Tuesday 14 July 2009
The Birth of Emily Scarlett Rose
Hi!
My little lady has finally made an appearance! Here is the story of how it all here is how it all happened............
My water broken in the early hours of Saturday morning...........I went to the labour ward at 8pm Saturday night, and had it confirmed that my waters had broken and that i was 2-3cms dilated. The midwife wanted to admit me to the labour ward but i asked if i could go home till i couldn't cope because my contraction were very light, so she said that was ok and i went home at 10.30pm Saturday night.........
I had woken up at 5am Sunday morning with contractions every 7 minutes and this kept up until 7am but then they started slowing off again and by 9.30 I was probably having 1 or 2 if lucky per hour. I got sick of waiting for the next one to come along so I suggested we go to the car boot sale to take my mind off it and hopefully the walk round would help. We managed to get 2 fab bargains while we were there, even though I was having contractions again by this time. A Galt playnest (like new) for £2 and a Happy Land farm for 50p!!
After the car boot we called in at my mums, just to let her know what was happening and just as I walked through her gate I had a strong contraction. We didn’t stay, but gave her an update and then went straight back home. I did a bit of tidying up and made lunch and had a chat to Nik about what we should do. I was going to have to be induced at 8pm that night if nothing happened naturally anyway, so we were not panicking. Then the contractions started getting closer together again and were lasting longer and were more painful. I phoned my mum about 1pm and asked her to come up as soon as she could. I called the labour ward and asked if I could come in and one the way to the hospital we called in to Tesco for some food supplies (2 BLTs and 2 bottles of orange) because we really though that it was going to be a long day again.
When we arrived at the labour ward we were introduced to our midwife (the lovely Davida, who we would only have till 7pm) and taken to a room and monitored for roughly 30-40 minutes. I told my midwife that my contractions were still erratic and about every 15-30 minutes. When she came back to read the chart she said they were happening roughly twice every 10 mins with 1 strong one and 1 milder one each time. I had an internal and told I was 3-4cms dilated, which didn’t seem very much because the previous evening at 8pm I was 2-3cms. Davida was really kind and showed up a chart of the cervix and different stages of dilation. There actually was a massive difference between the 2 sizes, which made me feel as if all the contractions and sleepless night had at least done something to help things along.
Davida then asked me what I thought about aroma therapy, to which my reply was, ‘I’ll try anything you suggest if you think it will help speed things up a bit!’ Davida went on to explain about Clarys Sage and Jasmine and how if she mixed them together with some grape seed oil and put them in a nice hot bath for me they would help my contractions get stronger and get me dilating. She also went on the explain that this method couldn’t be used before 37 weeks and could even cause contractions in women who were not pregnant! So after I agreed to give it a go she said, ‘Ok, I’ll go and get it out of the drug cabinet’ to which I remarked to Nik, ‘It must be powerful stuff if they have to keep it locked up!’ but I still wasn’t convinced and was more than a little bit sceptical.
Davida arrived back to inform me that my bath was ready and that when Nik got back from fetching my bag from the car (yes, I’d left it in the car because I thought they would send me home again till my 8pm appointment) he was to pour water from a jug onto my tummy whenever I had a contraction in the bath and that I was to stay in as long or as little as I wanted. Well……..the bath smelled gorgeous and my thoughts at the time were that if it didn’t work, at least I’d smell lovely and my skin would be lovely and soft!! I think I was in the bath for around 30 mins but had to get out as I hate it when the bath starts to cool down. As soon as I got out the bath I had a really strong contraction, but I still wasn’t convinced and just thought it was a flook, dried myself off and waddled back to my room. Then it all kicked off. They started coming every 5 minutes at first and were so strong I had to stand up and grab on to the wooden chairs arms as it was impossible to sit or lay down while I had them. They just kept getting closer together and stronger and when Davida said that maybe bouncing on a birthing ball would help when I had them, I agreed to try it. Oh my God! Did that make it worse or what! At that point I couldn’t sit on the ball or stand and asked Davida for my epidural!! She said that the anaesthetist was busy with a lady in another room and she’d get him when he had finished, so I asked for some gas and air.
Thank God for gas and air! Is all I can say because not long after I was given it to suck on they got so close together that I couldn’t get my breathe long enough to speak to Nik. Poor Nik later told that I sucked on it so hard that I stopped breathing twice for 40 seconds and gave him the fright of his life. Well, to cut a long story short 55 minutes after the contractions started (when I got out the incredible magic bath) Emily Scarlett Rose was born at 16.22pm weighing in at 9lbs 3 ½ ozs! and she is totally gorgeous!!!!!
