morning ladies.
Baby girl arrived safely 7.06pm!! 7lb 13ozs....
Get to m's house 6.10pm, to find her laughing and joking with friend in bedroom, has the ctx timer on laptop, friend is working it. Looks flushed but euphoric.
Ctx are all over the place time wise, history that i can see is 7mins, 4 mins, 3 mins, 2 mins, 6 mins, etc, very strong and lasting up to a min regularly. During ctx, M is being quite guttural and last one a bit pushy, so i suggest calling hosp.
Call hosp,M says she wants some g&a so we get ready to leave.
In between ctx, you wouldn't know M was in labour. I on the other hand am thinking baby is gonna arrive in the car at this point. Try to hurry everyone along, without causing undue alarm.
Get in car, M says she keeps wetting herself, I suggest waters have broken, M didn't think so.
T, bless him, makes wrong turn out of their street, (they really do only live about 5 streets away from hosp!!) this is really funny, M is laughing.
Now back on track. M hanging onto open sunroof, shouts, it's burning, i'm pushing. No, breathe lonnnngggg, i coach.
Entrance to hosp, M thinks she's pood, (sorry, tmi)Am thinking, great, baby is in birth canal, I know if M stands up for long, this child is gonna be born in the car park.
I give specific instructions for them not to get out of car, and sprint into entrance looking for a wheelchair. one chained up, i ask security guard if i can have it, he thinks about it, [haVEN'T GOT TIME TO STAND ABOUT THINKING EMOTICON!!!]
I dunno, he says it's for the old people. I tell him, (firmly), my very pregnany lady is sitting in her car, pushing, I need the chair.
Gets chair.[smug]
Get M into chair, I am 5ft 5, and M is a big lady, and about to give birth. T takes car to park, I push as fast as i can, round a hospital i have never visited before, to delivery.
Get into room, amid much bumping into doorways, with unmanouverable bloody chair that does not have swivel wheels!!!! This is slightly farcial at this point.
Manage to get M out of chair, but she doesn't make it onto bed, is leaning over bed on the floor,m yelling for pain relief, 1st mw trying to manouver (sp) under her legs to see what is what, manage to get trousers off, 2nd mw suddenly realises and offers M g&a, almost gets her arm ripped off as M grabs mouthpiece. I am leaning across bed, trying to keep M calm, and reasurring her that she is about to meet her baby, and WHERE THE BLOODY HELL IS t!!!!!(the latter to self)
T walks into room, just in time to see baby L breathed into the world with a couple of wiffs of g&a.
FANTASTIC
What a result, they had a really traumatic time with no.1 , and so wanted natural birth with little intervention, well, safely say, they achieved that. lol
Waters had indeed, gone earlier, and took a bit of time to get some membranes left behind, mw were very hands off though, no rush, no pressure to have synto and vit, K. Baby was so calm, and peaceful. She has a little tongue tie, but my last client had this too so am up to date. Fed beautifully on both sides,Mum was up and bathed and i was home by midnight.
I am sooo pleased for them, lovely couple.
Thanks for your halp ladies, don't you just love a happy ending.
incidentally, 2nd mw, when introduced to me as the doula, said, "that's nice" some people are funny aren't they?
Have a good day everyone. x