Baby Louis Alexander Rollo
Born: 10th May 2008 at 12.28pm
Labour: 5 1/2 hours
Weighed: 7lb 4oz
Length: 49cm
I was admitted to hospital on Friday 9th due to my annoying high blood pressure and was told I would be monitored for 24 hours and induced in the morning if the delivery suite was quiet. Luckily I woke up at 7am with contractions coming every 10mins, they were pretty strong. I did try and explain to a midwife that I was in labour and I wanted to call my husband in, but I was told visiting didnt start until 10:30 (wtf) by the time I had got out of the bath at 8am they were coming every 5mins and were so painful I couldn't walk or talk, I was just bent over a CTG machine trying to breathe through each one.
I finally got examined and was 4cm dilated. I was taken straight to a delivery suite and was finally allowed to call my oh. I had some gas and air and straight away it made a massive difference, I felt so out of it, it was weird. Good stuff though !!
I stayed upright the whole time, mostly standing, my contractions were amazingly strong and coming every 3mins by about 11am so I started using a birthing ball which really helped. Then I started getting the urge to push, my body was just squeezing so hard and I just had to push which kind of felt better, but the midwife told me to try my hardest to blow out rather than push which was hard to do because my body was just squeezing on its own really.
She examined me and I was fully dilated by around 11:30 and I was finally allowed to push. They wanted me to wake up a bit so took the gas and air off of me which meant I didn't have anything for the pain now but it was to late. At this point I was on the bed and pushing, but I kept feeling him coming out then going back in, my midwife reassured me that with each push he was coming a little bit more, I couldnt believe it when my oh said "oh my god I can see his hair, there's loads" I was actually surprised he was that close to coming out!!
Things took a turn for the worse when they noticed the baby getting tired and his heart rate started to dip while I was having a contraction to push but would slowly go back to a normal rate between the contractions. There got a point where his heart rate dipped and it wasn't going back up so they had to press the emergency button to call for the doctor who would have to assist with forceps (sp?) which scared the hell out of me.The doc was held up and they gave me the option of being cut quickly to try and avoid the forceps, they told me I HAD to get him out with the next contraction.
I told them to cut me which they did at 12:26 and I didn't even feel it and with one more push his head came out at 12:27 and then the rest of his body flew out at 12:28 and he was put straight on my chest.He was all slimey and much bigger than I had expected. He screamed his little head off. I couldn't believe he was finally here, it was so amazing. I loved him instantly.
Heres some pictures of baby Louis:
He's stunning! Congratulations
hes so cute loads of hair too bless 
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