Hannah's arrival -thanks so much for reading :)
My due date was the 3rd of the 3rd.
I had been having cramping and signs for days before, but on the 3rd i woke up with strong period cramping a lot stronger than iv ever had before ,and slight brown discharge when i went to the loo,but it was a constant feeling that would come and go but nothing worth timing , i managed to get some sleep and try and go about my day as normal.
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By 5 that afternoon i was having regular period pains coming and going every few minutes, by 6 i began to time them- they were coming every 3 mins and lasting about 45 seconds,DF arrived home from work at that time, i was in the bedroom sitting with pillows , i was fine to talk in between , i still didnt believe that it was true labour.
This went on for a few hours, with Df putting heat packs on my lower back and me hugging pillows with each contraction, although the pain was there it was not enough to make me go to hossy.I tried drinking fluids but was feeling so sick it kept coming up.
By 11 i called the hossy as i wanted to know how much bubs was meant to be moving ,as she wasnt ,they said to pop in.
Got to hossy, they took my details ,went to do a wee test and lost my mucus plug on the loo ,hooked me up to a monitor and bubs was all fine in there, MW did an internal which i was so scared about as i thought she would say 'yeah your like 2 cm go home ' instead she said 'wow you are 6 cm and thin as' :) i was soo happy with myself that i was still coping with no dramas at all.
I was sitting up on the bed when i felt a warmness on the bed, the MW checked and i had had a bleed,she called in the Dr who did an internal ,cant remember what she said but they didnt know why i was bleeding,she broke my waters, without my permission or even asking me or telling me.she then went to hook a monitor to bubs head which DF and i were like hell no , we didn't want that and they would not let me not be monitored so i had to stay hooked up to a monitor on my belly with a drip for dehydration .
My plan was to have a water birth that's what i wanted more than anything- now it was not going to happen and i felt so lost just being in the room, i used the bed for support , DF gave me ice chips and kept wiping my face , everything else i dont remember,they finally let me in to have a shower for 20 mins or so which i let burn my back the whole time, when i came out ,the contractions were so intense i had an urge to push i felt so much butt pressure, i had had no drugs at all, which is what i wanted.
MW did another internal and i was 10cm and it was time to push, i was freaked out coz i felt like i didnt know how to push lol, the pressure was just wow, i started pushing and it felt so good to do so,it was untill DD head was so close that i started feeling the burn that was the worst feeling of the whole labour , i got up on the bed and was in different positions , i ended up sitting down ut up on the bed, the MW told me to reach down and i felt my bubs head and so much hair she had, i kept pushing , i was all about not wanting to tear and only small pushes with each contraction before hand but at the time it was intense i was pushing for my life , i did a big push and my baby's head popped out, i felt the pop and DF calling me to look down and i saw her little crying face , i reached down and with the help of the MF pulled my baby out .
The cord was very short i could not get her onto my chest ,she was on my lower belly , we waited for the cord to stop pulsating , i didn't want to needle to remove the placenta but at the time felt so pressured i ended up saying yes to it , soon DF cut the cord, and my baby was on my chest, i was in tears and DD went to the boob straight
away, it was amazing , the feeling was so sureal.She was born at 2:30 the morning after her due date after a 8 and a half hour drug free labour ,pushing for 1 hour.
I was in a world of my own , and the MW pulled at the cord trying to remove the placenta, the cord broke,the DR came in and tried to remove it with her hand it woudn't come out, i was told to suck hard on the gas and the DR put her arm in, i was in agony , but was told to keep still, i couldn't take it any longer and was told i would need to go into to have it manually removed, i was so upset i didn't want to leave my baby.
I had a spinal ,and had my placenta manually removed, also i had 2nd degree perineum tearing with internal tearing as well.
It was hours before i got back to the maternity ward and then they brought in Hannah and DF , i spend some time with them before i sent DF home to sleep and i fed Hannah and then lay there in bed staring at her for what felt like hours .
I was ok had a lot of blood loss, needed antibiotics , they said that the reason for initial bleed was that the cord was so short and pulling away early on.
i still think that if they had not have pulled on the cord and let it come in its own time i would not have needed it manually removed.
I had a birth plan when i went into hossy , but it didnt go that way. which i am not disappointed in as all in all it was a very easy good labour and birth,except for a few things and i have a beautiful healthy little girl
A lot of the birth is a blur to me- thats wat i remember and DF told me :D thanks so so much for reading
Re: Hannah's arrival -thanks so much for reading :)
Congrats on your drug free labour! I can't see the end of your story (stupid iPhone) but I'm definitely coming back to read the end!!!
