My waters broke just as I was about to go to bed around 11ish on Wednesday night. DH rang the hospital as I wasnt sure if it was that as it was a big gush just leaks.

Got to the hospital and was told was defiantly the waters that had broke and I would be a mummy within 24 hours. At that stage I had no contractions. Was on monitor for about an hour and then sent off to a ward.

An hour later started having contractions so no sleep for me. About 7ish I was taken into the birthing suit and DH was called back in as I was in tears by then and I don’t think the midwife believed me I was having contractions as were all over the place and lasting different times and my belly wasn’t hard.

At 9 was given an internal and was only 2cms dilated so was induced (they said you can wait upto 24 hours once your waters breaks to see if you develop naturally but I couldn’t take it was tired enough already.

At 11 was given another internal an was 7 cm dilated. The only pain relief I had at this time was the gas which was making me sick and I threw up over the midwife. My parents had also just arrived to check on me.

At 11:30 was in so much pain and asked for a shot of pethidine as was told I would have another 3-4 hours to go as hadn’t reached stage 2 yet. Was so tired and wanted to lie down and midwife didn’t really want me to do this but let me anyway as long as I laid on my side with a pillow inbetween. Contractions were still all over the place lasting different times. All I could say to DH was help and he was like with what and I just kept saying everything.

By 12 I had the urge to push and all the midwife could say was don’t push you have a long way to go conserve your energy and she started to fill out paperwork. My parents were still in birthing suit as could stay until just before delivery but they ended up getting to see it all. By 12:12 Liam had arrived. Had the urge to push so I did. Midwife didn’t see it coming (didn’t even see the head crown) DH was frantically searching for a pair of gloves for her and another midwife to assist. Midwife told me afterwards had never seen anything like this especially from a person who didn’t have an epidural and was really lucky that only needed to have 1 stitch.