talk to me about giving birth on the labour ward.

[RedPony]

I'm 38+4 and at my last midwife appointment my midwife has said when I go into labour I need to go straight to labour ward and not to the mlu as I have had high blood pressure a few times last week (no other issues apart from horrendous ms and spd).
I'm absolutely gutted as I was really hoping to give birth on the midwife led unit and was hoping for a water birth.
Please talk to me about your experiences of giving birth on the labour ward and how relaxed was it? Will I still be seen by midwifes or will it all be doctors and consultants? I was really calm.about giving birth before but now I'm dreading it :(

He's all warmed up now and doing great so the incubator has gone :) the birth story's not that exciting I'm afraid, had contractions for 10 hours and was in established labour for just under 2 hours. It was all very quick at the end and he arrived after 3 mins of not really trying very much at pushing as he was in a bit of a hurry.

Well done RedPony. What lovely news. Hope you get back to snuggling very soon

Congrats Red! :)

Wow, 2 hours of established labour! Glad he is back with you and that all is well!

So pleased for you Red. Thanks for letting us know the happy ending!

Thanks guys :) were home now and all is good