Right I better tell all before Wimbledon starts for the day.
WARNING - BIRTH STORY
Lippy - Boris Becker cough I am rather keen on Andy Roddick myself - nothing beats a bit off all American beef Gosh I can't believe I said that!
Well Uwila yes I have been taking Arnica since a week before the birth because I read somewhere if it was in your system it really helped. I have been shovelling it down ever since though haven't noticed anything yet. Though saying that I have nothing to compare it to.
Well I wrote the morning before I went for my induction. I went in and they did exams. Honestly there was no dignity left having internal examinations. Well my cervix was far from favourable so I was given a pessary. Osiris was still only 2/5 engaged and after sitting arounf for 6 hours there was a tiny difference but not much in the unfavourability stakes. Well Bubba was a bit funny on the monitor so they were reluctant to put in another pessary and decided to go with the Syntocin (sp?) drip instead as if there was a problem that could be stopped but once the pessary had been used they wouldn't be able to reverse there decision and he was looking a little funny on the scan.
So I went back up to the delivery suite demanded my bathroom - which was really great it had a lilac sort of colour in the room which was really relaxing. Well I went on the drip and used my tens machine. Things started pretty quickly and I was getting really strong contractions for 60 seconds within half an hour. This went on for five hours as the syntocin was adusted and increased. The tens machine was amazing I didn't seem to need anything else until the syntocin seem to have the effect of making the contractions constant. I was only getting a 10 to 20 second break inbetween them and it was getting pretty difficult.
Well at the 5 hour mark I had another exam and the midwife had thought with contractions that strong that things would be well on the way. However on checking I was stil only 2.5 cm dilated this was quite upseting and I could see she was re - evaluating. Well they had the consultant in and we decided that an epidural was a good idea as whatever was going to happen was going to take hours.
I had to take my tens machine off
You know those things are amazing because when I took it off for the epidural I was suddenly faced with the most accute pain I have ever felt in my life. This coupled with the contractions 10 - 20 seconds apart was unbareable and I suddenly started wailing that I'd made a mistake. I was crying for ages and it was hard for them to do the epidural because of the contractions. So I had gas and air which was pretty trippy.
Well after the epidural I finally fell asleep for a while and woke up a few hours later. Then I was just sitting around while lots of people came in and out of the room. It seemed that Osiris was still only 2/5 engaged. Well another half an hour went by and I had another exma which showed I'd still not dilated anymore. then the contractions just started to slow down despite the drip and Osiris got really distressed. There were about 4 Dr's in the room and the monitor looked pretty scary and they all looked dead worried so they came and spoke to me about a c section.
Well all of a sudden I had about a million people on me and I was saying 'can't you do this one at a time' because they were topping up the epidural and doing various other things but they looked really stressed and said there wasn't any time so I thought I better shut up and get on with it as I realised he may be in trouble.
Well I had the section and they held up a muelling baby all slimy and head lopping off to the side. I was crying because I was so stressed and cold and afraid he was a mutant. Well it turned out when they passed him to me that he really was cute. I was sort of shocked.
Well in recovery I seem to be really rather impressed by him. I couldn't quite believe I had done it and he was well and responsive. Well I seem to be madly in love with him.
I don't really think I had a bad time of it but people seem to be saying gosh it sounds awful. I just well its over and I never was one to dwell on a bit of physical pain. I think it was a positive experience. I'm lucky I guess someone else would be really upset and traumatized.
Oh Sorry about the story to those who haven't had their babies yet I didn't mean to make it sound awful because it really wasn't. it was only one day in my life.
Well I'm off he needs feeding before wimbledon begins. Good luck to anyone who may have a baby today - Charley you are still waiting, weren't you due Mrs flowerpot.