BIRTH STORY.........Long
Well most of you know I was getting contractions from 5am Wed morn, got checked Wed afternoon wasn't dilated at all, got checked Wed night at 11pm was 1-2cm, midwife gave me a sweep and I lost my plug straight away, by time I got home contractions were agony. By 4am I couldn't really cope anymore went back, was still the same as before and I was gutted but got some codine.went home. This was the longest time of my life, the contractions were horrendous I only lasted til 2pm Thursday as had had no sleep at all since Tuesday night (3 hours) then I rang hospital and said I wanted checking over. Got checked over and was told 4 cm, in established labour, staying in and they moved me to the room I'd be giving birth in and after a while started on gas and air, after couple hours had pethadine, about 8 pm I was told 6 cm and they broke my waters, an hour later I was begging for epidural my waters really triggered something. 2 hours later got checked and still the same, so I wasn't progressing much. So they gave me the drip but I can only have it for 2 hours and they wanted me to be 7 cm or I had to have section so they started getting my gown n stuff ready just in case, but half 12 came and I was 9 cm so mw turned my drip down and said she'll let me relax for an hour or so and let my body do the last cm then we'll start pushing, so anyway I got fully dilated but contractions were slowing down and baby's heartbeat was doing fine so at about quarter past 3 in morning we started pushing, my contractions were slowing in between so I didn't push that many times and head was crowning, mw went to side of bed to turn drip back up cos we were waiting ages between contractions and I felt babies head move out so I said 'she's moving!' Mw said oh she's helping you out, then I felt baby's shoulders and she just kept coming, hubby's face was a picture, my mum was like oh my god, mw looked surprised and just let her birth herself since we didn't really have a choice and my little princess turned and flopped herself out on bed. It was so strange I couldn't believe how it happened. So Naomi was born at 4.25am, hubby cut cord and I didn't tear, graze need any stitches or anythin I'm so happy, doesn't even hurt when I go to loo but it does sting a little. I now have an amazing family of 4 xx