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

Year of delivery: 2012
Type of delivery: Normal
Any stitches required: No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital: Naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for: 5 1/2hrs
Pain relief: None (but gave birth in the pool)
Spontaneous labour or induced: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in the first week: Breast
Birth weight: 7lb 11oz
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night: Day

Year of delivery: 2017
Type of delivery: Normal
Any stitches required: No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 40
Waters break naturally or by hospital: Naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for: 4hrs 41mins
Pain relief: None
Spontaneous labour or induced: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in the first week: Breast
Birth weight: 10lb 13.5oz 😭😭
Retained placenta: No
Birth at day or night: Day
Any pelvic floor left after birth: No!!!!😂😂

Lots of luck op xxx

Because spreadsheets are cool

Year of delivery: 2015
Type of delivery: EMCS
Any stitches required? Whatever they do when they slice open your abdomen...
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 35
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - naturally
How long do you fell you were in labour : 7 hrs
Pain relief? Gas & air & spinal block
Spontaneous labour or spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? He didn't have milk for three weeks but I expressed and froze
Birth weight: 5lb 6
Retained placent: no
Birth at day or night? Day

Year of delivery 2017
Type of delivery Vaginal
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 39+5
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 19 hours
Pain relief? TENS & Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 7lbs 12oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Night

Year of delivery? 2016
Type of delivery? Emergency c section
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 38
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Midwife
How long do you feel you were in labour for - 1 day
Pain relief?Gas and Air, dihydrocodeine and spinal for the c section
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Formula
Birth weight7lb 7
Retained placenta? No
Birth at day or night? Night

Ooo, do we get to hear some percentages when you're done?

Year of delivery 2009
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? Yes
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? 25 hours
Pain relief? Epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 8lb 8oz
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? 41 +3
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 2 hours
Pain relief? None
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breastfeeding
Birth weight 8lb 8oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Night

That’s a really good point above about place of birth, so hopefully like the PP did, feel free to add if it was a home birth, or a waterbirth etc

And yes, I’m hoping to get 100 babies births and then I’ll make some kind of google document link that you can all look at 😀

Year of delivery 1994
Type of delivery Ventouse
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? 18 hours
Pain relief? Epidural. Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 9lb
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? night

Year of delivery 1999
Type of delivery natural
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 38
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - natural
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 3.5 hours
Pain relief? Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 8lb6oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? day

Year of delivery 2002
Type of delivery Natural
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?38
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Doctor
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 1h35min
Pain relief? Gas & air
Spontaneous labour or induced? Induced
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 8lb8oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? day (6pm)

Year of delivery-1998
Type of deliveryNormal
Any stitches required?Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 42 hours
Pain relief?pethidine & epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week?Breast
Birth weight7lb 5oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night?Afternoon
Ventouse delivery (long labour, mother and baby exhausted and baby went into distress, nearly had a c section)

Year of delivery: 2017
Type of delivery: forceps
Any stitches required: yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 40+3
Waters break naturally or by hospital: by midwife
How long in labour: 19 hours
Pain relief: gas and air then epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced: induced
Breast, formula or both in first week: breast
Birth weight: 7lb 4oz
Retained placenta: no
Birth at night or day: night

Year of delivery-2013
Type of deliveryNormal
Any stitches required? No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 1 hour
Pain relief? None
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 7lb 12
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night?Evening

Year of delivery- 2005
Type of delivery- Normal
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?37+2
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - broken by hospital
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 26 hours (probably a bit longer as this was the amount of time I was in hospital for, and I was already 6cm dilated when I went in)
Pain relief? TENS machine
Spontaneous labour or induced?Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight- 6lb 3oz
Retained placenta - No
Birth at day or night? 4:32am

Good luck with your course!! Much easier to learn something if you find it interesting!

