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Due in March 2020 - Your labour and birth story thread - share your birth announcement here!
DanielleMFM
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Hello everyone!
We thought it was time to kick off your very own labour and birth story thread for those of you in the Due in March 2020 birth club.
Please use this thread to tell us all about your labour and birth, and your first moments with your newborn and we will come and shower you with congratulations!
Plus, we also have two lovely gifts to give away, to two randomly selected members who share their labour and birth stories on this thread. We'll randomly pick two of you, once all the Due in March babies have arrived.
Up for grabs is this Kura Wrap, worth £50 and Silent Night Blanket worth £14.
Good luck everyone! We can't wait to hear all about your baby's first few moments!
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they took the normal urine sample and put me on a monitor to see how baby was doing.. they checked my bp again and it had gone down considerably so they told me to go home and they’ll get in touch soon if there’s any problems.
On Sunday the 1st of March at 9:30 pm I got a phone call from a no ID number which I didn’t get to in time so I was left with a voicemail. It was the hospital asking me to go in for another round of check ups and monitor... to be told in the end that I have developed preeclampsia and I need to stay in for further monitoring and blood tests. In the end they suggested that since I’m 39 weeks pregnant to be induced which was exactly what I was trying to avoid because I was afraid of a long and painful process but in the end I had no choice but to go for it... They suggested a few methods but not all of them were suitable seeing the baby was quite high up and not engaged at all.. in the end they went for a tampon looking thing that released labour inducing hormones into my cervix. They put that in on Monday night at 9:30 pm and I went to sleep seeing I had a long day ahead of me. I didn’t feel much till next day on Tuesday at about 11:30 am when I had cramps but quite manageable.. at about 2 pm I felt a big painful kick in my tummy that made me get up and that’s when I felt a huuge gush of water coming through down my thighs. I was on the induction ward at the time, they checked me and said I’m 4-5 cm dilated and they called labour ward for transfer. I was already arranging epidurals with them and all that in between super strong and painful contractions when all of a sudden I felt the urge to push! I was shocked! Wasn’t ready for that! I panicked and went to the toilet as it was more private than the room I was in with 4 other women and their partners/friends/ whatever! One of the midwifes on the ward came and literally dragged me into the room where everyone was respectfully asked to leave and wait on the hallway while I was being dealt with!! I didn’t want to push! I was soooo scared and in sooo much pain and all my plans have been ruined 😂😂😂
obviously not wanting to push doesn’t work in labour as your body and urges make you do the opposite!! When I had my first son I had an epidural and of course felt nothing and giving birth was bliss! This time round it hit me hard and the realisation that a tiny human is coming out of me without any kind of pain relief made me freak out soo much! Obviously everyone on the ward knew a crazy woman is giving birth as I was shouting I’m not doing this please make it stop! Noooo I cannot do this! I think it took about 3 big pushes and a lot of blowing to get this little angel out! He was freaking out even more than I was bless him! Came out all purple and shocked because it happened so fast! It went from not engaged at all with a long hard cervix to pushing him out in only 40 minutes!
(my worst nightmare 😔 because I really wanted a Water birth) so off I go to the hospital on Sunday 8th at 6.30pm to start my induction. I had to be monitored on the bed for 2hrs so this was perfect timing for me as i really didn’t want to miss dancing on ice the final! So payed for the tv and put everything to the back of my mind to watch dancing on ice. Around 10.30 I start getting pains so put my tens machine on (worked a treat) and bounced around on the ball watching tv with my mum and partner. Keep telling mum to go to sleep but she wouldn’t 😂 by 12.30 pain was getting really intense and I wanted gas and air but they couldn’t give it to me until they had checked me over. So got hooked back up to the machine to tell me I was in active labour. My partner then asked if it is ever possible for a water birth with inductions and they said yes as long as you don’t have anything in your cannula then you can get in the pool! I was so excited my dream of a water birth was back on the cards! So we change room to the birthing room and I get hooked up to the wireless machine ( 3rd time lucky as the machines were new and wasn’t playing ball) I jump in the wall and get given gas and air at last!! I had my eyes closed from this moment onwards! I was in my own little zone I forgot about everyone else! My partner sat behind me and my mum was giving me encouraging words. Apparently every contraction made me go like a frog and I was getting everyone wet 😂 the whole time I was in the pool the machine was playing up and they wasn’t happy about my baby’s heart beat because it wasn’t getting picked up enough so the worst news come to me telling me I had to get out the pool at about 3am. I knew it was all for good reasons so everything my midwife was telling me I just did. So out I get and all I remember saying is I refuse to get on the bed as I watched my sister go through an awful birth because she was stuck on the bed. So I get on my knees and roll back and forward over a ball! It was actually really nice. Typically as my midwife was going to go on her break the pushing started to happen so the lady that come to cover her ended up helping out instead. In the end I had 3 midwifes all helping me out as the new machine still wasn’t picking up my baby’s heart rate on the machine but I wasn’t worried because you could still hear it loud and clear. I remember saying something funny to my partner and everyone thought I was just out of it from gas and air but I still remember 😂😂 eventually after just over an hour of pushing my baby girl was out!! Tilly Rose Long was born at 4.38am on the 9th March! And on that same day my partner asked me to become his wife 🥰 it was all so overwhelming and beautiful and to be honest I’m so proud of myself and can say I have a positive induction story to tell, so don’t listen to everyone else’s story’s of an induction being a bad thing and listen to your body because you can do it!!
