We were due on the 30th of august and although everyone was saying i would "go" early it didn't happen.
i was booked in for my first lot of gels on the 5th of sept, we went in after a nice romantic "last couple dinner" and had gels put in at about 9pm. then the next lot at about 6am. after these ones i mstarted to have contractions at about 10 min apart. doctor did an internal and there had been very little change,so i decided to go home and wait it out as i wasnt prepared to have the drip. The contractions went away and at the check up the following day i decided i wanted to wait it out. So i was booked in again for monday 12th.
well nothing happened naturally
So on monday we went back in but they were having a really busy night so they couldnt garentee they would get back to us (they said that if i woke during the night to buzz them) they put the gels in at about 3 am. i started to have some mild contractions not really frequent though. they then put in the next lot at about 11 am, after that the contractions went to 10 minutes apart but my cervix was still spongey! not really opening.
at 5.30 the doctor came back to break my waters and put me on the drip, after that my contractions went to about 3 minutes apart. As i was being monitored constantly i was stuck in the bed.
the doctor came back at about 10pm to do an internal which i was at 2 cms dialated. i was shattered, but my fantastic midwife said it was going really well from where i had started.the next shift came on and at about midnight i had another internal which hadnt changed. at about 130am, i then really needed to go to the toilet to do a poo(actually not just needing to push).having earlier begged for an epi the nurses thought they would do an internal before the doc arrived.I was 8 cm dialated!! so thankfully ben said dont worry about the epi just as the doc was walking in! i was then moved back in to labour ward where the fun part started. from this point on i was pushing and trying not to push as well. as his head was coming out i really could feel it burning ouch. He was born at 2.24 am. 15 days over due. the doctor gave me an episiotomy, and i tore up through my labia almost into my ureathra?( wee hole) it took the doctor an hour to sew me up, all that time ben was with makon giving him oxeygen as his curclation hadnt kicked in yet. but all is well now and his apgar scores were 8 then 9.
i think that was every thing only now a week later am i starting to think i might be willing to go through it again.
Thanks every body for your support through out our pregnancy