Ok, Hopefully I can finish some sort of Birth Story for Harlow before she wakes up for a feed..!

We got there & were taken to my birth room and left waiting for an hour & a half before we were seen to by a Midwife, The Hospital had been that busy that day the midwife couldn't say sorry enough. So I had her & a student midwife, They discussed to me what was going to happen, We decided I wouldn't be induced by Gels (Excellent, that was what I was hoping they would tell me because didn't want the gels done) but I would be induced by trying to rupture my membranes & then put on a Syntocinon drip to bring on labour faster. A doctor came in and attempted to rupture my membranes by using the crochet hook..that hurt like Hell & I found myself squeezing the life out of a midwifes hand...my waters never broke so they tried usuing a little spikey thimble on the end of a glove-that didn't work either..They just started me on the drip & about 5 minutes later I was mid convo with David & I felt a slight pop & my waters broke, I got the midwife to check it out & I was right, They had broken (We later found out my actual waters hadn't broken but my hind waters had) and from then on I had light contractions from the syntocinon.
It felt like such a long slow process from here until full on labour because the contractions weren't anything bad and I was coping with them so well the midwife was really proud of how well I was going-Of course they got stronger & closer together and I started to get such intense burning pain in my upper thighs and pain where your undies normally sit over your tummy because of the CTG belt sitting in that spot..I found myself telling everyone who entered the room i felt fine apart from the "F&*$ing belt" and my legs-The midwife said the leg thing isn't very common at all but could be the fact bub may be sitting on my nerves..That was probably the worst pain throughout the contractions...
The contractions got stronger & as they did they kept asking if I felt like I needed any pain relief, they offered me gas, i took one suck in and told them to get rid of the thing, I mentioned i want an Epidural & the midwife said I was so close to the end did I want to try pethadine, i told her no way, get me the epidural-She went off to come back and tell me the aneth was in doing kidney surgery & she had to get my platelet blood results back first anyway, The Anethatist could be about half an hour, i told her that was fine...In the end they lost my blood work so i didn't get it & did the whole labour completly drug free (The one suck of gas doesn't get quaified as taking any pain relief because it didn't get "ingested properly)..I kept telling the midwife i felt like I needed to push, she checked me and i was only 8cm but told me if I felt like I REALLY had to-then just do it..so I did...each contraction I grunted & I pushed as hard as i could and I growled and swore and the midwives had the cot all set up & were at my crotch waiting..and I had the farts so not only was I swearing but I was also lauging hysterically atthe embarrassment of expiring gas infront of someone...which of course got them laughing vecause they have seen so much worse than a little fart come from people!! So I pushed like hell and they could see the head & everyone just kept telling me to keep on pushing because I was doing great..I pushed & pushed and the head was out & everyone kept telling me to keep on pushing, It kind of went hazy at that moment, i kept my eyes shut and David was yelling at me to push, the midwife was telling me babies heart was declerating and she was getting tired and I HAD to get her out..Turns out our babies shoulders had gotten stuck so I had to push really hard to get them out, It caused ALOT of panic because she was so badly stuck, David didn't even get to cut her cord because once they got her out they had to rub her down because she was a dark purple colour (David told me this yesterday, i didn't know)...The next thing I hear was something about her shoulders, to push hard and then "It's a girl, she's here"...I opened my eyes to find about 8 people all standing over me-where the hell did they call come from!!!! They put her on my chest & she breastfed almost immediatly..Everyone then left the room so the three of us spent an hour together before the Dr came to give me stitches (I needed a small episiotimy) and then I was able to get off the bed & shower & go into the room with her for the night...I kept saying over & over again to anyone who would listen-I did it drug free...the midwife & student even came back to say goodbye to me and tell me how proud they were of my days efforts...the student midwife even came back & tracked me down the following day for cuddles with our bub & to see how I was and that she felt I was inspiring...How lovely-I feel SO lucky to have had such memorable midwives throughout both my childrens labours.

Harlow fed great from day dot, she had her second night where she demand fed for about 6 hours straight and didn't latch correctly alot of it so I have REALLY sore nipples, but pushing through it today and getting going with it again, She is a bit jaundice in her face so too tired to drink at the moment so I am having to force feed her a tiny bit to make sure the feeds help clear the jaundice...

Harlow passes her hearing test aswell as the paediatrician visits and just needs blood tests done for her thyroid checks..Bit of a pain because they are frequent this week, she had one yesterday, needs one again tomorrow, Friday & monday...she is going to have the sorest little heels around so fingers crossed the results all come back clear and she won't need them again..

I ended up asking for no visitors by my last day...The hospital was SO SO hot because of the heating I started to feel violently ill when Davids mum & Aunty were there the night before, I basically had to kick them out & sleep immediatly or else I was going to faint, I hate the heat all the time-the hospital was just SO bad...I asked if I could go home because of the heat-Other than that i was ok to stay, I liked the food & care I was having etc..but I am so glad to be home now & more comfortable!! So far at home Harlow is going really well & fitting in perfectly

My labour was only 2 hours in total...even though light contractions went on for 4 hours prior to that, they were too light to even class as contractions..i cannot believe I did it all in 2 hours once the hard ones came on..I'm o incredibly proud of myself doing it drug free-even though I asked for the epidural, I am glad I never had it...I cannot believe Harlow is here now, She is such a pretty girl..all 8lbs, 7 ozs of her!