So at 7pm last night I started getting contractions. By 11pm they were unbearable and I was getting 3 in ten minutes so head to the hospital. I started having issues with my blood pressure so went from the birthing suite to the labour ward.
Labour was horrendous. Contractions were every 90 seconds and felt like baby was trying come into the world via my back. Was on gas and air from the start pretty much and really straight with now difficult I was finding it, because I'd always been confident in my pain threshold! As well as gas and air I had codeine at one point and then diamorphine. All of which basically did nothing. (Gas and air was only effective if I inhaled so much I felt sick).
Finally I had Rima which wasn't great as pain relief but did keep making me pass out so I got to avoid the pain that way! All of this was continuous and the pain was excruciating! They were also struggling to examine me because the contractions were so regular that my stomach want softening up. Finally they started to bring through consultants around 10am, they eventually did an ultrasound and found out that he'd turned back to back! This is after him being positioned correctly from about 20 weeks, however it does solve the conundrum of what caused my back pain the other morning!
I was then rushed for a c section as baby's heartbeat started to lower (my two none negotiables in my birth plan was that I didn't want an epidural and I didn't want a c section. So by this point I was hysterical).
C section was done under local anaesthetic - most bizarre experience today being able to feel it without any pain!
Ending of the story - at 1:28pm after sixteen hours of horrid labour my beautiful son was born and I've already forgotten how awful most of the labour was. I'd genuinely do it again - just maybe accept an epidural much sooner ha.