She’s here!!!! *birth story*

Was due to be induced at 39 weeks.... a week ago today....

Wake up just before 5am on the 18th August after just a few hours sleep.... literally just touching a mere 3 hours sleep.... probably due to huge waves of anxiety, excitement and pain!

Call hospital at 7am as was supposed to....

awesome! They tell me to go in for 9:30am so they can start induction.

Fast forward....

I’m 1cm dilated so they insert a pessary.

By 3pm they remove the pessary.

Baby’s heart rate keeps escalating whilst its in.... I’m 3cms and contracting 3 times every 10 minutes so they decided to remove it.

Fast forward to 9pm....

Midwife comes in and let’s us know they’re waiting for a bed up on delivery to take me up and break my waters!

Long uncomfortable and extremely tiring night.....

6:30am!

Midwife comes in and says they’re just waiting for nurse upstairs to come down and get us!

7:10am on the 19th August we finally get taken up to delivery ward for them to break my waters....

They check to see about breaking waters and have to wait for the anaesthetist/surgeon to come break them as too much fluid around baby’s head and they didn’t want to risk a cord prolapse.

Doctor was busy with an emergency so had to wait a little bit which was no issue.

She came and broke waters and stretched cervix at same time.

Currently 3cms still.

Contractions eventually become a lot stronger and I go onto the gas and air.

Still only 4cms.

So they decide to pop the hormone drip on me to speed things up a little.

Contractions become a lot more painful.

Still only having gas and air as pain relief.

Suddenly get the urge to start pushing and they do Na. Can’t be ready to push yet.

Adamant I know my own body, tell them...

nope. I’m pushing. She’s coming.

They check and yep! There she is....

Her head came out at 7:11pm.

But then disaster struck!

Shoulder dystocia.

She got stuck in my pelvis.

Suddenly 2 midwifes became 10 midwifes, anaesthetists, doctors, and surgeons!

They had to perform the McRoberts manoeuvre which was agonising. *i had spd during pregnancy*

Baby iylah Lily Gwen finally came out at 7:14pm. Weighing 8lbs 12 and a half oz. at 39 weeks and 1 day!

After she came I started to bleed out and crash....

I lost a litre of blood.

All I remember was lifting my arms and head and crashing back down to the bed....

And hearing a doctor say ‘get her down to theatre.... if she carry’s on bleeding like this we’re going to loose her’

The surgeon and anaesthetist both disagreed and refused and insisted they continued to do what they were as it was slowing the bleeding down....

Either all.... it worked!

I was put on another drug to slow bleeding and cause my uterus to contract. For 2 hours.

Completely natural delivery.

No tears, cuts or grazes! 🙏🏼

Insanely tiring!

Went a solid 52 hours with not a wink of sleep and just 3 hours maximum sleep the night before I was induced!

Came home on the 20th August!

And our little rainbow baby is beyond perfect!!!!

Her dad was beyond amazing throuout the whole thing!

Can’t quite get my head around the fact our princess has been here a whole 6days now!!!!

I can’t stop staring at her or cuddling and kissing her!

Our little family is complete!

💝🌈