HI guys, Sorry for the massive delay in getting back here...I've been on about 6 times to let you all know how things are, birth story etc and each time someone decides that he wants attention and hats off to all that can tyoe one handed...i tried but deleted it as was completely indecipherable!
First of all thanks to frao for her birth story...without whom things may have gone reallY bad. SO thanks and thanks too to your mum about when not to push!
I had period pains quite badly at about 4pm the same day I had the show. Got in the bath to see if it might help, it didn't. At about 9pm started to get worse period pain that came and went irratically...I say went, it didn't go, just spasmed worse. At about midnight I started to need a poo, but remembered what Frao's mum had said, so waited to see what happened with contractions. 1-2 am contractions at about 4/5 mins apart, so phoned MW unit, MW arrived at 2.40am, checked me out to find that I was 9cm dilated! However Baby heart beat was dropping during contractions. At this point my waters still hadn't gone. But relief as MW said I could push, it was such a relief to push and really did just feel like I had the worst constipation and the worst period at the same time...uncomfortable as hell, but wouldn't call it exceptionally painful or anything. At about 4am babies heart beat wasn't recovering well after contractions and by about 4.30 am his heart beat was pretty constantly around 70bpm! So ambulance was called as it was decided he needed to be out of me asap...I was so scared that I was going to lose him. Ambulance arrives and I was whisked out into the street wearing nothing but a t-shirt, a pair of socks and a tens machine, thanks god it was early morning as I was flashing the world my bare butt!
Ambulance journey was a nightmare. Up until this point I'd been lolled over my birth ball, now I was forced to lie down on my side with one leg braced against the MW's shoulder, that was a whole new level of discomfort! Got to hospital, door opened, nurse got in..an OMG pain as she cut me, Now that hurt! But got the job done as one small push and baby was out! I have vague memories of been shown him before he was whisked off to resuscitation (sp?), which luckily I didn't know about until later. I was taken off to be seen to in a complete state of shock, I've never shaken like that before! Placenta came out no problem (should hope so after the 2" cut they made). DH arrivd at hospiatl just in time to see the placenta delivered. About 20 mins after getting to the hospital I finally got to meet my beautiful baby (after the hospital staff had finished warming him up under heat lamp). They wouldn't us leave the hospital until 7pm though as his core body temp was still abit low, so he spent most of the day in an incubator.
All home now and all's well, thanks to the MW team. As it turned out the reason for the hospital was because the MW's don't carry the rescusitation kit with them, although the ambulance does (my notes say they did tachie stimulation)...He would have needed the hospital for the warming lamps and incubator anyway. I just wanted to let those still expecting, that even when things don't go according to plan, it doesn't necessarily mean it's that bad and that we have some great MW's, paramedics and hospital staff in this country who are great and remain calm no matter what.