AngelBunny
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Our precious little man arrived at 00:21 on Saturday 15th October 2011 after a perfect labor & delivery at 39 weeks 
On the Thursday night i started getting pink cm & having lower backache and woke up a few times in the night with mild contractions
by the morning they were about 7-10 minutes apart and they kept going, i also had lots of bloody show & and i started to get excited 
i had a consultant appointment booked for that day anyway to check up after a bleed i'd had the previous week, so i went along to that & he could see i was having contractions (they were about 5-7 minutes apart at that point) so he did an internal & said i was 2cm dilated & soft and that established labor would probably kick off within a day or two so to go home & get some rest.
My other half dropped me home & i told him to go to work for his shift as i thought it would take a while, but half hour after he'd dropped me home the contractions started to get really painful & were coming every few minutes! I called him up to tell him he should come back to find that he'd broken down 40 minutes away from home with all our hospital & baby bags & car seat in it! At this point i became really stressed and the contractions became horrendously painful, like contracting for one minute then resting for one minute. OH managed to find someone to rush him home with all the baby stuff then he had to get to his mum's to borrow her car & get us to the hospital. I was having trouble walking by now & we were taken straight into the maternity led birthing center & shown to our room. the midwife did an internal straight away and said 'you're 7cms my dear!'
and gave me some gas & air to help with the pain. she said they expect you to dilate half a cm an hour but i was in agony & dilating a whole cm an hour! (so maybe the raspberry tea worked after all!!)
two hours later i was having an unbearable urge to push with each contraction. i called the midwife to tell her whilst i was squatting on a chair, knees wide open, bits on full display & feeling like a train was about to come out of my ass
she looked at me and said 'i can see your baby's head!' and she did a quick internal and said i was 9cm and then my waters exploded all over her i instantly felt baby's head ram down against my cervix & for a second i thought he would fly out! now with every contraction the urge to push wasn't an urge, it was happening and i could do pretty much nothing to stop it! but i could feel when my body needed me to ease off & breathed & waited until the pushing had to start up again. i told the midwife i was ready to push him out with the next contractions and i started putting every bit of strength i had into the push & felt him crowning. with the next push i could see his head coming out & he had dark hair another push and his head popped out & the relief was incredible!! i looked down & was amazed by what i saw, he was bluey purple but perfect! his body was still flapping around inside me between contractions which felt really weird. with the next contraction i pushed out his body and he started moaning instantly & flapping about he was placed on my chest and we had our first hug and OH cut the cord the colour came to him straight away & he was so beautiful! the placenta came easily after the injection and the midwife did a quick internal & i had no tears or stitches, just a shallow graze down one side of the labia.
It was the most powerful experience of my life although i really didn't realise just how much it would hurt, (and how much cave woman noise i would make!) but am so glad to have only had gas & air, i feel that my body did really well & i'm so proud of it! Our little man is gorgeous & perfect in every way he had his first breast feed soon after delivery & settled down for a nice sleep. He weighed a teeny 6lb 6ozs
My OH was amazing, he shocked me by watching the entire delivery full frontal which i didn't think he would want to do. He found it really amazing & was so calm & gave me sips of water & squares of chocolate as i needed them & fanned me. He was perfect just like our little family xx
I lost 13lb instantly after delivery and although i still have a jelly belly it's gone down a lot in just 2 days we were let home the same day.
Here he is!
Just been born
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/BirthDay2-1.jpg https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/BirthDay6-1.jpg
1 day old
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/CHANGBYPOPS-1.jpg
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/hosppic1dayold3.jpg https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/hosppic1dayold2.jpg https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/hosppic1dayold.jpg
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/6daysold7-1.jpg
On the Thursday night i started getting pink cm & having lower backache and woke up a few times in the night with mild contractions
by the morning they were about 7-10 minutes apart and they kept going, i also had lots of bloody show & and i started to get excited i had a consultant appointment booked for that day anyway to check up after a bleed i'd had the previous week, so i went along to that & he could see i was having contractions (they were about 5-7 minutes apart at that point) so he did an internal & said i was 2cm dilated & soft and that established labor would probably kick off within a day or two so to go home & get some rest.My other half dropped me home & i told him to go to work for his shift as i thought it would take a while, but half hour after he'd dropped me home the contractions started to get really painful & were coming every few minutes! I called him up to tell him he should come back to find that he'd broken down 40 minutes away from home with all our hospital & baby bags & car seat in it! At this point i became really stressed and the contractions became horrendously painful, like contracting for one minute then resting for one minute. OH managed to find someone to rush him home with all the baby stuff then he had to get to his mum's to borrow her car & get us to the hospital. I was having trouble walking by now & we were taken straight into the maternity led birthing center & shown to our room. the midwife did an internal straight away and said 'you're 7cms my dear!'
and gave me some gas & air to help with the pain. she said they expect you to dilate half a cm an hour but i was in agony & dilating a whole cm an hour! (so maybe the raspberry tea worked after all!!) two hours later i was having an unbearable urge to push with each contraction. i called the midwife to tell her whilst i was squatting on a chair, knees wide open, bits on full display & feeling like a train was about to come out of my ass
she looked at me and said 'i can see your baby's head!' and she did a quick internal and said i was 9cm and then my waters exploded all over her i instantly felt baby's head ram down against my cervix & for a second i thought he would fly out! now with every contraction the urge to push wasn't an urge, it was happening and i could do pretty much nothing to stop it! but i could feel when my body needed me to ease off & breathed & waited until the pushing had to start up again. i told the midwife i was ready to push him out with the next contractions and i started putting every bit of strength i had into the push & felt him crowning. with the next push i could see his head coming out & he had dark hair another push and his head popped out & the relief was incredible!! i looked down & was amazed by what i saw, he was bluey purple but perfect! his body was still flapping around inside me between contractions which felt really weird. with the next contraction i pushed out his body and he started moaning instantly & flapping about he was placed on my chest and we had our first hug and OH cut the cord the colour came to him straight away & he was so beautiful! the placenta came easily after the injection and the midwife did a quick internal & i had no tears or stitches, just a shallow graze down one side of the labia.It was the most powerful experience of my life although i really didn't realise just how much it would hurt, (and how much cave woman noise i would make!) but am so glad to have only had gas & air, i feel that my body did really well & i'm so proud of it! Our little man is gorgeous & perfect in every way
he had his first breast feed soon after delivery & settled down for a nice sleep. He weighed a teeny 6lb 6ozs My OH was amazing, he shocked me by watching the entire delivery full frontal which i didn't think he would want to do. He found it really amazing & was so calm & gave me sips of water & squares of chocolate as i needed them & fanned me. He was perfect just like our little family xx
I lost 13lb instantly after delivery and although i still have a jelly belly it's gone down a lot in just 2 days
we were let home the same day.Here he is!
Just been born
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/BirthDay2-1.jpg https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/BirthDay6-1.jpg
1 day old
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/CHANGBYPOPS-1.jpg
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/hosppic1dayold3.jpg https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/hosppic1dayold2.jpg https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/hosppic1dayold.jpg
https://i1230.photobucket.com/albums/ee490/AngelBunnyFaerie/6daysold7-1.jpg
