What was your 3rd labour & birth like?

[Guppy051708]

3 was my shortest, fastest, and least painful birth

 

[krystalemery]

Thanks for all the replies. Feeling a lot more positive about this one now

16 days til d-day and counting! Hurry up 4th August x

 

[krystalemery]

Hey ladies,

not sure about 3rd labours and births being the worst but this pregnancy has definitely been the worst of all 3 for me!

First I end up being told I have low iron and e coli. I then took myself up to maternity assessment in hospital due to feeling very unwell to be told my e coli had gotten to severe in a matter of days that I had aggressive septicaemia and as going to be staying in hospital for 5 days!

Thankfully recovered well from that and baby was unharmed and doing just fab, until I had my midwife appointment 2 weeks ago...

When I first saw her she was a trainee, now she was filling in for my normal midwife who is on holiday at the moment. She tried to find the heartbeat near my ribs which I thought was strange. You could only hear my heartbeat, not the baby's, but she insisted it wasn't mine and said "the heartbeat shouldn't be that high if the baby's head down..." so then she felt my belly and told me I had a head under my ribs instead of a bum. She filled out an emergency scan form to get me scanned asap. Being 38 weeks pregnant it was something that needed to be dealt with pronto..

I spoke to my friend who is a midwife at the hospital, she offered to chase it up for me after 2 days of waiting for a phone call. Turns out the stupid midwife not only couldn't find the baby's heartbeat or tell which way up baby was but now I find out she didn't even send off the scan form and was left waiting like an idiot and panicking!

My friend midwife managed to arrange a scan for me at 9 am the following morning thank goodness and baby is head down after all. All that panicking for nothing! If the baby was breech and nothing come of the emergency scan I could have had a lot of problems trying to deliver naturally.

Debating whether to file a complaint about the midwife I saw. Undue stress and couldn't tell her arse from her elbow pardon my language!

But how is everyone else feeling? Anyone nearing due date? I only have 6 days to go

X

 

[goddess25]

1st 12 hours, DS was stuck and ended up in the OR to get him out.

2nd much shorter, she was born in her amniotic sac.

3rd home birth, very short labour 10lber, out in a few pushes, had a PPH at home but all was well.

 

[Misscalais]

My 3rd was my quickest but hardest. All 3 just gas and air 8lb 4oz, 9lb and 8lb 5oz. My 3rd was posterior though so i guess that doesn't help. I only had a few puffs on the gas and air with my 1st two but i had it cranked right up with my 3rd and even asked if i could have it delivering the placenta lol