Tas I kept meaning to come back and update on the Overdue thread that we were on, but finding time to do anything is really rather tricky! How did things work out for you? I need to go find the antenatal thread and see if you posted there - could do with another hour in the day :)
Bood I had no idea it could be that bad - I can't ever see myself going through it again, particularly as they've warned me that I'm pretty much guaranteed to have a major PPH in subsequent deliveries :( It's good to hear that you can move past it, to a certain extent, in order to go on to have more children. Right now that seems impossible :/
Tiger I did forget to mention that after 2 hours, I asked for pain relief - I went for diamorphine (sp?) which seemed to take away the bleak wraparound effect of the pain so I was at least in the room and able to talk to my husband and the midwife between contractions. By the time it all got a bit scary and they said I'd have to have a c section I was secretly so relieved that it was soon going to be over. I remember gibbering madly to the midwife/my husband/everyone in the room about the pain, which had become something like thick black smoke everywhere, and almost being obsessed by the fact that when the diamorphine had kicked in, it's like it hunted down the pain and gave it a postcode so I could actually deal with it. I do wonder, if they could provide a relatively accurate simulation of the pain you experience on the drip, to men, to non-pregnant women, to politicians... To human rights activists... Whether we would still be so bloody keen to use the drip to induce, without automatically offering significant pain relief as part of the drip itself.
Well the last few days have been tiring, I've got a horrible dry cough which is keeping me up and unfortunately wakes my DD up too. I try to nip out into the hall to cough but that does get in the way of trying to sleep! There have been lovely moments with DD though - I bathed her for the 4th time today, I've been giving her a wash on the change mat because being undressed, and wet, for any fraction of time, reduces her to chin-quivering sobs (which breaks my heart) but today I filled her bath deep enough for her long body to be able to float in, and she was super spaced out baby, really chilled, just staring up at me and gently kicking her legs underwater. Me and my DH were peering down at her little face and making (no doubt very nauseating) 'awww hello' type cooing noises, and she was peering back up at us like we were the most interesting thing she had ever seen. Sooo sweet!
Oh and we had our first poo explosion today - when I was changing her, she did a fair few farts and suddenly a river of mustard poo wooshed up the changing mat, off the edge and up my trouser leg! And the SMELL! Dear oh dear. Nuclear baby!!