Ellas arrival

**billykat** · February 25th, 2010, 06:53 PM

after 8 months of trying to get pregnant, 40 weeks and 5 days i was so ready to have my wee baby girl!!
desperate in fact!! so i asked my lovely midwife belinda for a stretch and sweep. this was my 3rd baby and
i had my DS on his due date and DD on her due date and was starting to think this baby was never ever ever
going to come!

at 6 days over i was to meet belinda at the birthing centre that i was to labour and birth at for a stretch
and sweep. right away after my stretch and sweep i was having cramps but id been getting plenty of them for the
last week and was not going to get my hopes up AGAIN. i drove home and went on as usual. mum and dad where staying
with us so DH and i could rush off when need and they could take care of the kids.

the next morning i woke up with these bad cramps starting to feel a little annoyed at my midwife as i was thinking she has done something wrong and
now i'm in pain! i got up at 7am as usual and made toast for the kids before school... went to the toilet and oh my god i'm bleeding!!! i was completely
freaked out!! i rang belinda and she said its ok don't panic could be my bloody show... 2 other kids and labour had never
started like that before. we agreed i would meet her at the birthing centre at 10am after the morning routine.

by 8am my pains where getting bad that i was having to breath though each one but i still wasn't going to get excited
id had so many false starts before this. 8.25 i cant even drive!! DH is going to have to come home and take DS to school.
i call him at work and he comes home takes DS to school. mum and dad get up and i tell them this maybe it. 9.30 pains are so bad
but im meeting the midwife at 10am so i'm ok... but i'm staring to wonder if i can wait till then!

9.50 i ring the midwife and tell her i'm in a lot of pain and we are coming now (wanted to make sure she wouldn't be late) arrive and
labour in the birth centre lounge as no one alse is there. 11.am we move to the birthing room using hot packs and gas...
i'm so hungry as i never has breakfast that belinda goes and makes me some toast, im eating toast and drinking milo in between
contractions.

pain is getting so bad i cant go on, the gas is making my arms and legs tingle and i don't like it!!!

i ask belinda to cheak me... must be almost time. ONLY 8cm omg!!! im already feeling like i cant do it anymore! the second midwife
arrives. im screaming and yelling loud i cant do this, i just cant!! DH is holding hot packs on my front and belinda is holding
them at the back, im on my knees leaning over the bed thats in seated position. im busting to pee but in between contractions i
try to go on the toilet but i just cant. the contractions are on top of each other and i want the hot packs to be so hot they
burn me! i cant understand why my water hasn't broken and i haven't had my baby. still contracting and i really feel its getting
to much... belinda subjects filling the bath, i agree and off she goes. next minite my water brakes and at the same time i have to
push belinda forgets the bath and runs back to me. i dont want to be pushing on my knees i just want to lie down but i cant move
i feel like im being ripped apart and im going to explode i remember DH yelling here she comes and im not pushing long then its over. at 1.15pm Ella is born i still hurt
but its instant relief and i see her lying there on the bed infrount of me. shes just beautiful!!! amazing!! i just stare at her!!
i touch her face. im still sore but i want to try and turn over and pick her up, all i care about is holding my beautiful baby!!

after cuddles and a feed i pass Ella who weighed 7 lbs 2 onzes to DH and naturally birth the placenta. it was now time to move to
the room i was to be staying in as another women needed the birthing room. it was amazing we just looked at her for hours. i decided to
go home that night and be in my own bed with my beautiful family.

i cant beleave its over! shes amazing and il would do it all again in a second!