hey ladies
morning all and can I just say its soooo lovely to hear all the stories of new babies!!!! The bumpkins are indeed blooming!!
Goingcrazy congrats on your wee one - sounds like shes a trooper and good luck with the rest of her treatment. Must have been a huge shock for you though.
And with potential labour stories abounding it sounds like our bumpkins will be continuing to bloom!!
Good luck BB - fingers crossed for you!!
So very briefly my story goes as follows. As you know last wed I had a membrane sweep and was then losing loads of lovely brown snotty plug. On the saturday I was sooooo fed up of having erratic contractions and getting nowhere so I suggested to OH we go out for something to eat. We went to an indian buffet place which we love and whilst standing browsing the delicious pakora selection I turned to OH and announced I thought I had just wet myself! (obviously baby brain had engaged here as I didnt even consider it was my waters!!!) OH freaked out and thought we had to run to the hospital. I was really calm, went to the loo, put on a pad and went back to the buffet
So we finished our meal then I rang the hospital from the care park and we went in to be assessed.
We finally got home around 1am after they had confirmed it was indeed my waters, but there was no sign of labour. They booked me to go back in the next day for induction if nothing had happened.
We went back in on sunday, nothing was happeneing and had prostin inserted at 4pm. And then waited, and waited, and waited. They couldnt move me to the labour ward for syntocinon as a lady having quintuplets came in so all inductions were put off. However at 2am on monday morning I started contracting. And Oh My God.
They moved us to a private room but the MW didnt really seem to take my pain seriously at first and only gave me 2 paracetamol despite me telling her I was in agony. Eventually when she examined me after begging her, she confirmed baby was back to back.
I was moved to the labour ward where I had an epidural sited as I just couldnt cope with the pain any longer. The mw were absolutely amazing and I can honestly say were what got me through it. The first epidural didnt take at all and actually made it worse, so they got the anaesthetist back in and resited it which made such a difference.
Th next time they examined me I had gone from 2cm to fully dilated in 3 hours!!!!
They let me have a rest before starting pushing and then I can honestly say I pushed for my life. 1 hour 10mins later Duncan Michael made his entrance to the world weighing 8lb8oz. He was delivered onto my chest and breast fed immediately. All I managed to say was "Oh my God, its a baby!!!!!!!!!!" Hmmm not sure what I was expecting
So there we have it 51 hours in total, yeah so it was a long haul. Would I do it again. Tomorrow!!
He is amazing, we are breast feeding like troopers and every day I learn a little bit more about his personality!! My terry nappies are still in the drawer as these first meconium poos I decided could go on pampers, and then I will switch to terries next week.
So tomorrow will be one week and its been the most surreal yet best week of my life. Sorry for the long post, but I always liked reading peoples stories as it made it more real for me.
And I look forward to hearing more bumpkin news!!!!!!
Thanks again girls, your chat has been invaluable!!!!
Ali xxxx
PS my top labour tip? Carmex for your lips. that entonox is awesome but absolutely kills them!!!! xxx
Now I just have to do some laundry, maybe clean the car and vacuum.. but the rest of the weekend I can relax. 
What a sweet hubby!
So I need to sleep now... 
but ouch!!
he was projectile vomiting quite badly and got admitted for tests, they have said it was viral gastroenteritis 
