This is the Birth Story of our beautiful Princess - Oceanna Zoe...
A bit of background story...
DH and I decided in April of 2010 to start trying for a sibling for our son. We didnt want them too close in age but our son was 18 months old so we began trying in April whilst in Bali, the place we were married... (in 2008) We tried for a few months and I was suprised we didnt fall pregnant straight away but elated when we found out in July that we were expecting a second child...
In August 2010 we relocated to the coast and after finally settling in and beginning to enjoy our new home we were devastated to have a miscarriage at 11 weeks on Fathers Day 2010
It took me weeks to recover physically and then an operation before we were told we could try again... in November after AF returned.
In December we got our BFP ! and were so happy.....
The pregnancy
Besides HG my pregnancy went smoothly and we were overjoyed to find out we were expecting a baby girl at our 20 week scan.
The next few months went super quick and I expected to have our little girl by the first week of August as DS was born at 38 weeks ( and had a deteriorated placenta) so by 40 weeks I was stressing... and hoping our little girl would come on her own...
At 40 weeks and 5 days I suddenly felt calm after weeks of mad obsessive nesting... It felt like time.....
Labour
At 7pm on 21st August 2011 I started to get contractions about ten minutes apart. I didnt know at first whether they were contractions or not as my son was posterior and the pain with him was mostly in my back...
I laboured at home, whilst DH slept as he knew what the next few days would hold for us and DS went to bed early and was sleeping well.... Around 3am the pain started to amp up and I thought to myself " This is the point where I would have gone to hospital with our son and when they did the internal I was 4cm.." so I knew labour was progressing but I was unsure of when to go to hospital... ( As I was driving myself/us with no family nearby to help and DH unlicensed at the moment... )
So I called my mum who lives 5 hours away and asked her to start making her way here as I wanted her to look after our son when I was in labour. I didnt want DH to be looking after him and miss the birth either/ and I knew I'd need some support in labour too
Luckily she arrived at 9am and we were able to go to the hospital where I asked for an internal so we had some idea of how long I had to go as the contractions kept changing from 10 minutes apart to 5 minutes.... I was 4cm...
So the midwife told us to go for a walk.... around the hospital to move things along... I had other plans... I wanted to drive home because we had forgotten to get our sons car seat out of the car and since we didnt know how long we would be, and they didnt know the area... I drove home..in labour with my contractions amping up as soon as I got the the carpark... and arrived home 10 minutes later to grab everyone and have them follow me back there so they knew where we were in the hospital and could get out the car seat etc.....
it was now 10.30am approximately and I was in pain.... I said a quick goodbye to our son in between contractions and they left us to it.
We had a midwife looking after us and she offered me gas which I took...I was in alot of pain by then and having a bit of a panic attack so I used it to help me concentrate on my breathing ...
I decided at some point to get in the bath. I was so cold from the air conditioning in the birthing suite and thought the hot water would help relax me , but the HOT needed topping up constantly so I was bossing my lovely hubby around like my doula/slave....
I asked him to get me towels so I could get out (and he went and warmed some up for me...) but then contractions were really close and intense and I wanted to get out .. The hospital didnt do waterbirths and I didnt want to give birth on the floor infront of the toilet..... So I started to get anxious but luckily he reappeared with hot towels and lifted me out of the bath, as my legs were bent weirdly in the bath and they felt numb/weak
He helped me to the toilet because I thought I had to go... and by this stage I was findinig it hard to communicate properly as I was in so much pain. ( the gas was only a minor distraction to me ) and so Im sitting on the toilet when suddenly... I get this huge cramp down both legs and I cant move, My legs flex and my ankles went stiff and it hurt like hell....
Hubby called out to the midwife who was sort of hovering around, leaving us to it ourselves but monitoring bub every so often... she runs in and flexes my foot to stop the cramp. It worked instantly and I was relieved to finally have control over my body again. I aked hubby to help dry me as I was still wet and help me to the bed. It wa time and I wanted bub to be born on the bed or atleast out of the bathroom.... A few more contractions on the way to the bed and I ( hangs head and feels embarrassed for a moment or two ) begged the midwife to get me drugs...
My words were something along the lines of " I know I dont want drugs this time but im in so much pain I think I need them or something to help me , this is too intense.... Bloody hell get me the dam drugs D.... (Hubbys name ) So off runs the midwife whilst im screaming and saying swear words I dont usually use ....
It seems like a while later but hubby says it was pretty much straight away, I am given some morphine ( though I thought it would be pethidene , not sure if there is a difference ) and for the next two contractions I feel warm and cosy even though im in pain I am somewhat relieved enough to catch my breath and realise I am about to give birth again so when the next contraction hits I have the urge to push. I tell the midwife who says she doesnt think its time yet. She will get some gloves to check me . I say I cant hold the baby in . I am pushing. (Well my body is pushing for me ) I am out of control now... I give in to the urge as the midwife checks me and says she feels the head.
One strong contraction later and our babies head pops out with the sound 'pop' . She is still in her waters, this I didnt know at the time )
Her head didnt go in and out like it did with my first birth so I was suprised I didnt get the burning sensation as her head passed through but it was one sudden movement instead. I waited for the next contraction ( which seemed like forever) and in the midst of this the midwife apparently tried to / or did turn her around... She did something. I thought the babies shoulders were out but hubby said the midwife turned her and I was suddenly in excruciating pain and begged hubby to get her out of me. to please help pull her out that it felt like she was stuck... "Help me" please etc
I tried to look at the clock to see what time it was and I was suprised hat time had gone so quick and it was after 2pm already. I was also thinking they wouldnt look at the clock at the exact moment she was born .....
Finally the next contraction came and she came out onto the bed ( into hubby arms) but he couldnt get hold of her as she was still in the sac.
Somehow one midwife cut the cord and asked hubby to trim it after she realised what she had done. I still mad about that
The midwife quickly tore open the sac and hubby pulled her out and put her on his chest and I was holding onto the bedhead still. Scared to move to feel any pain. my legs felt stuck and I was shaking gripping the wall and bed head so tightly .. The midwife ( who has called another midwife in at the very last moment) so midwives were telling me to turn around and see my beautiful little girl but I waited a moment, I was also scared to see just how much blood would be everywhere ....I knew she was safe in hubbys arms so I turned around slowly ( to avoid pain) and saw my little baby girl on hubbys bare chest.... I fell in love .... and after taking a picture of daddys first hold I held her to my chest for our first picture and our first breastfeed....
And we bonded with her for a bit before we weighed her and dressed her .... and then she got to meet her big Brother who absolutely adores her She is absolutely perfect and we are thrilled with our little family
Oceanna Zoe was born on 22nd August 2011 at 2.25pm
She weighed 2680grams and was 48cm long with a HC of 34cm
We finally have our princess and She is so pretty
I didnt end up with any stitches which I was totally suprised about after quite a few with our sons birth in 2008. Two weeks later I feel back to normal and She is thriving.......
Lucky your labour was so long so your mother had plenty of time to get to you. My waters broke at home at 11.20pm and my daughter was born at 3.15am so if my mum had lived 5 hours drive away she would not have got there in time.
Interesting that they gave you morphine instead of pethadene. I had pethadene and I believe it speed up my labour as I was only 4cm dilated when they gave me the injection and my baby was born 10 minutes later!
Glad to hear everything went well and your hubby enjoyed an early cuddle.
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