Ive just had chance to sit down and put down my birth story for anyone who is still waiting to spur you on that its gonna be u any day now, i quite enjoyed reliving it! but its a bit long winded sorry!!
i had really bad backache for 2 days and a bit of a show on the sunday, i had a sweep on mon morn with more show and on/off contractions during the day and was getting v excited and scared! but they stopped at night so i went to bed at 9pm, when dp came up at 10.30 i got up for a wee and they stared again i tried to sleep but couldnt so i went downstairs on the ball and walking around and then rang the hospital to check if i should go as they were still irregular but 45-60 sec long and i needed the anti biotics for strepb, she said have a hot bath, so i got in the bath at 1am and then after 10 min i had a whopper and shot out the bath and woke dp up and said we had better get my parents round! the contractions were getting really strong in the car i had my tens mc on when we got to hospital it took me ages to get in cos i had to keep stopping having them, so glad it was 2 am and only a few people saw me!! mw examined me at 2.45 and i was 4cm but i warned her it would go really fast as it did with ds,she said i should have the iv antibiotics so she put a horrible canula in the side of my hand and i had two bags which too an hour to get in, i was on gas and air and the contractions were really strong, every other min for a min, she had to sqeeze the anti biotics in to speed them up it was agony. Then she said i could get in the birth pool, i was so glad she agreed i could as the two mw before had said no so in i got and within 30 min i started to feel the need to push a bit at the end of each contraction, i kept saying "im going to have it soon" and the mw just kept saying "lets hope so" she was still sat on her chair reading something when i had a contraction my waters popped and i said "its coming" she still didnt get off her chair, and i pushed and Willow shot out under the water and the mw shot off her chair to come and get her out and lift her upto me, so i was only in the water for about 40 min, i didnt have the injection to get the placenta out, i sat on a stool thing and it came out after 16 min so was fine.
We had to stay in 2 nights as Willow couldnt keep her temp up at first and had to go on a heat pad, and her heart rate was a little slow, we were really worried it was to do with the strep b and the fact i did not get the anti biotics in long enough before delivery so the did some blood tests but there was no infection, she just took a little longer to get going.
Im breastfeeding which ive never done before and its going really well, was hard work at first to get her to latch on but there was a fantastic mw who really helped me and staying in an extra night prob really helped even tho i hated it and it was so horrible for my other dc's.
her big sis and bro adore her and dp has been being fantastic but he has to work sun and mon morns so im a bit scared about being left on my own so soon with 3 but im gonna have to get used to it.