Hello all
I am sorry for not being on for ages I have been a tad busy. Can I come and share my stories with you all and get virtual tea and such 
Well as you know i had poly so had too much water. Due to this and size of baby I was induced at 41 weeks (although I had begged to be induced weeks earlier they wouldn't).
Birth was horific but I now have a lovely chubby 8 week old.
I was asked to go to anti natal ward at 8am on the 11/11/11 for induction as they were worried that babies head was still unstable (due to the level of water head wouldnt go down and so high chance that if my waters went cord would decend before the head) I thought what a great date to have a baby. I arrived and got a bed straight away only to be told that the dr were unhappy to induce me on the ward and that it would need to be done on labour ward under controlled conditions in case my waters broke as the trace showed the cord was laying very close to the head. So we waited until 5 pm to be told they were ready for me. I knew at this point baby wouldn't be there that day.
I had the pesery put in and had to wait for an hour in labour ward while they did another trace. Finally sent back to AN ward at 9 o clock with the instruction that if my waters went I was to press emergancy cord and get on all fours with my bum in the air... ladylike I think not.
Mark went home and I was happily contracting through the early hours. I couldn't sleep but they were not strong enought to need pain relief. At 5 in the norning I got out of bed to go to the toilet but as I stood up my waters went. Did as I was told and the room was soon filled with lots of people peering at my bits trying to decide what to do as head was still not in pelvis and was unstable meaning cord could desend at any time. It was decided I was to be taken to delivery and put on drip while being constantly monitored and on constant trace (strapped to the bed again grrrrrrr). I was put on the drip at 6 o clock and Mark arrived. I was still just breathing through contractions and was 5 cm by this time. At 10 o clock the drip was turned up as my contractions were now very regular but not moving the head down at all I then also went on gas and air. At 12 o clock I was ready to push but the head was still no where to be seen so had to try not to push which I couldn't do so the drip was turned up again. At 1 oclock I had managed to get the head into the pelvic and mw could feel it but after every contraction it would retreat again at this point the fluid had turned green and baby was in distress with lots of decelerations on the trace. Unfortunatly there were 5 other emergancies in the department so we were assessed (blood taken from babies head while in pelvis and o2 levels taken) as being lower risk than some of the other ladies so I was left to try on my own for a little longer. At one point we thought we had it but alas she went back further than before. MW called time on my attempts at 15.00 and said I needed a section as she was failing to proceed. Luckily for me (or unlucky which ever way you look at it) registrar that came wanted to try forcepts first but we didn't have time to do eppidural at this point (I was determined to do it with out so had just had gas and air) so proceded with forcepts delivery using just gas and air. Ouch bloody ouch. I had to have episiotomy but also tore the other way as well. But at last after two huge pushes she was out.
However she wasn't breathing so had to be resusitated and was then taken (along with daddy) to special care where they drained her lungs and checked all tubes leading to her tummy were in order. At 9lb 3oz she looked like the mother to all the other littlies in scu. !! I was stitched up and taken to pn ward while I waited for news. Both Mark and baby arived later that day and all seemed well. Baby was put on hourly obs due to level of fluid and the fact she had meconium during labour. The next day she was rushed back to scu as she was gray and not breathing properally and was panting from her tummy (something begining with T but cant remember what it was) I went with her this time and a tube was placed into her lungs and a chest xray was done (at a day old ) also o2 levels checked. After several hours on a machine we were told that she has wet lungs but she was fine.
For two weeks I had the perfect baby all she did was feed and eat. Fed every two hours slept lots didn't cry much and would let me put her down. But then she developed what I thought was a cold. Didn't take much notice of it apart from the fact that she wasn't feeding and her breathing was noisy I thought it was in her nose though so was using nasal drops. HV came for her check up and sent us straight to hospital who then sent us by ambulance to another hospital. DD2 had got brocilitis.
When we arrived we were on a normal ward and dd was put on oxygen and given steroids to help her lungs. The following day mark came in after dropping dd1 off at school. He got a phone call while he was there from work, so left ds with me and went into work as dd2 seemed ok. However two hours later l looked at her and she had gone really white and her lips were blue. Her alarms were going off and the room filled with nurses. Her lungs had failed. She was still breathing but no air was getting into her lungs as she couldnt inflate them. Her oxygen levels had dropped to an alarming rate and she was wisked off to the high dependency unit.
I followed trying not to alarm ds. She was put on a machine that breathed for her and i was told that the next few hours were critical and that they had a intensive care team from st thomas's hospital in london on stand by because she may need to be taken to specialist until there. Thankfully she wasn't but she was very very poorly. She was on so many machines, her veins had collapsed at one point so drip was in her arms, it was just awful and she was only two weeks old...
She was in HDU for 8 days, I couldn't cuddle her or feed her. I couldn't see DD1 as she had a cold and wasn't allowed in. It was awful..... She seems fine now though apart from a bad eye that has a bug in it. The staff were amazing in hospital and really helped dp and I at the worst point they allowed both of us to sleep there which was against the rules but they knew how serious things were. She has a wheeze but specialist said that should go as her lungs grow and she has a shaddow on her left lung but they believe that this is fluid rather than any perminant damage. So all in all she is one strong little girl.
Monday was our 8 week check and check up and she has been discharged by her respiritory therapist which is fantastic. But she has silent reflux so now is very unsettled, upset and in pain alot so has become my velcro baby. She has however chunked up and is now a whooping 12 lb 14 oz so she is thriving...
I thought I was coping well, but it seems not I have had to buy an alarm for the mosses basket that goes off if she stops breathing because I was waking her all the time checking she was still breathing.... I have turned into a nurotic mother!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I will be fine in time and the most important thing is that she is better and fighting fit.
Hope you dont mind me going on but needed to share!!
Hope everyone is well and all the feb babies are doing well. DS is fantastic he loves his little sister and is very helpful.