Hi all.
Well it's been a crazy day, and super crazy week thus far!
As some of you will know I got what I thought was my bloody show on Sunday evening but it was very red and literally dripping in the toilet bowl twice. On Sunday night bump was quiet but still moving enough not to cause concern (oddly DP could feel movement but I couldn't) Come Monday lunch time I was having brown, gloopy down discharge and just didn't feel right. Bump was still quiet but there was movement, just not as strong. DP insisted I get checked. Get to hospital and bump only moved the once on the tracker machine but it was noted that my stomach was constantly in a half tight faze with irregular higher tightenings. Doctor decided to admit me and get me induced. Got the pessary at 22:30 and woke at 3am in agony as my body had went into overdrive with the hormones and was constantly in a contraction state. Thankfully with painkillers I was able to wait this out and the constructions starting coming frequently instead of all the time. Spent all day walking and bouncing on my ball. By 22:30 I was 2-3cm dilated. Sent to L&D (on 2 hours sleep) at 2am where they broke my waters. Hormone drip started at 3am as i still wasnt experiencing major pain with the contractions aside from pain in my lower back and butt cheeks. Stomach pain eventually slapped me in the face around 5am and I went on gas and air at 6:45. By 7:45 I was saying I needed to push but nothing else was said about it so I continued to labor through, by 8:15ish I had come off my birth ball and literally fell onto my hands and knees in front of DP (on a seat) and started pushing... Much to the shock of the midwife. As soon as I did babies heart rate dropped. They got me into the bed and put a clip on babies head to better monitor them. I then had to stay on the bed but managed to get onto my side then all fours, hanging over the back of the bed holding onto DP. I soon realised my pushes where pushing baby so far but they were moving back up after. I kept saying this but got told to "give it my all" as "baby was coming up the bend" (around cervix/tail bone) Around 9am baby's heart rate was randomly dipping and taking longer to come up and my pulse was sky high so a doctor was pulled in, I was "numbed" down there and had forceps shoved in during a contraction... So I was back on my back with baby stuck at / on my tailbone area. Agony. I was that distressed I had tossed and gas n air as it was making me feel sick and I didn't even think of asking for anything else as I was that distressed. Forceps had to go in and push down on my tailbone, I've never had pain like it. DD was born side ways, head first with hand over face then one shoulder before the next with the cord round her neck twice and torso twice. I ended up with two stitches.
Turns out when I was pushing the cord wasn't allowing her down, plus she was getting lodged.
I was pushing / contracting every 3 minutes for around 2 minutes each time. Proper chin down, big breath push down in your butt pushes. So i was exhausted and actually dozing off after contractions as I couldn't stay awake.
Plus side... Baby was always recorded as "small" but in range. She was born 7lb 4oz at exactly 38 weeks.
She's bruised badly, I'm stitched and bruised and swollen, but she's here and I love her. 