Hi All 💖
Our little beautiful baby girl Amelia (I know there's another Amelia here too, sorry we had already picked the name, it's beautiful 🥰)
Was born around 2am by emergency c section on the 27th. Apologies for the long post, it's very dramatic so don't read if you're upset. if you do read it, I'm telling you now we're so capable of so much more than we believe we are 💪💕
Please send our baby girl all your positive love and prayers you can for her to make a 100% full recovery. She's in icu with multiple things to treat and the biggest one is she is suffering electromagnetic brain seizures and is on cooling therapy. She also had to be resuscitated when she was delivered and had breathed in miconium and then had air pockets outside her lungs and also has possible kidney issues. We have all the hope in the world she will make a full recovery. She is the most beautiful little girl I've ever seen and I am so in love with her 💖💖💖
I got my bloody show Tuesday morning around 10am, with period pains ramping up into what felt like mild contractions within about 3 hours. I called my midwife and she was happy to say I was definitely in early labour. I started timing then bcz I was curious and they were around 2 mins apart. They continued 2 mins apart from now on and getting stronger with no let up ever.
My midwife arrived at our house about 8pm and we tried working through them for a while. My contractions still got stronger and still 2mins apart with no rest since the morning. I had 2 ve at home and the baby had a bit of swelling on her head and her heart rate dropped each time but then recovered well. At 12midnight I think anyway we decided to go to the hospital. Now I was 3cm and had been mad using my tens machine for hours and crying out with every super duper strong contraction every 2 mins. We decided to drive bcz the ambulance would be another 15 mins and we could just go straight away in our cars. It was a 45 minute drive to the hospital coz we're rural, following our midwives car, and my husband will never ever ever forgot that journey and neither will I. I was in so much pain with each contraction and crying out the whole time. We even had to go through a police check point, he wished us luck and thankfully I was inbetween contractions so didn't give them too much of a fright! But I was moaning away loudly!
We finally got to the maternity hospital and I was having really strong contractions up to the room, still every 2mins. I got gas and air but if it made a difference I didn't notice. They did a ve and I was still only 3cm but having mega contractions every 2 mins, so I wasn't as progressed as I should be considering the timing & intensity of my contractions. We were discussing pain relief like an injection and epidural but they weren't happy because the baby's heart had dropped again and wasn't recovering. They did another ve and I'd gone 3cm to 6cm in 5 mins. Total blur from here in. I remember being wheeled to surgery, had a top top top intense contraction in the hall. Apparently 5 minutes after my last ve i was fully dilated, so had gone 3cm to 10cm in about 10mins. I remember having another big whopper contraction into the mask with all the surgeons and nurses around me on the bed.
Woke up from my emergency c section and was so incredibly happy to be on the other side of it. Apparently I'd lost a pint and a half of blood too and at some point I'd had a placental abruption which affected her oxygen supply. I think my body moved everything too fast and it was too much for my girl to cope with. Without my midwife at the house, I'm not sure we would have made the right decisions in early labour at the right time and I'm so sure she saved my baby girl's life 🙏
The rest of the story is just recovery for me, blurry and full of wonderful wonderful morphine drip and other lovely pain killers! But my baby girl suffered so much distress from my labour progressing so quickly and intensely. She's in icu now and getting all the help she needs. I just want her to come out of this unscathed, I'm not religious, but please god let her recover fully. Send her all your love. 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Also off the morphine drip now and on the good tablets, in a private room on the post natal ward. Was meant to get my next dose at 2am but no show yet, bit anxious to buzz the midwife, I don't want to bother her, but I'm really enjoying the pain relief 😅😅....... Oops spoke too soon, she's here with the good stuff!