Haven?t had a chance to catch up on the thread since Max was born on Saturday ? thought I?d start with my birth story and then start reading. This is my first proper internet session since he got here!
Thanks for adding me to the Birth stats BB3 ? where do you get the time?!
My Birth story.
Things went so quickly, I never expected it?d be so fast!
Turns out that was I thought might be a show on Friday afternoon was probably my waters breaking, but Max was blocking them from gushing out. Which explains why I was woken up with what I thought was another show and him kicking me at 2.30am on Saturday morning.
Contractions started just before 9am on Saturday. DH very helpfully said that contractions could go on for ages so we both just carried on doing our Saturday chores. After a few contractions, they started coming every 10 minutes at 10am, and then every 4-5 minutes. At 12.30 we called the midwife though they were still quite short and when she got here I was already 4-5cm so I went to the birth centre. Was there for less than 2 hours before Max was born at 15.42 after an hour of pushing.
Ended up having a cut to help Max out. Had an injection when the midwife made her incision but apart from that no pain relief. Actually giving birth was not as painful as being stitched up afterwards! Lost quite a bit of blood, almost fainted in the shower, but not enough to keep us in hospital so we were home within 3 hours (they don?t hang around over here!).
We had a maternity nurse over for an hour to go through some first night stuff with us and then all of a sudden it was just the 3 of us! Can?t believe it was only 7 hours from the first contraction to his birth. Moral of the story ? don?t listen to people who tell you that your first baby is always late (3 days early!) and really long! We're all different!