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Amelia Grace Sex: girl Born: 12 July, 2008 Age: 0 years & 86 days Birthday in: 279 days Starsign: Cancer Development: See the 2 months page. Biggest achievement so far: Making mummy happy again

Birth details

Original due date: 4th July 2008
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: 24.5 hours
Weight @ birth: 10lb 4.5oz

Amelia-Grace`s birthstory

Thursday 10th July:
Woke up at 6am because i thought i`d wet the bed. I jumped up quick all excited thinking my waters had leaked. I put in a pad and hoped it would continue to leak over the next few hours, but by 11.30am when the midwife came to do my stretch and sweep no more water had leaked out. I started questioning it thinking maybe it was that i`d wet myself and i got all depressed. To top it all off the midwife couldn`t perform the stretch and sweep because she said my cervix was closed and still really thick. So she booked me in for an induction for the 15th July. She left and i was devastated, i was already 6 days overdue and the thought of being pregnant for a further 5 days horrified me, i was totally done with being pregnant and just wanted my baby in my arms!! I began to accept the fact that this baby wasn`t going to come any sooner and just focused on getting to the 15th.

At 7.30pm i thought i`d wet myself again so rushed up to the toilet only to discover that i`d had my show!! I was so excited but again realised that i shouldn`t get my hopes up as i knew that you can have a show a week before delivery. I went to bed early just in case this was `it` but tossed and turned all night not being able to sleep.

Friday 11th July:
At 3.15am i felt something pop inside me, like an elastic band being snapped. I`d heard of women describing this feeling when their waters broke. But nothing happened. I led there confused, so decided to get up to see if anything would happnen. As soon as i stood up my waters gushed all over the floor. Finally this was it, i was definitely in labour. I ran to the bathroom; waters still trickling from me and i let it continue to trickle as i sat on the toliet. I must have woke my mum as she asked if i was ok. I went into her room and announced that my waters had gone. She jumped up quick full of excitement and asked if my contractions had started. They hadn`t but within about 15 minutes i felt my first one. They were how i imagined them to be, like a strong period pain with lots of pressure and tightness. They were 3 minutes apart and lasted about a minute. At first i just walked around a lot and breathed through them, but after an hour i was in a lot of pain and had to lie down. I knew this would slow the contractions down but i was so tired-after all, i`d been awake for 23 hours. I asked my mum to leave the room and i tried to just focus on getting through each contraction.

The pain got excruciating by 9am so my mum called the midwife and asked her to come round to check my progression. She arrived at 10am and i was only 2cm but fully effaced. She said the baby was posterior which is why it was taking so long. She advised me to go to hospital as there were another 3 women in labour who also wanted home births and she explained that i still had a long way to go. I was devastated, i really wanted a home birth. If i knew i only had a few more hours to go then i would have put up with the pain and stayed at home, but knowing i needed rest if i were to get through this i decided that a hosptial birth would be the best thing.

After a lot of thinking, i had decided that i wanted Rich to be at the birth, so i called him and he picked me up at about 10.10am and we rushed over to the hospital. My mum refused to come if he was going but i wanted him there for support. I was in too much pain to argue so we left without her. When we got to the hospital there wasn't anyone to see to us until 11.30am as it was too busy. Rich went to park up his car whilst I knelt down on the floor in the waiting room; holding onto a chair; breathing through each contraction (luckily no one else was in there). Finally a midwife gave us a room and passed me the gas and air. It was horrible, it made me feel stoned and did nothing for the pain so i stopped using it. They checked me at about 1pm and i was only 3cm; after 9 1/2 hours of contractions, so i decided to have an epidural as i was so tired and just wanted to sleep. By 2pm they came to do my epidural. At first she put it into a vein by mistake; i was screaming out in pain, so she quickly took it out and started again and it immediately took effect. At first i could still feel the peak of each contraction (which at this point were a minute and a half apart and lasting over a minute) but it was just like a strong period pain and i didn`t even have to breath through it. But after about 10 minutes i couldn`t feel a thing. It was great. I still had feeling in my legs but couldn`t stay mobile because i had to have monitors on me and the epidural drip.

At 4pm they checked me and i was at 6cm, finally-some progression! They said the`d check again in 4 hours and hopefully i`d be at 10cm (as on average you should dilate a cm an hour). At 6pm my mum called and said she would come over but wanted Rich to leave. After a horrible row between Rich and my mum, Rich decided that him leaving would be the best thing. I was devasted and cried for ages after he left, i was really hoping that if he'd witness the birth of his daughter, he'd some how realise what a mistake he'd made splitting up with me and maybe he'd decide to give things another go, now that dream was shattered as i led there in hospital by myself in labour! I called my dad to tell him what was happening and within about half an hour he arrived. He stayed with me until my mum arrived but when she did she started arguing with us. I was really upset so i told her to leave if she wasn't going to calm down and show me some support. She decided to leave, so it was back to just my dad and i.

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