Twiglet
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Okay, so I was 6 days overdue, had been VERY fed up till the 19th and had finally accepted the fact that I was going to be induced / my babies did not like being on time.
I had a curry that night, not spicy but simply as I fancied it and was all ready to go to bed, Liam stayed and chatted to me for a while and I told him how fine I felt about being overdue suddenly and how our son just wanted more time cooking.
Around 10:45 I needed to go for what I thought would be one of many toilet trips of the night. As I walked out of our room, into pitch black, Liam walked in and I jumped out of my skin!
this is when my first contraction was but I thought it was just a painful BH so carried on as I would. 10 minutes later I had another, 5 minutes later I had another. In the end I went down to Liam, all calm and explained that I thought I was in labour but wasn't sure. I came into the living room and had another contraction and asked if we had any paracetamol...we didn't
Anyway, then I felt sick, I told Liam I wanted my mum to come up [she was one of my birthing partners] and got him to ring her but the moment he came off the phone I was sick everywhere, I wasn't happy and really needed some relief as the contractions were coming thick and fast. Liam was panicking and Caitlyn had woken up. Liam went to see to Caitlyn and my mum arrived! I asked her to get me a bath, kept asking her to hold my back through contractions but then telling her to get off. The pressure was so intense. I got in my bath whilst my mum rang the hospital. They were very patronising and said I had ages left...the woman told me to get a grip as I grunted and sounded like some sort of cave woman through a contraction. I threw the phone across the bathroom to my mum and said I am NOT talking to her, she's rude...but imagine it as a teenage scallywag would say it
The woman told mum to get me a taxi and said they'd examine me at hospital.
-----little man wants a feed---
I was telling my mum the last few things I needed for my hospital bag when suddenly my contractions started coming one on top of each other!
I said I couldn't go in a taxi anymore and I needed an ambulance. I was lying on the bathroom floor, again doing my cave woman impression when I suddenly realised I had to push. I began pushing as it majorly relieved the pain. My mum was on the phone to the 999 operator at this point and he told her to go and lay me on my bed and to take my jeans and pants off.
He asked her if she could see a head, she told him no, he asked if she could see the waters, she told him no. Then all of a sudden, just as the paramedics arrived, my waters broke all over my mum she told the operator she could see the head and went down to meet the paramedics who were talking to Liam.
I asked Liam to take Caitlyn to my mums as I didn't want her witnessing it and as our lift had failed to answer her phone
Anyway, it was now 12:24am and I realised I still needed to push, the paramedics came up and began preparing my room and I insisted they take me to hospital as I wanted the epidural I'd been looking forward to for so long...the main paramedic [who was wonderful!] laughed at me and said nope your having this baby here...I told him I wasn't and that my neighbours were weird and all about a particular neighbours who's drumsticks I wanted to shove where the sun don't shine
Then I felt burning down there, I pushed through it, pushed again and pushed once more and my baby's head was born! It was so surreal as I'd been talking a moment before. On the next contraction I pushed my baby out.
His time of arrival was 12:41am and 5 minutes later the placenta came out.
The MW then arrived
at 1:12am and examined me and couldn't decide if I'd got a second or third degree tear so off in the ambulance to hospital it was for me.
All through this time my little man was looking around, taking everything in and was so quiet
I arrived at hospital and had to have stitches for a second degree tear...this was worse than pushing my little man out and I told her I'd rather push another baby out.
Anyway, two hours later, Liam got to meet his son and I got to go home.
I'm recovering, our little girl is very proud of her little brother and breastfeeding is going okay.
Having a homebirth was NOT in my plans, I was all set for my epidural hospital birth but it was the best thing that ever happened to me and if I were to ever have another child I'd do it without pain relief.
My first labour with little Moo was 5 days, slow, back to back, had lots of intervention and very painful [even with my epidural!] and my recovery took ages.
This labour was less painful, pushing was amazing and I really enjoyed it!
So introducing my little man: Alden Hugh Bennett born at 12:41am, weighing 8lbs 13oz [4.00kg exactly]
https://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww114/Twiglet1986/40886_1608405205156_1086988171_31745446_5580611_n.jpg
https://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww114/Twiglet1986/71876_1608424165630_1086988171_31745480_3618658_n.jpg
https://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww114/Twiglet1986/73746_1608411605316_1086988171_31745467_2624533_n.jpg
I had a curry that night, not spicy but simply as I fancied it and was all ready to go to bed, Liam stayed and chatted to me for a while and I told him how fine I felt about being overdue suddenly and how our son just wanted more time cooking.
