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Ozzie is now a week old so I've decided to sit down and write my birth story whilst he's having a nap.
We were booked for induction on the 30th October. We got in there and was told to sit in the waiting room. After 10 minutes a midwife came out and told us there wasn't enough room for us so we were sent to day unit to be monitored and then sent back home to return on the 31st.
We got there on the 31st and this time they did have room. I was sat on the monitors for 30 minutes and then a midwife examined me, decided that I needed gel. She inserted it and then we were sent up to the ward.
As the day went on I started getting a lot of tightenings. I was literally sat on a monitor all day because of my history. I was let off occasionally, we had little walks around, got a bit of a shock when we walked past 'Hope Suite' which was the room where we were put for the night after Beau was born sleeping. It felt weird seeing it again.
Later on in the evening they decided I wasn't in enough pain (thanks
) so put more gel in. Me and my DH went to the tv room for a bit and then he decided he'd go home and get some sleep. The midwife woke me at 1am for more monitoring and I wasn't feeling in anymore pain than I was when I went to sleep so I was feeling a bit gutted.
At 5am I woke up in a lot of pain, coming every 5 minutes. I called the midwife who came and gave me some pain killers, called my DH in and told me to go have a bath to help with the pain. My DH came in, christ knows what he thought, I was in the bath moaning and refusing to get out because I felt like I couldn't move. He eventually got me to get out and we went back to my bed where it got a whole lot worse. The doctor came round and examined me where I was found to be 3 cms dilated (is that it?). She told me she'd call delivery suite and I'd be sent down straight away as I suffer with back problems and the contractions were all down my back.
Then I went into a panic when they told me they didn't have room on delivery and I'd have to wait with no pain relief. I sat and just looked out of a window for 2 hours trying to take my mind off of it but in the end I couldn't take it and I freaked out that I thought our baby was going to die, burst out crying and then fast as anything I was on delivery
I was 5cms when I got to delivery and given an epidural which was the best thing ever although made me very sleepy. 4 hours later I was found to only have dilated to 6 cms so the decision was made to break my waters. It was from then the pressure started. All I could feel was his head on my cervix and had to sit bolt upright to try and counter pressure it.
2 hours after that I'd only dilated to 7 cms so I was hooked up to that horrible drip that makes you contract constantly. Obviously with all the pressure feelings that made it feel horrible although did the job. Half an hour later I felt like I needed to push but the midwife refused to examine me until an hour after the drip had gone up so I was told to just breathe through it. I literally spent that extra half an hour begging to push. With every contraction I could feel him moving down and it was unbearable. Finally she examined me and found he was halfway down the birth canal
. Nine minutes of pushing and out came little Ozzie weighing 7lbs 13ozs at 10.59pm on the 1st November 2009.
He's been a little star since he's been home and I still can't believe how lucky we are.
Me hooked up to monitors on the ward
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w315/Snowball_1985/311020093298.jpg
A couple of Ozzie
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w315/Snowball_1985/041120093346-1.jpg
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w315/Snowball_1985/071120093372-1.jpg
Sorry this is a bit of a essay. If you got this far well done 
We were booked for induction on the 30th October. We got in there and was told to sit in the waiting room. After 10 minutes a midwife came out and told us there wasn't enough room for us so we were sent to day unit to be monitored and then sent back home to return on the 31st.
We got there on the 31st and this time they did have room. I was sat on the monitors for 30 minutes and then a midwife examined me, decided that I needed gel. She inserted it and then we were sent up to the ward.
As the day went on I started getting a lot of tightenings. I was literally sat on a monitor all day because of my history. I was let off occasionally, we had little walks around, got a bit of a shock when we walked past 'Hope Suite' which was the room where we were put for the night after Beau was born sleeping. It felt weird seeing it again.
Later on in the evening they decided I wasn't in enough pain (thanks
) so put more gel in. Me and my DH went to the tv room for a bit and then he decided he'd go home and get some sleep. The midwife woke me at 1am for more monitoring and I wasn't feeling in anymore pain than I was when I went to sleep so I was feeling a bit gutted.At 5am I woke up in a lot of pain, coming every 5 minutes. I called the midwife who came and gave me some pain killers, called my DH in and told me to go have a bath to help with the pain. My DH came in, christ knows what he thought, I was in the bath moaning and refusing to get out because I felt like I couldn't move. He eventually got me to get out and we went back to my bed where it got a whole lot worse. The doctor came round and examined me where I was found to be 3 cms dilated (is that it?
). She told me she'd call delivery suite and I'd be sent down straight away as I suffer with back problems and the contractions were all down my back.Then I went into a panic when they told me they didn't have room on delivery and I'd have to wait with no pain relief. I sat and just looked out of a window for 2 hours trying to take my mind off of it but in the end I couldn't take it and I freaked out that I thought our baby was going to die, burst out crying and then fast as anything I was on delivery
I was 5cms when I got to delivery and given an epidural which was the best thing ever although made me very sleepy. 4 hours later I was found to only have dilated to 6 cms so the decision was made to break my waters. It was from then the pressure started. All I could feel was his head on my cervix and had to sit bolt upright to try and counter pressure it.
2 hours after that I'd only dilated to 7 cms so I was hooked up to that horrible drip that makes you contract constantly. Obviously with all the pressure feelings that made it feel horrible although did the job. Half an hour later I felt like I needed to push but the midwife refused to examine me until an hour after the drip had gone up so I was told to just breathe through it. I literally spent that extra half an hour begging to push. With every contraction I could feel him moving down and it was unbearable. Finally she examined me and found he was halfway down the birth canal
. Nine minutes of pushing and out came little Ozzie weighing 7lbs 13ozs at 10.59pm on the 1st November 2009.He's been a little star since he's been home and I still can't believe how lucky we are.
Me hooked up to monitors on the ward
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w315/Snowball_1985/311020093298.jpg
A couple of Ozzie
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w315/Snowball_1985/041120093346-1.jpg
https://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w315/Snowball_1985/071120093372-1.jpg
Sorry this is a bit of a essay
. If you got this far well done 
he is so lovely xxx
