My birth story....long and maybe disturbing

[lorenare]

Well here i am to write about my birth story which wasnt what i imagined it would be...i always thought my labor would be something i could handle...of course i knew it was gonna be painful but for me it turned out to be traumatic.
I was induced on november 26 cos i was overdue...at 9 pm that evening they inserted the first prostaglandin pill. At about 12 am i started to feel contractions and omg they are awful! Contractions were coming too close together in such a short time so the midwife examined me and i was already 4 cm dilated. The problem was labor started so fast that baby was feeling stressed and his heart beats were going down. A doctor came to check baby and they decided they wanted to put something ( i dont know how to call it ) on baby' s head to check him even better...and so they did....i asked for the epidural cos the contractions were killing me and so they gave a first dose and so i started to feel so much better and thought ok i can do this...i was so wrong!!! Baby' s heart continued to go down so the doctor came back and decided that this time she wanted to extract blood from the baby' s head to analyse some kind of acid they did this 5 times along the night!!!! It was awful! Not only because my husband and i were worried about baby but also because nobody told me you can still feel pain from your waist down even though you had the epidural!!! So i didnt feel the contractions but i was feeling everything else! And it was torture! The pain was so unbearable that i could not keep track of the time so sorry if i cannot give the exact hours everything was happening. Ok so all of a sudden i started to feel like i wanted to go to the bathroom and so i remember reading that is how you feel when you want to push and so i told the midwife and after she examined me, she said i was 10 cm dilated and i could start pushing if i wanted....i think this was about 8 am on wednesday....pushing was so painful and hard for me...i even felt like i was going to pass out everytime i did it! It was so hard that at some point i was saying i couldnt do this anymore....i just wanted a c section so bad...i just couldnt handle all the pain anymore....and when i though the pain could not get any worse the doctor decided that i needed to give birth with ventouse....when they inserted that awful thing inside of me i though i was gonna die! It was terrible! But fortunately that awful instrument helped me bring my baby boy out at 10.30 am on november 27. It was such a relief when he was out and i thought thanks God this is over...but i was wrong again! While i was doing skin to skin with baby, i started to feel the doctor stiching me up and again the epidural did nothing to prevent me from feeling that pain! I had a second degree tear that still after one week pp it hurts badly...i guess it will take some time to heal.
Ok my intention is not to scare any first time mother with my birth story...i just wanted to let you know my experience...i have low pain tolerance so maybe that is why for me labor was traumatic and i dont think i want to go through that again....hopefully yours will be so much better!!!!!!

 

[wannabenewmum]

Aww so sorry ur birth was so traumatic, but glad yr lo arrived safe and well
Congrats xx

 

[claudinator]

I'm so sorry to hear this I hope you heal quickly. And congrats on baby boy!

 

[vtjess423]

I'm sorry your labor was so traumatic. But I'm glad your little one arrived safely! I hope you heal quickly. Congrats!

 

[Louise88]

Congrats on your baby boy and so sorry labour was traumatic, I remember the stitches down there after having my daughter it took a good 4 weeks to stop hurting but I got cut and also teared I completely sympathise with you! I think your very brave I'd have freaked out if they said they needed to take blood from my babies head (I'm really funny with stuff like that!)

 

[kate1984]

That sounds horrific but your made of strong stuff and got through it. So glad you and baby are ok and sorry about your minnie hurting so much.... ouch and congrats xx

 

[Eltjuh]

Sorry to hear it was traumatic for you, but congrats!!

Don't worry, it's normal for your stitches to hurt for a while - I had a 2nd degree tear with my son. If you're not doing it already, try pouring some luke warm water down there when you're on the toilet to stop it stinging too bad.
And don't worry it's also perfectly normal to say you never wanna do it again.... but you will feel different after some time! (Only took about 6 months for me to think I'd do it again...at some point!!) 3 years later I'm doing it again!! (and my labour was no fun either, 82 hours of contractions, 2.5 of which I was pushing)

Anyway congrats again and enjoy your little man!!

 

[Irish Eyes]

Congrats on your gorgeous baby for the stitches have you tried putting water on a sanitary towel & freezing it? Just numbs you & helps with swelling feel better!

 

[Eline]

Sounds to me like the epidural wasn't put in right? I don't think you're supposed to still have that much pain? Even though it was traumatic, it sounds like you were very brave and did very well to bring your baby into this world. Congratulations on your little treasure!

 

[liz1985]

Congratulations x

 

[Charlie91]

Congratulations! Sorry you had such a difficult labour

 

[Bevziibubble]

Congratulations on the birth of your baby. I'm sorry that your labour was so traumatic