Labour Story! TMI? Not sure 🤔

With my first pregnancy, I didn’t know what to expect with labour so I didn’t worry a whole lot but when it came to it, my god labour is awful 😂

I was so so tired as I hadn’t gotten any sleep in the few days before it really kicked off, so I was quite literally falling asleep between contractions! I mean cmon body, at least sleep through the contractions 😂

I hadn’t a clue what was going on and it sounds like myself or partner agreed to the epidural (which I was sh** scared of)

So fine, they called a man in with a huge needle and needless to say I kept falling asleep and he was freaking the hell out because I’m moving every time I contract and then fall asleep 😴

So he’s freaking out, my partner is freaking out thinking he’s gonna paralyse me and no one seemed to realise I’m falling asleep!

Thankfully a midwife realised and held me still and somehow that epidural was done!

God knows what other stuff happened but according to my partner I was

- demanding the fan in my face

- demanding the laughing gas stuff

- water water water

- flannel!

Oh and apparently I hit myself in the face with the flannel and stated “it’s not working” I think I was even biting the sh** out of it too...

While my partners juggling all these items 😂 I so wish I had this on film

Anyway he kept putting this fan on the floor and because it’s one of those ones that move, well it pretty much running away every time he popped it on the floor for a sec 😅

So also whenever he mentioned “just breath” or something like that, I would shout at the poor man 😂 i must have looked and sounded possessed on the laughing gas stuff as pretty sure my voice changed on it 😂 no clue!

Hours and hours went by and they kept checking to see how dilated I was (god that hurts) midnight came and the midwives swooped over which I was so sad about because I liked the ones I had!

In come two new girls looking all pretty and Iv gone full on crazy! 😂 while these two girls stared down at my private areas and I’m like “no no noooo”

One sticks her hand in and says SHES READY and I’m like omg what

They pin my bloody legs on this weird bed and I can’t move them and I’m freaking the heck out trying to get my legs down but nope 👎

At this point I’m literally in the mood for murdering this woman that keeps holding my legs there 😅 they ask “you wonna feel baby’s head?” And I’m like NOO 🤣

I may have wanted to but I didn’t like these women for some reason 🤣

Anyway push push push one says “baby’s getting a bit tired now” and I’m like for god sakes why must you all say this 🤣 I watched this programme in the uk called “one born every minute” literally went through it all (before I got pregnant) and it was in my head because I hear them say it a lot on that programme 😬 so I said “oh my god, must you say that, you’ve made me worry even more now!” Or something like that, I could have sounded like a rambling goat

Anyway more pushing, I finally figured out how to push properly, forgot I had the epidural too,it was so hard to push!

Epidural must have taken away a lot of pain so that I didn’t feel like pushing 😟

I had to force myself to really push and eventually out comes a head and they say “heads out!! Now just breath and wait” but after watching that baby programme I’m like thinking oh that’s the hardest bit right? I should just go ahead and push the rest out so it’s all finished 😅 so that’s what I do and the midwives are like OHHH THE REST IS COMING NOW and I’m like 🤪 yes there’s no time like the present 🤣

Alls good and baby is free of my belly! And my goodness it’s like the pain just stops and it’s glorious (well once that placenta gets itself gone)

Anywhoo i had contractions start two days before, leading up to that point and was so so glad that contractions had gone!!!

I lost quite a lot of blood because I’d been low on iron anyway and afterwards they had to give me a blood transfusion 😟

But it all just sticks in my head about how scary it really is and my sons 1 now and Iv just had a positive pregnancy test a few days ago! I’m happy but also pretty scared, I pray the next labour is easier and I’m making sure I never get low on iron!

And I’m gonna sleep as much as possible towards the end 🤣

And now a few days ago

And now I may be going to do it all over again 😅