Elijah was born at 11.30pm on the 13th September, he is in the neonatal nursery as we are teaching him how to breastfeed! He weighed in at 5lb 9oz's and is seriously cute!
I went into hospital via ambulance on Sunday with extreme back pain, I never felt pain like it before. The ambulance men were un impressed and told me I could of got a taxi! hmm
Once at hospital I was eventually diagnosed with a severe uti which I had been given the wrong anti b's for on wed, I was eventually given codine and allowed home. On Monday the codine had stopped working at 11am ish and around 12 ish I went to the loo and wiped a hell alot of mucus plug, I called triage and they said to come in and get checked.
I had to wait for a lift but got to triage at around 2-3pm, they assessed me and said I was fine, it felt like contractions but the monitor wasn't picking them up (hurt like hell) when she checked to see if my waters were intact I was already dialated 1-2 cms. It became quite apparent I was in early labour, i was moved to a delivery room which suddenly became very busy and
A drip waa started to stop the contractions, I was given a steroid injection, which has a nasty sting! And basically I waa monitored for 48 hrs, I could only lie on my back as they lost his trace on my side, so I was on my back on a uncomfortable bed for 4 nights and days!
On Wednesday morning they removed the drip, I was free, i was given 2nd steroid injection but by then though I had become quite constipated (tmi) so was given fibrogel and had also been struggling to wee for ages, they told me to keep drinking. I managed breakfast and sneaky sausage and egg mcmuffin at 10ish then I really started contracting, at 11.30 ish I managed to get a scan on my bladder and kidneys, baby was on my right kidney.
No clue on time but eventually they checked me and I was 4cms dialated, they put in a cathether which filled up almost instantly and offered me an epirdural. Which I gladly took. Luckily I didn't contract at all during epidural insertion.
After 4hrs they checked me again, i was still 4cms so they decided to break my waters, which went with a pop, I was contracting all this time but they were unsure as the toco wasn't picking it up, they didn't check me for a while and decided as I wasn't progressing to give me a c-section, they quickly decided to examine me and I was fully dialated so they let me push, they finally changed the toco so they could see I had been contracting all along and then they got me ready to push, I pushed for 5-6 contractions and then they put on the focrceps and he was out. They seemed quite shocked as was I. He waa breathing well so I got a good cuddle, but then they took him away to be assessed I was then stitched up!