Abz1982
Mum to 2 nutters!
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So.................sweep on the 16th and Midwife couldn't find cervix but it was all soft, so I got a score of 4 - not likely to go without induction - which was booked for the 23rd.
On Friday morning I was all crampy in my cervix but I'd been having that on and off for months so though nothing of it. Was out with LO and pottering and crampy all day. Same Saturday and just thought I had over done it. Did all the ironing and washing before I went to bed late on Sunday morning - 1am - after a shower.
Was in bed, LO decided to come with me and OH was watching some film down stairs.
At 2am on the dot I woke bold upright - well awake. Felt this weird sensation then heard and felt this pop (queue brain going OH SHIT!) low and behold a flood of biblical proportions engulfed me - Just stopping short of DD.
Waters well and truly gone, standing there and im like a tap. Albeit laughing hysterically.
Called OH up and scared the poor man to death. He got quite flustered.
Then the contractions started like MAD. I was fine as long as I could stand up or move about. Called my my mate - who wasn't one of my hospital drive folk, she was the only sober one - and the hospital and headed in. I had estimated contractions as every 5-10 mins. But driving in OH and my mate timed them as every 2-3 mins. But not so bad I was freaking out.
When I got there got there my 'assigned' midwife turned out to be one that was in Theatre when I had my DD - and she remembered me, and I am not sure that was a good thing!
So they had to monitor me so I was stuck on the bed again.......only 2cm @ 4am but OMG, the pain became soo intense. But I had to sit there. I managed an hour before I needed G&A. The place was roasting and that made it worse.
So 3 hours on G&A, got examined again and was 3-3.5cm and not very effaced. I managed the next 4 hours with G&A, they passed quickly, and extremely painfully as yet again I couldn't move as they had to clip his head. By this point I was in so much pain I felt like I had to push, I was screaming and starving and fed up and had a temp so when they did the midwife change the new one fabulously was drenching me with water to cool me down.
This new midwife, was also in theatre with me for DD birth before and so warned me I better not pull that one again.............ha.
So at 12 I got examined, 4cm. But pain meant I could get the remifentanol (sp) infusion. That was good. Took away the ache but not the pressure
. I was at this point getting agitated as I couldn't move off the bed. I was like a caged animal and I wanted to stand up so so bad but they wouldn't let me . So of course, the pain got more and more and more until I was vomiting, crying screaming and close to passing out. So they gave me an epidural @ early 3pm and it was bliss................HOWEVER.................once the full 3 initial doses went in my contractions basically stopped. Bam, nothing. The odd niggle but nothing that could do anything effective. LO was really happy in there as well so just didn't want to come out.
The consultant came in, wasn't happy and decided to Examine me herself at 4am, after they fixed my IV as the one in my hand was just filling the tissues with fluids and my hand swelled up like mad and hurt like hell
I was still 4cm at 4pm, nothing was happening and they basically finally realised what I had told them for weeks.................it was going to go the same way as DD's birth.
AND it did. To a T!
Ewan Andrew entered the world at 5:31pm and 10lbs 2oz(Emma was 5:47am) and yet again I bled like mad. I had a faint as I couldn't breathe - literally could not inflate my lungs - and scared the crap out of them they said. But I did keep my promise to this time not scream I'm Dying.
At 7:31pm I got out of there (was 7:30am with Emma!). And it turns out I had basically the same team as last time and I lost again........2.6 litres of blood.
Have had the same recovery - the docs amazed I was as awake and 'sparky' as I was.
All the teams who sorted me out were brilliant! And I only had to spend till Tuesday evening in the ward then I got home. Got Staples this time so have a Franken-Belly and it is freaking me out a bit!
I've been given now the full reason why I bled so bad. It seems I have an abnormal amount of blood vessels in and around my uterus. This means big healthy babies, but not so good at labour and birth.
So They have advised and I whole heartedly (but albeit sadly) agree that this is it. No more babies for me as next time it could kill me. Go its good I now have one of each!
OH is so happy with his son, as am I. He is beautiful (I'm biased of course) and I feel he may be a trouble maker like his name sake ( He is named after OH friend Ewan George Barclay who was killed in a car accident when I was pregnant with Emma, he is also the reason Emma has her name, as we chose something beginning with E to match).
Here are a few pics of the young man...
https://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/973747_10152817191420652_1595522433_n.jpg?oh=c26bcf4eb6382bece8e769c575248b6c&oe=51A07316&__gda__=1369523947_0ebdd661692a0910ab3c24fb3e87f1ec
https://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/973814_10152817318565652_551291458_n.jpg?oh=56f77e401236897e40399cbea170e104&oe=51A05641&__gda__=1369526549_3f910293045742bc4702f2abd9118c3d
https://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/983344_10152816969685652_1797480610_n.jpg?oh=b04fed0c172529799fe483e5e4da60e7&oe=51A08AF1&__gda__=1369497740_3dd73fb336386e4d0ebfe40603c5c84a
On Friday morning I was all crampy in my cervix but I'd been having that on and off for months so though nothing of it. Was out with LO and pottering and crampy all day. Same Saturday and just thought I had over done it. Did all the ironing and washing before I went to bed late on Sunday morning - 1am - after a shower.
