Birth story info for computer course

[sparkysalmon]

I’m really interested in peoples’ birth stories and I’m also trying to do a computer course, learning excel, and spreadsheets etc. I thought it would be really interesting to put together some birth details, so I can learn how to make charts and organise and sort information….
I can't bear the idea of just typing up loads of meaningless numbers, but I think birth stories are so interesting, and everybody has such different experiences. I think it would be really fascinating to see how the information could be sorted and made into charts etc......

So, would anyone be happy to tell me their birth details in a way I can use for my course??

For example my own would be

Year of delivery 1996
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 12 hours
Pain relief? Gas & air & pethidine
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Both
Birth weight 9lb14oz
Retained placenta yes
Birth at day or night? day

Thanks for taking a look

That sounds super interesting, I use spreadsheets for work and they're really boring, yours sounds much more fun!
When I had my DS I was in labour for about 22hours and they had to break my waters to speed it up. I ended up having gas and air and pethidine. My delivery was normal and I had a large tear probably because he was 10lb2oz! He was fed breast and bottle which worked really well. He was born in 2013 during the night.
I hope that is useful and good luck with your course!

Year of delivery -2014
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 9 hours
Pain relief? Gas & air & pethidine
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Both
Birth weight 7lb 1oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Evening

That's brilliant, thanks ladies, keep them coming! ooops, I should try to edit and tidy up that table

Year of delivery-2014
Type of delivery scheduled c section
Any stitches required?Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?36
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital na
How long do you feel you were in labour for? Na
Pain relief epidural which wore off during stitching ! So then pethadin
Spontaneous labour or induced? As above
Breast, formula or both in first week?Both
Birth weight 6lb 2oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Late morning

Year of delivery 2005
Type of delivery normal
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 43
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for? No idea
Pain relief? Gas & air, pethadin, epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Both
Birth weight 7lb 6
Retained placenta don't know what that means
Birth at day or night? Not sure

Year of delivery 2008
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for? Don't know
Pain relief? Gas & air & pethidine epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Both
Birth weight can't remember
Retained placenta not sure
Birth at day or night? Night

Year of delivery 2010
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for? Days
Pain relief? Gas & air & pethidine epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Formula
Birth weight can't remember
Retained placenta don't know
Birth at day or night? don't know

I'm placemarking so I can do this for you later on my laptop as it's too fiddly on my phone.

Year of delivery: 2012
Type of delivery: EMCS
Any stitches: Yes
How many weeks: 40
Waters: Broken by midwife
Labour: 71 hours 😭
Pain relief: Gas and air then epidural alongside syntocin drip (due to slow progress)
Spontaneous or induced: spontaneous
Breast, formula or both: both
Birth weight: 7lb 2oz
Retained placenta: No
Day or night: very early morning

Year of delivery: 2015
Type of delivery: planned CS (due to placenta praevia)
Any stitches: yes
How many weeks: 39
Waters: n/a
Labour: n/a
Pain relief: epidural
Spontaneous or induced: n/a
Breast, formula or both: breast
Birth weight: 7lb 8oz
Retained placenta: no
Day or night: morning

Thanks everyone- can I add any problems during the birth... for example a retained placenta is when the placenta stuck and mum needs to have help from the doctors to get it out.

Year of delivery: 1993
Type of delivery: Forceps
Any stitches required?: Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: naturally just before delivery
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 21 hours
Pain relief?: Epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Breast
Birth weight: 6lb 11oz
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Night

Year of delivery: 1994
Type of delivery: Normal
Any stitches required?: Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: naturally just before delivery
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 12 hours
Pain relief?: Gas & air & TENS
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Breast
Birth weight: 8lb
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Night

Year of delivery: 1998
Type of delivery: Normal, home birth
Any stitches required?: No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: naturally just before delivery
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 5 hours
Pain relief?: Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Breast
Birth weight: 8lb 6oz
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Morning

Year of delivery 2018
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - by Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 9 hours
Pain relief? Gas & air & epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 7lb 5oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night?day

Year of delivery 2017
Type of delivery Normal/Episiotomy
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 35
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 5 hours
Pain relief? Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Both
Birth weight 5lb 1oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Night

Year of delivery: 2016
Type of delivery: Emergency c-section
Any stitches: Yes
How many weeks: 33
Waters: never went
Labour: never in labour
Pain relief: Spinal block
Spontaneous or induced: emergency
Breast, formula or both: Both
Birth weight: 2lb 14oz
Retained placenta: No
Day or night: 7pm
Complications: severe sudden onset pre eclampsia, severe iugr, foetal distress, reduced movement,, reduced heart rate and failing placenta

