Birth story:
As you know I wonke up at 3:15am Tues night/Wed morning, with what I thought was a contraction. I lay in bed and waited for an hour to ensure I was correct, they were coming every 10 minutes, like period pain with a braxton. I contracted every 10 minutes on my birthing ball for 4 hours then woke DH. By around 9am thy were around 4 mins apart, but kept fluctuating off and on from 2-12 minutes.
At around 11am, they were about 5-7mins. We put the TENS machine on about 12:30 ish, I've absolutely no idea if it helped me or not, but even if it didn't it was a good distraction pressing the button at the beginning & end of each contraction. By 2pm the contractions were getting intense and closer together so I phoned the midwife, she said they were very busy, it was my first baby & to try and wait it out more at home blink.gif We gave it another half hour and DH was panicking as the contrax were 2-5 mins apart. So off we went to hospital.
We arrived about 2:30 I think, I got checked internally around 3ish and was a "good 4 cm" and my waters were bulging, so off down to a delivery room. By the time I got to the room about 30 mins after being checked, I'd had a show and the contrax were bad. I was given diamorphine & gas and air.
My waters went about 4:30 and I got checked and was 10cm!!!! Talk about shocked!!! We waited til around 5 before I started pushing. The urge is unbelievable, I have never felt anything like that urge to push. By 7:15pm my contrax had slowed a little, I still wasn't managing to push her out so we got an episiotomy and had ventouse - one contraction & push later and she was born @ 7:27pm.
Our first night home:
Our first night went well. Kirsty & I went to bed at 9pm, she slept til just after midnight (ahhhhh!!), fed and kinda grumbled til 3, then slept 3-8am. So really good considering. Feeding is going well, I'm nursing her so it's actually been easier than I expected (so far), I thought I'd have to give up after a struggle but she's taken to it well and I seem to be ok with latching on. She's had a load of washing done already, little minx! She had been a bit pukey last night, the midwife said it's normal as she'll had amniotic fluid & mucus stuck in her tum - she either pukes it up or it'll stay there. Doesn't bother her being pukey tho.
Stewart is totally in love with her. I can't get over what hs is like, I could cry at the thought of him holding her. He's just in awe. So proud. When he thinks about her coming into the world, he wells up every time. She is his "wee precious girl". It's amazing, I've never seen him with a young child,let alone a new baby.
As you know I wonke up at 3:15am Tues night/Wed morning, with what I thought was a contraction. I lay in bed and waited for an hour to ensure I was correct, they were coming every 10 minutes, like period pain with a braxton. I contracted every 10 minutes on my birthing ball for 4 hours then woke DH. By around 9am thy were around 4 mins apart, but kept fluctuating off and on from 2-12 minutes.
At around 11am, they were about 5-7mins. We put the TENS machine on about 12:30 ish, I've absolutely no idea if it helped me or not, but even if it didn't it was a good distraction pressing the button at the beginning & end of each contraction. By 2pm the contractions were getting intense and closer together so I phoned the midwife, she said they were very busy, it was my first baby & to try and wait it out more at home blink.gif We gave it another half hour and DH was panicking as the contrax were 2-5 mins apart. So off we went to hospital.
We arrived about 2:30 I think, I got checked internally around 3ish and was a "good 4 cm" and my waters were bulging, so off down to a delivery room. By the time I got to the room about 30 mins after being checked, I'd had a show and the contrax were bad. I was given diamorphine & gas and air.
My waters went about 4:30 and I got checked and was 10cm!!!! Talk about shocked!!! We waited til around 5 before I started pushing. The urge is unbelievable, I have never felt anything like that urge to push. By 7:15pm my contrax had slowed a little, I still wasn't managing to push her out so we got an episiotomy and had ventouse - one contraction & push later and she was born @ 7:27pm.
Our first night home:
Our first night went well. Kirsty & I went to bed at 9pm, she slept til just after midnight (ahhhhh!!), fed and kinda grumbled til 3, then slept 3-8am. So really good considering. Feeding is going well, I'm nursing her so it's actually been easier than I expected (so far), I thought I'd have to give up after a struggle but she's taken to it well and I seem to be ok with latching on. She's had a load of washing done already, little minx! She had been a bit pukey last night, the midwife said it's normal as she'll had amniotic fluid & mucus stuck in her tum - she either pukes it up or it'll stay there. Doesn't bother her being pukey tho.
Stewart is totally in love with her. I can't get over what hs is like, I could cry at the thought of him holding her. He's just in awe. So proud. When he thinks about her coming into the world, he wells up every time. She is his "wee precious girl". It's amazing, I've never seen him with a young child,let alone a new baby.
