Hello!
I had my gorgeous baby girl in November last year. i started having some mild contractions which were 10 mins apart throughout Friday night, Sat Night and Sunday night but they stopped during the day... i went in for a sweep on Monday and i made the lady stop as it was too painful and the midwive mentioned babys head was in a funny position and could slip back to back. i was then induced on monday evening (9days OD then) and contractions had started back again at that point, my waters broke 3am tuesday and intense contractions started properly within 30 seconds. All i remember is being on all 4s on the bed resting on the amazing yoga style ball and there being a few Drs in the room talking about my heartbeat/pulse acting up... at a few occassions it was going upwards of 230 and other points going back down to 40! i remained at 5cms for hours and hours and finally they decided i should have an epidural to rest my body and see if the vitals could stabilise. i could still feel the back pain with each contraction with the epidural in ( she slipped back to back when the waters broke ) and after 18 hours of labour, 3 hours of pushing, a full episiotomy and forceps she arrived at 7pm! they discovered after a weeks stay in hospital that i have some eptopics which means my heart skips a beat and then tries to catchup again by doing some extra fast ones and when the body is in stressfull labour it intensifies and does it no good as you can imagine. However, i was relaxed throughout the whole ordeal and never remember being scared, just praying and praying for my husband watching it all as many people flooded round me and tried to bring me back to conciousness 3 times! i was only 22.... should i dread my future pregnancies? has anyone had a similar story and gone on for another? i would love to hear your stories!!