Well ladies sorry to have been awol for a few days, but I was a bit busy finally having my gorgeous little boy who wanted to keep us waiting as long as possible!! 10 days late and 38 hours of labour later and little William finally made his grand arrival into the world at 4.46am May 8th, a healthy 7lbs 15oz!
We had a bit of journey together from complete back contractions (don't let the hospital fob you off saying that it's just the early part and to.stay at home until contractions get started in the bump and become regular! If you feel that it is more than that get checked! When hubby insisted on taking me to be checked even though I said it can't be yet as I still hadn't felt any contractions in my bump, I was 5cm, contracting every 5-10 mins, thinking that I was still just in early stages and not progressing anywhere!)
When my waters broke at 8cm they had meconium in them and they had been bulging it tricked my cervix into thinking I was fully dilated when I was still only 8cm.
We then had a problem with my body wanting to push before I was fully dilated I couldn't stop it and it was causing his heartrate to drop. They got me wheeled down to theatre to prep for an emergency c section meanwhile I got to 10cm and was able to push him out with the slight aid of a vontous! All done with just a warm bath and gas and air just from 8cm in an attempt to help me slow my breathing enough through the contractions trying to get me to push before he was ready!
My poor little man is struggling with feeding due to a headache from the vontouse but he's getting there now so fingers crossed we'll be able to get home today!
Congratulations on the babies I've missed in the last couple days, hope you all have a swift and easy recovery!
Hope those of you with promising signs get to meet your babies really soon!!