I am loving reading all your birth stories, thanks for sharing
peachespaige and dizzy-ooh, its all happening for you! Good luck! peaches* my water weas exactly the same, mw wasn't concerned either.
Sparkly Its great that you now have a plan in place and have some choices. Keeping everything crossed for you that induction works. You'll have a baby by Monday! Hope DS is on the mend.
saraheb not long to wait now!
kowaikiwi I totally understand what you mean, you've articulated it really well. Its the element of the unknown isn't it? I'm normally super organised as well but nothing prepared me for this (in a good way . I never thought I would hand back g & a in labour with a polite "No thanks, I'd rather breathe (mw found this v funny) or that I'd find the strength to push but you do. I'm excited for you x
Mossop Congratulations! Gorgeous name-are you Welsh?
Calypso oh no, I didn't want to make you cry! I think luck hd a lot to do with the hypnobirthing for me and I was gutted that I wasn't able to see things through to the end with it. Breathing in golden light kind of went out the window when I was trying to push Joseph out by 4pm deadline! You never know, you may get the chance to use it again. On the ward, the student doc who'd been with me in labour and the doc that delivered Joseph both came up to see me and both (seperately) suggested that I look into practitioner training for the hypnobirthing. Maybe something for you to consider as well?
Thanks everyone for the feedback re madwife/midwife . Informally, the complaint has been made-I was very vocal once I'd recovered from the shock of what was said and she'd gone. Without realising it, I'd complained to one of the most senior midwives on the ward-it was her who got me the room on my own and spoke to the consultant about this catch 22 sitution with the blood pressure and staying in. She really fought my corner. Sparkly, you make a good point about vulnerable people coming into contact with cow mw -I hadn't thought of that. She was a community midwife until recently but after the miscarriage apparently couldn't handle it so went onto post-natal. I'd have thought that would be worse.
Does anyone else have a v sleepy newborn? We took him into the village today then to his nana's-didn't stir a bit! He still thinks day is night and vice versa so is quite alert in the early hours but never seems awake for v long. He's currently curled up asleep on my lap-I may try him in the pram as he hates the moses basket so much. Ha-give me a few weeks and I'll be complaining that he won't sleep at all! And on that note, I'd better wake him for his feed.. x