Baby number 1

[laurenluke2017]

Hi everyone,

Whats all your experiences with your baby number 1? Did you go over or early? I'm 38+1 and I have booked my ELCS for 15th October so i'll be 39+5 not long and cannot wait.

Can't wait to read your stories.

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I was induced at 39 weeks (by dating scan) or 38 weeks (by IVF dates) he arrived at 39.3 by section

By my dates before any scans, he was bang on due date! Hospital dated me 4 days earlier. At about 8 o’clock on a Saturday night I’d just had a bath, bent over to pull the plug out and my waters broke. Felt like I was seeing myself! I had no contractions and no pain but had to go to the hospital so my waters could be checked. My OH didn’t drive at this point so I drove the 5 mins to the hospital absolutely fine. In the waiting room I suddenly felt a bug hush as the rest of my waters broke all over the floor! They checked me but I wasn’t dilated so sent home. We had been waiting around at the hospital and at this point it was about 9.30 and the contractions had started! We got home and I went to bed with the tens machine. By 4am we went back to the hospitals as my contractions were less than a minute apart. But I was only 1cm!!!! So I had pethadine at about 4.30 am and was finally at 4cms by 10am wen I could get the gas and air! So it’s 10 am Sunday morning, get to delivery sure and just bounced on a ball with gas and air. Was checked again at 1pm and I was only 5cms dilated so they put me on the hormone drip to keep my contractions going. I finally got an epidural at about 5pm. By about midnight I was still only 9cms so the doctor manually dilated me the last cm and I started pushing. Nothing was happening so I then got taken into theatre. I finally had him at 4.24am on the Monday by forceps. Once he was delivered they took him over to a little table behind me and they were over there ages. I was getting worried and no one was telling me anything. Turns out his oxygen levels were reading very low and they were really worried. Then a senior midwife came in and said “let’s use some common sense - this baby is breathing, is pink and is crying, lets give him to his mum”. Turned out the oxygen level machine was broken!

Due to the type of delivery I had a tough recovery - about 6 weeks. But I’m now TTC baby #2 because it is all more than worth it.

My one regret is that I didn’t ask my OH to film any of our time in the hospital. We were both to busy going through it but I would love to be able to watch my labour experience back and see it from another perspective.

My DC1 arrived spontaneously at 39+2