To want more mums to write their birth stories in Birth Announcements?!

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I love reading birth stories and when i first found the section there were lots of threads to read. I'm now up to date and keep checking for more new stories and there are hardly ever any new ones.

Come on ladies, let me live vicariously and share your stories. I don't mind how they ended up, long or short, even if they're a little out of date. I'm sure there's no rule that says you have to post it within a certain time or anything?

And if you only post within your AN/PN thread i don't get to see them.

OK, OK, i'm probably BU but go on, humour me

Someone tell me a story before I have to put the boys to bed.....

I posted my story, it was rather long! I like to read other people's stories too

I know TBM&FF2 (or can i stick to TBM?) and i read it!
It was long but detailed and so much went on, how could you have skipped bits out.

I'm sorry that you ended up with another GA but it sounded so much more positive than last time so that's good
Are you recovered?
And how is baby doing? Had any sleep yet?!

I know, I kept thinking "where do I stop?" but when you have a prem baby getting them home is the end of their birth story I think.

It was a lot more positive, I felt so different when I woke up - last time I had forgotten everything, this time I knew what was going on and was checking everything was OK while I re-engaged my eyes! I feel really good about it.

I'm still a little sore, but she's only 18 days so there's time, but otherwise I'm doing well. Getting more sleep now although she's a pain to feed at night and wants me to sit up during feeds! She's doing well though, still a little yellow which is making her sleepy, we may be having a retest on Friday.

hmm ok i will cut and paste mine from another site. will that do you???? lol

all those baby vibes worked!!! lol
Am very pleased to announce that it's a boy, he is probably called Gabriel, but we aren't entirely sure lol.

anyway, a quick story (while he's asleep)....
woke up at about 6.30am yesterday getting braxton hicks (ha!) every 10-15 mins, thought they were a bit more painful than the ones I'd been having for the last week or so, but didn't want to get my hopes up. Tried to go back to sleep, but nothing doing, so I got up and went downstairs where I felt the need to pace up and down a lot and do a bit of tidying which resulted in the "BH's" getting decidedly stronger at which point I decided that maybe they really were contractions after all.
By 8am they were getting worse, so I started getting stuff ready (waterproofing floor, making up babies crib) and dp got up and was happy to be informed that he'd get the day off work. I rang my mum who unfortunately had already left for work and wasn't answering her mobile, silly lady!
contractions were getting stronger but didn't really have much of a pattern to them and I was managing to walk around and work through them quite well. dp got ds1 up and dressed and at 9am phoned the library to inform my mum that she would be needed, cue much excitement from all of them and my mum being whisked over straight away by a work colleague to take her and ds1 home (awww!)
The midwife had said to ring the delivery suite when contractions were 5 minutes apart. at this point I was getting runs of them about 2 minutes apart, but then longish gaps of about 10 minutes or so. dp decided to ring them anyway and they said they would send someone out to assess me. Lovely midwife arrived about 15 minutes later and did an internal and informed me that I was 8cm dilated already- to say I was in shock was an understatement! I was really pleased with how well I had been coping with it all and how much easier it felt than when in labour with LInus.
I told dp he better start getting the pool filled, while the midwife rang for someone else to come over and bring the entonox and oxygen. We managed to get the pool filled, but the hot tank didn't serve us quite well enough and it wasn't warm enough. I was allowed to get in and labour but they said that unless we got it warmer I would have to get out to deliver baby. cue midwife and dp boiling kettles and pans of water to try and get temp up fast enough. I LOVED the water- it was so much nicer than being on dry land and I didn't want to get out ever but I was getting strong urges to push (which I denied when the midwife asked because I wanted to stay in!!!). But it became clear that the temp wasn't going to rise fast enough so I eventually had to admit that this baby was coming NOW and I really needed to push at which point I got out. (we think around 11ish)
I then made myself comfy-ish kneeling over the sofa, leaning on a beanbag which was fab for squeezing and groaning into lol. I pushed, and I pushed and I pushed until I decided it was pointless and started crying that the baby was obviously too big and couldn't possibly get out and that I was pushing and nothing was happening. oh, and that I wanted an epidural because it hurt too much.
after about an hour of pushing I finally started feeling baby move down, which gave me hope that maybe it was going to come out after all. I remember when it all started burning, telling the midwife that I wasn't going to have it anymore and I wasn't going to push because it was going to hurt too much and I didn't like it. lol. then I discovered that not pushing actually hurt a lot more than pushing and quite frankly I couldn't really stop it so I just had to put up with the pain and out popped my baby boy, all in one go, at 12.21 precisely Turned out he was back to back, which explains some of the difficulties getting him out. and his head was 37.5cm!!! which is a bit excessive if you ask me.
he wasn't interested in feeding straight away, but latched on after about an hour once he was cleaned up a bit and dressed. He has fed really well ever since, but I am very sore because he is tongue-tied so finding it difficult to latch on. but am off to research techniques for feeding now!

I posted mine recently for DD (and know what you mean, love reading them too!), but it was a little more succinct than my first birth. I did reread it recently and it was sooo hormonal

Thanks Thisisyesterday

Aww, love a home birth esp!! DS1 had/has tongue tie - my advice - push to get it sorted asap.

LOL at some of your statements in labour

TBM - sounding good, hope the jaundice clears up.

I wasn't on MN for ds1 - but my ds2 story was pretty long too! maybe they'll get shorter with each child. I'm always amazed at some people who just post:

X was born on such a date and weighed ylbs.

and......??

Good - the more the better

and I'll post mine (or get DH to!) in 18 days (yes, I'm counting!)

woohoo, 18 sleeps to baby

sadly not JKS, as DD aged 2.3 STILL doesn't sleep through the night and the bump is nocturnal and kick boxes all night!

No i meant ME

DS1 (2.5) is pretty good now 7-6, ds2 is normally better but he was up at 5 this morning .

Good luck!