SugarFairy
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My little guy arrived 3 days late at 2:30am on 24th July weighing 9lb.
Here is my birth story - if you are worried by labour at all I'd suggest you not read this til your own little one has arrived. If you choose to read it anyway, keep in mind that this is so unusual!! Don't let it worry you or upset your own labour - we are all different
Contractions started at about 12:45am on the 23rd, spaced about 5/6 mins apart and lasting almost a minute each. Went into the Heath when they got to 2/3 mins apart and were lasting about a minute each. I was 4cm dilated at 8am. TENS machine had ceased to work by this point but gas and air was awesome! Like the cheapest night out EVER! At midday I was 5cm I think, even though the contractions were right on top of each other. I caved in and had an epidural - which worked mostly but not in the right side of my back so kept having to have extra. They wouldn't let me eat or drink anything except water and I kept throwing up (as I do when I have low blood sugar). I was fully dilated and ready to start pushing by about 9pm but my contractions stopped coming as regularly as they had been so they gave me syntocinon to help the contractions start up again. It didn't work so they kept upping the dose and were also trying to get me to push at the same time. 2 hours of pushing and nothing. Doctor comes in and says I have a lip on my cervix and she can't push it aside plus baby was back to back and twisted and wasn't turning. She said they were gonna take me to theatre and see if he could be delivered by forceps otherwise it would be a c section. In theatre they put me on my back where I threw up several times again, and decided they were gonna do an episiotomy and deliver him with forceps. I couldn't feel anything cos they'd drugged me up ready for a c-section. Didn't take long for Zac to come out but I lost 2.5 litres (yes, liters, not pints!!) of blood cos my uterus didn't contract and for some reason my episiotomy wouldn't stop bleeding. I've never had clotting problems before. It took them nearly 2 hours to stop the bleeding and sort me out. Obviously when this was happening I couldn't have Zac with me and the peadiatrician was checking him over . The epidural was making me shake uncontrollably too. I was actually scared for my life when they told me how much blood I was losing. I had two transfusions, was on oxgyen most of the 24th, had 4 cannulas in my arms, so many different drugs to clot my blood I honestly have no idea what I was given! Then once I was given Zac I couldn't actually move off the bed or even sit up cos I had so many tubes and wires coming out of me. When he cried I couldn't do anything - I think that was the worst part, my baby crying in the cot just a couple of feet from me and not being able to comfort him
I have internal and external stitches. I'm on iron, antibiotics, 3 forms of pain relief....... But I'm home now : ) Quite surprised that they've let me out so quickly but very very thankful its over!
We've called in Zachary/Zackary (we can't agree on the spelling yet
)
Here's some piccies for you
My baby-daddy sleeping
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00870-1.jpg
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00846-1.jpg
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00850.jpg
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00865.jpg
And me looking ridiculously grey! Starting to get my colour back now though!
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00852.jpg
Here is my birth story - if you are worried by labour at all I'd suggest you not read this til your own little one has arrived. If you choose to read it anyway, keep in mind that this is so unusual!! Don't let it worry you or upset your own labour - we are all different
Contractions started at about 12:45am on the 23rd, spaced about 5/6 mins apart and lasting almost a minute each. Went into the Heath when they got to 2/3 mins apart and were lasting about a minute each. I was 4cm dilated at 8am. TENS machine had ceased to work by this point but gas and air was awesome! Like the cheapest night out EVER! At midday I was 5cm I think, even though the contractions were right on top of each other. I caved in and had an epidural - which worked mostly but not in the right side of my back so kept having to have extra. They wouldn't let me eat or drink anything except water and I kept throwing up (as I do when I have low blood sugar). I was fully dilated and ready to start pushing by about 9pm but my contractions stopped coming as regularly as they had been so they gave me syntocinon to help the contractions start up again. It didn't work so they kept upping the dose and were also trying to get me to push at the same time. 2 hours of pushing and nothing. Doctor comes in and says I have a lip on my cervix and she can't push it aside plus baby was back to back and twisted and wasn't turning. She said they were gonna take me to theatre and see if he could be delivered by forceps otherwise it would be a c section. In theatre they put me on my back where I threw up several times again, and decided they were gonna do an episiotomy and deliver him with forceps. I couldn't feel anything cos they'd drugged me up ready for a c-section. Didn't take long for Zac to come out but I lost 2.5 litres (yes, liters, not pints!!) of blood cos my uterus didn't contract and for some reason my episiotomy wouldn't stop bleeding. I've never had clotting problems before. It took them nearly 2 hours to stop the bleeding and sort me out. Obviously when this was happening I couldn't have Zac with me and the peadiatrician was checking him over . The epidural was making me shake uncontrollably too. I was actually scared for my life when they told me how much blood I was losing. I had two transfusions, was on oxgyen most of the 24th, had 4 cannulas in my arms, so many different drugs to clot my blood I honestly have no idea what I was given! Then once I was given Zac I couldn't actually move off the bed or even sit up cos I had so many tubes and wires coming out of me. When he cried I couldn't do anything - I think that was the worst part, my baby crying in the cot just a couple of feet from me and not being able to comfort him
I have internal and external stitches. I'm on iron, antibiotics, 3 forms of pain relief....... But I'm home now : ) Quite surprised that they've let me out so quickly but very very thankful its over!
We've called in Zachary/Zackary (we can't agree on the spelling yet
)Here's some piccies for you
My baby-daddy sleeping
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00870-1.jpg
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00846-1.jpg
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00850.jpg
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00865.jpg
And me looking ridiculously grey! Starting to get my colour back now though!
https://i40.photobucket.com/albums/e206/cherry606/DSC00852.jpg
