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about time i wrote this i think before i forget all the important details haha!
so my due date came and went and tbh i wasn't surprised, everyone in my family who has kids went overdue. however by 40+1 i was pulling my hair out! at 40+5 i had a second sweep from my midwife (i had one at 39+1, did absolute diddly) and she said she'd be very surprised if something didn't happen later on that day cos of how low finny was. i just laughed and said alright then (the consultant at the hospital had already told me this at my last sweep!)
i started getting period like pains later that night but never really thought anything of it. at 4am on 6th July, i woke up with tightening like pains - like gas and period pains tied together. thinking it was nothing again, i tried to go back to sleep but they kept coming more regularly and that's when i started to think "maybe this is it!"
i kept myself occupied by coming on here haha, i didn't want to get my hopes up too much. around 7.20am i suddenly felt very "wet" down there and went to the toilet, i then went to get back into bed but felt like i'd weed myself (it was only a trickle, i thought it was him lying on my bladder) but when i had to change my pyjama bottoms twice and the pains started getting more regular, that's when i knew this was it!
i woke my mom up (she told me to stick the kettle on and then she started to build a bookcase - wtf
) so whilst she was getting on with that, i packed the rest of my hospital bag, phoned the mlu i was due to deliver at and posted my "this is it thread" (as you do!)
the mlu centre said that i needed to go to the hospital to confirm my waters had gone so we went up there first. the midwives there were horrendous, by this point my contractions were getting more closer together and the only way i could sooth them was to walk around. the midwife had a go at me for this and told me to sit down on the bed and i was like this for half an hour waiting for her to come and hook me up to the heart monitor. they measured his heart rate and she said she needed to do an internal to check how dilated i was.
she literally shouted at me cos i asked if i could walk around for a bit first to sooth the contractions, kept saying things such as "how are you gonna cope during labour if you can't handle a few little contractions?"
she then did an internal where she was VERY rough, i screamed my head off! she then phoned the mlu informing them my waters had gone but i wasn't coping well with the pain at all so it wasn't wise i went down there (as the only pain relief they had was g+a) - my mom at this point was ready to hit her! however i made the decision to go down there and give it a go.
we went down to the mlu unit after the hospital at 11 where i was 4cm dilated. they told me they'd re-check me at half 2. they said my contractions weren't strong or frequent enough so i'd need to get on the birthing ball as they were 4 minutes apart. at half 2 they rechecked me and said i was still 4cm dilated so i'd need to go to the hospital to be put on a drip.
i was so disappointed and in agony at this point, my mom had to take me back up to the hospital in traffic! we arrived there around 3ish by which point i was crying and could barely walk. they gave me g+a and i got high off it instantly (best bit of the day
)
they put the drip in and took some blood whilst i continued getting high, i started screaming stuff like "jenny's a cow" (jenny being my MIL - thank jebus she wasn't there) and i started asking for a haircut and telling my mom to get the cat in the mw rechecked me and said it felt like either my fore waters hadn't gone or i had a bald baby (apparently i started crying at this point telling them i didn't want a bald baby and to send him back, good old g+a! )
the pain relief off the g+a started to wear off and i was getting more and more in pain so i started asking for everything under the sun apparently (pethadine, epidural, and even a c-section!) so the midwife just laughed and asked me what i wanted. i said i'd start off with the pethadine first so she went and got it me around 5ish.
i don't remember much more at this point as i kept drifting in and out of a sleepy state. i just remember my mom popping back home for an hour to sort the dog out. i came back around at around 6.45 where i was concious and talking to the mw, she said she was gonna do another internal on me.
her face fell and she said "hun, where's your mom?" and i said she's popped out, i was getting worried at this point cos of how shocked she seemed so i asked what the matter was. she then was all "you're 10cm and this baby's ready to come out!" my face fell too!
she started prepping the room up for labour by which point my mom had come back, i pushed for 10 minutes and then there he was.
