Hi all, my son Jacob was born 7/12/11 it is sooo true that they say 2nd labours are better!! With dd it was 36hours, stayed stuck at 6cm 17hours, retained placenta, theatre removal, blood transfusions, LOTS of stitches etc where DS labour started 12pm by 5.30 was in a bit of pain, still managed to cook tea tho lol read bed time stories to dd ( although dp having to read bits of the story as I couldn't talk through the contractions by that stage. Put dd to bed at 8pm.
Probably a bit tmi but in labour with dd the only reason I knew I was in definate labour was by when wiping after using the loo I could tell things were different down there.... So in labour with DS I 'touched' to see if anything had changed down there, I couldn't feel anything was different so refused to believe I was in labour!
Even when they got to 3min apart and crying Between contractions I was so upset that I wasn't dilating and didn't want to b 1 of those women that go into hospital crying in pain and they are only 3cm lol.
My mum ( who had come over to stay at my place while dd was sleeping) basically yelled at me to ring midwife.
Rung midwife, was told to go strait to hospital. Got to hospital 12.40am had DS 18mins later lol lucky I got there when I did or he would of been born in the car!!
No stitches, delivered placenta on my own and was home 3hours later. Dd got up in the morning to us home with her baby brother, she never knew we left :)
Pls excuse spelling mistakes, on phone while feeding DS, he's amazing but doesn't sleep much. Am surviving on 3hours sleep a night :( it's all so worth it tho!!