My little lady has finally made an appearance! Here is the story of how it all here is how it all happened............
My water broken in the early hours of Saturday morning...........I went to the labour ward at 8pm Saturday night, and had it confirmed that my waters had broken and that i was 2-3cms dilated. The midwife wanted to admit me to the labour ward but i asked if i could go home till i couldn't cope because my contraction were very light, so she said that was ok and i went home at 10.30pm Saturday night.........
I had woken up at 5am Sunday morning with contractions every 7 minutes and this kept up until 7am but then they started slowing off again and by 9.30 I was probably having 1 or 2 if lucky per hour. I got sick of waiting for the next one to come along so I suggested we go to the car boot sale to take my mind off it and hopefully the walk round would help. We managed to get 2 fab bargains while we were there, even though I was having contractions again by this time. A Galt playnest (like new) for £2 and a Happy Land farm for 50p!!
After the car boot we called in at my mums, just to let her know what was happening and just as I walked through her gate I had a strong contraction. We didn’t stay, but gave her an update and then went straight back home. I did a bit of tidying up and made lunch and had a chat to Nik about what we should do. I was going to have to be induced at 8pm that night if nothing happened naturally anyway, so we were not panicking. Then the contractions started getting closer together again and were lasting longer and were more painful. I phoned my mum about 1pm and asked her to come up as soon as she could. I called the labour ward and asked if I could come in and one the way to the hospital we called in to Tesco for some food supplies (2 BLTs and 2 bottles of orange) because we really though that it was going to be a long day again.
When we arrived at the labour ward we were introduced to our midwife (the lovely Davida, who we would only have till 7pm) and taken to a room and monitored for roughly 30-40 minutes. I told my midwife that my contractions were still erratic and about every 15-30 minutes. When she came back to read the chart she said they were happening roughly twice every 10 mins with 1 strong one and 1 milder one each time. I had an internal and told I was 3-4cms dilated, which didn’t seem very much because the previous evening at 8pm I was 2-3cms. Davida was really kind and showed up a chart of the cervix and different stages of dilation. There actually was a massive difference between the 2 sizes, which made me feel as if all the contractions and sleepless night had at least done something to help things along.
Davida then asked me what I thought about aroma therapy, to which my reply was, ‘I’ll try anything you suggest if you think it will help speed things up a bit!’ Davida went on to explain about Clarys Sage and Jasmine and how if she mixed them together with some grape seed oil and put them in a nice hot bath for me they would help my contractions get stronger and get me dilating. She also went on the explain that this method couldn’t be used before 37 weeks and could even cause contractions in women who were not pregnant! So after I agreed to give it a go she said, ‘Ok, I’ll go and get it out of the drug cabinet’ to which I remarked to Nik, ‘It must be powerful stuff if they have to keep it locked up!’ but I still wasn’t convinced and was more than a little bit sceptical.
Davida arrived back to inform me that my bath was ready and that when Nik got back from fetching my bag from the car (yes, I’d left it in the car because I thought they would send me home again till my 8pm appointment) he was to pour water from a jug onto my tummy whenever I had a contraction in the bath and that I was to stay in as long or as little as I wanted. Well……..the bath smelled gorgeous and my thoughts at the time were that if it didn’t work, at least I’d smell lovely and my skin would be lovely and soft!! I think I was in the bath for around 30 mins but had to get out as I hate it when the bath starts to cool down. As soon as I got out the bath I had a really strong contraction, but I still wasn’t convinced and just thought it was a flook, dried myself off and waddled back to my room. Then it all kicked off. They started coming every 5 minutes at first and were so strong I had to stand up and grab on to the wooden chairs arms as it was impossible to sit or lay down while I had them. They just kept getting closer together and stronger and when Davida said that maybe bouncing on a birthing ball would help when I had them, I agreed to try it. Oh my God! Did that make it worse or what! At that point I couldn’t sit on the ball or stand and asked Davida for my epidural!! She said that the anaesthetist was busy with a lady in another room and she’d get him when he had finished, so I asked for some gas and air.
