My story is simple and complex at the same time. I chose care thru the BC at Townsville when we moved there halfway thru my pregnancy. I made a great bond with my midwife and really looked forward to labour. I did a calmbirth course with my DH and slept with a copy of Ina Mays guide to childbirth next to my bed. I really wanted a vaginal birth but I wasn't totally committed to a natural birth. I had always had terrible period pain my whole life and suspected that I might have a painful labor, so I didn't rule out pain relief but I didn't want an epi. Anyway my pregnancy continued and continued. I was pretty comfortable with the knowledge that the women in my family gest long. My grandmother went to 43, 42 and 41 weeks respectively and my mother and sister were similar. Non has ever delivered early. I knew I was starting to come up against the rules of the hospital regarding post dates, partially cos I was super aware of the politics because my sister was the consumer rep who had lobbied to get the BC for Townsville and she is also a Doula and was highly involved in birthing in the hospital. So I had an ob appointment at 41+4 and negotiated to continue care until 42+3 in the BC. Eventually on the saturday,at 42 weeks preg I began to go into painful contrax during the arvo so much that I didn't get a rest thT day. I ignored them partially because I had had painful BH most nights for 5 weeks prior which were often constant and regular down to 4 mins apart. Anyway by 2Am I knew it had begun and called my sister to sit with me and let DH have a rest, which he didn't do. I went pretty well for most of the night. I knew (because my MW had called my DH to tell him) that my midwife couldn't come to me for a long time as she had spent 14 hrs with another woman on saturday. So I held on to the thought that I needed to let her have a rest and I would just cope till she got there. We finally called her at about 10 because of awful back pain that was just sending me past what I was coping with. She arrived, did a VE and said I was only 2cms. I really fell apart. She suggested going to the BC to get intradermal water injections in my back for the back pain. We ended up at the BC at about 1 and I remember DH asking me if I really wanted him to do all of those thing I had said I wanted to use to delay pain relief or did I just want to have gas? I said just give me gas....... From there on in I remember very little. The injections helped alot but I had really checked out. I was exhausted. I had been awake since 7 on sat morning it was now mid afternoon on Sunday. I had peth and then my MW did a VE and realized that bubs was posterior. My sister turned bubs using the rebozo and all of a sudden bubs was OA and perfectly aligned. My MW has been on the ph to the reg in birthsuite who has asked for a second VE 2hrs after the first and if I hadn't progressed I was ro be brought to bs and have a ctg... Will finish this at home, sorry for spelling mistakes this was on tap talk
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