Hi girls, sorry it's taken a while to get back to you.
My little girl, Isabelle was born on 1st July at 9:12pm. I still can't believe she's here and mine.
In my last post I said my waters had broken on the wednesday night. Well, thursday morning I woke up and my contractions started at 7am and were every 30 mins. By 4:45pm they were getting closer togethr and stronger. I phoned my triage unit to get some advice. I was told to have some painkillers and have a bath. Once my contractions were every 3-4 minutes apart and were like this for an hour to phone back.
My OH ran me a bath and as soon as I got in my contractions were one after another. I phoned triage back and was told to go in.
When I got to hospital I was examined and was told I was 3cms dilated and would be admitted. We were taken into a private room where there was a a spare bed for my OH to sleep on. We thought we were going to be in the room for the night. My OH went to the shop to get us some food as we hadn't had any tea. After what feels like 2 seconds after he left the room (it could have been longer) I really wanted to push. A midwife came in to check on me and I told her I wanted to push.
She came and helped me on to the bed (I'd been sat on the toilet as I really wanted a wee) and checked me over and was shocked when she said I was 8cms. I'd gone to this in 30 mins.
I was rushed round to labour ward. I heard the midwife say that my OH had gone to the shop and when he came back to let him know where I was.
I remember being in the delivery room and being handed the moth piece for gas and air and being asked if I'd had any pethadine, I hadn't had any but was going to be given some and James standing at the door way looking shocked at what was happening and the speed at which everything was going at. After I don't know how long Isabelle was born. When she was handed to me I couldn't stop crying.
James was absolutely brilliant, he kept stroking my hair, giving me drinks and telling me when to try and slow my breathing down.
I know the doctors were worried that If I started bleeding due to my roid, they had some blood available for if I needed a transfusion. Which I managed to avoid needing.
I feel extremely lucky that things turned out this way and managed to avoid so many complications that people in hospital expected to happen. Isabelle is our little miracle and I still can't believe she's mine and that I don't have to giver back to anyone.
Because my waters had broken first we had to stay in hospital for 48 hours so they could make sure that Isabelle hadn't got an infection.
I've probably left loads out, but it seems quite blurry what happened due to the speed at which everything happened.
Good luck to you ladies with the rest of your pregnancys. I hope you get the labours you all want.
Thank you for the support you've given me with my roid. Hopefully, your's won't cause you to much pain and bother.
I am suffering with a very heavy belly and lots of nasty discharge.I think it is all part of my show as does the M/W and it seems he may be early.Whoop to good news hey ha ha.
The other good news is it will all be over soon! I hope they can figure things out for you to keep the pain at bay. 
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