Was in bed, LO decided to come with me and OH was watching some film down stairs.
At 2am on the dot I woke bold upright - well awake. Felt this weird sensation then heard and felt this pop (queue brain going OH SHIT!) low and behold a flood of biblical proportions engulfed me - Just stopping short of DD.
Waters well and truly gone, standing there and im like a tap. Albeit laughing hysterically.
Called OH up and scared the poor man to death. He got quite flustered.
Then the contractions started like MAD. I was fine as long as I could stand up or move about. Called my my mate - who wasn't one of my hospital drive folk, she was the only sober one - and the hospital and headed in. I had estimated contractions as every 5-10 mins. But driving in OH and my mate timed them as every 2-3 mins. But not so bad I was freaking out.
When I got there got there my 'assigned' midwife turned out to be one that was in Theatre when I had my DD - and she remembered me, and I am not sure that was a good thing!
So they had to monitor me so I was stuck on the bed again.......only 2cm @ 4am but OMG, the pain became soo intense. But I had to sit there. I managed an hour before I needed G&A. The place was roasting and that made it worse.
So 3 hours on G&A, got examined again and was 3-3.5cm and not very effaced. I managed the next 4 hours with G&A, they passed quickly, and extremely painfully as yet again I couldn't move as they had to clip his head. By this point I was in so much pain I felt like I had to push, I was screaming and starving and fed up and had a temp so when they did the midwife change the new one fabulously was drenching me with water to cool me down.
This new midwife, was also in theatre with me for DD birth before and so warned me I better not pull that one again.............ha.
So at 12 I got examined, 4cm. But pain meant I could get the remifentanol (sp) infusion. That was good. Took away the ache but not the pressure
. I was at this point getting agitated as I couldn't move off the bed. I was like a caged animal and I wanted to stand up so so bad but they wouldn't let me . So of course, the pain got more and more and more until I was vomiting, crying screaming and close to passing out. So they gave me an epidural @ early 3pm and it was bliss................HOWEVER.................once the full 3 initial doses went in my contractions basically stopped. Bam, nothing. The odd niggle but nothing that could do anything effective. LO was really happy in there as well so just didn't want to come out. The consultant came in, wasn't happy and decided to Examine me herself at 4am, after they fixed my IV as the one in my hand was just filling the tissues with fluids and my hand swelled up like mad and hurt like hell
I was still 4cm at 4pm, nothing was happening and they basically finally realised what I had told them for weeks.................it was going to go the same way as DD's birth.
AND it did. To a T!
Ewan Andrew entered the world at 5:31pm and 10lbs 2oz(Emma was 5:47am) and yet again I bled like mad. I had a faint as I couldn't breathe - literally could not inflate my lungs - and scared the crap out of them they said. But I did keep my promise to this time not scream I'm Dying.
At 7:31pm I got out of there (was 7:30am with Emma!). And it turns out I had basically the same team as last time and I lost again........2.6 litres of blood.
Have had the same recovery - the docs amazed I was as awake and 'sparky' as I was.
All the teams who sorted me out were brilliant! And I only had to spend till Tuesday evening in the ward then I got home. Got Staples this time so have a Franken-Belly and it is freaking me out a bit!
I've been given now the full reason why I bled so bad. It seems I have an abnormal amount of blood vessels in and around my uterus. This means big healthy babies, but not so good at labour and birth.
So They have advised and I whole heartedly (but albeit sadly) agree that this is it. No more babies for me
as next time it could kill me. Go its good I now have one of each! OH is so happy with his son, as am I. He is beautiful (I'm biased of course) and I feel he may be a trouble maker like his name sake ( He is named after OH friend Ewan George Barclay who was killed in a car accident when I was pregnant with Emma, he is also the reason Emma has her name, as we chose something beginning with E to match).
Here are a few pics of the young man...
https://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/973747_10152817191420652_1595522433_n.jpg?oh=c26bcf4eb6382bece8e769c575248b6c&oe=51A07316&__gda__=1369523947_0ebdd661692a0910ab3c24fb3e87f1ec
https://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/973814_10152817318565652_551291458_n.jpg?oh=56f77e401236897e40399cbea170e104&oe=51A05641&__gda__=1369526549_3f910293045742bc4702f2abd9118c3d
https://sphotos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-prn2/v/983344_10152816969685652_1797480610_n.jpg?oh=b04fed0c172529799fe483e5e4da60e7&oe=51A08AF1&__gda__=1369497740_3dd73fb336386e4d0ebfe40603c5c84a