Finley Edward James was born at 19.10 on 4th July weighing 8lb exactly
i fell in love instantly! here's some pictures...
so my due date came and went and tbh i wasn't surprised, everyone in my family who has kids went overdue. however by 40+1 i was pulling my hair out! at 40+5 i had a second sweep from my midwife (i had one at 39+1, did absolute diddly) and she said she'd be very surprised if something didn't happen later on that day cos of how low finny was. i just laughed and said alright then (the consultant at the hospital had already told me this at my last sweep!)
i started getting period like pains later that night but never really thought anything of it. at 4am on 6th July, i woke up with tightening like pains - like gas and period pains tied together. thinking it was nothing again, i tried to go back to sleep but they kept coming more regularly and that's when i started to think "maybe this is it!"
i kept myself occupied by coming on here haha, i didn't want to get my hopes up too much. around 7.20am i suddenly felt very "wet" down there and went to the toilet, i then went to get back into bed but felt like i'd weed myself (it was only a trickle, i thought it was him lying on my bladder) but when i had to change my pyjama bottoms twice and the pains started getting more regular, that's when i knew this was it!
i woke my mom up (she told me to stick the kettle on and then she started to build a bookcase - wtf
) so whilst she was getting on with that, i packed the rest of my hospital bag, phoned the mlu i was due to deliver at and posted my "this is it thread" (as you do!)the mlu centre said that i needed to go to the hospital to confirm my waters had gone so we went up there first. the midwives there were horrendous, by this point my contractions were getting more closer together and the only way i could sooth them was to walk around. the midwife had a go at me for this and told me to sit down on the bed and i was like this for half an hour waiting for her to come and hook me up to the heart monitor. they measured his heart rate and she said she needed to do an internal to check how dilated i was.
she literally shouted at me cos i asked if i could walk around for a bit first to sooth the contractions, kept saying things such as "how are you gonna cope during labour if you can't handle a few little contractions?"
she then did an internal where she was VERY rough, i screamed my head off! she then phoned the mlu informing them my waters had gone but i wasn't coping well with the pain at all so it wasn't wise i went down there (as the only pain relief they had was g+a) - my mom at this point was ready to hit her! however i made the decision to go down there and give it a go.we went down to the mlu unit after the hospital at 11 where i was 4cm dilated. they told me they'd re-check me at half 2. they said my contractions weren't strong or frequent enough so i'd need to get on the birthing ball as they were 4 minutes apart. at half 2 they rechecked me and said i was still 4cm dilated so i'd need to go to the hospital to be put on a drip.
i was so disappointed and in agony at this point, my mom had to take me back up to the hospital in traffic! we arrived there around 3ish by which point i was crying and could barely walk. they gave me g+a and i got high off it instantly (best bit of the day
)they put the drip in and took some blood whilst i continued getting high, i started screaming stuff like "jenny's a cow" (jenny being my MIL - thank jebus she wasn't there) and i started asking for a haircut and telling my mom to get the cat in
the mw rechecked me and said it felt like either my fore waters hadn't gone or i had a bald baby (apparently i started crying at this point telling them i didn't want a bald baby and to send him back, good old g+a! )the pain relief off the g+a started to wear off and i was getting more and more in pain so i started asking for everything under the sun apparently (pethadine, epidural, and even a c-section!) so the midwife just laughed and asked me what i wanted. i said i'd start off with the pethadine first so she went and got it me around 5ish.
i don't remember much more at this point as i kept drifting in and out of a sleepy state. i just remember my mom popping back home for an hour to sort the dog out. i came back around at around 6.45 where i was concious and talking to the mw, she said she was gonna do another internal on me.
her face fell and she said "hun, where's your mom?" and i said she's popped out, i was getting worried at this point cos of how shocked she seemed so i asked what the matter was. she then was all "you're 10cm and this baby's ready to come out!" my face fell too!
she started prepping the room up for labour by which point my mom had come back, i pushed for 10 minutes and then there he was.
Finley Edward James was born at 19.10 on 4th July weighing 8lb exactly
i fell in love instantly! here's some pictures...
