Finally, born on Fri 17th.
Morgan Rose, born 1st at 7.01pm weighing 5lbs 9.5oz.
Archie Micheal, born at 7.34pm weighing 6lbs 8.5oz
I went in to be induced last tues, but they were very busy so I didn't get started till thurs, had a few contractions that evening, then they broke my waters at 9.30am Fri morning, when I was 2cm. Bless them for giving me an epidural immediately, and I settled down to letting things happen with the syntocin (?) drip.
At 1pm I fell asleep, and at 2.30pm I woke up to see on the monitor that I had been having contractions since 1.30pm. What a way to do labour!!
By 4pm I was fully dilated!!
At 5pm I started pushing, but I was so tired after 1.5 hours, they used a ventouse to help with baby girl, but hardly had to pull at all.
Then baby boy thought he'd have a party with all that space and decided to turn sideways! After trying to turn him it was all panic stations, they took me to theatre to see if they could pull him out by his feet.... I had to sign a consent from for c-section and hysterectomy.
Once in theatre they whacked my epidural and syntocin drip up to full power. But Archie's heartrate dropped to 70bpm, and mine went up to 145bpm. The doctor said he would have to do a section immediately, but I begged him not to cut me open, so he checked one more time and Archie had turned head down, so in a major panic he shoved a ventouse on his head and pulled with all his might while I pushed with all that was left in me. We had about 12 people in the room shouting at me to push, but I didn't hear any of them I was so completely fixed on what the doctor was telling me to do (I soaked the doctor when his waters broke.) When he was born he wasn't breathing but his heart was beating. They had to resusitate him and he took his 1st breath in just 1 minute, but they carried on for 5 minutes. It was extremely scary, but luckily I didn't really know what was going on at the time.
He had acid in his blood gases, so he went to special care after about 1 hour so they could keep an eye on him, but his 2nd test was fine so he came back to us after only half an hour.
Thankfully everything is absolutely fine. We went to a local maternity unit on Sunday to relax for a few days and came home yesterday.
Thankyou to all of you who wished me well....
We still can't believe we have '2' beautiful babes. What a Christmas present?
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smellymelly · 23/12/2004 14:35
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