Hey everyone, have been reading and trying to catch up with everything - so much has happened since I last posted! So many new babies - congratulations everyone 🥳💕🥰 and good luck to all of those who are nearly there 🍀🤞🏻🌟!
I've been on a few times to have a quick read but not managed to post anything and have now been home a week, I think?!
It's been a whirlwind despite all being planned here. Quick summary below in case it's useful for anyone else though:
Went into hospital for bloods and covid test on Monday and spoke to a very lovely doctor who put my mind at rest about a few things (short femur and amniocentesis concerns, 38 week delivery and steroids, he reassured me that everything was as it should be and they weren't worried, so I felt I didn't need to be either) Then the hospital called an hour later saying blood had coagulated in tubes so I needed to go straight back 😕 luckily I didn't have to wait too long to be re-bled..
I lost my plug later on (much googling of pictures of that, which I do not recommend on a full stomach 😂) on the Monday and spent the whole rest of the day and the next one worrying he'd come early but nothing else happened - phew! Got the call on Tuesday to go in for c-section 7:30am Wednesday - first op of the day, was super nervous 🥺
Wednesday morning we headed in to hospital and we were there before the staff - we're usually late for everything so we aimed for 7am and got there about 10 past... everyone was just lovely. The lovely young women, not sure if they were midwives or nurses, helped me put my sexy compression socks on; the anaesthetist came by around 3 times to let me know what they were going to be doing... He kept coming back to add things he'd forgotten to mention 😆 The doc came by as well, I think... I needed to have a nervous poo and was then terrified that things might not be great in the region as (TMI warning!) wiping without wet wipes at 38 weeks is not a perfect technique. Anyway, they put DH in scrubs, me in my open-backed nightie and off we went. I was shitting myself.. metaphorically this time.
The theatre was scary, busy and very clean and spacious and everyone was perky and friendly and I was still terrified 😬 The bending over for the epidural was tricky, but everyone kept telling me how well I was doing, so I carried on - turns out I have a bony spine or something, it took over half an hour to administer the epidural. Luckily it didn't hurt or anything, just took a long time and the thing I was most worried about was a needle in my spine, so careful what you focus on guys 😉
The rest of it went pretty fast, the whole op room less than 15 minutes and all I really remember is being very shivery - which they said was totally normal - some get it more than others, and then the little dude came out and cried within seconds, just like in the movies 🤣 they dropped the curtain so I could see him for a few seconds and he was a bit gunky but when they put him on me I cried a bit and couldn't take my eyes off his tiny little face 🥰. Then they took him away for weighing and stuff and the docs got on with stitching me up and I was sort of on my own for a bit, but I could hear everyone chatting around me and it was a bit surreal.
Nappy change break