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Our little girl arrived on Wednesday 26th September at 12:45pm (German Time) weighing 6lb 10oz.
I had a pre-scheduled scan at 9am on the morning due to concerns about growth. I was scanned and baby weight was estimated at 6lb 12oz but because the placenta looked "old" I had a CTG for 30 mins. The CTG showed I was having contractions, which I was only feeling as pressure on my bladder initially and wouldn’t have known they were contractions had I not been told.
They were happy with the CTG and sent us home with instructions on what to do if I went overdue. We left the hospital at 10:45am and I started timing my contractions as they had become stronger and more regular but they weren’t especially painful. They were pretty much every 3 mins with a few 4 mins and one 6 mins apart. I timed them as:-
10:47 3 Mins 10:50 5 Mins 10:55 6 Mins 11:01 3 Mins 11:04 3 Mins 11:07 3 Mins 11:10 3 Mins 11:13 3 Mins 11:16 4 Mins 11:20
Stopped timing to go to the toilet
11:31 3 Mins 11:34 4 Mins 11:38 5 Mins 11:43 3 Mins 11:45 2 Mins 11:48 3 Mins 11:52 4 Mins 11:56 4 Mins 12:00 4 Mins
After putting fuel in the car and popping into work with Paul we got home at 12pm. By then I was feeling the contractions and they were every 3 mins, lasting approx 30 seconds. We started gathering my stuff to travel back to the hospital (45 mins away) as I didn’t know how fast things were going to progress. At 12:10 my waters broke so I rang the 24 hour Midwife and she said we might not make it to the hospital (that we are insured with) and that we should call an ambulance to take us to the local hospital. We tried ringing an ambulance but gave up because of the language barrier. Paul rang the Health Centre I'm registered at to get them to ring the hospital for us, but after talking to me the Midwife on duty decided I didn't sound like I was about to have the baby and told us to take the 45 min journey. I got off the phone to her and tried ringing the on call Midwife back to tell her we were gonna drive but got the 24 Hr medical centre, who decided to send an ambulance anyway as my contractions were becoming more intense as I was on the phone - They didn't think we'd make the 45 min trip. My Mom and Paul were running round downstairs, Paul wanted to get in the car and drive to the local hospital, but I wasn’t moving because we had no idea where the local hospital was and I had no idea how close to delivering I was – Well, I knew I was close but in retrospect I had no idea how fast things would progress. The ambulance arrived and I walked to the ambulance, having to stop in between contractions. We arrived at the hospital within minutes with Paul following in the car and I had a massive contraction just before I was wheeled out and I was involuntarily pushing – It was only now I knew how close I actually was to having her.
I fought them to take my bottoms off as I wanted the toilet really badly, but they obviously knew that I didn’t and it was because I was about to have her. Paul went running off for my notes (Which he’d forgot he’d already given to the ambulance crew) and arrived back into the room just as she was being born and watched over my shoulder.
Frankie Alyssa was born 35 mins after my waters broke. I had no pain relief for obvious reasons and I screamed my fecking head off as she was delivered. The Midwives were trying to tell me to shush and I thought they must be having a bloody laugh! - Paul says he could hear me from the car park lol – The Gas and Air I had with Ky obviously took the edge of the pain because I didn’t feel half the pain with Ky, I thought the contractions were worse than the delivery even though I had an episiotomy.
She had perfect APGAR scores and is 6lb 10 oz of healthy gorgeousness (Well I'm allowed to be biased aren't I lol?).
Frankie Alyssa Holden
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CONGRATS!!!
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