The birth story of Bayleigh Matheu
23rd july : Being 8 days over i had had enough and was hoping my OB would tell me today at my app that she will be inducing me sometime this week fingers crossed........
Went to my OB appointment....My blood pressure was up and protein in my wee so she did an internal n said i was 1-2cm dilated... she booked me in to be induced tomorrow morning... she then sent me straight to the hospital to be montiored so we spent 2 hours there and everything seemed to be ok so i didnt have to stay over night so i bid farewell to the midwives n said i'd see them tomorrow sometime....
We got home just after 6 and at about 730 i started getting really bad period like pain in my lower back didint think much of it as i had been gettin it for 3 weeks now so i went n got the hot water bottle and layed on da couch till 10 den i got up n went to bed as i was laying in bed iw as getting pains in my tummy but only in the lower half so i timed them n they were 6 mins apart so i got up n went to the bathroom as chris was in da shower n said to him i think it mite happen tonight n he said well do u want to go to da hospital n i said i'd call them first n see wat they say so i called them at 11 and the midwife said come up if you want or just stay at home n call wen the contractions get closer together n i said i'd se ehwo i go for half an hour and call her back. the pains went from 6 mins to 3 mins in 15 mins so i rang the hospital again n told the midwife we were heading in to the hospital and she said ok see you soon so we packed the car nad woke my FIL to tell him we were heading to hosp and for him to keep an eye on DD chloe as i didnt want to wake her as i knew she would want to come to the hospital.......
We got to hospital at about 5 to 12 and i was hooked up to the montiors and they called the OB that was on call, she arrived half an hour later andasked me if i wanted her to break my waters ( as my DD was born within 45 mins after my waters broke ) they thought this mite speed things up so i agreed so at 1am she broke my waters i was 4cm dilated and half hour later i got the urge to push so midwives told me to start so i did was doin so for a few contractions n the OB came in and checked me again and i was only 5-6 cm dilated so they told me to stop pushing "WHICH IS BLOODY HARD" as some of u may know LOL after a couple of contractions i asked to use the gas as the pain was pretty intense and it was to hard tryin not to push so i was sucking madly away on the gas.....
Meanwhile the OB was tryin to put the IV in as i needed fluid but she couldnt find a vein as they had all collapsed and while she was tryin to do it the contractions were basically ontop of each other and the urge to push was alot stronger n i was telling the OB to hurry up so i so i could push anyway it took her an hour to get the IV in and after she did she did another internal and i was FINALLY 10 cm dilated and she sadi i could start pushing
So i started pushing and 10 mins later my lil man was born at 3:55am 24th july 2007.... his cord was wrapped round his neck twice and he was very very blue so chris didnt get to cut his cord as they rushed him off to get him breathing again 2 mins later i had the lil boy on my chest...
The placenta came a couple of mins later
We weighed him an hour later as he wanted to feed first LOL And he was a whole 8Ib 4oz i couldnt believe it My daughter was only 6Ib 12oz n wat was even more surprising was that i didnt need stitches i didnt even graze with Bayligh but i tore with my DD lol SOOOO dont understand LOl
All up labour was 4 1/2 hours
4 hrs 15 mins 1st stage
10 mins 2nd stage
5 mins 3rd stage
