MSE Pregnancy Club 28

snowscreamer

penguingirl best of luck!! So exciting you get to meet your baby soon!

It's weird being at home and not in work. Hopefully I might lose a little weight or at least just maintain now as I was such a sucker for my office's all-you-can-eat kitchen...

Got midwife at 10:30. Can't believe how soon everything is now and there may only be one appointment left after this! Feeling super chilled at home today and no weird twinges so far this morning 1 clearly my body likes to reserve these for times when I'm an hour from home!!

Lifestartsat40

Good Luck Penguin! - Can't wait to hear the good news x

vanilla8

Hi all

Had baby Austin on Sat 27/5! Weighing 8lb5oz by EMCS.

very long labour story...here goes

Sitting on sofa Thursday 25th night and BH were every 7 mins but with pain, I got in the bath and still had contractions. Went to bed around 1am and felt waters pop. Rushed to toilet to check and yes seemed to be trickling out clear, not a big gush.

Rang the hospital who told me to make my way in so they could check waters, we got there around 3am and stuck on CTG and examined with speculum to confirm waters gone. Contractions every 5 mins lasting 30-40 secs at this point.
Around 5 am they told us to go home and return at 2am 27th to start induction or return if contactions become 3 in 10 and over a minute long. Went home via a mc donald's breakfast!
Went to bed and woke around midday on 26th to 3 in 10mins contractions which were getting worse pain wise, rang the hospital who said to come in. We got there around 3pm and taken to birthing unit room and checked over again, at this point I was finding the contractions quite painful and midwife and student midwife monitored my contractions by placing hands on belly. They were really reluctant to examine my cervix due to infection risk and told me to take a walk round the hospital for an hour or so. Managed to get some oramorph before we did this which seemed to make me really tired and spaced out.
We ended up going back up to the room after two hours walking round the hospital, no one came to check on us for a good while so I paced around the room trying to walk through each contraction.
In the end the midwife came in - maybe around 8pm at this point and suggested I get on birthing ball for a while and then they will examine me with speculum to see where I am at. Eventually checked sometime later with speculum and advised only 3-4cm. Dr suggested waiting till 5 am before starting induction incase I progressed more myself, so I asked for some stronger pain relief and given morphine injection in leg.
The room was freezing - DH needed to put on my dressing gown to keep warm!
In the end it got to 6 am on Saturday 27th and they examined cervix to find I hadn't progressed past 4cm so was taken to labour room to start induction, I got around 2 puffs of gas and air before the anaesthetist turned up to insert epridural for induction drip. After all the hours of contractions not going anywhere I felt I needed the epidural - especially as they said the induction drip would make contractions intense.
I found the epidural was great, could still feel pressure of contraction and took most of pain away. The finer details of these hours are a bit of a blur but spent the day on the drip and rexamined sparingly due to infection risk, but got to 9cm by 4pm. The problem seemed to start here as I didn't progress on and when rechecked at 7pm I was still 9cm and it was thought baby's head had started to turn the long way round and wasn't going to budge anymore.
So was advised I needed c-section and was taken into theatre around 9pm - anaesthetist asked me if I could lift legs etc and advised I would feel the pushing and pulling sensation but no pain. However found once it had started I did feel some pain, anaesthetist just said I could only have a general anaesthetic, at this point I didn't want to be put to sleep so carried on and felt the relief wave when baby cried.
After spending the next 20 mins getting stitched up I could see baby being examined and was advised he would be going neonatal as the dr was concerned with coughing after birth. Managed to get some skin to skin in recovery before he was taken away.
Ended up staying in hospital until Tuesday night after suffering 1.5ltr blood loss, have had two transfusions and only slightly improved iron count.

Relieved to have healthy baby Austin home and delivered safe, slightly disappointed that never got to go in a birthing pool or have vaginal delivery but his cuddles are making up for it!

Been finding my feet with breastfeeding, nipples sore, very difficult to get perfect latch with him not opening mouth wide enough and tongue getting in way, hope to get to a support cafe next wednesday. We have topped up with a couple of formula feeds and i have expressed 60ml today so DH can give my nipples a break tonight.

cats2012

Congratulations vanilla!!! Sounds quite an event but amazing to finally have your little boy - love the name too!

Make sure when you go for BF support they check him for tongue tie - it's so common and your experience sounds like it could be that, although not necessarily of course. Plough on - use plenty of lanolin cream and if you can make 2 weeks they "toughen up" for want of a better phrase!!

Huge congratulations again :-)

newthrift

Congratulations Vanilla, sounds like you had an eventful couple days up to arrival but glad you are both ok and he is here

sweetbabu

Congratulations, Vanilla!

Perhaps not the birth you had planned, but at least you have your lovely wee boy now

Not surprised you're glad to be home! They actually wrote on my notes that I had to be watched for signs of post natal depression - I said I wasn't, I was just desperate to get home! They kept telling me that i would be getting home that day... and it never was

I was also going to suggest you have little Austin checked for a tongue tie

Lifestartsat40

Wow congratulations Vanilla, Sorry you have been through the wars so to speak. Love the name Austin though. Enjoy this special time together.
I am off to see the midwife for a sweep at 11am - trying not to get my hopes up - being induced 2 weeks today if no joy anyway.
Have a lovely day ladies

arbrighton

Congratulations Vanilla even if that does sound too dramatic by half! Glad you are all ok

penguingirl

Congratulations vanilla- sounds like a bumpy week, but glad you are all home safely.

We also have news- too shattered for full story just yet, but induction ended up being pessary because my cervix had moved back and was a pretty dull day with lots of monitoring and we kept ending up on it longer due to super active baby. Waters were finally able to be broken at 7.30pm and that kicked off contractions. We moved to the labour ward at 10.15pm and spent it entirely in the pool with gas and air. Baby J was born at 1.34am in the water and weighs 8lb 11.5ozs. He is perfect and had a lovely big feed last night and has pretty much slept since! We are hoping to be discharged today. Happy to share his proper name in pm, but just don't want to put publicly.

snowscreamer

Wow, 2 babies! So many congratulations vanilla8 and penguingirl! Your birth experience sounds amazing penguingirl; especially as we all dread induction - it went perfectly for you! Sorry to hear yours didn't go quite to plan vanilla8 but the main thing is the outcome is the same - a lovely squishy baby!

So excited for baby snow's arrival over the next few weeks now...! Getting close!