So I had been getting lower back pain and period type pain on and off for a couple of weeks but nothing really seemed to be happening.
On Monday 30th November I was out shopping for Christmas decorations with my parents and 3 year old. I felt like I had over done it as I became increasingly tired and found it difficult to walk.
When we got home I rested and then put DS to bed and read him a bedtime story. After I said good night to him, I noticed that I got a really intense painful cramp in my back and in my bump. I thought that it was as a result of over doing it or constipation but I soon realised they were contractions. They started coming every 2 mins and lasted for 40 seconds and which were incredibly painful. We rang the hospital who told us to stay at home until the contractions lasted 1 minute. I felt that they were getting more intense though and felt like I couldn't cope. I remember being worried at this point as I had laboured for about 30 hours with my son before feeling like I couldn't cope and here I was at the same point barely an hour into labour. I thought that my pain threshold had really gone down over the last 3 years! Then my waters broke with a pop and gushed all over my jeans. My partner then rang the hospital but was on hold. The contractions had really ramped up in intensity and then all of a sudden I felt I needed to push. My partner then rang 999 after briefly speaking to the hospital who said they would send a midwife out. Ernergency services then told my partner to take my jeans off which I resisted as my parents were in the room as they were staying with us for a few days. My dad was banished to the kitchen and my partner and mum got my jeans off. I then heard my partner tell emergency services that he could see the head and a few pushes later my little girl was born on our living room floor delivered by her daddy! Labour was 90 minutes from start to finish.
The ambulance arrived a few minutes afterwards followed by the midwives. I was then transferred to hospital where I was stitched up following a small second degree tear.
She's ten days old now and we're utterly in love with her
On Monday 30th November I was out shopping for Christmas decorations with my parents and 3 year old. I felt like I had over done it as I became increasingly tired and found it difficult to walk.
When we got home I rested and then put DS to bed and read him a bedtime story. After I said good night to him, I noticed that I got a really intense painful cramp in my back and in my bump. I thought that it was as a result of over doing it or constipation but I soon realised they were contractions. They started coming every 2 mins and lasted for 40 seconds and which were incredibly painful. We rang the hospital who told us to stay at home until the contractions lasted 1 minute. I felt that they were getting more intense though and felt like I couldn't cope. I remember being worried at this point as I had laboured for about 30 hours with my son before feeling like I couldn't cope and here I was at the same point barely an hour into labour. I thought that my pain threshold had really gone down over the last 3 years! Then my waters broke with a pop and gushed all over my jeans. My partner then rang the hospital but was on hold. The contractions had really ramped up in intensity and then all of a sudden I felt I needed to push. My partner then rang 999 after briefly speaking to the hospital who said they would send a midwife out. Ernergency services then told my partner to take my jeans off which I resisted as my parents were in the room as they were staying with us for a few days. My dad was banished to the kitchen and my partner and mum got my jeans off. I then heard my partner tell emergency services that he could see the head and a few pushes later my little girl was born on our living room floor delivered by her daddy! Labour was 90 minutes from start to finish.
The ambulance arrived a few minutes afterwards followed by the midwives. I was then transferred to hospital where I was stitched up following a small second degree tear.
She's ten days old now and we're utterly in love with her
