May 2020 Babies
DanielleMFM
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Hello!
This is a new thread for the people from our Due in May 2020 Birth Club who have given birth to an equally lovely baby, or they're expecting them any time now.
If you've not been part of the Due in May 2020 birth club thread so far, but have a baby born around then, feel free to post and join in.
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Beautiful little lady 04/05/20 💜 Georgie Lambert
born May 3rd weighing 6lbs 13oz
We're wondering if you would share your birth stories here, so we can get a real feel for what it's really like giving birth in the time of Corona. We would love to hear how it all happened for you guys.
i was scheduled for a c section on the 6th of May, on the 2nd of May Saturday I started to feel a little strange, I wasn’t able to do much and had lots of pressure down below, I didn’t think anything Of it and had a lazy day (ish) with hubby cooking all the meals we had that day. The next day my belly was extremely tight and I could not stand with with having what I thought was a Braxton Hicks and it was also very painful all the time I had also notice babies movements slowed down too, I had been to the triage unit only the Friday before and everything was normal so I was really reluctant to go as I knew I would be back at the hospital in a few days however my husband wasn’t having any of it and made me ring to go in and get monitored.
When i arrived at the hospital 38+4, midwifes in full PPE they put me on the monitor And to everyone’s surprise I was having proper contractions 2 in 10 at this point and they noticed some
very slight cervical changes, they offered me a choice to go home and see if anything happens or stay overnight and be monitored which they recommended, I choose to stay over something was just niggling in my head however the pains did seem to ease a little towards to the end of the night.
1am May 4th - I woke up and instantly knew something was happening, the pains came in my legs exactly as they had with my son. I was put on the monitor and contracting 3 in 10, the midwife called the doctors as I was scheduled for a section to examine me. I was 3cm and changing very quickly, when the doctors told me I was 3cm I said oh we are going to have a Star Wars baby 😂 she said it was the funniest thing she had heard in a long time 😆.
We discussed my options - while in great pain and no pain relief ! We decided after much deliberation to go for a section, I ask questions I don’t think I ever would if covid wasn’t around like do you have available anesthetist? Will we have to be tested? There are emergency beds if anything goes wrong? The doctors where amazing and very reassuring. I was told to call my
husband as we was going for the section there and then and he was to come straight to theatre.
We arrived at the same time to the theatre doors, he was never suppose to be there during the section as he is very fainty but this was the only way he was going to meet baby, again another thing because of covid.
Georgie was born at 4.26 on the 4th of May weighing a massive 8bls 5 at 38+5! Everything went lovely- except my husband had to keep going out the room as he was feeling very faint!
We spent a small time in the recovery room, unfortualty we was not offered skin to skin although they said they do do this, and off to the ward we went where hubby had to leave us ! it was very very sad having to say bye as we didn’t know how long we would have to stay in for. Me and Georgie was doing really well and it was nice to have the time to learn to breast feed properly. We ended up staying in for a three nights even though we was both fit to go home due to complications with my son they needed to perfrom an echo on Georgie before we left the hospital, ordinarily this would be done in the community but due to
Covid they are no longer offering this service so the neonatal team had to perform it before we left and we had to wait a few days for someone to perform it. All was well and we was allowed home on 7th of May with hubby collecting us at the door of the ward.
It was a very strange time to have a baby but we was always safe and we couldn’t change it so had to live with it although extremely though on the men I think !
how is everyone finding having a newborn?
Naia is 8 days old now... how is everyone getting on?
Jacob was born on 19.05.20 at 40+3.
I went for a sweep Monday morning & was told I was 2-3cm dilated and she could stretch my cervix to 4-5cm. Waters were ready to go and he was as low as possible could be really, after a good sweep I went home.
In the car on the way home I couldn't really concentrate on driving as something felt weird. I got home and bounced bounced bounced on my ball. I was getting random pains on off on off throughout the morning and at 2pm I left my husband downstairs with the kids and I went and hid myself in the bedroom with chocolate candles and my ball, listening to music and just trying to get my body to relax. 4pm was still the same, pains coming and going but nothing regular that a hot water bottle wouldn't fix. I was aware that sweeps can cause cramps for upto 24 hours so had put it down to that. My husband told me to ring my mum to come and take the kids because this was similar to my second labour which was very unpredictable but I didnt want to make fuss so I let my mum know to be prepared but not to come just yet.
I had tea, watched TV and went to bed. Everytime I drifted off another pain would come, nothing bad but enough for me to think 'maybe I am in labour 😂'.
At midnight I went for a wee and as I got back to the bedroom I had a very very strong contraction and instantly thought 'oh crap'. 30 minutes later the same thing happened so I rang my mum and told her to come, but once again i didn't want to be over dramatic so said oh it's nothing to worry about 😂
By the time she arrived at 1am I was on all fours in the living room contracting everytime I tried to move. My husband started throwing things in the car and we rang the maternity ward. They told us to come right in but the drive was half an hour long. 20 past one and I still hadn't stopped contracting long enough to get into the car. So we decided I wasn't going anywhere and my husband phoned for an ambulance.
My original birth plan was a home birth but due to covid was cancelled as the ambulance service could not be garenteed in an emergency. So ringing the ambulance we knew this could be pointless. The woman on the phone talked my husband through everything and delivered our son himself at 1.45am. he was very blue and floppy and wasn't crying. We tried rubbing and wiping him down and we're starting to panic. My mum stepped in and managed to get him to take a cry after a good firm rub down. The paramedics arrived at 1.52am and checked him over and he began getting pinker and more normal in colour. The paramedics phoned the midwives as we hadn't had chance with the speed of things and they arrived around 2.15am. in that time I delivered the placenta and we began to relax knowing everything was ok.
Baby weighed a whopping 9lb 8oz and I managed to get away with no stitches. Midwives left around 4am & we got ourselves into bed for some much needed sleep 💙
Im struggling a little with breastfeeding I’m just very sore and she loves a good fall asleep on the boob which then makes me even more sore.
If she falls asleep on the boob, tuck your little finger in between your nipple and her lips and it should break the latch without any tugging
Jacob is 3 days old and my milk has started coming in. He's been feeding a lot last night and today so my nipples are pretty tender. Shouldn't last long and they will adjust to become pain free!
He's very content on the boob, I don't think he's cried since he's been born 😂
It's been amazing I've just been storing it in the fridge through the day and at the end off the day writing the date on it and popping it in the freezer.
Jacob is 4 days old and we have 3 x 100ml bottles now in the freezer ready for when I need a break! So just 100ml a day but it adds up