On Tuesday the 10th Jan at 6 days overdue I started having weak contractions about a minute apart after doing lots of nipple stimulation for the days previously. They continued and continued and started getting quite painful meaning I couldn't sleep. So I woke up OH and we went on a long walk to try and speed things up. About 3am after a painful contraction I saw my bloody show and got very excited!
They slowly got worse and worse thoughout the night to the early morning so we went on another walk! I was already giving up hope thinking it was never going to happen. I kept on phoning the hopsital and they told me to try and relax because first babies normally take a long time to start coming as the cervix hasn't opened before.
I ate loads of food in this time and drank loads of water. I couldn't sit still through the contractions and certainly not sit down! They were so painful if I lay down.
I phoned the hospital again at about 7pm on Wednesday, I was so tired now as I hadn't slept. I think my voice was starting to wobble on the phone and they sent round the midwife. I'd previously stated that I wanted no vaginal examinations during labour but I was begging for it - no regrets whatsoever, didn't even hurt a bit!! And she told me I was 4cm, I was over the moon!!
Me, OH and the midwife then proceeded to watch one born every minute and I kept on breathing through contractions which were slowly getting worse and worse.
Eventually I was starting to think that walking and breathing through them wasnt working so I asked for the pool to be filled! This took ages as the hose fitting didnt work so OH had to fill up the bin and buckets with water..THEN we ran out of hot water
I proceeded to cry but my amazing neighbours let us use their water.
Once filled I jumped in and WOW it helped with the pain, really really did. I was so chilled so we put on my favourite music and chatted by this time I had two new midwives as the other had finished her shift. They were lovely and told me I was doing amazingly and didn't even look like I was in labour
I felt pretty damn cool.
But after a while the contractions started getting stronger and I panicked a bit and begged for the gas and air which again was AMAZING at first, made me so happy and relaxed and soothed the pain. I carried on like this for a few hours till about 5 am when suddenly the pain was intense and the contractions were so close together. I then decided I didnt really want a homebirth and just wanted the baby out and an epidural haha!!! The midwives were great and told me I didnt really want this and I was great and baby would be here soon. I was writhing around like a crazy woman sucking on the gas and air, it was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, at this point I was so scared I wouldnt be able to do it.
I just had to get at of the pool now, I don't know why but I had to do something! So I sat on the toilet for some reason. I had a feel of down below and I could feel he'd shifted down. I tried pushing a bit and felt really panicky about him coming so soon. I wanted to run away from the whole situation, I'd even forgotton I'd be getting a baby out of it all.
We all went in to the bedroom, i was feeling so much pressure so I squatted by the bed and started letting my body do it's thang!! I started pushing and wow it felt great, no pain whatsoever!!?! But with each push I was making the most crazy noises, I've never made a noise like that before ahaha, I didnt even care though!! OH was infront of me on the bed holding my hands and I was squeezing him like hell. After about 15 min of this he really started moving down I could feel a warm sensation, not burning though and his head started coming, this took lots of pushing and time to come out but once it did I felt great and midwives told me to breath through the urges so as not to tear and I tried my best and suddenly there was a baby!!
He is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, not like a normal wrinkly newborn - probably because he weighed a lovely 9 pound 7. And no tears!!!!!!!
I was so happy. Had a natural third stage then had to push the placenta out, which I was NOT impressed with, but it wasnt really that bad to be honest.
Post partum - felt like crap for two days so dizzy and blah but now 5 days on feeling really good, not feeling very sore down there either
Best thing I've ever done and so proud of myself, going natural was amazing.
They slowly got worse and worse thoughout the night to the early morning so we went on another walk! I was already giving up hope thinking it was never going to happen. I kept on phoning the hopsital and they told me to try and relax because first babies normally take a long time to start coming as the cervix hasn't opened before.
I ate loads of food in this time and drank loads of water. I couldn't sit still through the contractions and certainly not sit down! They were so painful if I lay down.
I phoned the hospital again at about 7pm on Wednesday, I was so tired now as I hadn't slept. I think my voice was starting to wobble on the phone and they sent round the midwife. I'd previously stated that I wanted no vaginal examinations during labour but I was begging for it - no regrets whatsoever, didn't even hurt a bit!! And she told me I was 4cm, I was over the moon!!
Me, OH and the midwife then proceeded to watch one born every minute and I kept on breathing through contractions which were slowly getting worse and worse.
Eventually I was starting to think that walking and breathing through them wasnt working so I asked for the pool to be filled! This took ages as the hose fitting didnt work so OH had to fill up the bin and buckets with water..THEN we ran out of hot water
I proceeded to cry but my amazing neighbours let us use their water.Once filled I jumped in and WOW it helped with the pain, really really did. I was so chilled so we put on my favourite music and chatted by this time I had two new midwives as the other had finished her shift. They were lovely and told me I was doing amazingly and didn't even look like I was in labour
I felt pretty damn cool.But after a while the contractions started getting stronger and I panicked a bit and begged for the gas and air which again was AMAZING at first, made me so happy and relaxed and soothed the pain. I carried on like this for a few hours till about 5 am when suddenly the pain was intense and the contractions were so close together. I then decided I didnt really want a homebirth and just wanted the baby out and an epidural haha!!! The midwives were great and told me I didnt really want this and I was great and baby would be here soon. I was writhing around like a crazy woman sucking on the gas and air, it was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life, at this point I was so scared I wouldnt be able to do it.
I just had to get at of the pool now, I don't know why but I had to do something! So I sat on the toilet for some reason. I had a feel of down below and I could feel he'd shifted down. I tried pushing a bit and felt really panicky about him coming so soon. I wanted to run away from the whole situation, I'd even forgotton I'd be getting a baby out of it all.
We all went in to the bedroom, i was feeling so much pressure so I squatted by the bed and started letting my body do it's thang!! I started pushing and wow it felt great, no pain whatsoever!!?! But with each push I was making the most crazy noises, I've never made a noise like that before ahaha, I didnt even care though!! OH was infront of me on the bed holding my hands and I was squeezing him like hell. After about 15 min of this he really started moving down I could feel a warm sensation, not burning though and his head started coming, this took lots of pushing and time to come out but once it did I felt great and midwives told me to breath through the urges so as not to tear and I tried my best and suddenly there was a baby!!
He is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen, not like a normal wrinkly newborn - probably because he weighed a lovely 9 pound 7. And no tears!!!!!!!
I was so happy. Had a natural third stage then had to push the placenta out, which I was NOT impressed with, but it wasnt really that bad to be honest.
Post partum - felt like crap for two days so dizzy and blah but now 5 days on feeling really good, not feeling very sore down there either
Best thing I've ever done and so proud of myself, going natural was amazing.
congrats!
