March Mama's! 2012 :) - 33 pink , 24 blue and 17 yellow bumps! 33 Babies!!

[vitfawifetobe]

Congratulation Loo and Mitch - Well done on your baby girls
L xxxx

 

[Nicnak282]

Hehe FT...we bought a few bottles of champagne at the weekend...however yesterday when I was having my mini-breakdown I told hubby that it was taunting me!!!!!! Drama queen or what!!!!

I have been promised a meal at our local pub once baby comes...and camembert maybe starter...main...and dessert with a glass or two of gorgeous bubbles!!! I'll pass on the pate tho...

 

[lozza1uk]

Ooh good idea FT, however if I do that DH will eat it all as he's got zero willpower. I also think the camenbert will smell too good to resist! Might put a bottle of champagne in the fridge to chill but wasn't sure if that's tempting fate!!

 

[kymied]

Nice FT! It sounds like you're going to have a delicious celebration dinner.

I have brown sugar, I think I'll just use that.

When they talk about induction here it's usually Pitocin drip. They do it at 14 days past due unless the baby is big or stressed. It usually gets things moving in a couple hours. If it doesn't they do a c-section. The strip and sweep they do at the doctor's office any time after 40 weeks.

 

[MissyBlaze]

I totally got lost there, it's taken me AGES to write my birth story so i'm totally behind! Need to go and check who's had babas.

I'm putting it in a spoiler as some people might find it a bit scary but I have to say that I feel totally fine about it. Not at all traumatised and kind of found the whole day quite enjoyable (apart from the horrific pain part).

Spoiler

ok... so this is going to be a bit rubbish, and mostly pieced together from my posts on here!

So as you all know i'd been having random bouts of contractions for aaaaaaages. Anyway, on the Thursday night I couldn't sleep. Just really uncomfortable, really achy and huffy. So I came and lay on the sofa and Trashy managed to bore me to sleep with tales of tupperware..

Woke up on Friday, still kind of crampy and felt really down, almost could not believe that the baby hadn't come in the night. I just felt like that was the day, nothing I could put my finger on, just felt... odd. No contractions per se, no show, no waters.

About 10am I start feeling really crampy, like I just had a bad stomach... on the advice of you lot I go for a big poo and they get loads worse. Kind of still thought that it was another false alarm. Started bouncing on the ball, walking around, trying to get things going. They’re about 5 mins apart.

12pm I ring the unit, they tell me my own midwife is on her way over. She arrives anout an hour later and checks me over. Listens in to baby, then VE...4-5cm... she listens in again and baby's HR is high, about 180-190bpm. It stays like it for a while. She decides to go to another appointment for an hour and then come back. She advises me to have a bath or to fill the pool and get in it as I’m established.

OH is on the phone to a colleague and I’m trying to inflate the pool whilst contracting. I get cross and shout him to come and help me. He does. The pump doesn’t work to fill the pool with water so we start using buckets. It seems to take forever and ever. At this point I go to the loo and see a bit of my show, slightly bloody but nothing exciting. I get in the pool, it is amazing. The whole time we are laughing and joking and the atmosphere is super exciting and lovely. He takes loads of pics of me in the pool and supports me better than I ever could have hoped for through contractions. He’s the perfect mix of supportive and not too touchy. Because of the baby’s heart rate I am drinking lots of fluid as I figure that’s what they’d do if I went in to the hospital.

Midwife comes back and offers me Gas and Air, I decline as I’m feeling pretty good. Baby’s heart rate is back to normal

4.30pm ish The contractions start tailing off a bit so I get out of the water for a while to get them going again. Around about here the second midwife turns up (my MW is only meant to be working till 5 but wants to stay to meet our baby). I don’t really like this midwife, she’s a bit talky and annoying.

6.30pm Another VE, I’m 6cm. Whilst I have a contraction as she’s examining me my waters go, on the sofa. Lovely and pink and healthy. OH is sad about the sofa as I don’t tell him I’m lying on a puppy training pad haha. The midwife tells me I can get back in the pool if I want to but I decide to stay out until they kick off a bit more. A neighbour comes over and is freaking out that the midwife has parked on the pavement so she and OH go out to sort out cars. I’m left with the annoying midwife and suddenly the contractions get STRONG. Lasting well over a minute and feel really different and all in my pelvis. When OH and our midwife come back we decide to get back in the water.

Back in the pool and they offer me gas and air again. At this point I feel really horrible and start to feel like I need to push at the height of contractions. They’re a bit mind blowing so I agree. Contraction number 1 with it is ACE, I laugh my arse off and the midwives aren’t sure if I’m crying or laughing. I can’t stop in between and it’s brilliant. Next contraction is similar and then they kind of go back to normal. The gas is great for helping me remember to breathe slowly though, and for biting on.

We carry on like this for a while. The contractions really increasing in intensity, the pushing feeling becomes a bit overwhelming although I am sure that I shouldn’t be pushing as I KNOW in my heart I’m not ready, I can’t stop it. We try LOADS of different positions within the pool to try and stop the feeling but nothing really helps for a long time.

