OK here goes - as first post and she's 15weeks tomorrow mihgt be quite long but you asked for all the gory details!!!
Has gone to starbucks for choclate cake with best mate after she finished work - around 8pm and got home at about 9:30, had been joking about getting free coffee if i went inot labour there!!! Got inot bed with hubby and we were watching a film and told him my tummy felt a bit funny, like it was fizzing - he said it was all the choc cake and choc milkshakes I had had at SBs. Woke at 3:40am and said to myself that IS a contraction - stomach pain like period pains I used to get before going on pill and dull back ache. Slightly scared and suprised (don't know why it is the day before my due date) I lie there and wait for it to happen again and it did 10 mins, and then 8 mins. Now at this point I start thinking should they be this close together and getting this much closer this quickly, OMG I'm going to have the baby here in my bed can you tell yet its my first!
Anyway decide to get up and leave DH in bed. Make a cup of tea and put telly on and having them every 8-10mins so ahve decided it is actually happening and not a false alarm! Text DH to say come downstairs, as know his phone will come on at 6am to wake him up to get ready for work thinking he should get some sleep as we could be going well into the night, and keep doing my sways and movements that I am hoping are making it better - pains getting stronger.
Anyway at 6am here his phone alarm then beep to say he has a message - he texts me to say why? All I text back is 'Its started' and then I hear and lot os running down the stairs - he's defo awake now lol.
he makes me a drink and tells me off for not waking him up and makes me ring the hospital to find out what to do and when to go in. They say come in when you can't cope anymore, when someone else HAS to ring cause you can't, have some painkillers and a bath. Tell DH all of this and he while he runs me a bath I have some cheerios - was told to eat whilst at home to keep strentgh up as when you get you probably won't.
Get into bath - just thinking this is nice and does seem to help with pain - lifted foot up onto tap and hear a POP, look down and there is defo soemthing that has come out of me - shout hubby to help me out of the bath as waters have gone, he's a bit worried now. Anyway get inot bed room and he helps get me dried and dressed, as I go to sit on the bed instist on a towel as even thought have knickers and pad on don't want the bed to get wet (why am I worring about that ?!?) as I sit down I look at my hubby and say - now THAT was my waters breaking and I was scared to stand up thinking it would poor every where and it seems that my pad was good enough to take it all and now it really hurts am leaning over the top of the bed trying to find a good position and DH wants me to call the hospital again WTF??? Tell him I can't and he must - tell us to come in.
Get bag and pillows dowstairs and just about to go out the front down and have to run to kitchen to be sick - bye bye cheeiors!!
its gone 8am and get in car and DH has a hissy - no petrol in my car , now the day before I was ging to get a few last min things and fill the car up but DH had day off unexpectantly so didn't do anything I'd planned. Anyway moaing about the petrol takes his mind off worrying about me and quite glad it happened .
Get to hospital, via petrol station, and get taken to the exam room, can tell she thinks I'm wasting her time when she hears how long I've been having contractions and I've been telling DH all along we've got ages don't need to go in yet. She has a look and I am 9cms and the baby has lotsof dark hair OMG!!!!! NOw i had always said there are no prizes for having pain and I was going to have an epidural but even I know that this means I've missed it and that s all I cn say I am shocked I'm that far on.
They take me to my room and I meet the midwife, Dh goes to get bag and put parking ticket on car. I say to the midwife that I know its to late for an epidural so she must be honest with me - how much worse is the pain going to get? She says its not, I've donw all the hard work and that it won't get any worse, excert for actually pushing her out and it don't help with that (which I know so not bothered). She asks how I'd liek the bed set up and does that for me, adn I get on and Dh comes back - he has forgotten my bag ??!!???
Ask for gas and air - and I like it!!! She has a look at how I am doing and says my cervix needs moving as its comes down round the babys head and which she does with her hand - and god that hurts!
Next thing I knoiw have been there an hour, they ask me to wee but I can't go, things don't seem to work like thye should (does that make sense?) they put a cathature (SP???) in. Next thing its another hour later - this gas and air is good!!!
A bloke comes in asks if I am having any urge to push and I'm not just the same contractions had all along. He tells midwife to take gas and air off me - I'm not very happy about this and do argue a little I think . He tells me that the heartbeat is dropping and that they are going to use a ventose (SP) and if that doesn't work they'll cut me and use forseps - he said it just like that!! He puts the ventose on and that hurts even with local. Well I decided that was not going to happen. They tell me to push with the next contraction and I do hard. that seemed to set it off now I have to push. Now I cant remeber if ithappened now or just before but suddenly it all stops, the pain the contractions everything and I can completly relax - then it back and this is it.
5 pushs and she is out!!!!
They put her on top of me and.... all I can do is stare at her, i can't beleive it its a baby, and whats that you say she mine?!?!?!
Anyway, bloke starts to stich me up - it hurts have to tell him to give me local!! He explains that he didn't pull her out I defo pushed her and thats why she doesn't have a cone head, just guided her.
So 8lbs 1oz baby girl delivered at 11:20am 19th march.
Nursing nurse came to see my in delivery to 'help' with breastfeeding - not alot of use and probably scares lots of women off it. Anyway DD did get on breast of very well too - they then had to take her away so distrubed her didn't know then it would upset me as much as it does now as DD did not tkae well to the breast again untill 10am the next day!!!!!! I kept saying to the nurses I'm worried shes not eaten and it was only at 4am that a midwife helped me, eventully we expressed some and gave it to her - looking back this is this is the only reason I'm glad I was there I might have given her a bottle as so worried she hadn't had anything.
Ended up having to stay in hospital overnight as was a ventose delivery and I got no sleep not cause of DD but becuase of everyone else!!!!!
Right think thats about it - its been a while since I got to tell the story!!!
So where is she now well - rolling over, sleeping through the night (still asleep now) and still breastfed. Had some problems settling her recently, she doesn;t want to be put down wants to sleep on me. Shame as she had always been put down awake and dropped off herself. Oh and she's a thumb sucker - she's so cute!!
Any questions???