THE BIRTH

At long last I have some time to put this up , I wrote this while still in Hospital just after giving Birth . Gonna have to update quite a lot on here

What a weekend I had !

Saturday : I arrived at the hospital at 7 am , got hocked up to the CZG and no Contaractions , after 15 min I got given the first pill (25 mg ) to get me started , after 4 I had to go back . CTG again and no contractions , again 25 mg pill . Had to go back after 4 Hours , had one or two contratcions and stared thinking OK maybe things get moving . Went back and the dose got uped to 50 mg , 4 hours and maybe one or two contratcions later , CTG and 1 Contration showed up , dose went up to 100 mg . No internal checks , got told that was it for the day .
I was really disapionted , I thought ok they start this and Ben will come .

Sunday : started again at 7 in the morning , super tired becaus I'm sharing a room with 2 people with newborns , one who came in at 2 in the morning and the babies were brought in to be fed at 4 am , then at 6 am the nurses started making rounds . So not an awful lot sleep .
This time they started me off with 100 mg , during the night I had a few contrations but nothing really painfull , CTG again and had to go back after 5 hours .
Then when I went back at 12 pm CTG and I had contractions , no Pill but got checked 2 CM dilated . Got told to walk around and see if they get more frequent and be back at 4 pm . Well they did 2-3 min apart and stoped me in my tracks when they came , I only made it to 3 pm before going back , they checked me because I had some bleeding and I was 7 cm ! dilated . THE miswife told me to get changed onto whatever I wanted to wear while giving bith because Ben was coming !

After I got changed , they put the CTG back on but this time I was aloud to stand while I was on it , after a while I got checked and my water was no burst and Ben's head was still high .
After 3 hours I was put on a drip to make my Contrations stronger and I had to lie on the bed , I was in quite a bit off pain but thought I can do this , my Baby is coming .

At just after 7 I had enough and asked for some painkillers to take the egde off , I got them at they rechecked 9 cm but still intakt water . Midwife didn't want to burst it because it would be easier for him to come down this way .
At quarter to 10 pm I was in so much pain but still no bursting water and Head still high , Midwife wanted to burst the water but I wanted an Epi first ( after all this time I was tired and in so much pain , I couldn't go on )

So the Epi person came ( no idea how to spell the proper name ) and I got my Epi , but it didn't take the egde off , COntrations still painfull and even if I pressed the button to get a top up , nothing happend .
The Doc came in and burst my water and put the drip up , to get more contractions , 10 cm dilated but head still high and not moving down , so I had to turn from side to side to get him moving , he was stuck on my bone , they keeped turning the drip up and I had the urge to push down but nothing happend , apart form being in total agony , it felt like my pubic bone was getting smashed from the inside .

The Epi didn't help at all and the Midwife and Doc keeped talking in the corner of the room , at 11.30 pm they came up to me and explained the I could keep trying but there was no garantie that it would make a diffrence and end up with a C-Section or go for it now and avoid a emergency one .
I was in so much pain , I didn't care and said go ahead and do it . Singed all the paperwork , got something to stop contrations and was taken to theater .

There they did the Epi again and again and again , this is where I found out why I was still in so much pain , the first one didn't work at all , they didnt hit whatever they where supost to hit (Because I was thinking this hole Epi crap is stupid if ur still in pain after )
So they did one last try before knocking me out totally and that would mean I would see my little Boy when I woke up and DH could not be with me either .

Thank God this time they hit the right spot and I went all numb , DH came in and they started cutting me open . I had the shakes real bad in my arms and could not hold them still , while my lower half was totally numb , realy strage feeling .

My little Boy was born on Sunday the 2nd of May at 11.52 pm , weighing in at 9.7 lbs and 21.6 inches and the reason the he didn't come out vaginaly was that his shoulds wouldn't get past my bones , no way no how .

So I didn't have the waterbirt I wanted but at least I had some painfree labor experience , I got to breastfeed Ben straight away , having a few latching problems at the moment . Feeling quite sore at the moment but got up and walked around a bit , sad thing is Ben is not staying in the same room with me because I can't lift properly or get out of bed quick enough to do things for him . During the day when DH is here he stays with me and at night I take him to the Nursery and then bring him when he is hungry to feed .