Hello !
Thanks so much for the message of congratulations and hope and prayers and love over the past 6 weeks or so. You would not believe how invaluble this site has been in making a really shit time barable
I have just been discharged and my goodness it feels good to be free. Dfs running round after me and although i came back to the house being abit of a mess i've put him straight to work tidying it up ;)
Thanks Lorna for updating this for me (( hugs))
Right then, where to start. On the 28th i had what i thought was a massive contraction and then a show so we went in and was examined but my cervix apparently looked fine and they couldnt see where the blood was coming from so they admitted me for observation. I had a few tightenings over night, nothing which came to anything really and only a little more bleeding, no-one seemed concerned. The next day nothing again but that night i passed a massive cot and started having tightenings almost immediatlly which came and went for the next few hours alogn with bleeding. Several Drs came and went along with a fair bit of head scratching, I think we all thought it was my cervix and were waiting for someone to give them the go ahead to take it out. At about 9 the consultant who put the sitich in came to see me, he sent me for a scan to see how big baby was and how he was laid as he thought i'd be better off having a section, i was fine with that although was bloody terrified at the prospect of the classic incision so he said i'd be able to try for a vag birth if i wanted too i just said i'd do whatever he thought was best. He said he's take the stitch out and see how we got on. He had a look and was confused to see my cervix looking completly normal so he gave me an internal and at that point i started bleeding really heavily so he must have dislodged something, Cons said " we're going to surgery now, you need a section" and legged it.. me, Df and my MW all just looked at each other.. eeeeek.. panic set in. 10 minutes ater cons appeared again and i was wheeled in to theatre and given a spinal block and a normal and fairly uncomplicated c section resulting in the birth of my small but pefectly formed Son George Adam Jukes at 1058, he was 2lb2oz. We didnt get a look but were told he was breathing my himself and protesting, my relief was immense.. my boy has lungs !
I was stitched up and told that the bleeding had come from an abruption not my cervix and that if we'd tried for a natural delivery it would have been disasterous for both Me and my Son.. My cervix was apparently closed and the stitch was intact, so after all that the one bit of me that caused me al these problems was the only bit that did its job !
Anyway i wont bore you to death with tales of my stitching or anyting so i'll cut to the important bit we went down to meet George a couple of hours afterwards and he is LUSH, completly miniscule and red and scratched from being wrenched out but alive and kicking and beautiful
We have been so luck this far, I feel blessed.
Thank you all again, i'll get on with posting some pictures now
and one more
[massive grin]