Hi all, I'm finally home from the hospital so I thought I'd introduce you all to Kaya (rhymes with hiya) and let you know how things went.
On Thursday I had been woken with a few tightenings and had a show that morning, that night I was getting a lot of achy period like pains. I went to bed, but at 1 am I had to get up because I was having contractions every 5 minutes. I wasn't sure if it was false labour but it didn't stop, so at 3am I woke Barry (OH) - In fact I had to wake him about 5 times before he actually woke up and got up
By 4am I put on the TENS and asked Barry to call my mum because I was too busy pacing the floor and she got him to start timing them and told him to call when the contractions were 3 minutes apart - an hour later they were.
Mum arrived at 6am by which point the contractions were every 2 minutes. Things were still pretty casual so we decided to wait until 8am to call the community midwives coz that's when they start work. The midwife came at 9am to just see how things were going, but she decided to stay when she realised that the contractions were coming no more than 1 minute apart. I had also changed and was pacing the floor constantly, pausing only for the contractions.
By this point I lose track of the time. From mid-morning the contractions were almost constant, and the only thing that helped was Barry applying a lot of counter pressure. The midwives followed my birth plan to the letter - they did not offer any drugs, they kept out of the way, they didn't ask to perform any internals - they were just brilliant.
By early afternoon I was getting the urge to push, it built up from a small feeling to an overwhelming urge. Around 4 or 5pm there was no sign of the baby so the MW asked to do an internal (which hurt!), they found I was 8cm dilated. They started getting me to try different positions and did another internal, this one showed I was fully dilated and the waters finally broke. Despite this, the baby wasn't descending, I started on the gas and air.
I was shattered and hadn't eaten since that morning. They tried Lucozade etc but it didn't help much. At about 7pm it was decided to transfer to hospital as the baby was not descending (though her HB had been fine throughout). The ambulance arrived and I had to walk down the stairs and climb in - a lot easier said than done with an overwhelming need to push, yet needing to not push. The ride to hospital was hell, I was trying to breathe through the contractions, the gas and air was making me extremely thirsty and I was car sick.
We arrived at the hospital at 7:30pm, and was assessed. They couldn't tell how the baby was lying so suggested a spinal and forceps in the theatre. I was in so much pain by the time I got the spinal, that it was almost an orgasmic feeling when it kicked in! Despite attempts to shift her by both forceps and hand, in the end a c-section was needed - she was lying back to back and her head was presenting at an awkward angle.
Kaya was born at 8:25pm on the 23rd November 2007 weighing 9lb,1.5oz.
She was 16 days late.
congrats hun gorgeous baby
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