Just to let everyone know that Evie Harriet was born at 10.06 a.m on Friday 10th February and weighed 9lb.
I didn't need to be induced on Thursday afternoon as I started off naturally on Thursday morning. I went to my induction assessment and was 3cm dilated so was sent home.
Went back in 10.30 and was 7cm - yay. Went in the pool, but as I had a lot of blood loss with dd1 I wasn't allowed to deliver in the pool so got out to deliver. Had pethidine as they had ran out of diamorphine I thought they were winding me up.
At just over 9cm (at about midnight) I needed to push as my waters broke, things looked like they were happening but some of my cervix started to swell (dd2 was high and back to back) so I was told not to push - easier said than done, so had a epidural to reduce the feel for pushing.
Bizarrely, I then 'undilated' eventually back to 4 cm, so had a drip to help along contractions but dd2's heart didn't like this so was stopped and started for the next few hours. Eventually, had an emergency section and lost 5 pints of blood and had a tranfusion - but feel O.Kish now - came out last night so was in for less than 3 days.
BF going O.K - but have bleeding nipples so using shields at the moment but will be getting round my La Leche league contact sharpish as I want to be more successful than last time.
A knackered but happy Hotmama of 2 dds. xx