Morning!!
Thank you all so much for your lovely messages & thank you for popping the photo on! I'm going to apologise now for the typing of this but I'm using my iPhone as hubby & Ruby are both sleeping! Buster is too, he is not quite sure who this new person is in 'our room!' but he is very good with her.
Well ladies here goes...get yourself a cuppa & Donna have some painkillers as this is gona be long!!!
I had my sweep on Wednesday morning, she said my cervix was thin and 1cm but to the back & left, I then had reflexology & she said she felt positive about it, went home & talked hubby into DTD!!
He said it felt 'weird' but couldn't really give more of a reason than that! It wasn't the best I've ever had either hahaha
went to sleep and at 3am I was WIDE awake, I tried everything to fall back asleep but nothing would work. So then it finally got to 10 to 6, our alarm goes off at 6.15 so I knew hubby would wake soon and then I felt a 'pop', I had NO idea it would be like that!! It felt mildly painful but even then the thought it was my waters didn't even cross my mind!
About a minute later I leaked some fluid & made it to the loo where it just kept on coming! I couldn't move without leaking!
Hubby was very awake by now so took buster out very reluctantly but I shooed him out thecdoor. By 7.30 my contractions hadn't started just very mild cramps so I said he was better off going to work than sitting and obsessing with me all morning. I think he was so stunned that he just went!!
By 8.30 they started so I popped on my tens, they were about 8 mins apart but only one in every 4 or 5 was strong enough to really pump up my tens.
I called the labour ward & explained and said my contractions are very mild but they said to take my tine & come in. I waited a while before calling jody as my mum had come over by this point, I was stripping the bed, sweeping, mopping!!! Haha saying 'i don't need to go in this is nuts!'
We got there about 11 and my contractions in the car were worse sitting down than when I could walk around, they checked me & said I was 3cm at 12 and my contractions were way stronger by now!
I was confident to stay on my tens for a bit but the midwife came back 10 mins later & 'strongly advised' the gas & air, oh she was right!! It made me feel quite awful actually, I do not miss that horrid drunk feeling of the room spinning at all! I used the gas and air until 4pm when my contractions were 1 min 30 long and less than a minute apart.
They were so intense, I was pacing on the spot as I found counting my steps and lifting my knees while taking really deep breaths made them pass quicker! Hubby was superb and letting me squeeze the he'll out of his hand, getting me water & holding me up after as the g&a was making me so dizzy!
At 4 she said would I like pethadibe, I couldn't speak but hubby knew I didn't so I remember her saying to him I couldn't carry on as I would have no energy to push with how quick & intense the contractions are.
I agreed to the epi which they got in about 5pm and I was 5cm. Bit disappointed it wasn't more but hey ho!!
Right sorry to cut this off here but Ruby is awake and hungry, will update more later, sending lots of live and labour dust to all if you who need it!xxxxxx
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