BunnyFace
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I thought it was about time I posted my birth story! 9 months after isn’t too late is it 
I won’t be as good with details as my brain is still a little mushy but I will do my best
At 8am I lost my plug, thought ooo labours not far off, and it wasn’t because when I walked out the bathroom and my waters went. I knew straight away there was meconium in them so phoned the labour ward, they did seem overly fussed and told me to have some breakfast, a bath and then to come in. I did neither and went straight in, got hooked up to the monitors and that was it for a good couple of hours. The midwife came back with test results and there was definitely meconium present and I would need to be induced as I wasn’t contracting, so off she went to get a pessary to induce me.
Luckily the induction was successful and by 5pm I was in established labour but still attached to monitors. I had planned for a water birth but oh well. By this time I was having contractions on top of each other, I was feeling the urge to push and it was really quite painful so I asked for an epidural.
The midwife on duty basically said no because I “couldn’t possibly be far enough along”. She examined me and I was 8cm. She then apologised and said it was too late for the epidural but I was not allowed to push
I was still hooked up to the monitors and trying not to push is probably the hardest thing you could possible do whilst giving birth
At this point another midwife came in and told me if I felt the urge to push then I should push so I did.
They were now about a million people in the room doing various things each one telling me to do something different. I pushed for an hour and a half and at 7:53pm on Monday 3rd May 2010 Eloise May was born weighing 5lbs 13oz at 38wks exactly. She scored 9 in her apgar test then 10 and she is perfect. She fed from the breast for 30 mins after which I had to be taken to theatre to have my placenta removed
I will stop my birth story there because the rest of my stay in hospital was crap and I don’t want to spoil my story with it/remember it. 
I won’t be as good with details as my brain is still a little mushy but I will do my best
At 8am I lost my plug, thought ooo labours not far off, and it wasn’t because when I walked out the bathroom and my waters went. I knew straight away there was meconium in them so phoned the labour ward, they did seem overly fussed and told me to have some breakfast, a bath and then to come in. I did neither and went straight in, got hooked up to the monitors and that was it for a good couple of hours. The midwife came back with test results and there was definitely meconium present and I would need to be induced as I wasn’t contracting, so off she went to get a pessary to induce me.
Luckily the induction was successful and by 5pm I was in established labour but still attached to monitors. I had planned for a water birth but oh well. By this time I was having contractions on top of each other, I was feeling the urge to push and it was really quite painful so I asked for an epidural.
The midwife on duty basically said no because I “couldn’t possibly be far enough along”. She examined me and I was 8cm. She then apologised and said it was too late for the epidural but I was not allowed to push
I was still hooked up to the monitors and trying not to push is probably the hardest thing you could possible do whilst giving birth
At this point another midwife came in and told me if I felt the urge to push then I should push so I did. They were now about a million people in the room doing various things each one telling me to do something different. I pushed for an hour and a half and at 7:53pm on Monday 3rd May 2010 Eloise May was born weighing 5lbs 13oz at 38wks exactly. She scored 9 in her apgar test then 10 and she is perfect. She fed from the breast for 30 mins after which I had to be taken to theatre to have my placenta removed
I will stop my birth story there because the rest of my stay in hospital was crap and I don’t want to spoil my story with it/remember it. 
