Well I went in for my blood pressure monitoring on Due Date 15th August at 4pm....but wasn't allowed home...it was a bit take two on the induced labour ( which I wanted to avoid) but was also way over being pg as well .
7:30pm given first lot of gel, said goodbye to ds and dh and left to sleep in birth suite. Didn't fall asleep till after 12 as I was already having little niggly contractions. Then woke at 2 because hips had gone numb from bed and kept thinking I was falling off it's plank like physique. At 5am there was a lot of commotion as c/s was performed next door. Managed to get to sleep again at 6am
7;30am midwives entered and asked how I slept I said ?the bed and a park bench had a lot in common? dr. entered and given second lot of gel, he said ?it would be nice if baby came between 9-5pm? and I said it?s definitely being born today, as I have a big 16 day thing, mine, bf and dh?s b?dates)
Had breakfast got up and started walking around to help, went up and down the corridors, got to museum display (with various old instruments of torture) and had large contraction where uterus went rock hard and stayed hard, kept walking around trying to avoid corridor where I could hear women screaming in labour. Then realized I hadn't felt baby move in a long while and had dr's words in my head saying 1% of women react to gel and uterus goes rock hard and they then have to get gel out. Went back to room and midwife enters wondering about my worried look I tell her I hadn't felt baby move for a while and she listens with stethoscope...she can't find anything and asks me to lie on bed... and straps monitor on...hb found in what seemed like an eternity of anguish (phew)
1pm third lot of gel put in, left for monitoring for 20 mins, then got up to go to loo and waters broke with a strong contraction. Went in to full on contractions from then midwife returned to me tearily asking for dh to be called. Dh got there at 2pm, with me requesting pain relief?.my back felt like it was being snapped in half, tried gas, massage, bath, nothing helped. Dr was not there so couldn?t get epidural and they also thought there wasn?t time and wouldn?t be able to push LL out. I did it with ds so I should of held my ground, but in no state to argue, got pethadine, which relaxed my brain, but did nothing for my back. Midwife ordered me out of bath and onto bed to commence pushing. Got on bed and started what I vowed I didn?t like ?screaming. Held dh?s hand like I was clinging on to life itself, as pain became unbelievable. I kept muttering to them that it wasn?t fair and that going through pain like this is pre ? historic
4:21pm Little Levi Jasper enters the world
6pd 56 oz
52cm
I never thought I?d have a quick labour, but the ?cervix dissolver? or ?9 ? 5 cream? as dh refers to the gel as probably helped.
Still getting over why it has to be sooo painful
Anyone want to invent some better drugs with me??? Either that or I?m going the ECAVB ? elective c/s after VB if i ever contemplate another.