I had my baby! Wow what an intense but amazing experience!
As you know, I had just the pessary. Approx 26 hours later I was contracting every 3 minutes,( so those cramps overnight were early labour starting!) I was 3cm and well effaced, at about 11, the contractions were bearable.
The cramps ramped up very quickly (I thought anyway) and I was transferred to delivery at 1ish to have my waters broken. I declined and started on the gas and air. They said I was 5cm at about 2pm. I was not coping too well with just the gas an air at this point, as the contractions were every 90 seconds, lasting for 60 and super strong. I was trussed up to a drip, a monitor andhad anti embolism socks on, not a happy bunny lol. I asked for an epidural, assuming I had 10 hours plus of back labour to go.
By this point I was moaning instinctively and felt pushing urges, but was told this was bvecause baby was OP. My mw decided to check me before putting the epidural in.. Lucky she did, I was almost ready to go with just an anterior lip! I had half an hour or so on all fours to get this gone (very intense!) & then I was ready to push safely. After a couple of contractions of pushing on my back, our son was born weighing 3175kg. This brought us up to quarter to four!
He crowned sideways, then turned back to face the ceiling, so his head must have turned sideways a little bit in labour
Just a small internal tear, and a couple of grazes, had the tear stitched and didn't feel a thing. Baby latched on and had a feed, then went to dad for skin to skin while I had a quick shower. Everyone was gobsmacked when i walked back into the ward with my baby at tea time!
Our baby is absolutely gorgeous, I will post some pics as soon as I'm allowed home.
Sorry I can't thank your posts yet, as I'm on my bb posting this. Thank you all so much for giving me the confidence to do this, I felt so much better after reading your stories
Xxx