MrsHedgehog
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My baby was due on 24th Sept but a week later I still had no signs of anything happening. I was starting to worry about needing to be induced. On the Friday night we went out for drinks with friends and I started to feel a bit crampy. When we got home we DTD to try and get things going. During the night I was quite restless with period type cramping.
On Sat morning I woke up with cramps which would come and go. They weren't painful, just uncomfortable but seemed to be quite frequent. I decided to time tem and saw they were coming every 6-7 minutes. I continued timing throughout the day but thought I was till along way off. Even at around 5pm when the contractions were coming every 5 minutes or so I thought it still wasn't time as I wasn't in a lot of pain. By 9pm I realised the contractions were suddenly coming every 3 minutes and were starting to get a bit painful. We decided to get ready to go to the hospital although I still thought we had ages to go and theyd prob send me home again.
We got to hospital around 10.30pm and they put me on the CTG. This is when I started to feel quite uncomfortable as I couldn't move around during contractions. At 11pm they examined me and saw that I was already 5cm dilated. Until then I was sure they'd send me home again. They showed me to my room and DH went to grab my bags from the car. By this time the contractions were much stronger and there was hardly any time between them to get my breath back.
At around 11.30pm they decided it was time to go to the delivery room. I was immediately more comfortable as they had birthing balls etc in there to help with the contractions. After another 20 mins or so they examined me again and I was 10cm dilated. They broke my waters just after midnight and after 25 minutes of pushing (felt like much longer!) at 00:27 my little girl was born.
We had immediate skin to skin and I fed her almost straight away before they took her away to dress her and I had a couple of stitches.
Overall it was a great experience. I managed it all with no pain relief, not even gas and air. There was a point near the end where I thought I couldn't do it anymore but after that it was just one more push and she was out.
I've been on cloud 9 ever since. My little girl is so adorable and precious. Breastfeeding is going really well and she's generally a very placid baby. She doesn't cry much and seems very content. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
On Sat morning I woke up with cramps which would come and go. They weren't painful, just uncomfortable but seemed to be quite frequent. I decided to time tem and saw they were coming every 6-7 minutes. I continued timing throughout the day but thought I was till along way off. Even at around 5pm when the contractions were coming every 5 minutes or so I thought it still wasn't time as I wasn't in a lot of pain. By 9pm I realised the contractions were suddenly coming every 3 minutes and were starting to get a bit painful. We decided to get ready to go to the hospital although I still thought we had ages to go and theyd prob send me home again.
We got to hospital around 10.30pm and they put me on the CTG. This is when I started to feel quite uncomfortable as I couldn't move around during contractions. At 11pm they examined me and saw that I was already 5cm dilated. Until then I was sure they'd send me home again. They showed me to my room and DH went to grab my bags from the car. By this time the contractions were much stronger and there was hardly any time between them to get my breath back.
At around 11.30pm they decided it was time to go to the delivery room. I was immediately more comfortable as they had birthing balls etc in there to help with the contractions. After another 20 mins or so they examined me again and I was 10cm dilated. They broke my waters just after midnight and after 25 minutes of pushing (felt like much longer!) at 00:27 my little girl was born.
We had immediate skin to skin and I fed her almost straight away before they took her away to dress her and I had a couple of stitches.
Overall it was a great experience. I managed it all with no pain relief, not even gas and air. There was a point near the end where I thought I couldn't do it anymore but after that it was just one more push and she was out.
I've been on cloud 9 ever since. My little girl is so adorable and precious. Breastfeeding is going really well and she's generally a very placid baby. She doesn't cry much and seems very content. I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
my Ramona was born the day after your daughter the 25th.
Congratulations!
xxx
