MSE Pregnancy Club VI

Mrs_Moc

Thanks everyone for the kind comments.

I have 3 other children, 2 girls 14 and 7 and my baby boy was 1 in December. The girls are a great help around the house and they are all loads of fun to be with and keep me busy lol.

I am so mad at DH, after a year sober too. He had the cheek to say this morning, its not like I do it every weekend. Hes trying to play it down.

I Just woke up, decided to join DS in his snooze, can't believe the time I have slept nearly 2 hours and have a mountain of work and a visit to Tesco to do within the next 2 hours.

Sorry to hear that Caz, they can be so selfish at times. DH told me the same thing when I was 12 weeks with DS, I didnt see him till after the child was born, TBH the marriage never really recovered from that, though he did stay sober this last year, I still resent him leaving like that.

((((Labour vibes to all who need them ))))

Lucifa73

Meet my wee man Nathan James...



My birth story started on the Tuesday (Term +13!) when I went into hospital to start the induction process - I received 3 doses of Prostin - Tues pm, Wed am and Wed pm which started contractions (hypnobirthing techniques helped me manage these with no painkillers at all!) and on Thurs am was pronounced 2-3cm dilated and ready to go to labour room at 8am on 26 Frb. Unfortunately the move downstairs was delayed until 9pm that day.

By 9.40 I was hooked up to a monitor and attached to a drip and had been told to expect it to take around 12 hours to delivery.

The monitor tracked my contractions and Nathan's heart rate and showed that every time I contracted his heart rate fell which wasn't ideal so we had an internal monitor clipped to his wee head to get a more accurate view and blood samples were taken from his head to check blood oxygen levels, the results of which were thankfully fine...

I managed until about 12ish (times get a little blurry..) using just hypnobirthing techniques but as I was getting more tired (had been awake since 6am Thurs so 18 hours) tried gas and air to see if that would help. Sadly it just made me sick and dizzy (and it tastes foul!) so after a couple of goes I handed back the mouth piece - I wanted to feel better not worse!

At 1.20am I decided to accept the Diamorphine injection. That stuff is AWESOME - time just evaporated between contractions, apparently I was dozing! - and before we knew it I was 9cm dilated, about 2 hours in advance of expectations, and started getting the strongest urge to push. I can only describe it as a kind of spasm, completely different to contractions and far less unpleasant... As I was not yet at 10cm I had to resisit the urge to push and instead breathe through. Hypnobirthing helped with this immensely - without it I don't think I would have known how to breathe through the urge...

At 6am they declared me fully dilated and finally I could push. With Hubbles, the midwife and the labour sister urging me on I gave it my all but, as the head was marginally rotated from facing straight he was in the wrong position and a decision was taken at around 6.40 to use forceps, particularly in view of the effect my contractions were still having on the baby's heart rate. I remember this bit only as though it was happening to someone else. At 0703 my baby was delivered onto my chest and I fell in love in a way I had never dreamed was possible.

Now, just about a week later we can't imagine being without him in our lives. We are very grateful for this little miracle, particularly as for about 15 years I have been living under the false belief that I was unable to have children due to some damage suffered as a teeenager...

I'm already starting to think a second wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility:rolleyes:

Sami_Bee

AM - I'm sure she is in pain but who would actually want their babies to be born too early!? I'd be p'ed off too!

astonsmummy

Aww thanks Lucifa73 I especially love the last couple of paragraphs xxx

astonsmummy

Sami_Bee wrote: »

AM - I'm sure she is in pain but who would actually want their babies to be born too early!? I'd be p'ed off too!

Exactly, twins aswell !!!!!!.
I'm just on one at the mo anyway

fairydawn

Hi Sami am due 2nd August so hopefully will have recovered and have a 4 month old by then lol.
I had DS when I was 17 and got married at 19, been with OH for 22 years.
Mrs Moc sorry to hear of your troubles, hope get lots of support and as others have said you can always have a good rant on here, it does help!

AS step away from the woman next door:rotfl: .

Sami_Bee

Luc - he's lovely, I can't beleive ur thinking of another so soon u crazy mo fo!
beautiful lil thing is he a teeny as he looks or have I forgotten how small they are?!?!
I take it that's the proud Daddy in ur avvy? very cute!
I hope your getting some rest and enjoying being a mummy (sounds like you are) xx

fairydawn

Lucifa thank you for posting, Nathan looks utterly content. x

Sami_Bee

fairydawn wrote: »

Hi Sami am due 2nd August so hopefully will have recovered and have a 4 month old by then lol.
I had DS when I was 17 and got married at 19, been with OH for 22 years.
Mrs Moc sorry to hear of your troubles, hope get lots of support and as others have said you can always have a good rant on here, it does help!

AS step away from the woman next door:rotfl: .

ahh that's not so bad then I have trouble working out when people are due at the mo, I nearly feinted when I got my "now ur 27 weeks" emails and they said now ur in the 3rd trimester :eek: Thinking we really need to get a shift on with getting the house sorted!!

Just think this time next year you may be expecting a grandchild!!
Triggles who is away at the mo but is usually here has 2 grandchildren around the age of her youngest - her very own family play group

maryjane01

Sami_Bee wrote: »

AM - I'm sure she is in pain but who would actually want their babies to be born too early!? I'd be p'ed off too!

Not at 32 weeks, but 2 or 3 weeks early to get his pregnancy lark over and done with a bit sooner would be good:rotfl: