NEW ADDITION!!! Baby Luca Stephen, born 7th March 00.30 (thats right, he arrived on his due date!!)
Good evening ladies!!! Sorry for my absence, although this time it was for an altogethe better reason! My Little man finaly arrived!
Some of you may remeber me starting a couple of threads on thursday wondering if it was in labour or not...well I was! The contractions came on regular and quite painful straight away at 8.30pm thursday evening, I managed to cope until 4am and then headed to the hospital, was monitored until 9am, given an internal and despite being in total agony as I was feeling everything in my back, was told to go home as I was only 1 cm dilated!
I spent the next several hours in tears on the living room floor on all fours with DP running round after me, before returning to the hospital at 4pm. They then told me (after analysis ofurine sample given on my last visit) that I had a UTI and thats what the pain in my back was mainly contributed to, but that I was in very early labour so they would admit me to the ante-natal ward to make sure I was okay.
We headed upstairs, as we got out of the lift I had a contraction and the ward staff saw me and suggested to the midwife taking me up that as it was the middle of visting maybe they could bring me up later! I obviously didnt look great! Once back downstairs I had another internal that revealed I was now 5cm so I was ushered to th delivery room and given a much needed epidural!
The midwives then told me that baby was back to back which is why i was in such pain and everything was going so slowly! Anyway, they went ahead and broke my waters and all hell broke loose! I went hell for leather but could feel every contraction in my back...but nothing in my belly! So I decided that staying whacked of my tits on gas and air was a good option!
Suddenly at 8cm my body started pushing uncontrolably and I was getting told off for pushing!! Then suddenly the room filled with people, baby ws distressed they inserted the fetal scalp electrode which showed considerabledistress so they were going to use forceps, but they took blood sample from babys scalp which showed dangerous blood gas levels at which point it got super crazy! Emergency c-section time!! General anesthetic, DP abandoned in the delivery room, the whole shabang!
I eventualy came round about 6am ish and was told baby was born in shock so had to go to the NICU. I was transferred to post-natal where I was told baby now had to be on glucose drip as his blood sugars were far too low. I spent saturday night on the ward without Luca expressing every couple of hours so it could be sent across to the NICU.
The enxt day the doctor visited and said I had an infection so needed IV antibiotics, then the day after Luca was jaundiced so they tested him 3 times a day to check his levels, which remained just below the threshold to require treatment. Then on discarge day, Wednesday afternoon, he had lost more than 10% of his birth weight, but fortunately we were allowed home but the midwife has to visit everyday!
But at least we are home and settling in!
Congrats to everyone who has welcomed their new additions while I have been away! And apologies for the above essay...but I have been quite distressed about the whole experience and that was quite cathartic!