To remind myself how far I've come - my debt diary. - SOA added

pandapaws

Same goes here - hope you've not tired yourself out too much cleaning up after the family! Take care. x

hypno06

She's not logged on since 18th. I guess she's been admitted again.......either that or she is so busy nesting that she has tidied away the laptop and can't remember where it is "safely put away"!!!!!

Sea78

Just checking again Sending big hugs and lots of healthy vibes - if you get a chance to read this before the baby is born!!

sea xx

chocaholic110

chocaholic110 wrote: »

Blood pressure hasn't gone up any further and the urates has risen only slightly so I was allowed home last night (after nagging all day!!) but have to go in for monitoring again this afternoon as they are not happy with the monitoring trace done on the baby (who admittedly has been moving a lot less this last few days but I think that is common for later in pregnancy?).

Just popping in to update on the state of affairs since I last wrote this.

The short version, for people short on time or interest in the situation, is that baby Thomas Jacob Chocaholic was born on that afternoon, four and a half hours after my last post, weighing 5lb 8oz.

The long version I will post now. Skip ahead if you're easily bored as I'm writing it more to get everything straight in my own head really - hoping it might be cathartic(sp?) to write the whole story down.

So, here goes...

After posting here last Friday I got a call from the Day Assessment Unit where I had an appointment for monitoring at 2.30pm. They wondered could I go at 1.30 instead as it was more convenient for them. So off I went and was duly affixed to the monitor. The midwife looked at the intial trace asnd was a little bit dismissive as she said she couldn't see a problem and wasn't sure why I'd been sent in so I sat there feeling like a bit of an idiot as if I were wasting her time. About 20 minutes later as she passed, she glanced at the trace and her face dropped. She called another midwife over and they discussed the trace then told me they were readmitting me to the delivery hospital. She said I would have to go by ambulance but just as a precaution, so two amulance drivers turned up, I was mortified to have to go on a stretcher (with a blanket, like an old person, when I felt fine!!). The midwives asked for the ambulance to be driven with the blue light on, again, just as a precaution. It all felt slightly over dramatic and as if I were in an episode of Casualty!!

So, by three o'clock-ish I was back at the hospital I left the day before. I expected to be readmitted to the ante-natal ward that I'd just left so was slightly startled to taken to the labour ward. Very quickly I was hustled out of clothes, had monitors put on and tests taken and the staff seemed very peturbed that I wasn't with any relatives and kept asking who they could call. (The midwife at the original hospital had said she would phone my Mam who would call OH but I didn't have a clue where he might have been driving at that moment).

A doctor examined me and the trace and they were going to see if they could break my waters to induce labour. I said that they had suggested that yesterady and the baby wasn't ready to be born and she replied that she knew that but yesterday wasn't urgent and now it was. An examination showed that my cervix was still firm and closed (sorry folks, TMI!!) so she then said they were going to do a Grade 1 emergency caesarian section. At that point lots of people began rushing about and asking again about relatives wanting to know who could get there in less than 30 minutes. As we live further away than that I knew no-one could get there but said they shouldn't be too much longer but the midwife said if it were Grade one it had to be done within 30 minutes. Suddenly people seemed to be all over me putting in drips and needles, putting on heart monitors, oxygen masks etc and I was taken to theatre. I started to get a bit scared at this point and all I can remember is that I couldn't keep my legs still as they were shaking so much. Then the general anaesthetic was given and I knew nothing more until I was woken up at 4.55pm and OH came through the door literally 2 minutes later while I was still groggy and a bit dazed.

It was hard to speak but I finally managed to ask about the baby and was told he was small but ok.

As I came round the midwife came to talk to me and we found out that after going into the surgery at 3.55pm the general anaesthetic was given at 4.02, cutting began at 4.05 and Baby Tom was born at 4.08pm. I was amazed at the speed as less than two hours earlier I had still been at another hospital. The midwife also said that the cord had been round his neck four times, he had passed meconium while still inside and the placenta looked to be infected and breaking down. Scarily she said that if I hadn't been down for daily monitoring, or even if my appointment hadn't been changed to an hour earlier, everything would probably have been too late :eek: which in one way is horrifying but in another we feel really, really lucky that all circumstances seem to have combined to produce a good outcome and Tom is tiny but perfect. In fact, OH and myself are both completely besotted!!

(More to come as this is nowhere near the end of the story (sorry I SAID it was long! but I need to go and feed baby!!)

EDIT: Just adding Part Two further down the page

*vanessa*

Holy Cow!!! That sounds terrifying! Glad OH got there in time, and really happy to Hear you and Baby Thomas are none the worse for your ordeal!

Vanessa xx

Mad_with_money

Blimey what is it with baby number threes, mine made a similar dramatic entrance a few months back!! Thank goodness you are both ok, and Congratulations!!!

spud30

Goodness me Choccy, glad you're both OK.

Congratulations :beer:

cprtknight4

hi, only ever read ur diary, never posted, but kept checkin to see if anything had happened.

Glad all of you are fine, and that baby thomas is lovely.

Congrats

xxxx

hypno06

So so glad that everything is ok for you all. You have been through quite a trauma in the last few days, make sure that you get enough rest.

Welcome to the world, Tom xx

chocaholic110

Mad_with_money wrote: »

Blimey what is it with baby number threes, mine made a similar dramatic entrance a few months back!! Thank goodness you are both ok, and Congratulations!!!

According to several midwives that I've spoken to, third babies are notoriously tricky / difficult. Goodness knows why! I'm hoping they are only difficult until birth and not afterwards!