First Time Pregnancy (5)

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Hey everyone. Had to make a new thread as we were nearing 1000!

Looking forward to hearing your updates Misty 😀 Your LO will be here so soon!!

Awww thanks @NC1990 had midwife earlier. Cervix is still high up and firm BUT she managed to get the tip of her finger in there and wiggle it a tiny weeny bit. She said it has softened very very slightly but she still doesn't think it will happen spontaneously. But also can't rule it out coz anything can happen. So I feel a tiny bit better than I did the other day but it's still unlikely anything will happen tonight naturally, so as far as everyone is concerned, it's still hospital tomorrow morning and then could be 2, 3, days til anything actually happens. But it's just a tiny bit more positive than it was! Fingers crossed I'm not in there a blinking week lol. Thanks girlies, you've been a fab support, I will keep you updated xxx

@MistyBxx have you gone In for induction today? Xx

I'm way behind here! @MistyBxx I can't believe that your baby is almost here, having been there since the first thread I am so happy for you! My DS is almost 5 months now and he's growing far too fast, enjoy all the snuggles without them wriggling too much Good luck!

Hi girlies! Ah thanks @TheLionQueen1 lush to hear from you, so glad your lo is good 😍 @ew1990 yeah I was sat all day from 10am, stuck in a room waiting for a bed. I'm not being induced today which I thought I was but there's 3 women in the queue in front of me and they've had no free beds all day. I've been given a bed now and finally admitted, but still got to wait for these 3 women to progress and go up to the labour ward before it will be my turn to even have the very first thing inserted for the start of the induction. I could have gone home and come back tomorrow, but then I could lose my place and have to start again! It's been a horrible long pointless day. I'm finally in a bed but it's far from over. It's far from even starting actually! So literally nothing to report. I think it's going to be a long few days yet x

Sounds exactly like mine! Went in on the Wednesday afternoon and I was first in the queue but there was no room on the labour ward and women kept ringing up in labour! Finally went down at 1am the Friday morning and waters broke at 3am, I spent the 2 days crying I just wanted to have my baby or go home, hormones alllover the place, if I went home I would go to the bottom of the queue, won't be too long for you now hopefully xx

Had waters broke that's meant to say

And me! Went it on Wednesday, pessary Friday then induction Sunday am, long queue in front and emergencies kept coming in! I watched a lot of programmes on my iPad and enjoyed the calm before the storm!! I made my DH bring me in a lot of cake Fingers crossed these ladies get them out quickly so you can get in!

Oh I can't wait girls and it's only my first day. Just feel weird lying here having had absolutely no treatment! I could be at home in my own bed 😩 I stupidly miss my husband even though I know he's busy at home playing Xbox and loving the fact he won't hear me snoring tonight 😂 were you girls induced coz you were overdue? I'm wondering if the fact I'm 12 days over may shorten the process 😑 or is that just wishful thinking. My baby is head down ready to go... my cervix is hiding posterior behind her head closed tight. Can a miracle happen somehow like is there any chance I can still spontaneously go...? Or is that ridiculously unlikely? Or would the pessary be enough maybe? Ohhh I'm so frustrated 😩 not just because I'm being impatient but because I'm worried, I don't want to be 13,14 days over, it's not good for my girl 🙈xx

I was 38+6 due to slowed growth, it may work in your favour I know my hospital will not let you go over 42 weeks.

I didn't have pessary just straight In for waters but after an hour nothing happened so they put me on the hormone drip to start contractions

I was induced at 39 weeks for preeclampsia, only hormone drip worked for me but as was a week early pessary was less likely to work! Two of the girls I know from antenatal both went in as overdue and both had a sweep and pessary and went into labour so you just never know!

I wasn't having treatment only being monitored and felt the same, like I could have been at home and didn't need to be in hospital!

In our hosp, they try 2 pessary and 2 gels and only use drip as very last resort. At 6:15 midwife came in and woke me up. She said they're going to insert the thing now. I was like omg had a shock coz I'd just woken up and didn't know where I was. Went to toilet and they monitored me for 15 minutes first and said baby is nice and happy. Did examination and said cervix is still closed 🙈 but this is what the teabag is for, to soften it. Then she stuck it up, omg it killed 😖 worse than the sweep!! It's made me bleed and they didn't put anything on the bed so I'm just sat in a puddle! I told her and she's like oh it's ok. I'm not allowed to get up and put pants on yet so I'm just sat in it under my sheet, it feel hideous 😩😩😩 But that's done now, just got to wait for this thing to expand in my bits and give off the chemical that softens my cervix. It could take 24 hours, it might not even work OR it could be like this woman who went into labour here last night, she only had the pessary lunchtime yesterday and by 4am (16 hours later) she had her baby! There's just no way of predicting. So I'm just eating cold toast and hot chocolate then going for a little walk around the wards x

Ah the cold toast 😂 lots of walking is good! Make sure they do change the sheets for you after, I had the same and didn't ask them too then DH came in demanding and they did! Clearly I'm not assertive enough!! So hoping you meet her soon!

