Hi ladies not been on properly for little bit just getting used to little fella and time with toddler.. Well my induction in the end took 4 days but I'll try and shorten it as a lot was due to really busy ward ..
I was suppose to go in Tuesday at 8am , eventually went in a 8pm due to there not being any beds.. They checked me I was 1cm but contracting myself so didn't intervene that night..wouldn't let oh stay so he slept in car as too far for him to go home.. Poor thing was freezing ..next morning I hadn't progressed do they gave me a pessary at 12.30 that has to stay in 24 hours.. This made me contract but they didn't do much .. Next day at 1pm I was only 2cm.. Oh had 2nd night in car but my eldest son brought him quilt n coffee bless him.. Staff gave me some gel to help me progress ..at this point I was told that delivery suite was completely full and if I had to deliver if have to do it in the ward.. This freaked me out , the thought of it and I had a terrible night, I'd been given the stuff to speed me up but was lying in the best to avoid gravity doing its stuff as I was scared of giving birth in the ward with loads of people around, I i did feel very alone and vulnerable at this point with oh away and staff crazily busy
i was also told there was minimal pain relief , no epi Ect up there, just gas and air.. And Peth if I wanted it..
Anyway next day I had progressed but was still 2/3 cm and they said they could break my waters but there was still no space in delivery to do this. I was still contracting so id just have to wait until there was a space, it got to evening and thankfully the staff must have felt bad for our situation, the ward had quietened down so they gave me and oh a side room and let him stay, my contractions were quite strong by this point I had 4 lots of codeine over the past 24 hours, couldn't sleep through them, I told other half to try and rest if he could and I just paced around the ward through Thursday night until early hours, I was so exhausted, couldn't walk when they came but decided that I needed to try and get some sleep even if it was only a few minutes as I didn't feel up to going through birth I was really staring to think I'm not going to be able to do this, that was 4.30 am Friday morning, I dont n ow how I managed it but I did fall asleep and the ward staff came in at 6am and woke me to tell me I was going down to delivery in 10mins to break my waters, go and get some breakfast and a coffee quickly as they didn't want me to lose the bed! I was totally out of it. Def started to panic inside, had drink but couldn't eat felt sick,
On delivery, had 10 mins to come round which helped as was still asleep prior to this, the midwife was instantly reassuring and made me feel better. She managed to break my waters which was fine, the plan was to give it two hours then start drip if needed. 2 hours past, they started drip and then contractions gradually started to get worse.
Ive got to say this was my forth baby and I was more nervous about his birth than any before with last being so quick and painful..there was a stage where I pulled drip out and blood everywhere, but I hardly noticed as oh kept me distracted.. I kind of got into a routine woh my oh, I used my tens machine the whole way through, I was on monitors, so everyone I had a contraction my oh would tell me it was in way and is start my gas n air and press my tens on full wack, I just counted through them and , just thought about some of comments from this thread, and others, one was each contraction is one closer to meeting my baby.. This helped keep me calm..another was that ones gone ive nailed it lol., this made me feel much more in control. I really felt that me and oh worked as a team through the whole process .. My little man was born after about 6 contractions of pushing. One blip as I pushed the contractions went from every 1 min to every 10 with me pulling drip out but we managed in the end.. He was born at 1.25 pm weighing 8lb 4 which was less then predicted on scans.. We are both doing well , he is starting to feed ok although j get loads of after pains when I feed him. And nipples are killing. Gonna try the coconut oil x
Hope all other new mummies are doing in and not long to go other ladies ️xx.
Omg sorry that was so long lol .. It was a long 4 days x
Glad to hear it works so well! I'll have to pick some up. 
I keep hoping there's a cosmic reason for the class not going ahead tomorrow - maybe I'll be in labor and she wouldn't have been able to go anyway. 
