Thank you so much. I feel a little like a rabbit in headlights about some of this which i know if I thought non exhausted about would be logical.
So his birth. Well I was 40 weeks and had a midwife appointment at which she told me as they all had he was well engaged and I was close to labour. However still measuring 2/3 weeks ahead so she would send me to my consultant 2 days later just for a check up as we were anxious about size and when he would arrive as DP had to leave on 26th.
So on the 23rd we went to consultant got in there about 12.15. Supervisor of midwifed saw us first and said I was we'll engaged and she felt nearly ready to go. Consultant came in, yep very well engaged she said too...lets do a sweep as I think it will enough to send you into labour. She did a very good sweep, entire mucus plug dissolved in her hand. Then she said she wanted to get the scanner. At which point she said I want to check he's not breech. DP and I joked jut like our baby to be being difficult. Then the scan revealed a head by my ribs and a very well engaged bum. She said the issue is I had started to go into labour in that half hour and we weren't leaving te hospital. Baby would be born that afternoon. We had no stuff with us, I was in jeans and a tshirt.
We decided to try and see if we could turn baby quickly to try and avoid emcs. They sent me to the central delivery suite to await the turning consultant. They only had room in triage. They hooked me up to monitors and in the hour it took for the consultant my contractions were 5/6 minutes apart. They couldn't give me anything for the pain as they needed me to have nothing to try and turn him. Then they attempted it between contractions. I managed about 3/4 of an hour of them trying when DP made them stop. I couldn't take the agony I was sobbing and even the registrar was saying to the consultant can't she have some pain relief. In the end DP sent everyone out of the room and was brilliant with me. At that point they came back in and decision was made, 35 mins and we would be delievering in theatre by emcs. They handed DP some scrubs and that was it, I was wheeled down and Luc arrived about an hour later. So from an routine consultant appointment to him arriving in the world took just under 6 hours. Poor mite had no clothes and was wrapped in blankets and a hat. Mum and DP were ace and I am a bit shell shocked and so is Luc.
We are home now. He will take another 2 weeks to unfurl his legs and get a bit more to grips with the world. We have a few feeding issues. I'm expressing all his feeds but he us my perfect little man.