willowblossom
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Aug 4, 2011
- Messages
- 613
- Reaction score
- 2
Hi ladies. I thought I would share my birth story on here as was meant to be a homebirth, unfortunately things didn't go as planned.sorry it's a bit long!
It started on Monday 4th December. On the morning I was due to have a sweep (attempt number 2) but naughty baby was still not engaged at all so could not be done again! I was feeling very disheartened!
Well then at around 1am on Tuesday 5th December, I woke up having fairly strong contractions coming every 4 minutes or so. I woke my husband up and went downstairs. I put on my tens machine and covered the floor in protective sheets! I called the midwife who came within 30 minutes (my second labour was a quick one!)
She arrived and called the second midwife who came shortly after. All was going well and contractions were getting stronger. The midwife examined me, I was 7cm dilated so I was really pleased! 😁
The time went on and things started to slow down. We got to 7am and I was contracting around every 6 minutes. We decided to ask my hubby's parents to come and get the kids and take them to school and nursery. after they got picked up at 8am I was re examined with no change at all. Baby was still not in the pelvis. We all decided it would be best to have my waters broken artificially.to get things moving again and to encourage baby down into the pelvis. Unfortunately this meant a transfer to hospital.
An ambulance arrived within 10 minutes and off I went.
On arrival my midwife handed over to the midwife on labour ward. My waters were broken and I was put on a monitor for a while.
At one point babys heart rate went right down and didn't pick up, so the emergency button was pressed and the room filled with lots of people! Very scary but as soon as I moved position it picked up and stayed up. A clipped was placed on baby's head to monitor the heart rate better.
I was so exhausted and the contractions had become so unbearable I asked for an epidural! (I never thought in a million years I would!!) the baby still hadn't moved down much so he must have got his head wedged in an awkward position. Some time later after laying on the bed not coping very well, the anesthetist came in the room ready to give me the epidural. I swung my legs on the side of the bed and literally as soon as I sat up I felt baby move right down and I was ready to push! I quickly got myself back on the bed and after 2 big pushes my beautiful son was born!! 😁
The midwife was a bit shocked he came out so quickly! Very lucky I didn't have the epidural in the end!
I managed to avoid any tears and grazes. He was born at 1.25pm weighing in at 8lb 2oz and we were discharged around 6pm. It was nice to get home to my own bed!!
So it didn't go to plan but I am so happy my boy arrived safely!
It's definitely true what they say about 3rd babies! I would say this was my mistake painful out of the 3 and definitely the most unpredictable!!! 😁
I hope everybody else gets the birth they hope for!
It started on Monday 4th December. On the morning I was due to have a sweep (attempt number 2) but naughty baby was still not engaged at all so could not be done again! I was feeling very disheartened!
Well then at around 1am on Tuesday 5th December, I woke up having fairly strong contractions coming every 4 minutes or so. I woke my husband up and went downstairs. I put on my tens machine and covered the floor in protective sheets! I called the midwife who came within 30 minutes (my second labour was a quick one!)
She arrived and called the second midwife who came shortly after. All was going well and contractions were getting stronger. The midwife examined me, I was 7cm dilated so I was really pleased! 😁
The time went on and things started to slow down. We got to 7am and I was contracting around every 6 minutes. We decided to ask my hubby's parents to come and get the kids and take them to school and nursery. after they got picked up at 8am I was re examined with no change at all. Baby was still not in the pelvis. We all decided it would be best to have my waters broken artificially.to get things moving again and to encourage baby down into the pelvis. Unfortunately this meant a transfer to hospital.
An ambulance arrived within 10 minutes and off I went.
On arrival my midwife handed over to the midwife on labour ward. My waters were broken and I was put on a monitor for a while.
At one point babys heart rate went right down and didn't pick up, so the emergency button was pressed and the room filled with lots of people! Very scary but as soon as I moved position it picked up and stayed up. A clipped was placed on baby's head to monitor the heart rate better.
I was so exhausted and the contractions had become so unbearable I asked for an epidural! (I never thought in a million years I would!!) the baby still hadn't moved down much so he must have got his head wedged in an awkward position. Some time later after laying on the bed not coping very well, the anesthetist came in the room ready to give me the epidural. I swung my legs on the side of the bed and literally as soon as I sat up I felt baby move right down and I was ready to push! I quickly got myself back on the bed and after 2 big pushes my beautiful son was born!! 😁
The midwife was a bit shocked he came out so quickly! Very lucky I didn't have the epidural in the end!
I managed to avoid any tears and grazes. He was born at 1.25pm weighing in at 8lb 2oz and we were discharged around 6pm. It was nice to get home to my own bed!!
So it didn't go to plan but I am so happy my boy arrived safely!
It's definitely true what they say about 3rd babies! I would say this was my mistake painful out of the 3 and definitely the most unpredictable!!! 😁
I hope everybody else gets the birth they hope for!
