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Congratulations Hippy, at long last, so happy for all you guys, unfortunately i have just miscarried again , as you can imagine I am devastated, so back to the drawing board for me :( xxxx
 
oh pumpkin I am sooo sooooo sorry hun....will be thinking of you...major major :hugs:...hope you can get the support you need
 
Oh no Pumpkin that just sucks ass. I feel devastated for you, it is such a hard thing to go through. :(
 
Congrats Hippy, I am so glad she is finally here! Sounds like she had quite the journey to get here!

So sorry Pumpkin :(
 
Hi ladies,

I FINALLY had my baby boy Alfie Mark Turner on 6th November weighing in at 8lb 8oz and a whopping 22.5inches long! A very traumatic birth which required us both to stay in hospital for a week, but we finally came home yesterday. I will upload my birth story when i can bring myself to relive it!
 

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awwww..soooo cute!!!...im still not over my birth story and hospital stay..if you need someone to talk to hun PM me....Im now on zoloft for PPD/PTSD..dont let yourself get to that point..
 
Mrs Turner, he is adorable! Congrats! Sorry to hear the birth did not go smoothly, I hope you are doing better now!
 
Congrats Mrst.

Looks like not all of us had a great time with our births. I am just happy that all the babies arrived safely.

Here is Alana Harmony.
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She is gorgeous Hippy. I am totally with you on the safe arrivals. Although my birth was horrible, it hasn't put me off having another one at some point!

Alfie is such a great baby. He has taken brilliantly to the breast and goes between 2-5 hours for feeds. He is a happy little thing and LOVES having his hair washed. I think he'll turn into a bit of a pretty boy! ha ha ha
 
My birth story

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Alfie Mark Turner finally graced us with his prescence on 06/11/11 at 06:13am at 41+6.

On Saturday 5th November i went to the hospital at 08:30am to be induced as he was refusing to come out on his own. I was hooked up to a monitor to assess baby which was all fine. I was actually contracting but i couldnt feel them. They were really busy so left DH and i for a couple of hours. That couple of hours turned into 11 hours!

I finally had my waters broken at 19:30pm and everything went in fast forward after that. I went from mild contractions to agony in less than an hour. Gas and air was useless for me. It would only kick in after the contraction eased off, so i decided to do it all natural. In less than 2 hours my cervix had gone from 3cm to 9cm!

It all moved so quickly that the baby was really distressed during each contraction which were coming every 3 minutes for 90 seconds a time. It felt like they were constant.
I wasn't allowed to move off the bed as i was being monitored constantly. I was begging for an epidural at this point, but i was told it was time to push.

I was pushing for an hour when the doctor came in to assess me and told the midwife off because i wasn't actually 10cm and the baby was lieing sideways and wouldnt come out that way. DH and i were furious.
Now i was told i couldn't push anymore. It was physically IMPOSSIBLE to stop myself now, which was distressing me and the baby more. I was then told i should have the epidural to stop me pushing and wait for the baby to turn.

The epidural was AMAZING!!! It took them ages to put it in as my contractions were so strong, but once it was in, it was brilliant. I even managed to get some sleep.

Eventually after 3 hours of waiting, the baby had moved and it was time to push again.
I was so numb i couldnt feel if i was doing it right, but the midwife said i was. After 2 hours, the baby still wasnt moving down so i had to have a forceps delivery, which was exactly what i didnt want.

I was told i had 4 goes with the forceps or it was c section time. The doctor was a tiny woman and she literally pulled with all her strength to get the baby out. DH and the midwife even had to hold my legs as she was pulling me off the bed.
The baby finally came out on the 4th and final pull. He was very distressed from the pulling and was born with a gash on his head and facial palsy.

I had a full episiotimy which is painful as hell!

Alfie was checked over and was very jittery so bloods were taken. It turned out he had an infection and required iv antibiotics for 5 days and had mild jaundice. So we had to stay in hospital.

Once my epidural had worn off, i had the WORST headache of my life. It was horrendous. I couldnt lift my head off the pillow even though i was drugged up to my eyeballs. After 2 days, the doctors informed me it was a complication of the epidural where they had put the needle in too far and injected into my spine. I was leaking spinal fluid which was what was causing the pain in my head. It meant i had to have blood taken from my arm and injected into my spine.
I was very nervous, but i am so glad i did it, as after a couple of hours the pain had totally gone. It was like a miracle!

We were finally let home on saturday, and we are both doing brilliantly now. Alfie is a very happy little boy. And i really got established with my feeding while i was in hospital, so i am very grateful for that. The nurses were fantastic. I would highly recommend Salisbury hospital.
 
That sounds pretty traumatic but glad to hear your boy is well now after the infection. Are you going to complain about the midwife getting it wrong?

People keep telling me I should complain about my after care but I don't think I'll bother. I don't think it would do any good.

My delivery was very straight forward but I've already forgotten all the details. It's so hazy now. It's funny, about an hour after she was born I was asking my OH when we could have the next one :lol: Not for a few years I think but all the pain hasn't put me off either.
 
the pain hasnt put me off but the PPD definitely has made me reconsider...hopefully they will let me start the meds right after baby#2 is born as a preventative measure coz I dont think I could do this again...
 
I think so MrsJ!

I dont think i'll bother complaining either. DH wants to because it upset him so much seeing me in so much pain, but the rest of the care we got was fantastic, and i got a healthy baby out of it. If he was really ill i would have complained, but like you, Stouffer, i have forgotten most of the details and it hasnt put me off having another baby.
 
Hippy she is gorgeous!

I really had my dream labor and delivery. I never expected it to go so quickly, and as much as I wanted a natural water birth I had prepared myself mentally in case it didn't go the way I had wanted. So I was really surprised when it went so smoothly. Lauren was actually born in her sack of water (Caul birth) and from what I hear it's really rare. Of course I didn't prepare myself for nursing to be so difficult. I am praying it gets better soon. I am trying to get her off the nipple shield, but she is having difficulty latching without it. Even with the difficulty now, I totally want more in the future.
 
That's what the nurses told us Waiting :) I had never heard of it before, so I read up on it a little when I got home. Pretty interesting history!
 
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