Jorja 20/08/2008

Just wanted to share my story as well.

Little Jorja was due 16th August.

Went in for a clinic appointment on the 18th August (Monday) being 2 days o/d at this stage. After spending a full 45min trying to find a car park and then parking illegally I was already stressed and was bawling before I even made in into the hospital. I then had to wait another hour and a half before I saw a midwife! Got into the appointment and spoke with the midwife...I was wanting to do anything I could to bring on this labour. I even resorted to requesting a membrane stretch!!! Ouch!!!
After being told they wouldn't do anything until Friday at the earliest, again I started crying. It was at this point she tested my BP and discovered it was high (now theres a shock...a high BP on an extremely stressed and hormonal pregnant woman!!!) She completed the visit and tested my BP again at the end, again it was high. It was now they sent me for a urine test and found blood and protein in there. By now it was about 4.30pm on Monday and I was soooo ready to go home! Then spent the rest of my afternoon having the babies heart rate etc monitored.
My blood test results disn't come back until 7pm. It was at this point i got to see a Dr. YAY!! I got my membrane stretch and the news that I had to be induced. I didn't know if i should be excited or scared. I was admitted on Monday night to be induced on Tuesday.

Tuesday: Had contractions since 3am... I started to get a little excited hoping that I wouldn't need to be induced. I didn't get a wink of sleep, knowing that soon I'd be a mum!
1pm: Was sent from the ward to the birth unit where my waters were broken
1.30pm: Syntocin drip started..Now i get a little confused with time...
Approx 2.30pm: Up until now i was coping ok with the contractions, though started to use the gas. Really quickly my contractions were coming on hard and fast (less than 1min apart). Now I regret not having the epidural sooner (Note to self...next time skip the gas go straight to the epidural). I had to wait for a dr to come and aminister the epidural so in the meantime I had morphine, I don't remember the needle going in, but i do have some recollection of sitting on the toliet while they did something...)

dr come in to administer epidural. according to my DF i just told the dr to do it and got cranky cause she was trying to explain things to me, I just didn't care what she had to say, i just wanted the thing in!!!!

it was soooo nice to get a break. I don't remember much at all between now and about midnight. My DF keeps reminding me how "smacked out of my eyeballs" i was.

Because i was in for so long, i went over 3 shifts midwives. The first 2 were FANTASTIC..the 3rd left allot to be desired!
At about midnight I was 8 cms dialated and my temp was quite high and babies heart beat went up. The MW went to get a panadol drip to hang, stupid woman..there was one aleady in the room but nooo....she took another 30mins to find one and then didn't know how to administer it!!! I was soooo frustrated as no one would tell me what was wrong and why things were taking so long so to. I do remember the doctor coming in and very really angry with the midwife wanting to know why things weren't being done and rolling her eyes when the MW was trying to hang a drip.
About about 3am on the Wednesday morning the midwife came in to check on me again. I told her I felt like pushing, so she set things up to deliver the baby, little did i know, and she would have know after checking to see how dialated i was, i was only 9 cms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :angry:
Again the dr came in angry that the midwife had let me use so much energy trying to push when I wasn't even fully dialated. She topped up my epidural and told me to sleep for an hour and she would come back.

About 5am the dr came back again. This time I was fully dialated and ready to go. I pushed for a while but after sometime (not sure how long) i was sooo exhusted I couldn't push anymore. The dr got the ventouse out and cut me to suction my little girl out.

At 5.54am my little girl was born. My DF and I were over the moon that we were finally able to meet this little person that have have loved for the last 9months even before we had met her.
I felt fantastic and was discharged the next day.
She is a beautiful baby and one I can't imagine now living without.

Thanks for sharing! And congratulations :)

Congrats to you sounds exhausting and what a beautiful name you picked for your little girl!

Gorgeous birth story.

You did so well :D

Congratulations :D

Wow, what a story! You must have been exhausted by the end!!

Congrats on the safe arrival of little Jorja.

Congrats jjj. Sounds like the 3rd midwife needs some extra tuition. Little jorja is gorgeous. Happy families to you.

Kim

Congratulations and I love the name Jorja!!!

WOW! congratulations you did an amazing job. :clap:

jjj. My DD is Jorja as well. I just loved the name. Congrats!!!!!! (aka Jorjous)

Congratulations and thanks for sharing :)