well good morning everyone!!!! where shall i start?
i hope you are all well, i feel like i have been run over with a tarmac truck, but still not as bad as i thught i would.
sorry i didnt let you all know i was home last night, got back at about 6ish and felt alittle overwhelmed, had mum and dad and 2 best mates here for chinese and it all felt abit much.
well, my waters broke at 2am in bed on thursday morning, i have never jumped out of bed so quick, i shoved a towel in betwenn my legs and woke chris to say it had happened, he got up, then got back in bed in a daze thinking i was joking!
then he came to me in the bathroom panicking what to do, had to tell him to get me the hpone and mat notes and go and get dressed
mum came round to stay with lulu and we went to the hospital, in the car on the way the contractions started at every 3 mins
didnt last too long and could breathe through them, but was a little scared.
when got to hopsital, they monitored me and scanned to make sure it was still breech, i had a student midwife monitoring me and i asked her about the girl/horse/boy/train thing and she said it sounded like a girl, so she was right!
then the surgeon (also called chris) came and spoke to me, he was lovely, let me keep contacts in and toe varnish on, then sent for blood tests and said it was going to be sooner rather than later, if i was having contractions there was no point being in pain if i was having a section anyway, so at half 5 i went into theather, absoloutly shitting myself.
i had to sit on the bed for the spinal block and was just getting it done, which was the worst part of the whole thing, when chris said he felt faint and he had to actuall lie down!! theres me sat on the bed with needles in my back and its HIM who cant cope andway, it worked really quickly, its a very strange sensation, not being able to move my legs or feel anything, and even when they started the section, i thoughti would feel SOMETHING, but didnt, not a thing. none of the pulling of tugging or anything.
turns out not only was she breech but also had her back the wrong way round (not really sure what that means) and he had to get his hands inside me to flip her over, while a lady pushed on my belly to her her turn (not too unlike ECV) and he was proper huffing and panting getting her out, i thought i was going to end up with a 12lb baby the way they were going on!
chris felt faint yet again as he was watching all of it, so he turned round and faced away and he felt better. so the baby came out and no one bloody said what it was!! i had to ask about 5 times before anyone actually said 'its a girl'!! well what a shock, i told you my intuition must be shit!
any way, she was 8lb 3, not massive at all and we have decided to Violet Star for her name. funny how all the way through i was set on crystal yet now she doesnt look like a crystal at all.
chris has been very good for her first night, he saw to her first time, then me, but my milk came in and she wouldnt settle, so chris had to settle her and she woke about 3 times in the night.
i will report back later on, got the midwife coming this morning, but dont know what time