Jack Robert Sex: boy Born: 26 May, 2009 Age: 2 years & 265 days Birthday in: 100 days Starsign: Gemini Development: See the 32 months page. Biggest achievement so far: -

Birth details

Original due date: May 13th
Type of delivery: Vaginal (with pain relief)
Duration of labor: too long!!!
Weight @ birth: 8lbs 9oz /3.92kg
Length @ birth: 21inches

At last Im getting around to adding my birth story!!! sorry its so long!! xxx

Friday: 2:00am on 22nd of May I started getting pains every ten minutes, to be honest they were more uncomfortable at first so I didnt wake my bf, but by 6am they were seriously sore and every five minutes, went and had a bath and they went away. They came back around 3pm and i rang the hospital who told me to try hold on till they were every 2-3 minutes apart. All day friday was getting them every 10minutes, got no sleep.

Saturday: they were still coming on Saturday so I went down to be checked, midwife said "oh ya they are defo contractions , really long arent they, but they dont seem to be doing anything". Got sent home with painkillers and told to wait some more. By 10pm Saturday night they were back to coming every five minutes so they told me to come back down and still nothing, they admitted me and gave me some sleeping tablets ( they didnt work!! )

Sunday: Pains were easing off with the injection I was given and the doctor wanted to keep me in ( I was scheduled to be induced on Monday). I asked to be induced today as had been in pain since friday and they told me they wanted me to try do it on my own!!! I came home then as I had alot to sort out. The pains remanined around the same strength all day but I was becoming used to them.

Monday: I was double checking my hospital bag when I realised my pains were back to 2 minutes apart and were getting so much stronger, came down to tell my bf when I got one and had to lean on my brother and that was followed by one straight after. Hoped in the car and made bobby keep stopping so I could lean on him everytime I got a pain :) Midwife's exact words " we're on the way baby will be here by tonight!! " got checked and the contractions were still doing nothing for me , was so frustrated, got another pain relief injection and it did nothing for me this time. Spent the whole day wandering the hospital corridors and having to stop every five minutes to try breathe through the pain and still wounldnt give me anything to help speed things up. 10pm brought back down to be checked and was finally 1cm, midwife was about to give me gas when the senior midwife came in and said I didnt need it ( i so did!! ) another injection (usless) and sent bobby home. Tried to have a bath at 11pm and I had to buzz a midwife to help me out literally couldnt move with the pain. Thankfully it was a different midwife who brought me to a labour suite, turned on the telly, sat me on a birthing ball with a full tank of gas beside me n gave me tea and toast, it was heaven!!

Tuesday: at 12am my waters were broken to try hurry things along. Im kind of foggy bout the next 12hrs thanks to all the gas they gave me !! The doctor came to give me an epidural and my red blood count was too low and my back was swollen , he eventually attempted it and it worked , I kept talking and moving when he was trying to put it in and was giggling like mad thanks to the gas. They had to ring another doctor to come in because nobody could find my veins for the drip!! Im pretty sure I drifted off to sleep then. They rang bobby at 7am to tell him it wouldnt be much longer. I never even noticed him coming into the room until he had been there a good hour. At 8am I was told I was at 9cm, DELIGHTED :) but when another midwife checked she said I was only 5-6cm!! Epidural was topped up and was still being given gas, According to the midwives and bobby I spent the next few hours ranting about soaps and priests and anything and everything ( I dont remember thankfully lol ). Around 11:50 I felt an urge to push and the midwife was shouting no its not time and my words were " his head is fucking pushing itself out I cant help it" ( I blame the drugs!). The literally had to prise the gas from my hands and I was put in the stirups and after 9mins of pushing my lil man arrived at 11:59am. Had no stitches thankfully x

So after days of contractions, useless injections 2 doses of epidural and 3 , yes 3 full cans of gas he finally arrived 2 weeks late , but he was worth every minute of it :) xxxxxxx