Well we are home...... Thank you all for the congratulations.... I am in love with my little man who we have called Owen Francis by the way..... I will update facebook with a pic soon....
Birth was so unbelievable......
Waters broke at 10.30 Friday they were green so went in to be checked (only to be told that they were clear ) sent home as no labour pains but told that if no progress by Sunday then I would be induced....
So we came home and I had a bath and we went to bed at about 2 in the morning. By 4 I was getting contractions but they were so irregular that we knew we were in for the long haul (or so we thought)..... Anyway I came downstairs as couldn?t sleep through contractions but didn't want to wake the house..... Woke dp up at 6 to put on my tens machine only to find that it was not all there..... So at 9 shot down the town to get new one and then back home to sleep... I slept until midday and decided that we needed to get active to move things along so we went to a local lake to feed the ducks with some friends... It was 3 in the afternoon at his point and while the contractions themselves were now getting very painful they were still only coming about every 20 mins or so.. Went back to our friends for tea and while there the contractions were getting so painful I told dp that I wanted to go to hospital to get checked out (they were still only every 30 mins at this point.) So at 7.30 we dropped dd at nannies and went to hospital where I started to get contractions about 5 mins apart....... However got into delivery suit and they stopped for about 1/2 hour.
Lovely midwife did a trace to check on baby and contractions kicked in again at full intensity but again only every 30 mins or so. She wouldn't send me home as after each contraction babies hb decelerated alarmingly. She called the dr to check the trace and she wanted me to stay on trace but dp should go home as it would be hours yet because the contractions, while strong, were not labour, this was at 10:55. I told the MW that when the contractions came I was struggling with the pain on just the TENS machine, she said she wanted me to take some pethadine and sleep as we still had a long way to go and off she went to get it...... I should add that I had not been examined at this point because if your waters have broken they won?t examine you until they are sure you are well on your way because if they do and you are not dilated they would have to induce you because of risk of infection!!!
So midwife is out of the room (thinking I am a wimp I expect) and then all hell breaks loose.... I am just saying my tearful goodbyes to dp when I am hit with the biggest contraction so far which lasts for 5 mins... baby?s hr drops to 70 beats per min and I feel that I need to poo..... I scream for dp to get mw back, she takes one look at the trace and examines me only to find that I am 5 cm's dilated. She kindly takes back the pethadine and gets me some gas and air... Time is now 5 past 11. I am then hit by one contraction straight after another and an intensity that I have never felt before. 5 mins later I tell her I need a poo and she checks me again and is shocked to find I am fully dilated (yes I went from 5 cm to fully dilated in 5 mins....) However there is a problem with babies hb so she calls the registrar who is the same lady that delivered dd.... I am now having a single contraction with an urge to push but nothing is happening. They can see babies head and cannot work out why it isn't moving.... Then at 20 past babies hp drops again and registrar shouts that there is something wrong with baby and we need to get it out now. So with legs in stirrups (not good with SPD) and with the help of venturous babies head comes out, the cord is wrapped around the neck tightly two times. Lovely registrar sorts this out in seconds and I deliver baby.
Baby is put on my tummy and dp tells me we have a boy... However he is not crying and is very cold and pale so off he goes to more midwifes........ I panic and scream the hospital down demanding they make him cry because there is something wrong with him.... .. Eventually dp is given the baby and registrar delivered the placenta 5 mins later...
Both me and Owen were very sore (I have second degree tear and a tear on my labia) and in a state of shock as it had been so quick... DP couldn't believe he had almost missed it.... But all elated now our family is complete.....
We had to stay in for 24 hours due to risk of infection but home now. Owen has ingested a lot of mucus so has been very sick but is feeding well (my poor boobies).. DD loves him and won?t leave him alone which is lovely... So over all we are the luckiest family alive... And both my children?s lives have been saved by the same lovely registrar.
PS Owens head was 37cm at birth!!!!!!!!!!! OUCH