Wow some amazing birth stories over the past few days!
My 2 births have been very different first with lots of complications the second not so bad.... I will write them down but if any of you are squeamish or really don't want to know what 'can' go wrong in labour please skip to birth 2!!
Birth 1
40+9 - 20hrs, ds, 7lb
Pains started at 2am, not to intense and dozed through them, started timing at 6am, 4 mins apart by 8.30am. Arrived at birth centre and had private room with pool. Continued to labour slowly, wasnt checked until 2pm (12hrs) only 2cm... But still contracting every 3/4 mins.... Fast forward to approx 4pm... Felt sick, was sick in empty birthing pool!!.. I thought it was hilarious, laughed so hard i burst my waters.
Pains got worse, and at about 6ish it was suggested i got into a normal bath with shower over... I enjoyed having the hot water but not moving made me feel sick, felt i needed to push after about an hr (7pm) so they got me out to check... I was only 5cm.
I was getting stressed and tired so they suggested i could have diamorphine, it would mean no birth pool but they wanted me to rest to i had the jab.
I actually dozed off but woke with more gushing down below, mentioned it to mw and she was abit dismissive saying it was waters... After more gushes i asked dh to pull the sheet back and check.. I was bleeding heavily!
Panic stations and they bundled me into a wheelchair and took me downstairs to central delivery where they finally said i was 10cm and needed to get baby out, he had a monitor clipped to his head and it was clear after about 1hr pushing he was in distress and the got him out via ventouse and episiotomy (local anaesthetic given) 10:41pm
Ds didnt breath and needed resus, but he was ok after afew minutes.
They gave me injection for placenta, the cord snapped and i started bleeding from retained placenta so with ds 30mins old and have no time to feed or skin to skin i went to surgery for 3 hrs... Given full spinal and had a mini panic attack so needed oxygen.. Placenta was huge and what they call 'double lobed' .. Turns out ds was a twin early on (i never knew as it was never on a scan)
I went to recovery where my skin to skin was cut short when a dim whit mw brought sumone elses family in to the next bed bay whilst i was lay there starkers, unable to move, with curtain wide open.
Stayed in for 2 days
Birth 2 - 11hrs (8hrs of pain), dd, 7lb 4oz
Waters broke at 5pm on due date (which was the day the olympic opening ceremony was on)... They told me to go into hospital at 9pm.. Pains started at 8pm... Was assessed and put on monitor until approx 11pm, was in labour but birth centre was full and only 1 bed on labour ward so went to an observation ward at 12pm (3/4cm) .. Was only there for about 30mins when i started to feel a familiar ache down below, asked to be checked and was 5/6cm... I asked to lie in a bath... At 3am i was getting an urge to push, checked and was 6cm but i insisted that this is how i felt shortly before ds was born... They call in transition.. U kind of feel like u loose control abit as you get used to switching from managing the pain to keeping still and pushing... Neway i went to labour ward and got on bed, mw was faffing saying right i'll just check u and i'm screaming the heads right there.. It was and dd's head was born at 4am and body at 4:05am.. I kept my hand on her head and let her slip onto my arm as she came out.
I had no pain relief during labour but had a tear back towards my bum and a labial tear... The back bit was stitched (and internally) but they didnt repair the labia incase it interfered with waterworks... It all healed fine and i cant notice a difference.
Sorry for epic post... For those who are on first pregnancies and reading my first birth you could think why would u do it again... Well i never have thought i had it bad, i had a day of hell to get my baby and i took him home with me.. That day i found my new role in life and i love being a mum and the overwhelming love you have for your children is priceless x