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annawrigley
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its a pretty boring birth story but i'll go for it anyway 
woke up at 6am on friday with my waters breaking, thought i'd weed myself
but i went to the toilet and it was a pale pink so i texted my mum saying i think my waters just broke, and rang the hospital who said put on a pad and ring us back in an hour and tell us whats on it, anyway by 6:20 i was having unbearable contractions 3 minutes apart so i texted my mum again saying "come now it hurts" lol and rang the hospital back who said to come in. my mum got to mine about 7:45 (i dont know what took her so long but i was in agony !! my dad and brother were actually in the house but i didnt want them to see me in labour 
so i just waited it out) and we went to the hospital.
the midwife checked me and said "ok well you're fully dilated" really casually which was a huge relief because i knew he was coming soon and i didnt think i could handle the pain much longer!
i asked them to run the birthing pool but started pushing soon after so didnt get a chance to use it, plus i would have had to walk down the corridor to get there which i was incapable of doing
i dont know how long i was pushing for but it must have been about an hour and a half
my mum left about a million messages for gareth and his mum telling them to come to the hospital because i'd be having the baby any minute and they arrived i think about 9-9.30ish, gareth's mum came into the room while i was bent over the bed with everything on show.. nice, and she stayed for the rest of it.
probably about 9:50 they told me they were going to have to cut me if he didnt come in the next few pushes.. well i got my act together then lol. it was so hard i was ready to just say fine cut me but when i saw her get the scissors ready it scared the life out of me i pushed like mad and she kept saying she could see the head but i thought it was a big conspiracy and they were all lying to me anyway then i experienced the whole ring of fire thing id been dreading, yeah now thats painful.. and then i heard a cry 
i looked down and his head was out and he was crying, up til that point id made barely any noise but when i saw his head i started screaming and screaming and looked up at my mum, who laughed !! (apparently the face i was pulling was hilarious. lol) anyway a couple more pushes and he was born at 10:06 
they asked me if i wanted to cut the cord which i thought was a ridiculous question and really the last thing i felt like doing, so my mum did it.
cant remember much of what happened after, but the placenta coming out wasnt too bad, it did kind of hurt but i was so numb down there i didnt care that much and i just looked down at my boy and didnt care
then they said they were going to examine me and i might need gas and air which scared me cos i was thinking what are they going to do to me?!! and jesus christ that hurt, i started on the gas and air which was awesome, will definitely use it if/when i have another baby!! and i was just looking at my mum and laughing while the woman examined me because i suddenly found it all really cringey (when during labour i had no shame whatsoever, its so true that your dignity goes out the window)
they said i had a 3rd degree tear and would need to go theatre to get stitched and have a spinal block
which was a scary thought but once it was done it was fine, really weird sensation or lack of sensation i guess, and i went to sleep a bit while they were doing it, until they started talking to me. i was so dazed i seem to remember talking about how the people on 'one born every minute' "make a big deal out of nothing and its not that bad really". this was about half an hour after giving birth so i think they all thought i was a bit weird.
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https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0865.jpg
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https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0884.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0894.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0913.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0912.jpg
i love him so much
woke up at 6am on friday with my waters breaking, thought i'd weed myself
but i went to the toilet and it was a pale pink so i texted my mum saying i think my waters just broke, and rang the hospital who said put on a pad and ring us back in an hour and tell us whats on it, anyway by 6:20 i was having unbearable contractions 3 minutes apart so i texted my mum again saying "come now it hurts" lol and rang the hospital back who said to come in. my mum got to mine about 7:45 (i dont know what took her so long but i was in agony !! my dad and brother were actually in the house but i didnt want them to see me in labour so i just waited it out) and we went to the hospital.the midwife checked me and said "ok well you're fully dilated" really casually which was a huge relief because i knew he was coming soon and i didnt think i could handle the pain much longer!
i asked them to run the birthing pool but started pushing soon after so didnt get a chance to use it, plus i would have had to walk down the corridor to get there which i was incapable of doing
i dont know how long i was pushing for but it must have been about an hour and a half
my mum left about a million messages for gareth and his mum telling them to come to the hospital because i'd be having the baby any minute and they arrived i think about 9-9.30ish, gareth's mum came into the room while i was bent over the bed with everything on show.. nice, and she stayed for the rest of it.
probably about 9:50 they told me they were going to have to cut me if he didnt come in the next few pushes.. well i got my act together then lol. it was so hard i was ready to just say fine cut me but when i saw her get the scissors ready it scared the life out of me
i pushed like mad and she kept saying she could see the head but i thought it was a big conspiracy and they were all lying to me anyway then i experienced the whole ring of fire thing id been dreading, yeah now thats painful.. and then i heard a cry i looked down and his head was out and he was crying, up til that point id made barely any noise but when i saw his head i started screaming and screaming and looked up at my mum, who laughed !! (apparently the face i was pulling was hilarious. lol) anyway a couple more pushes and he was born at 10:06 they asked me if i wanted to cut the cord which i thought was a ridiculous question and really the last thing i felt like doing, so my mum did it.cant remember much of what happened after, but the placenta coming out wasnt too bad, it did kind of hurt but i was so numb down there i didnt care that much and i just looked down at my boy and didnt care
then they said they were going to examine me and i might need gas and air
which scared me cos i was thinking what are they going to do to me?!! and jesus christ that hurt, i started on the gas and air which was awesome, will definitely use it if/when i have another baby!! and i was just looking at my mum and laughing while the woman examined me because i suddenly found it all really cringey (when during labour i had no shame whatsoever, its so true that your dignity goes out the window)they said i had a 3rd degree tear and would need to go theatre to get stitched and have a spinal block
which was a scary thought but once it was done it was fine, really weird sensation or lack of sensation i guess, and i went to sleep a bit while they were doing it, until they started talking to me. i was so dazed i seem to remember talking about how the people on 'one born every minute' "make a big deal out of nothing and its not that bad really". this was about half an hour after giving birth so i think they all thought i was a bit weird.https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0822.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/P3050187.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0827.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0865.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0885.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0884.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0894.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0913.jpg
https://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s91/annalolipoplol/IMG_0912.jpg
i love him so much
xox
xxx
Congrats! x
(Sorry couldn't resist 
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xxx