About 9.30pm the midwife asks me if I’d like her to examine me again as we’re all concerned about the pushing and I’m getting a bit stressed. I agree and get out of the water and lie on the floor. I’m 6-7cm and pretty gutted although I was pretty sure that was what was happening. The midwife reassures me that the baby is fine so she is happyt to stay at home. She also says that I can go into hospital for an epidural to help me stop pushing. The contractions are now horrific and taking over my whole body. I go to the loo and the contraction is there is so scary. Me and OH have a chat and we agree to go in. I feel quite relieved. Midwife rings for an ambulance and its there within 2 minutes (although it seems like hours).

I go in the ambulance with the midwife and OH follows in the car. We live about 2 miles from the hospital but somehow OH manages to beat us there and has to stay in the room by himself for 10 minutes! I have no recollection of why the journey took so long!

We get to the room and I’m freaking out. I keep screaming and shouting. They need to wait for the anesthetist as well as take bloods from me, put me on a monitor, and cannulate me etc. This seems like the longest wait ever ever ever. The doctor comes and examines me and I’m still 7cm. I don’t mind as I know that once the epidural is in my body can get on with it’s job without me pushing.

Sometime before midnight the anesthetist arrives. He consents me and tells me all the possible side effects etc. I agree. I move round on the bed to get into the right position and my waters start pouring out like crazy. Every contraction it seems like a whole pint pours out. Eventually the epidural is in and I lie back in the bed to see that the waters have gone green. Boo, mec. Midwives change the bed for me and we wait for the epidural to kick in. It’s the best feeling ever and me and OH doze.

About 3am the monitor shows that although the baby is ok, it’s not brilliant, there are no accelerations and the heart rate very occasionally drops with a contraction. That combined with the meconium makes the midwives worry so they call the doctor back. I’m contracting 6 in 10 minutes at this point, I can feel the pressure of them but no pain. The doctor comes and examines me, I’m now 6cm and really swollen, the baby is direct OP (so well and truly back to back), with a deflexed head (not tucked in chin to chest but kind of looking straight forward) . He is brilliant. He explains my options, he says that his preference would be a c section as they can’t put me on the hormone drip to speed things up as I’m already contracting more than they would like and the baby isn’t coping brilliantly (but also not DREADFUL). I agree, OH wakes up and I tell him.

OH puts on scrubs, he then has to wait in the room while they take me to theatre and top up the epidural. OH then comes through and sits next to me. My epidural is super effective and somehow sends my eye to sleep, and both my arms. The anesthetist tells me they’re cleaning my tummy and asks if I want to know when they start. I say NO way. He says ahh they started ages ago. It really just feels like someone rubbing my tummy. Not at all painful or horrible (kind of relaxing weirdly).

Suddenly there is a big slurpy sound where they’re sucking up the waters. The anesthetist says “there’s your waters, there’s a head, theres the shoulders and we have a baby!” (born at 04.16 on 10th March). The baby cries straight away. They bring him over to us as I’d asked for OH to tell me the sex and ask what we’ve got. OH says “it’s a little boy!”. The midwife says “not that little”, take him to the ressusitaire with the paeds to check him over and asks if we want him weighed. We do. He’s is 9lbs 4oz.

They wrap him and give him to OH (as I’m worried about my dead arms) while they suture me up and try and sort out a little bit of bleeding. Eventually OH and the baby are taken back to the room. He later tells me he was there about 20 minutes and had a little cry while he dressed and cuddled him. The doctors were all amazing. They wrote in my notes that next time I should have a VBAC. I’m wheeled back into the delivery room and OH stays for an hour or so and then goes home to not sleep. Weird weird day!

 

[lozza1uk]

Wow Missy that's detailed but fascinating! And hasn't scared me at all. Nice to see Rashy playing her part too
Reading all these birth stories is weirdly making me look forward to mine!

 

[MissyBlaze]

Mega congrats Mitch, Loo and Laura!!!! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

 

[firsttimer1]

MISSY - JUST FINISHED READING IT x

the bit about your OH spending those 20mins with Ted made me cry a little..... I know it wasnt the birth you wanted and im sorry you were in so much pain, but Ted (as you know) is gorgeous and you are both OK which is the main thing Sounds like the team you had (MW,docs etc) were great - and im glad the epidural did its job for you. This is why i will NEVER write off any sort of pain relief. Its also fab that the doc said next time you can go for a VBAC.... how encouraging.

When u say the doc examined you and Ted was back to back with the head in the wrong position (not chin down) - how did they know that? Just by feeling???? if so - thats incredible? xxx

 

[citymouse]

Wow Missy that's detailed but fascinating! And hasn't scared me at all. Nice to see Rashy playing her part too
Reading all these birth stories is weirdly making me look forward to mine!