At 11:11am ABIGAIL VICTORIA BLAKE-HITCH was born weighing 5lbs 7ozs. She was checked by Paeds which found no issues or problems with her at all then she was taken to my partner in recovery while I was stitched up. I came round at about 1:10pm in recovery and was then taken to our side room where we have been since, she has has upper respiratory problem which we was told were normal in csection babies it resolved itself in 48 hours, then she got jaundice and had to be put in a uv light box for 24 hours. She has just had her bloods done since coming off the uv light, if her levels are decreasing then we can go home tomorrow.
She is perfect and the most precious thing in the world it is hard to believe that she was inside me. We are both doing well and on the way to a clean bill of health. My partner has been fantastic and has not left our side the whole time, he already totally dotes his daughter so much. I am lucky to have them both in life.
Thank you to everyone in this group for support over these months and good luck to all those waiting to meet their babies and congratulations to those who have had there babies. Now onto the next chapter of our lives as mummy's.
my birth story whilst the little milk monster is sucking!
well first of all, he’s a longed for baby as we tried for 5 years, one IVF failed and found out my eggs were too old so moved to donor egg. Somehow it worked first time!
little man was breach so we had to schedule a c section as I didn’t want them to try and move him manually as to me he was happy there and he was big!
Turned up on the 17th of March bright an early to find out we were first on the list.
Got taken down to the anaesthetic room to get the cannula in, think half the time this is the worst part!
walked into the theatre and started being prepped. Everyone was lovely explaining everything and all I really felt when the spinal went in was a few pushes.
got laid down and they checked a few times with the cold spray to make sure I couldnt feel anything.
i could still move my legs which was slightly worrying but thought they are checking with the spray all is good...
They didn’t check again and I opened my eyes and could see in the reflection of the lights that we were on the way. Took what seemed like ages to open me up. But oh my god, didn’t realise how much pushing down on my stomach it would take to prise him out!! Eventually after about 20 mins he was out. Screen came down so I could see him and he’d poohed everywhere due to the amount of pressure on him to get him out.
They started to sew me up but I could feel everything, I have a high pain threshold and thought I’d be okay. But once they’d started the stitches on the outside I could feel everything! They gave me more painkillers and the next thing I know was loads of people around me and checking me. Found out afterwards that I had stopped breathing for a few seconds and probably had a reaction to the extra drugs! Scott got kicked out until they sorted me out and he thought I’d died!
Got taken to recovery and once down in the ward all was good.
Anethetist came down to apologies to me and for the pain. Seemingly this kind of thing can happen and they think it was due to the spinal not sitting correctly in my spine and didn’t disseminate properly! Thanks for that! But after an extended stay we eventually escaped after 4 days because we had a jobs worth midwife who wouldn’t let us go.
So our little man Logan Taylor Nuttall was born at 0917, at 8lbs 7oz on the 17th of March!
i started to lose my mucus plug on the 22nd, and had contractions irregular all through the day. They start to get regular from Aron 6.30pm that day. At midnight on the 23rd phoned the hospital as they were getting mores regular and lasting longer they brought me in and did a check I found out I was 3cm at 2am they did another check at 6am to find that there was no change. They sent me home to wait to see what happens at home.
at 12pm I phoned back up as they had got rather a lot stronger and lasting much longer.
I got back there and they took me to a delivery room. My husband had just arrived at 1.05pm midwife had no chance to look at my records or do any checks on me as 10 mins later Oliver Declan Murphy had made his appearance at 1.17pm weighing just under 8ib 3oz. We were discharged from hospital at around 8pm that day.
daniel is smitten with him.
I was woken with some mild and irregular period pains on Saturday the 21st of March around 1am and I wasnt too sure weather it may be the start of something or not. I sent my partner to work and asked my mum to come over and help me with my toddler. The pains eased around 10am so I had a nice bath with some clary sage and soon after they picked up again. My contractions were fairly irregular and varied in strength but but by about half 9 in the evening after a few laps round the block we called the hospital as I had a delayed labour with my first and that was something my consultant wanted to avoid this time. When I got there i was examined and was 6cm. I cried with joy as I was in labour for days before I got to 6cm last time.
I went straight up to delivery and tried the pool as I didnt want any pain relief. I didnt like the gas and air with my first birth, i definitely didn't want the epidural again because I hated the catheter and I didn't want the side effects of the pethadine 🤦♀️
At 8cm my waters were broken and soon after I was begging for the epidural haha. We went from the pool room back to the normal room so I could have the epidural but on monitoring they couldnt find the babys heartbeat so all off a sudden everyone and his wife was in the room telling me to get on my side and lift my legs up. They pushed the gas and air at me and said it's tough I need to do it because the baby was ready to be born and he had to get out quickly. So they put a probe on his head and used the vontouse to get him out.
It was very quick from 8cm untill he was out and the little munchkin had the cord around his neck so had a little trouble with his breathing to start with, but he was absolutely fine and a lovely 6lbs 9 just like his brother. He was born at 0410 on Mothers day. Best mothers day present ever!! Here is a pic of my little Rex ❤
We never picked a winner for posting the birth stories, as we're still not allowed back into our office, where the gifts are 😫What a sorry state of affairs!
But if we ever get back into the office, this will be one of the first things we do.
Hows weaning going for everyone? My little loves his food. X