Aw, thank you pearlgirl we should meet-up so you can meet her.
Birth story:
On Tuesday morning I got up as usual with DS at around 5am, despondent that I was yet again NOT in labour. We watched Thomas the Tank engine for an hour and then as I had planned to go to York for lunch and shopping with my brother and mother, I left DS with my mum and went to have a bath. As I got out of the bath. I has my first contraction. At first I thought it was just a strong BH it it was soon followed by a 2nd and 3rd about 8 minutes apart.
I told DH as I went to wake him and while he took DS for a bath I tried to relax and have a snooze, but couldn'tas I was too excited.
My mum and brother decided to take DS anyway and left at around9ish. dH and I walked to the post office and came back to watch Sideways.All throughout, my contractions were erratic, initially seeming to get closer together, and then tailing off! Until, just before lunch, they stopped.
DH made omelettes with mushrooms and goat's geese, which were delicious. And I suggested we go for a walk. So we walked down to the pub, unexpectedly met MIL on the way there and she and DH had a pint in the autumn sunshine. My interactions were still bloody painful, but erratic and seemed to stop when I stopped walking. I thought we were in for a looooong latent phase.
We returned home and decided to have a nap. We slept for an hour and a half or so, during wich time I was awoken 3/4 times itch painful contractions. We woke when DS returned home with DM and DB at 16H00.
I fed DS, played some Lego with him nd gave him his dinner, but decided to go have a bath as my last three contractions were 5 minutes apart, lasting close to a minute each. While in the bath I had SROM and that's when I knew we had to go. I rang the hospital to tell them we were coming. We got in the car and left . That was 17H30. The hospital is an hour away.
During the drive my contractions wnt from every five to every three minutes and the By the end way I could cope was to vocalise rather loudly, in fact VERY loudly. Like a primal moan
We arrived at the hospital and t was a ordeal to walk in an as soon as we got to the assement unit I had he unbearable urge to push. So I pulled ff my jeans and climbed onto the bed on all fours and told hem. This was 18H30
This sent them into a mad panic,, they wheeled us through to the delivery room on the low dependency unit and saidi could go for it. Luckily I heard them talk about jabbing me, so I managed to let them know that I wanted a physiological 3rd stage. As there was no chance to discuss my birth plan. I had wanted a water birth.
Beatrix Anna was born after 5 pushes at 18H47 weighing 7lb14oz. Physiological 3rd stage took about 40minutes, I think. Bea fed within 30 minutes. DH cut the cord once it stopped pulsating. It was brilliant.
Everything I old have hoped and wished for In a labour and birth. (exept the missing out n the water birth)