't that long when I asked my Mam to phone the hospital again because I was in so much pain. The woman on the other end of the phone asked to speak to me this time and she said the same thing as last time but that if I was finding the pain to hard to cope with that I could come into the hospital but my Mam and my OH wouldn't be able to stay with me.
When I heard her say that I felt like crying and just said that I would stay at home for a bit longer. Another while passed and I was now crying in so much pain so my Mam phoned the hospital for the last time and said we where coming in, by this point my oh had started timing the smaller contractions between the big ones and they where about 3-2 minutes apart now.
When we got to the hospital at about 11 pm I got checked over, my Mam had to wait outside the room but my OH could come with me thank God! when I got checked the midwife seemed shocked that I was 5 nearly 6 cm dilated lol and I finally got some gas and air!!
As soon as I took a few puffs of that I was away with the fairys! Giggeling like a mad woman! 
Apparently I was coming out with some hilarious stuff and saying some quiet rude ( like in a sexual way) things to my OH...lmao 
(I thought that would be the last thing I would think about while in labour but the gas and air just turned me bad! hahaha) After waiting about for a wee while me my OH and my Mam got taken down to our room on the labour ward. I remember the midwife laughing at me because of how hyper I was on the gas and air, she was saying it was nice to see someone laughing while in labour for a change haha I can't remember half the stuff I was coming out with but I can remember asking her to give me more gas and less air But after a while passed the laughing and jokes had stoped and I was sucking away on the gas and air with every breath I took and inbetween breaths I was asking the midwife to just cut the baby out of my tummy!lol. I was in agony now and ended up asking for an epidural but had to wait while the doctor was giving one to another woman in labour. When it was time for me to get the epidural I was already feeling the urge to push but I kept my mouth shut otherwise I knew I wouldn't get my epidural. I honnestly don't know how I stayed still for 20 minutes while the guy was doing it because before hand all that was keeping me going (as well as the gas and air) was rocking and moving my legs, but I thought to myself I just have to stay still for 20 minutes then the pain will be gone, so I started taking even deeper breaths of gas and air and thats when I completley zoned out. It's such a strange feeling being all high on gas and air lol like at some points when I was closing my eyes I felt like I was laying on a beach with the sun shining on my face....but that only lasted for a few seconds before the pain started again. I remember just saying to myself "only a few more minutes untill paradise" (paradise being that feeling of laying on a beach) and thats all I kept repeating to myself and it really helped me to keep going. After the epidural was done I remember thanking the guy so much because I knew that soon it would be helping the pain....if only I knew how wrong I was Turns out I got the epidural way to late and just as I had finished getting it done and lay back down again I felt a pop ( it felt like a water balloon had burst in between my legs, I thought I had weed myself and kept on apologizing to the midwife haha) But I hadn't , my waters had broken and it was now time to start pushing my baby boy out. I honnestly can't remeber how long I was pushing for but at 2:58am on the 22nd of August our gorgous wee boy Kian Liam Daly was born weighing 6.15. The midwife handed him over to me and he lay on my tummy, I was crying my eyes out and my Mam and OH where crying too, I just stared at our new baby boy and this overwhelming feeling of love came over me, he was absolutely perfect, I remember looking over to my OH and seeing him crying too he gave me a kiss and I just felt so happy and in love with both of my boys, as cheesy as it sounds I finally have my perfect wee family and I couldn't be happier 
Overall I was in labour for about 22 hours, towards the end my blood pressure was shooting up and down and I tore and got a graze so I had to be stitched up, but I think the epidural helped with the stitches because I didn't feel the pain at all just like pulling (eeeww lol) I was also taking some more gas and air for the stitches which made me start the giggeling again ( I just love that stuff! haha ) I also lost a lot of blood so I had to be put on a drip ( i think thats what you call it? haha) but it was worth it and I would honnestly go through the whole thing again in a heartbeat for my beautiful baby boy, I absoulley adore him and would do anything for my son, I'm so in love with him and the whole experienece has made me love my OH even more which I didnt think was even possible! Our little boy is definitely a blessing
At about 5 am the day after my due date I woke up with pains in my thighs, bum and a little bit in my lower back but I managed to get back to sleep and didn't think much of it because there was no pains in my tummy at all and I had no other signs of labour like waters breaking, mucus plug etc. For the next couple of hours I was waking up every 20 minutes with this same pain so I started timing the pains properly and they where coming now after about every ten minutes. I didn't want to wake my OH or my Mum up because it was still early in the morning and I was thinking it might just be braxton hicks again, but I still couldnt get back to sleep so I came on BnB as you do
and posted how I had been feeling and some of you ladies where saying to me that it might be the start of real labour. So after reading that I woke up my OH and told him that I thought I was in labour but wasn't absolutley sure so we waited about and woke my Mum up aswell. By about 9 or 10 am the contractions started to ease off and become irregular, I was so pissed off! (thinking it was just bloody braxton hicks again!) So me and my OH went down the street (like we had planned to the night before to pick up my contacts and also a gym ball so I could hopefully get things moving) I was feeling more contractions when we where at the shops but not as strong as before and still ireegular, so when we got back to the flat my OH blew up the ball and I got bouncing! I was only on the ball for about 10 minutes when I started feeling strong pains again but I carried on bouncing on it for an hour and then went for a lie down but I didn't rest for long. The contractions where coming every ten minutes again so in the afternoon at maybe 5:00 (can't really remember) we tried phoning the hospital but no answer so we decided to just go in to make sure I was actually in real labour. When we got to the hospital I told the midwife how I was feeling and how often I was feeling pains etc and she told us that she wouldn't usually check to see if someone was dilated if there contractions where that far apart but she would check if we really wanted. Obviously I said yes check! straight away haha and she was really surprised that I was thinning out and was 1 cm dilated. Being only 1 cm I was told I had a while to go but hopefully we would have our baby here withing the next day, two days at the most! I was happy to hear that but slightly gutted I had to go back home A few hours after we got back to the flat ( not sure if it was even that) I started getting really strong pains and they where six minutes apart now, but we where told to wait until they where 3 or 4 minutes apart to phone the hospital so I went for a bath (which helped the pain a bit) then went for a lie down. I can't remember how long I managed to lie in bed before I was asking my Mam to phone the hospital because I was in so much pain, my OH was timing the contractions now and they where about 5 mins apart but I was having a less strong contraction between the really big ones (if that makes any sense? lol) so we weren't timing them because we thought that might just be the tail end of the strong contraction and not actually another one ( if that makes sense again haha) So when my Mam phoned the hospital they said I wasn't far enough along to come in yet, so my OH just kept on breathing with me and my Mam got some things together. Again I can't remember how much time had passed but it wasn't that long when I asked my Mam to phone the hospital again because I was in so much pain. The woman on the other end of the phone asked to speak to me this time and she said the same thing as last time but that if I was finding the pain to hard to cope with that I could come into the hospital but my Mam and my OH wouldn't be able to stay with me.
