Lliena
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Okay while I have a few mins here is my birth story
On Thur 12th Aug approx term+1 I felt a gush of fluid about 5pm so decided to wait an hr or so and see if anything else happened. I lay down to rest and at 6.30pm stood up and it happened again so my OH and I went to hospital to get it checked over. They confirmed my hind waters had started to go and told me that if I didnt go into labour within the next day I had to come back on Sat 14th Aug to be induced as risk of infection was now higher to baby.
So nothing happened apart from irregular tightenings over the day and night of Fri 13th which meant at 8am on Sat morning I rolled up to hospital to be induced. Part of me was still thinking they would send me home or something, it hadnt sunk in I was having my baby that day!
At 9am I was examined and found to be 1 to 2cm dilated and my cervix was soft so put straight on syntocin drip around 10am and from then on this is what happened....
12pm - tightening starting.
1:45pm - fore waters broke.
3:15pm - they tried putting fetal head monitor on to baby but I was still only 1-2cm dilated and not getting a good contact. So I had to stay on the bed with the belt on. My contractions were starting to come stronger by this point.
4pm - I started on gas and air. Boy is it good
4:15pm - The registrar came to check on me and said continue as I was doing and get some more fluids on board.
From then on the contractions got stronger but the gas and air really helped it then got to:
7pm - I had another VE done.Was found to be 4cm dilated and baby much lower.
7:30pm - the dr came to check on me again said I was doing well and to continue as I was doing and they would review me in another 4 hours. I felt a bit down at this point that things werent happening faster little did I know what was around the corner!!
The contractions started to ramp up and the belt was losing contact so the midwife examined me at 8pm and managed to fit the fetal scalp monitor and found I was now 7cm. I asked for an epidural at this point as the pain was pretty bad! After this point its all abit of a blur until I got to the pushing stage but my husband managed to make a few notes...
8:30pm - epidural fitted.
9:25pm - epidural top up due to still hurting.
1000pm - urge to push.
1016pm - born.
The feeling of needing to push was overwhelming and as soon as it kicked in I stopped using my gas and air as I had something to focus on and being able to push against the pain made it much more bearable! Baby was given straight to me for skin to skin as soon as she was born and her daddy cut the cord She weighed 7lb 2oz and was 49cm long!
After all that my placenta decided that it didnt want to co-operate though and I ended up having to go to theatre to have it removed manually(use your imagination-ow!) I felt weak afterwards and had lost 1200mls of blood so had to stay in hospital for 2 days while I recovered. It was all worth it though for my beautiful baby girl Avalon Grace who we are totally and utterly in love with
I hope you enjoyed reading my story xx
On Thur 12th Aug approx term+1 I felt a gush of fluid about 5pm so decided to wait an hr or so and see if anything else happened. I lay down to rest and at 6.30pm stood up and it happened again so my OH and I went to hospital to get it checked over. They confirmed my hind waters had started to go and told me that if I didnt go into labour within the next day I had to come back on Sat 14th Aug to be induced as risk of infection was now higher to baby.
So nothing happened apart from irregular tightenings over the day and night of Fri 13th which meant at 8am on Sat morning I rolled up to hospital to be induced. Part of me was still thinking they would send me home or something, it hadnt sunk in I was having my baby that day!
At 9am I was examined and found to be 1 to 2cm dilated and my cervix was soft so put straight on syntocin drip around 10am and from then on this is what happened....
12pm - tightening starting.
1:45pm - fore waters broke.
3:15pm - they tried putting fetal head monitor on to baby but I was still only 1-2cm dilated and not getting a good contact. So I had to stay on the bed with the belt on. My contractions were starting to come stronger by this point.
4pm - I started on gas and air. Boy is it good
4:15pm - The registrar came to check on me and said continue as I was doing and get some more fluids on board.
From then on the contractions got stronger but the gas and air really helped it then got to:
7pm - I had another VE done.Was found to be 4cm dilated and baby much lower.
7:30pm - the dr came to check on me again said I was doing well and to continue as I was doing and they would review me in another 4 hours. I felt a bit down at this point that things werent happening faster little did I know what was around the corner!!
The contractions started to ramp up and the belt was losing contact so the midwife examined me at 8pm and managed to fit the fetal scalp monitor and found I was now 7cm. I asked for an epidural at this point as the pain was pretty bad! After this point its all abit of a blur until I got to the pushing stage but my husband managed to make a few notes...
8:30pm - epidural fitted.
9:25pm - epidural top up due to still hurting.
1000pm - urge to push.
1016pm - born.
The feeling of needing to push was overwhelming and as soon as it kicked in I stopped using my gas and air as I had something to focus on and being able to push against the pain made it much more bearable! Baby was given straight to me for skin to skin as soon as she was born and her daddy cut the cord She weighed 7lb 2oz and was 49cm long!
After all that my placenta decided that it didnt want to co-operate though and I ended up having to go to theatre to have it removed manually(use your imagination-ow!) I felt weak afterwards and had lost 1200mls of blood so had to stay in hospital for 2 days while I recovered. It was all worth it though for my beautiful baby girl Avalon Grace who we are totally and utterly in love with
I hope you enjoyed reading my story xx