Year of delivery - 2018

Type of delivery - Normal (in midwife led unit)

Any stitches required? - No

How many weeks pregnant? - 40+1

Waters broken naturally or by hospital? - naturally just before pushing stage

How long do you feel you were in labour for? - established labour about 6 hours (latent stage 24hours plus)

Pain relief - water birth (up till transition stage) and gas and air

Spontaneous labour or induced? - spontaneous

Breast, formula fed or both - both

Birth weight - 6pounds6

Retained placenta - no

Day or night - night (evening born at 9.30pm)

No complications

Year of delivery 2014
Type of delivery vaginal
Any stitches required? 2
How many weeks pregnant at delivery?40
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 5 hours
Pain relief? Paracetamol, tens
Spontaneous labour or induced? Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? Brest
Birth weight 8lb10
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? 9am

Year of delivery 2016
Type of delivery EMCS
Any stitches required? Lots for section wound!
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 33
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - NA
How long do you feel you were in labour for? NA
Pain relief? Spinal
Spontaneous labour or induced? NA
Breast, formula or both in first week? Breast
Birth weight 5lb10
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? 10am

I look forward to seeing these charts!

Year of delivery: 2014
Type of delivery: Natural
Any stitches: No
How many weeks: 39
Waters: Broken by midwife
Labour: 8hrs
Pain relief: Gas and air
Spontaneous or induced: spontaneous
Breast, formula or both: breast
Birth weight: 7lb 5oz
Retained placenta: No
Day or night: night

Year of delivery: 2016
Type of delivery: Natural
Any stitches: No
How many weeks: 39
Waters: Broken by midwife
Labour: 7hrs
Pain relief: Gas and air
Spontaneous or induced: spontaneous
Breast, formula or both: breast
Birth weight: 6lb 8oz
Retained placenta: No
Day or night: day

There are a couple of themes with mine.

Year of delivery: 2015
Type of delivery: emcs
Any stitches required: yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 39+1
Waters break naturally or by hospital: naturally before labour started
How long in labour: 75 hours
Pain relief: gas & air then epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced: Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week: breast
Birth weight: 6lb 9oz
Retained placenta: no
Birth at night or day: Day

Year of delivery: 2018
Type of delivery: emcs
Any stitches required: yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery: 39+1
Waters break naturally or by hospital: By the Doctor doing the emcs
How long in labour: 12 hours
Pain relief: Nothing until the Spinal
Spontaneous labour or induced: Spontaneous 15 hours before my elective section...
Breast, formula or both in first week: both
Birth weight: 7lb 15oz
Retained placenta: no
Birth at night or day: Day

55 babies on here now, that's brilliant, would love some more too. Someone has suggested doing this on Reddit as they have a dedicated stats forum, so now I may need to add Country of birth too!

ear of delivery 2012
Type of delivery emcs
Any stitches required? Yes
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 31
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital neither.
How long do you feel you were in labour for? Emergancy intervention for pre eclampsia started at 5pm, ds born 8am the next morning.
Pain relief? Spinal block
Spontaneous labour or induced? Emcs (decided against trying induction first as he was breech)
Breast, formula or both in first week? expressed breast milk through feeding tube.
Birth weight 3lb
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Day (early morning)

Year of delivery - 2015
Type of delivery - Normal
Any stitches required? - No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? - 41+5
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Naturally (during labour)
How long do you feel you were in labour for? - 7 hours
Pain relief? - Gas & air & birthing pool
Spontaneous labour or induced? - Spontaneous
Breast, formula or both in first week? - Both
Birth weight - 7lbs
Retained placenta - No
Birth at day or night? Day

Year of delivery - 2018
Type of delivery - Normal
Any stitches required? - No
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? - 41+2
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - Baby born in waters
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 - 8lbs 1oz
Retained placenta - No
Birth at day or night? Night

Year of delivery 2014
Type of delivery Normal
Any stitches required? yes 3
How many weeks pregnant at delivery? 41
Waters break naturally or broken by hospital - naturally
How long do you feel you were in labour for? 19 hours
Pain relief? tens machine, epidural
Spontaneous labour or induced? both, waters broke naturally but no contractions began so they were induced after 14 hours due to risk of infection.
Breast, formula or both in first week? breast for 12 weeks, formula after
Birth weight 7lbs 5oz
Retained placenta no
Birth at day or night? Night. 8.13pm

59 babies! Still hoping for 100