hi all, few days absence as couldn't log on whilst in hospital so only briefly read back on the thread, so apologies for non-name checking...although big congrats to munx for yesterday!
so had the sweep on tuesday, it ramped up contractions and lost plug and started to lose membranes over night but went to hospital as arranged for 8am on wed morning for ELCS. They said they could break my waters to enable a highly supervised VBAC attempt but the consultant examined me and said baby had gone back to back, so we had to stick to the original plan of ELCS. They had problems getting him out, despite no real labour and no pushing, he had got his 91st centile head jammed into my pelvis and they had to use forceps to drag him out, but 9lb 3 1/2oz baby Alexander came out kicking and screaming with an APGAR of 9 at 10.16am on 5/9/12. So different from EMCS with DS1. I feel so much better and was a much more positive and calm experience, with memories we will both treasure forever, it has put a lot of ghosts to bed (for those who don't know, DS was cat 1 EMCS under GA, so DP not allowed in room, i was out cold, and DS had APGAR 1).
Will be ELCS's for me in the future, they think my pelvis is making the babies turn to back to back as my body is ready to go into labour (they said i was having real contractions that morning and so looks like 5th was always going to be his birthday anyhow lol) and that i simply can't deliver babies with 91st centile heads - and both of ours have had that exact same head size...cheers to DP for the big head genes No PPH, no infections, no complications at all really, other than A being tongue tied but it doesn't seem to be affecting feeding. Getting a cannula in was a bit of a problem as i have bad veins and they'd ruined 3 of the 4 main sites on the day before, couldn't access the 4th so had to then put it in across my wrist, meaning every time i bent my wrist upwards (like whenever i leaned on my hand) the cannula was tensing into my arm, very unpleasant. Vomiting on the operating table surprised me, it happened very quickly as i naturally have low blood pressure, the spinal was unpleasant to be administered and my god that spray was cold. Got the shakes a little bit, but it soon passed over.
We came home yesterday afternoon and so good to be home. Milk came in late yesterday, and A fed till 11.48pm and then he slept until 7.15am! He is such a calm and contented little baby, such a difference to our DS1 who had reflux and wouldn't sleep unless held by me, and who would scream whenever he passed wind or poo. A farts for England without batting an eyelid and has no issues pooing, he is an absolute angel so far and loves to be swaddled, unlike DS1.
Very uncomfortable when trying to get up, wound is a lot sorer than first CS, they said this could be because of forceps/force needed to pull him out combined with his size, or could be down to adhesions from last CS but they don't know and i didn't manage to see my consultant before we left to find out if i did have bad adhesions or not. Hoping that it heals quickly as the sooner i can get up from a chair/in and out of bed easier the better! Until then i'll keep popping the pills!