@MistyBxx enjoy this calm quiet moment of excitement before the storm! Easier said than done I know!!!

My DH ate so much cold toast while I was in labour 😄 They kept trying to get me to eat it but I was a tad distracted with the contractions !

I asked them to change them a couple of hours ago and they did. Then I went for a walk around the hosp and then had a nap and now I'm being monitored again on my belly. I thought something was happening earlier as I was feeling really crampy and achey but it's worn off now and just a slight dull ache. I just wanted someone to happen so much 😖 x

Something to happen, not someone 😂

Misty I'm so excited for you! You so deserve this x

I hope mistys not been on today because she giving birth 🤞🏻

@Flatwhite31 how are you?

@MistyBxx I'm so excited for you! Thank you for asking @ew1990. I'm nearly 19 weeks. My 20 week scan is on Fri, and I'm absolutely terrified!

Flat you'll be fine! Keep us updated x

No sign of @MistyBxx!!! Hope she's had her baby!!!

I know I've been thinking of her all weekend

Hello everyone.Getting pregnant and nine months facing different symptoms.I think one of the most beautiful time in every women life.I knew lots of facing trouble in these months.every woman has the different pregnancy.Life is not always same.It's changed the time to time.In my first pregnancy, I go through for a lot of new things.I am desperate to have the time to hold my kid.when my 3rd trimester would be at the end. I am facing problems in my first trimester.Oh God vomiting too much.Whenever I eat something.After few minutes I vomit everything that I could eat.I think everything wants to struggle and positive thinking.Without both, you never are succeeded in life.Children are the great blessing.Without kids nothing, there is no enjoyment in life.All the best to all are different trimesters.

Well girls, my babe is here! So sorry I haven't been in touch. Had the hardest few days of my life in hospital! Induction was no match for my cervix! Blinking thing wouldn't open no matter what they did and despite being so long overdue! Contractions eventually started Saturday night after 3 inductions and they got mega worse til Sunday afternoon when they were less than 4 mins apart so they eventually decided to break my waters when I was only 1cm. Things went crazy from then on. Baby didn't like waters being broken and her baseline heartbeat rocketed and never really came down. I was rushed into socks and a gown coz was on the edge of emergency surgery the whole time! Didn't eat a thing from Sunday morning to Monday afternoon, the labour seemed to take years, I was off my face on gas and air and was talking rubbish to the midwife and my mum and hubby, I thought I was dying and my baby was dying, it was really scary,
I didn't know what was going on in my head!! They suggested epidural coz I couldn't deal with the gas and air lol so I had that and everything calmed down for a bit but it was still taking ages for my cervix to open, from 6pm Sunday night to 8am Monday morning it had only gone from 1 to 5cm! I didn't get to full dilation til 11am when it was time to push. By now, I hadn't slept since Friday night coz I'd been contracting regularly from Saturday night onwards and it was agony, impossible to sleep! So when it came to push time, with no food and drink in me for 24 hours either coz surgery was always an option, I was running on absolute empty! The pain was nuts so they had the anaesthetist in again and upped the epidural, which weirdly didn't do as much second time around, I could still feel everything. Started pushing and was exhausted from the word go. I don't think I could have pushed a wee out, let alone a baby! Then her heart rate started dropping and everything went up a gear, emergency surgery was full and they said she didn't have time to wait for surgery, she HAD to come out! So they got the forceps in and cut my downstairs into an arsegina right through. I didn't even care, I was so wiped, I was falling asleep between contractions! Her cord was around her neck 😖 I didn't realise it was such an emergency til hubby was next to me saying she needs to come out now!! I pushed with everything I had and she came out in one with just a light grip of the forceps, so she's not bruised and cut or anything. I lost loads of blood after but they had already stocked it coz I'm rh neg which is rare anyway. Luckily I still didn't know what was going on lol but hubby and my mum are scarred for life, mum said it was like an abbatoir in there! I just remember them pushing on my tummy and feeling like I was peeing but apparently it was blood. Yuck. Then they had to stitch me all back up which was agony coz the local anaesthetic didn't have any effect (it's the same with dentist, I need knocking out for teeth work coz anaesthetic doesn't touch me!) if I ever get preggers again, I'm going straight for a C-section by choice, I never want to feel what I felt yesterday again!
But of course the best bit is I've got this baby girl who is suddenly the only thing that matters!! I'm absolutely in love with her. She's amazing and I feel so lucky. I'm still in hospital, I needed some aftercare coz of what happened but hopefully will be able to come home tomorrow after more bloods!! Can't wait to start family life 💗