D'oh, I wasn't going to read it but now I must see what it says! Unless Missy's surrounded by other rashy people and writing about them.

 

[waula]

Thanks Missy - really good to read your story...thank you for sharing... sorry Ted had gone direct OP in the pool - sounds like it was all going perfectly until that point! Great news about the VBAC too... Hope you're ok and recovering well...how is Ted getting on???

Loving your exciting fridge contents lads!!!!

Another of NCT ladies had their babies today - now 6/7 had/having boys so evens up our girl:boy ratio on here!!!!

xxx

 

[citymouse]

Okay, I read it! Love your attitude, Missy, and like I said, it's only going to make you a star midwife to have been through so many different things yourself. So sweet about your OH and Ted having some time together.

AFM, feeling heavy and lots of pressure. Got in the hot tub last night (with the temp turned way down) and floated around for a while with DH, very pleasant and comfy and we talk a lot about the baby. He's so cute... he's not "excited" about the baby and that makes him sad, but the thing is that we're not very excitable people. So I think it's better that we welcome her with our quieter happiness than worry about bouncing off the walls.

I'm very excited to meet her but still apprehensive about the changes it will bring to our lives. So I'm just not worrying about it until she's here, when I know I'll be over the moon for her. Now I'm afraid the little stinker is holding on until I do really finish my work! Guess I'd better get on it.

Good thing we didn't invite MIL out for the weekend... at the hotel she would have stayed at (because of the construction downstairs) there was a shooting this morning! It was a domestic dispute, not a random thing, but we would have never heard the end of it.

Feeling good, walking around constantly thinking, "Open... wide... soft..." Is it healthy to spend so much time thinking about one's cervix?

 

[MissyBlaze]

MISSY - JUST FINISHED READING IT x

the bit about your OH spending those 20mins with Ted made me cry a little..... I know it wasnt the birth you wanted and im sorry you were in so much pain, but Ted (as you know) is gorgeous and you are both OK which is the main thing Sounds like the team you had (MW,docs etc) were great - and im glad the epidural did its job for you. This is why i will NEVER write off any sort of pain relief. Its also fab that the doc said next time you can go for a VBAC.... how encouraging.

When u say the doc examined you and Ted was back to back with the head in the wrong position (not chin down) - how did they know that? Just by feeling???? if so - thats incredible? xxx

I know, it made me cry when he told me he'd done that too.

With a VVE there are loads of things to check.... so they check how dilated, how eggfaced etc you are, plus where the head is in relation to your pelvis, plus the position. Thats done by feeling fontanelles and suture lines on the baby's head (theres the big diamond shaped one on top of the head and a smaller triangle shaped one on the back of the head). in my case he ciuld fee the big one...

 

[firsttimer1]

wow... i just find it all so clever and amazing

and we demand more piccies of Ted soon of course

enjoy it all hunni

 

[wondertwins]

Beautiful story, Missy. Thanks for sharing. At some point before the boys are one year old, I hope to get around to writing mine out too. I had the same experience with the c section being oddly relaxing. Not uncomfortable at all.

 

[MissyBlaze]

Waula - all good here. Just trying to wean Ted off the nipple shields which is annoying. His belly button STINKS at the moment and i cant wait for it to drop off. My scar has gone mad and the midwives think its infected so i'm off to the docs at 5.

City, i think me and OH were the same, but since he's been born its super exciting, It's really hard to really imagine before it happens. It's overwhelming then it does though.

 

[Glowstar]

Nice birth story Missy and not at all scary...quite the opposite even though it ended with a c-section it sounds like the birth was all it could be and more.

Lozza - I hope your S&S get's things going for you on Wednesday FT you have a S&S the same day as me Friday so we could be on the 'go' at the same time (if you don't go before of course)

Well I think that's the rest of us either overdue or down to single figures now There's not many of us left now....it's like the end of an era!!!

This thread goes quieter and quieter as arrive.

 

[firsttimer1]

i know its weird isnt it? all quiet now... but for many good reasons

Thats true glow, we COULD be in labour at same time heehee.... i hope so as that would mean i avoided induction LOL.... im still keeping my fingers crossed for a water birth

urgh - remember last week i wanted fish and really salty chips, well i didnt get any (but mitch did LOL) so im hoping tonights the night...... but it feels wrong when we are doing a food shop tonight

It feels double wrong seen as im currently obsessing over having a double chin!!!

 

[firsttimer1]

Oh great - my melon ticker is gone guess thats it then. Digs must be walking around the house somewhere as ive obviously had them and forgotton!!!!

EDIT: melon is back. thank god for that. Im still pregnant.

 

[lozza1uk]

Someone's tagged a photo of Joanna with a baby on FB, has anyone heard from her?!!

 

[firsttimer1]

awwww yes, just seen! she has had her baby boy! so happy for her

wow - she didnt waste any time after starting mat leave on friday

edit: wont add her to first page as unsure on date of birth / name etc (until she lets us know) xxxx