Around 10:45 I needed to go for what I thought would be one of many toilet trips of the night. As I walked out of our room, into pitch black, Liam walked in and I jumped out of my skin!
this is when my first contraction was but I thought it was just a painful BH so carried on as I would. 10 minutes later I had another, 5 minutes later I had another. In the end I went down to Liam, all calm and explained that I thought I was in labour but wasn't sure. I came into the living room and had another contraction and asked if we had any paracetamol...we didn't Anyway, then I felt sick, I told Liam I wanted my mum to come up [she was one of my birthing partners] and got him to ring her but the moment he came off the phone I was sick everywhere, I wasn't happy and really needed some relief as the contractions were coming thick and fast. Liam was panicking and Caitlyn had woken up. Liam went to see to Caitlyn and my mum arrived! I asked her to get me a bath, kept asking her to hold my back through contractions but then telling her to get off. The pressure was so intense. I got in my bath whilst my mum rang the hospital. They were very patronising and said I had ages left...the woman told me to get a grip as I grunted and sounded like some sort of cave woman through a contraction. I threw the phone across the bathroom to my mum and said I am NOT talking to her, she's rude...but imagine it as a teenage scallywag would say it
The woman told mum to get me a taxi and said they'd examine me at hospital.
-----little man wants a feed---
I was telling my mum the last few things I needed for my hospital bag when suddenly my contractions started coming one on top of each other!
I said I couldn't go in a taxi anymore and I needed an ambulance. I was lying on the bathroom floor, again doing my cave woman impression when I suddenly realised I had to push. I began pushing as it majorly relieved the pain. My mum was on the phone to the 999 operator at this point and he told her to go and lay me on my bed and to take my jeans and pants off.
He asked her if she could see a head, she told him no, he asked if she could see the waters, she told him no. Then all of a sudden, just as the paramedics arrived, my waters broke all over my mum
she told the operator she could see the head and went down to meet the paramedics who were talking to Liam. I asked Liam to take Caitlyn to my mums as I didn't want her witnessing it and as our lift had failed to answer her phone
Anyway, it was now 12:24am and I realised I still needed to push, the paramedics came up and began preparing my room and I insisted they take me to hospital as I wanted the epidural I'd been looking forward to for so long...the main paramedic [who was wonderful!] laughed at me and said nope your having this baby here...I told him I wasn't and that my neighbours were weird and all about a particular neighbours who's drumsticks I wanted to shove where the sun don't shine
Then I felt burning down there, I pushed through it, pushed again and pushed once more and my baby's head was born! It was so surreal as I'd been talking a moment before. On the next contraction I pushed my baby out.
His time of arrival was 12:41am and 5 minutes later the placenta came out.
The MW then arrived
at 1:12am and examined me and couldn't decide if I'd got a second or third degree tear so off in the ambulance to hospital it was for me.All through this time my little man was looking around, taking everything in and was so quiet
I arrived at hospital and had to have stitches for a second degree tear...this was worse than pushing my little man out and I told her I'd rather push another baby out.
Anyway, two hours later, Liam got to meet his son and I got to go home.
I'm recovering, our little girl is very proud of her little brother and breastfeeding is going okay.
Having a homebirth was NOT in my plans, I was all set for my epidural hospital birth but it was the best thing that ever happened to me and if I were to ever have another child I'd do it without pain relief.
My first labour with little Moo was 5 days, slow, back to back, had lots of intervention and very painful [even with my epidural!] and my recovery took ages.
This labour was less painful, pushing was amazing and I really enjoyed it!
So introducing my little man: Alden Hugh Bennett born at 12:41am, weighing 8lbs 13oz [4.00kg exactly]
https://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww114/Twiglet1986/40886_1608405205156_1086988171_31745446_5580611_n.jpg
https://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww114/Twiglet1986/71876_1608424165630_1086988171_31745480_3618658_n.jpg
https://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww114/Twiglet1986/73746_1608411605316_1086988171_31745467_2624533_n.jpg
You shoud be very proud, Mama!
You did a wonderful job and he is GORGEOUS!! I love all that thick hair!
Sounds like you handled it so well! Congrats on your new little man!! 
