Ginger1
Harry's Mum
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I've finally found the time to write this up 2 weeks after the event, as we've been very busy with our little dude! 
19/11/2010
9:30
Felt a trickling when I got out of the shower, at first I wasn't sure if I'd wee-ed or not, so put a pad in. This was soaked really quickly with clear liquid, so I rang the community midwife. She came over to have a look at the pad, and confirmed it was definitely my waters!!
She told me if I hadn't gone into labour within 24 hours I'd need to be induced. Rang OH to get him home from work, and my mum, who had a 4 hour drive ahead of her to get to me.
12:00
Contractions start, not too bad at this stage and manageable with paracetamol and a couple of hot baths.
16:00
Mum arrives...contractions getting quite a bit stronger now, so rang midwife again, who came and had a look at me only to break the news that I wasn't even 1cm dilated
Had another hot bath and more paracetamol.
18:00
Contractions REALLY painful now, and paracetamol isn't doing the job! Rang midwife again, who came out and said I was finally starting to dilate, but cervix still quite thick. We all agreed that I needed to get to hospital for better pain relief...so followed her there in the car (not me driving of course). I just hung onto the dashboard and groaned the whole way
19:00
Arrive at hospital...thanks to the full moon delivery suites are all in use, so I wait in a private room on the ward. Given gas and air...this stuff is great, doesn't take away the pain totally but makes it more funny! Giggling like a loon at this point.
20/11/2010
Middle of the night (can't remember exact time thanks to being off my face on gas and air
LOTS of pain, gas and air not cutting it anymore, and still only progressed to 4cm finally get moved to delivery suite, where we wait for the epidural man. Am also put on Syntocinon drip to move things along a bit..contractions coming thick and fast and incredibly painful
Epidural man arrives about half an hour later as he'd been dealing with an emergency c section in the room next door. Really hard to stay still between contractions, but he gets it in
Unfortunately it only seemed to be working on one side, and the whole left hand side of my back and pelvis were in agony They tried turning me to see if that would work, but it didn't.
4ish in the morning
Second epidural attempted..much better!! Unfortunately 30 minutes later it turns out that I'm fully dilated, and too drugged up to push. They give me half an hour for epidural 2 to wear off a bit, unfortunately I can still feel a fair bit on the left side
6:00 in the morning
Time to push...very painful on the left side but I try to push through it as all effects of the epidural have worn off. Unfortunately after over an hour, I'm too exhausted, so the consultant arrives to give me an episiotomy and they decide on a kiwi ventouse to get my little boy out.
7:44
Harry Stephen is finally born weighing in at 6lb 8.5oz!! Pain all forgotten, and he's totally gorgeous! I didn't even notice the stitches being put in
We're so in love with him, it was all worth it 
The anaesthetist came to see me afterwards, and was very apologetic, bless him, as it's apparently really rare for the epidural to only work on one side. The most important thing was that Harry arrived safe and well, and with no ill effects from his epic arrival
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/nbroadbridge/Baby%20Harry/Harry1-1.jpg
19/11/2010
9:30
Felt a trickling when I got out of the shower, at first I wasn't sure if I'd wee-ed or not, so put a pad in. This was soaked really quickly with clear liquid, so I rang the community midwife. She came over to have a look at the pad, and confirmed it was definitely my waters!!
She told me if I hadn't gone into labour within 24 hours I'd need to be induced. Rang OH to get him home from work, and my mum, who had a 4 hour drive ahead of her to get to me.12:00
Contractions start, not too bad at this stage and manageable with paracetamol and a couple of hot baths.
16:00
Mum arrives...contractions getting quite a bit stronger now, so rang midwife again, who came and had a look at me only to break the news that I wasn't even 1cm dilated
Had another hot bath and more paracetamol.18:00
Contractions REALLY painful now, and paracetamol isn't doing the job! Rang midwife again, who came out and said I was finally starting to dilate, but cervix still quite thick. We all agreed that I needed to get to hospital for better pain relief...so followed her there in the car (not me driving of course). I just hung onto the dashboard and groaned the whole way
19:00
Arrive at hospital...thanks to the full moon delivery suites are all in use, so I wait in a private room on the ward. Given gas and air...this stuff is great, doesn't take away the pain totally but makes it more funny!
Giggling like a loon at this point.20/11/2010
Middle of the night (can't remember exact time thanks to being off my face on gas and air
LOTS of pain, gas and air not cutting it anymore, and still only progressed to 4cm
finally get moved to delivery suite, where we wait for the epidural man. Am also put on Syntocinon drip to move things along a bit..contractions coming thick and fast and incredibly painful Epidural man arrives about half an hour later as he'd been dealing with an emergency c section in the room next door. Really hard to stay still between contractions, but he gets it in
Unfortunately it only seemed to be working on one side, and the whole left hand side of my back and pelvis were in agony
They tried turning me to see if that would work, but it didn't.4ish in the morning
Second epidural attempted..much better!! Unfortunately 30 minutes later it turns out that I'm fully dilated, and too drugged up to push. They give me half an hour for epidural 2 to wear off a bit, unfortunately I can still feel a fair bit on the left side
6:00 in the morning
Time to push...very painful on the left side but I try to push through it as all effects of the epidural have worn off. Unfortunately after over an hour, I'm too exhausted, so the consultant arrives to give me an episiotomy and they decide on a kiwi ventouse to get my little boy out.
7:44
Harry Stephen is finally born weighing in at 6lb 8.5oz!!
Pain all forgotten, and he's totally gorgeous! I didn't even notice the stitches being put in We're so in love with him, it was all worth it The anaesthetist came to see me afterwards, and was very apologetic, bless him, as it's apparently really rare for the epidural to only work on one side. The most important thing was that Harry arrived safe and well, and with no ill effects from his epic arrival https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v125/nbroadbridge/Baby%20Harry/Harry1-1.jpg