Year of delivery 2008
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital Natural
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 12 hours
Pain relief? No
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?Breast
Birth weight 7lb 3
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Night

Year of delivery 2011
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital Naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 4 hours
Pain relief? No
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 7lb
Retained placenta No
Birth at day or night? Day

Year of delivery 2014
Type of delivery Vaginal breech
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital Naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 3 hours
Pain relief?Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?Breast
Birth weight 9lb
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Night

Year of delivery 2017
Type of delivery Normal (augmented)
Any stitches required?No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?39
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital I broke them by accident being silly
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 20 minutes
Pain relief?Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?Breast
Birth weight 6lb 13
Retained placenta No
Birth at day or night? Day

Year of delivery 2018
Type of delivery Vonteuse
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for - 5 days!
Pain relief? Gas and Air, diamorphine, spinal block, epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Both
Birth weight 7lb 8
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? day

Year of delivery 2002
Type of delivery C Section
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?38
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 1 hour
Pain relief?Gas & air & pethidine & epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?Formula
Birth weight 6lb 7oz and 6lb 8oz (twins)
Retained placenta No
Birth at day or night?day

Year of delivery: 2017
Type of delivery: Forceps/episistomy

Any stitches required?: Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 42
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: by the hospital
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 24 hours
Pain relief?: Gas and air but had an epidural in the end after 2 lots of diamorphine
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Formula
Birth weight: 7lb 11
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Day

Thanks so much to everyone who is sharing

Year of delivery: 2015
Type of delivery: Kiwi
Any stitches required?: Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: by the hospital
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 40 hours
Pain relief?: Gas and air, diamorphine & an epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Formula
Birth weight: 8lb 11oz
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Afternoon

Year of delivery: 2017
Type of delivery: normal
Any stitches required?: Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: by the hospital
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 48-72 hours
Pain relief?: Gas and air
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Breast
Birth weight: 9lb
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Afternoon

Wouldn’t you add place of birth to this? For example, saying things like water broken by hospital - what if you aren’t in a hospital?

Year of delivery: 2005
Type of delivery: normal birth (at home)
Any stitches required?: No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 42
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 4 hours
Pain relief?: None
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Both
Birth weight: 7lb 11oz
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Day

Year of delivery: 2011
Type of delivery: normal birth (at home)
Any stitches required?: No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?: 38
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for?: 7 hours
Pain relief?: None
Spontaneous labour or induced?: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?: Breast
Birth weight: 8lb 6oz
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night?: Day

1. Year of delivery: 2017
2. Type of delivery: Forceps
3. Any stitches required: Yes
4. How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 40+1
5. Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: Midwife
6. How long do you feel you were in labour for: 8 hours
7. Pain relief: Gas/air & epidural
8. Spontaneous labour or induced: Induced
9. Breast, formula or both in first week: Formula

10. Birth weight: 7lb 11oz 11. Retained placenta: No 13. Birth at day or night: Day

Year of delivery-2017
Type of delivery scheduled Emergency Csection
Any stitches required?Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital? Natural
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 12 hours
Pain relief gas and air
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Express and formula
Birth weight 6lb 7oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? 7pm

Year of delivery: 2013
Type of delivery: normal
Any stitches required: yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 40+0
Waters break naturally or broken at hospital: naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for: 2.5hours
Pain relief: gas and air
Spontaneous labour or induced: spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week: breast
Birth weight: 9lb 7oz
Retained placenta: no
Birth at day or night: day

Year of delivery: 2015
Type of delivery: normal home birth
Any stitches required: yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 39+3
Waters break naturally or broken at hospital: naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for: 1.5hours
Pain relief: gas and air
Spontaneous labour or induced: spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week: both
Birth weight: 8lb 13oz
Retained placenta: no
Birth at day or night: night

Year of delivery 2008
Type of delivery Normal (? As opposed to?)
Any stitches required? Yes I don't remember how many
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 40+6
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - natural
How long do you feel you were in labour for? From lunchtime on Saturday until 7.30 Sunday morning.
Pain relief - tens, positioning, birth pool, gas and air
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 3040g
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? 7.30am

Year of delivery 2015
Type of delivery Normal - water birth
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 40+6
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Neither - baby was born in her sac
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 17 hours - 5 hours established
Pain relief? Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Formula
Birth weight 7lb4oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? day