The birth of Millana Jean!
Finally i get to write a post.This baby stuff is alot harder than i thought.
Well,it started with me going to hospital sunday 28th and having prostins inserted at 1830 and 1230hrs that nite.I had some contractions that were irregular but basically had a good nites sleep! The next day i was taken to the labour ward and the dr came and inserted a drip ofcytoxin and broke my waters(he thought he did anyway).It was going quite well and i was having contractions and was 5-6cm dilated at 1130am with no pain relief.However itwent down hill from there and they realised that my wters wernt broken and midwife/s tried again.Apparently i had a posterior cervix and about 5 people had tried to break them.The pain was worse and i had a pain in my right buttock(pinch nerve) where millana had decided to come down crooked.I had an epidural which was bliss and within 1hr i was dilated fully! They then had a feel and millana was one finger from coming out but i couldnt push and she was just that little far up.Midwives decided to stop epidural and drip of cytoxin to allow me to push.This took a couple of hrs and when the pains came back so did the pinch nerve but it also came into my groin.After an 1.5 of pushing they got the ob back and he topped the epidural back up just enough for me to push her out with the assistance of ventuse cap.I then lost alot of blood (about a litre) due to her tearing me on the way out.I had about 20 stitches and thought i was dying as they had about 5 people workingon me as they could not get any veins.I was on oxygen and bp went down to 80/40.I can only remember seeing bits of my daughter and feeling like in a trance.Hubby was very worried.I needed 2 blood transfusions that were excrutiating and 15 min obs for 12 hrs.I then had anal pain ovrnight and they thought i may have had a clot.They wanted to send me to surgery but i begged not to as i had had enough! I had an ultrasound and they said i was fine.After that i spent 4 days in hospital which i found stressful as due to being sick my milk has not come in properly for millana and she was constantly on my boob every halfhr and all nite.The nurses did not take her away so that i could recover and did not supplement her feed until day 3 as she had lost more than 10% of weight.I am glad i am home,i feel more relaxed and she is so beautiful that all the stress is worth it.