Thank God for gas and air! Is all I can say because not long after I was given it to suck on they got so close together that I couldn’t get my breathe long enough to speak to Nik. Poor Nik later told that I sucked on it so hard that I stopped breathing twice for 40 seconds and gave him the fright of his life. Well, to cut a long story short 55 minutes after the contractions started (when I got out the incredible magic bath) Emily Scarlett Rose was born at 16.22pm weighing in at 9lbs 3 ½ ozs! and she is totally gorgeous!!!!!
Saturday 11 July 2009
I'm Officially in Labour!!!
My waters have broken, i'm 3cms dilated and have had a show. I am having erratic contractions and have been to hospital. The hospital wanted to admit me to the labour ward but i begged to be let home as we were bored to death in there and at least at home we can get some sleep/rest and go back when i can no longer cope at home. We only live 10 minutes away so its not far to go. It was just so boring in there and i was progressing so slowly that it looks unlikely that she'll be born before morning.
Will update blog as soon as i have any news :O)
Will update blog as soon as i have any news :O)
Friday 10 July 2009
Another False Alarm :O(
I am so fed up today :O(
I started having pains last night. They started at 20 minutes apart and built up to 7 minutes apart. We got out of bed, i had a shower and got dressed. Nik had a cup of tea and i announced to everyone on Facebook/PTS that i was gonna call the hospital! Now i feel so stupid cos the pains started slowing down to 10 mins, then 15 mins, then 20 mins and then stopped at 4am so we both went back to bed.
I have just tried to phone the midwife at the surgery to see if she could call and check me over but have been informed shes on holiday! and i don't wanna call the hospital cos they might want to keep me in till my till my inducing date and what would i do with Max if they did that?
So i'm really upset and disappointed today :o( and just wanna cry.
So near, yet so far. I'm not telling anyone the next time cos i couldn't bear to go through this again if i'm wrong.
I started having pains last night. They started at 20 minutes apart and built up to 7 minutes apart. We got out of bed, i had a shower and got dressed. Nik had a cup of tea and i announced to everyone on Facebook/PTS that i was gonna call the hospital! Now i feel so stupid cos the pains started slowing down to 10 mins, then 15 mins, then 20 mins and then stopped at 4am so we both went back to bed.
I have just tried to phone the midwife at the surgery to see if she could call and check me over but have been informed shes on holiday! and i don't wanna call the hospital cos they might want to keep me in till my till my inducing date and what would i do with Max if they did that?
So i'm really upset and disappointed today :o( and just wanna cry.
So near, yet so far. I'm not telling anyone the next time cos i couldn't bear to go through this again if i'm wrong.
Tuesday 7 July 2009
I've Got A Date!
I've had my antenatal appointment. The doctor did me a membrane sweep too!
They have given me a date to be induced........
Its the 14th July at 8pm (so at the most i have 1 more week to go).
They have given me a date to be induced........
Its the 14th July at 8pm (so at the most i have 1 more week to go).
The Waiting Game
I'm still here, fat as a whale and bored out my head of waiting!
I have an antenatal appointment at 11.15am so hopefully i'll get a date to be induced then. I will report back later.
I have an antenatal appointment at 11.15am so hopefully i'll get a date to be induced then. I will report back later.
Saturday 4 July 2009
Today was supposed to be THE day!
Just a quick update.....
Today is my official due date and i have watched it come and go with no signs of my baby. Everything it stretched to the max and i'm so uncomfortable, especially in this heat. Bed time is the worst as i can't find a comfy position and its just to hot to sleep when i do.
I have tried walking, a hot curry, raspberry leaf tea, fresh pineapple and nookie but nothing is moving her! *TUTS* I guess shes just not cooked yet!
I have an antenatal appointment on Tuesday, to arrange a date to be induced if i go over much more. Fingers crossed i won't need to go to it though.
Hopefully the next time i blog it will be with baby news and photos.
Today is my official due date and i have watched it come and go with no signs of my baby. Everything it stretched to the max and i'm so uncomfortable, especially in this heat. Bed time is the worst as i can't find a comfy position and its just to hot to sleep when i do.
I have tried walking, a hot curry, raspberry leaf tea, fresh pineapple and nookie but nothing is moving her! *TUTS* I guess shes just not cooked yet!
I have an antenatal appointment on Tuesday, to arrange a date to be induced if i go over much more. Fingers crossed i won't need to go to it though.
Hopefully the next time i blog it will be with baby news and photos.
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