I finally get to share my birth story!

So let me begin this by saying I was blessed with a easy pregnancy I was having extra scans and they was planning on inducing me at 39 weeks due to a large baby that is… before he arrived at 38+5 gestation unexpectedly!

Friday 25 November 2022

I woke this day having mild contractions and tightening throughout the day nothing major was just uncomfortable happening every 10-20 minutes so was very irregular I had to take my son to the doctors anyway due to him showing symptoms of scarlet fever! The walk brought them on every 10-15 minutes and a lot stronger… so when we got home I got the exercise ball out to start sitting on to try to help bring them closer together my partner got back from work and we went to do our food shopping while on this trip the contraction started getting more intense but still irregular maybe every 7-15 minutes they got so painful we had to stop shopping pay for what we already had in our trolley and head home.. we got home and I rang delivery suite they stated “we don’t usually see you until you get 3 contractions in 10 minutes ( I was induced with my other 2 babies! ) they offered me to go get checked anyway to which they told me I was 2 cm and sent me back home to labor at home. I could not sleep they became so intense every 10 minutes lasting a full minute each time!

Saturday 26th November 2022

Around 5:30 in the morning I rang delivery suite and went to get assessed was still 2cm was given a sweep and sent home I went straight onto the exercise ball as it seemed to help with the pain the contractions was every 7-15 minutes lasting 1-1 and half minutes each time my partners mum was round helping with the kids while my partner did a 4 hour shift at work, when he got home we agreed to allow him and my eldest child to go shopping to do the rest of the food shop we couldn’t do the day before , I had my daughter at home with me while we waited for them to get back, by time they got back I was in excruciating pain in my back but it was still so irregular at 7-15 minutes apart but still lasting to 1 and half minutes each time I went for a nice warm bath which helped ease a little I notice at this time that my legs and feet was swollen. This for me was the biggest indication that labor was soon going to be on the way for me! I rang delivery suite and was told cause they was still irregular if I went to get checked and no change they would send me back home (anyway I gave both my children a huge cuddle ) I went in to get checked at 7:30pm they checked me I was 4CM meaning I was in established labor the midwife even said I started to lose my bloody show they allowed me to be on the birthing ball while they frequently checked his heart rate about a hour went by and they had to put me on the CTG due to a few episodes of reduced movements during pregnancy, I then had to get on the bed cause they kept loosing the heartbeat during a contraction then within minutes they pressed the emergency button a bunch of doctors and midwife’s came running in (during this time my partner got faint so he went out the room to go get a drink) I was in utter panic while I had all these doctors surrounding me 1 at my hand putting a cannula in (she blew the vein so I now have a massive bruise on my hand) 1 trying to put in the feral heart rate monitor internally, another 2 at the side of me getting me to lay on my side, and another few checking the machine I honestly couldn’t process how many people was in the room the doctor who was inserting the internal monitor said I was at a 5cm within 1 hour of being 4cm they think this was what was stressing baby , I had strict orders to lay on my side with a pillow between my legs while I was in active labor I was making all sorts of noises at each contraction and was having a conversation with the midwife between each telling her how proud I was of myself for natural labor without any medication, a few hours past and I was screaming in absolute pain feeling baby head coming through the birth canal, the midwife was insisting I didn’t push due to me only being about a 8/9cm and I was already pushing she told me I needed to breath the gas and air and focus on taking breaths this was very hard due to my body naturally wanting to push at each contraction anyway fast forward to about 1am I had stronger contractions which I had permission to push cause baby was crowning I literally put my partner in a headlock (poor guy didn’t know what was happening 😂) within 5 strong pushes and a lot of screaming in absolute pain my baby’s head was born he got stuck just with his head out but with another 2 large pushes his body followed as his shoulders got a little bit wedged… my baby was placed on my stomach at 1:14 am on Sunday 27th November 2022 (a 6 hour birth and the longest stage was the first part the second and third stage was just a few minutes each) I remember calling my baby a fat baby as soon as he was placed on me skin to skin, then I asked the midwife “DID I TEAR?” “Just a little” was her response it was like a graze she said as then telling me it was a first degree tear! I was shocked considering he was (clearly bigger than my other two who was 6lbs 7 and 5lbs 9 ) she took him from my stomach to weigh him he was weighing in at a large 8lbs 5oz 🫣 honestly I must say I am damn proud of myself!