Hi everyone! Just been catching up! I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas and new year!!!
Things are going well here! I am shattered though! Doing the waking nights again has come as a bit of a shock...
So, I was 37+4 when I went into labour... Had gone for an afternoon nap with my son, woke up at 13:50 and wasn't sure if I'd had a contraction, told DP that it may have been but I might just need the loo haha! After trying the loo several times (and asking you guys for advice), I went back to dp and told him that I think it is labour and that we should carry on as we were because it could take ages- he goes to work and I'd go to mum's and let him know if I need him. Well, the next contraction really hurt, it felt like it did when I was about 7cm with ds, dp saw it in my body language and said that he was staying home, I let my mum know because she was going to be babysitting.
I was in agony when mum arrived at about 14:45! Thought I was being a total wimp! I had only woken up an hour before not even sure I was having contractions! I kept telling mum how I was definitely having an epidural because I couldn't handle it, I didn't understand how it felt as bad as it did in my late stage of labour with my first, when I must only be a couple of cm dilated! Thought my pain threshold must have just disappeared between labours.
Dp got all the bits together and we set off for the hospital, which on a good day is about 30 minutes away, but it's in our main shopping town, and it was 17th of December, so traffic was horrendous! I am ashamed to say, that after a silent labour with ds, I was a mess this time! I was honestly screaming in the car, window wide open because I needed the rain to hit my face haha! I don't think not being able to move around helped though. But I'm most embarrassed about it.
As we pulled into the hospital I told my dp that I thought I had just pushed. He pulled up outside of the maternity department and I told him he had to go because I couldn't get out of the car. I swing the door open, desperate to get onto that lovely looking wet grass next to me, but it was never going to happen.
Midwives got out there within seconds, my partner was clever enough to phone as he walked in, rather than wait and then explain. The midwife took my trousers down and said there was no head, so I could get in the wheelchair. I said there absolutely was a head and that I couldn't get in, she looked again and saw head was there but was in my waters which is why she didn't see it. My body did its thing and pushed without my consent, twice, and the head was here, then a third push delivered the rest of her.
To give you an idea on how quickly it was, my partner walked around the car to get into the drivers sided for support, and she was born before he got there!
This was at 15:58. My entire 1st and second stage was only 2 hours and 8 minutes. And I had a natural 3rd stage when I got into the hospital that only took a couple of minutes...
Needless to say, I was in total and utter shock for days after haha!
I'm getting so excited about your impending babies, and hearing your labour stories! Xx