My very quick birth of Freya Jaine :)
I love reading other birth stories, and have wanted to write my own down for a while now but have always felt there wasn’t enough too it! So here I go! (I have written xDP in here, but be was DP at the time)
Tuesday 39+4ish.. Appointment with doc. Totally over being pregnant in the middle of summer. And I was massive!! Huge huge huge. My doc was away so I had to see another, and let me tell you, I got more out of this doctor then I did with mine through my whole pregnancy! He was great, talked to me and was just awesome compared to my airy fairy other one! My due date is Thur 7th but then he tells me my doc had told me wrong and everything says my due date is the 9th. I was so upset just the thought of being pregnant two extra days! When I knew the she could come anytime but just being told my due date was two days later sucked! The he tells me hes going to book me in to be induced on the 14th “just in case” she doesnt come by then and that its protocol...apparently. So that was even worse the thought of two more weeks! Lol. He tells me he will deliver the baby if she comes by Sunday and heres me hopeing and praying she’s gonna come by then! Otherwise it would be my doc. He does an internal and says thing are softening down there. My best and worst appointment by far!
Nothing happens over the next few days. Go out late night shopping Thursday, watched a movie at home, went to bed.
Friday 2am wake up, go to the toilet, fill up my drink bottle, go back to bed. Nothing different to any other night.
4am wake up to a little pain, nothing much. Lay in bed awake and another pain 10mins later. I get up and go to the toilet again and wipe and there a bit of blood and gunk. I go wake up xDP and say that I think something’s happening, so he gets up with me. I ring mum and she tells me to ring the hospital. By this time im in constant pain and really confused as to what contractions are supposed to be! I ring the hospital and spoke to this stupid midwife who tells me im just in the very early stages of labour and nothing would be happening for hours yet, I can still talk so I cant be in too much pain and that she would ring me in an hour to see how im going. She tells me to time my contraction. I got up the phone really upset that I got no help. Not knowing what the hell im sposed to be timing coz im in constant pain. I just wanna add in the hospital is 25mins away from home. Pain is getting super bad and im really upset so xDP rings my mum and she just says go to hospital anyway and ring and say im coming. She says she will meet us there. We grab my bags and pillow and get in the car and start to trip to the hospital. Worst car drive ever!!! Not being able to stretch out in that much pain, having to stop on the highway and spew my guts up...last nights Hungry Jacks is horribly chunky to spew up!! I remember banging my hand onto the roof of the car to let some frustration out thru a contraction and xDP telling me off!! Wtf did he want to swap places!!! Lol. Get to the hospital and start what seems a super long walk up to maternity ward.
7am Get into the birthing rooms and I couldn’t really stand up, I felt like i had to be sick again but couldn’t spew. The midwife told me to hop up onto the bed so she could check how far I had dilated. I did and she says im fully dilated and I can start pushing as soon as doctor gets here (my fav doctor wooohoo) . She waIked off and just left me lying there with nothing on my bottom half and all I wanted was to be covered up! Finally somebody brought me in a blanket. I was asked if I wanted anything for pain. I didn’t want an epidural, I knew that from get go, I wanted to feel myself do what I was ment to. Not that there would have been time! I was given gas to help me thru the contractions. I swear I didn’t open my eyes the whole time! I heard mum get there and heard her voice and that made things just that little bit easier. Thinking back xDP wasn’t that supportive. I remember taking a peek and seeing no midwives and asking xDP if he wanted a swig on the gas coz he was eyeing it off on out birth-class day. Started getting the urge to push. Somewhere between 7 and when the doctor got there my waters broke. The midwife had lifted up the blanket to check me again and they broke as she lifted the blanket. I remember it feeling like somebody had thrown a water balloon at my bum (I was lying on my side) and feeling sorry for the poor woman who had my waters all over her first thing in the morning!!
7.30am Dr gets there and tells me im all set to push. I pushed as hard as I could every contraction. I hated the feeling of in between contractions the baby slipping back, or thats what it felt like! The tell me they can see the head and she has lots and lots of black hair and do I want to have a look or feel her head. I said no and freaked out a little! I wish I did now. They tell me to pant and only push when they tell me too so I don’t tear getting her head out. Head out, and one big slippery push later I have a big purple baby girl on my chest. It was amazing! I remember thinking she was bigger then I expected a baby to be! Her colour changed before my eyes and she was pink. With a head of thick long black hair. My baby here at last. And it was truely the most amazing thing every, I felt so accomplished! xDP cut the cord and then I had to push the placenta out. The doc asked me if I wanted to see it coz he said it was pretty impressive size. I said no gross! But then made him bring it back so I could see it...I really wanted to poke it, it was so gross looking...but I resisted the urge :p They took her to the table to be weighed and checked over and then gave her back to me and the midwife helped me set her up for her first feed. She fed for about 30mins really well and then I had a shower and we were put in a room that I had to myself at first but then shared with a lovely lady 2 days later....you know who you are :p
So that’s it! Not very long and very straight forward. They said next time i’d better camp at the hospital! I’m happy with the way everything went and feel so blessed that I had no complications. But in a tiny way I guess I feel cheated of a labour experience....I was expecting it to go for hours and hours, I read so many books, went to a anti-natal day class, was all prepared to have an “active labour” and man I wanted to go in the bath! I knew I didn’t want drugs so I was happy that I only had gas, but sometimes I think would my views of been changed if I had gone thru hours of labour. I think back and it scares me to think what would have happened if I listened to the midwife on the phone and stayed at home and waited for her to ring back....what if something had gone wrong? And the fact that she was born so quickly, she could have been born on the side of the road...But it all went well and 15months later here we are!
Freya Jaine S
born 8.16am 8-01-2010
9lb 52cm
HC 35cm
Apgars 9-10