When I heard her say that I felt like crying and just said that I would stay at home for a bit longer. Another while passed and I was now crying in so much pain so my Mam phoned the hospital for the last time and said we where coming in, by this point my oh had started timing the smaller contractions between the big ones and they where about 3-2 minutes apart now.When we got to the hospital at about 11 pm I got checked over, my Mam had to wait outside the room but my OH could come with me thank God! when I got checked the midwife seemed shocked that I was 5 nearly 6 cm dilated lol and I finally got some gas and air!!
As soon as I took a few puffs of that I was away with the fairys! Giggeling like a mad woman! Apparently I was coming out with some hilarious stuff and saying some quiet rude ( like in a sexual way) things to my OH...lmao (I thought that would be the last thing I would think about while in labour but the gas and air just turned me bad! hahaha) After waiting about for a wee while me my OH and my Mam got taken down to our room on the labour ward. I remember the midwife laughing at me because of how hyper I was on the gas and air, she was saying it was nice to see someone laughing while in labour for a change haha I can't remember half the stuff I was coming out with but I can remember asking her to give me more gas and less air But after a while passed the laughing and jokes had stoped and I was sucking away on the gas and air with every breath I took and inbetween breaths I was asking the midwife to just cut the baby out of my tummy!lol. I was in agony now and ended up asking for an epidural but had to wait while the doctor was giving one to another woman in labour. When it was time for me to get the epidural I was already feeling the urge to push but I kept my mouth shut otherwise I knew I wouldn't get my epidural. I honnestly don't know how I stayed still for 20 minutes while the guy was doing it because before hand all that was keeping me going (as well as the gas and air) was rocking and moving my legs, but I thought to myself I just have to stay still for 20 minutes then the pain will be gone, so I started taking even deeper breaths of gas and air and thats when I completley zoned out. It's such a strange feeling being all high on gas and air lol like at some points when I was closing my eyes I felt like I was laying on a beach with the sun shining on my face....but that only lasted for a few seconds before the pain started again. I remember just saying to myself "only a few more minutes untill paradise" (paradise being that feeling of laying on a beach) and thats all I kept repeating to myself and it really helped me to keep going. After the epidural was done I remember thanking the guy so much because I knew that soon it would be helping the pain....if only I knew how wrong I was Turns out I got the epidural way to late and just as I had finished getting it done and lay back down again I felt a pop ( it felt like a water balloon had burst in between my legs, I thought I had weed myself and kept on apologizing to the midwife haha) But I hadn't , my waters had broken and it was now time to start pushing my baby boy out. I honnestly can't remeber how long I was pushing for but at 2:58am on the 22nd of August our gorgous wee boy Kian Liam Daly was born weighing 6.15. The midwife handed him over to me and he lay on my tummy, I was crying my eyes out and my Mam and OH where crying too, I just stared at our new baby boy and this overwhelming feeling of love came over me, he was absolutely perfect, I remember looking over to my OH and seeing him crying too he gave me a kiss and I just felt so happy and in love with both of my boys, as cheesy as it sounds I finally have my perfect wee family and I couldn't be happier Overall I was in labour for about 22 hours, towards the end my blood pressure was shooting up and down and I tore and got a graze so I had to be stitched up, but I think the epidural helped with the stitches because I didn't feel the pain at all just like pulling (eeeww lol) I was also taking some more gas and air for the stitches which made me start the giggeling again ( I just love that stuff! haha ) I also lost a lot of blood so I had to be put on a drip ( i think thats what you call it? haha) but it was worth it and I would honnestly go through the whole thing again in a heartbeat for my beautiful baby boy, I absoulley adore him and would do anything for my son, I'm so in love with him and the whole experienece has made me love my OH even more which I didnt think was even possible! Our little boy is definitely a blessing
I know what thats like I was watching a program the other day and a lady gave birth and I got all teary and emotional, what are we like lol x
congratulations!
