Helllooo x
Bus has left now and all is quiet ish - Lotti has another bout of hand, foot and mouth (bloody nursery) and is under the weather poor tiddler. Archie is fine, slight jaundice and congestion but otherwise bouncing, feeding really well and pretty calm and settled really. 1st night at home was very unsettled, think he liked his perspex cot and tropical hospital temperature
So thought I'd post my birth story before it all becomes too fuzzy, so here goes....
As you know been showing and minor ctx for weeks. Decided to hike up my caulophylum to a 200 c dose on Thursday eve - so took 3 pills over 3 hours and did lots of thumb acupressure point pressing - seemed to do nothing so went to bed as normal.
Woke up at 6, stood up to go to loo and started leaking at a heck of a rate - assumed it was waters. Got back in bed and had a ctx, thought nothing of it but 5 mins later had another and then another - all lasting a min and 5 min apart. Told Robert who sprang into action (full on flap ) I said i was going for a bath... and rang mum (birth partner no 2)and sister (babysitter)
Walked downstairs naked with the iphone contraction timer - now 3 mins apart and lasting just over a min and quite painful - ie hang onto furniture and concentrate like mad on golden lights and elastic fanjos...
Rob came down in undies and started to reflap about me being naked and mum and sister turning up (I ask you??!) He then couldn't remember how to hook the tens up, grrr. Meanwhile I was outside in garden in pouring rain, throwing up on the patio (yup still naked)
Mum and sister turned up, mum started flapping about me being naked and the frequency of contractions. Got dressed in a half arsed fashion to shut everyone up - flimsy vest. flip flops and joggers - got in car. Big problem - couldn't sit down, 20 min journey hanging onto sun roof, mooing and omming a lot.
Arrived at hospital right on rush hour, peeing down, can't get out of the car so end up hanging onto car door - joggers hanging off arse as couldn't stand pressure on tummy and flimsy vest flapping in gale force winds. Mum and rob dash off to get me a wheelchair tho they know i can't sit down and leave me hanging half in half out of car. End up kneeling on wheelchair. omming VERY loudly down corridors
Admitted to delivery immediately - guess it was pretty obvious I was actually in labour. Examined at 830 and found to be 8cm. Got on bed, on knees had tens machine cranked up and adhered myself firmly to gas and air. Thought about the mooing comments on fb and dasiy spending time on hands and knees in car park as i was mooing for bloody england - didn't know i could make such a racket
Ctx were coming fast and furious and were very intense but found the tens machine and gas great - could not stand anyone touching me anywhere or even talking in the room sp kept telling all to shut up (how rude)
Huge huge uncomfortable pressure from waters and was desperate for MW to break them but she was reluctant to do so. Mum and her were watching the business end and suddenly huge explosion which reached to end of the bed and almost drowned my mother which was quite funny
Then within 15 mins i wanted to push - several massive pushes and his head was born - I was twittering about being scared and MW was shouting at me to open my legs - bit of a phobia about being spread eagled when in pain...but makes giving birth a bit problematic
One contraction later and Archie was born - he had a hand by his face so hence the slight trouble in squeezing him out!
All good but then had retained placenta so ended up in theatre with spinal block for removal and 2nd deg tear (partly due to Archies arm and helped along by country veterinary practice of arm up fanjo to detach placenta!! Thank the lord for drugs!!!!