June 21st 2007

Hello all. I am 25 and live in the UK. Myself and my Husband had been trying for a baby for a couple of years and now it has happened i find it hard to believe it, i have taken 8 pregnancy tests and my husband has now banned me from doing anymore!!! My first scan is not untill the 12th July and i am just counting down the days untill it is here and i can see that everything is ok.

July 12th 2007

I am so happy now, had my scan and everything was perfect. I had only seen the midwife once and the dr once before, where they only took a medical history. I was starting to worry that i had imagined it all and that it wasnt real!! but now ive got my little scan pic. They said from the size of the baby, i am due the 9th January, which is only 3 days later than when it is worked out from my LMP.

19th January 2008

I woke up on Saturday morning at 3 30am with what felt like very bad menstrual cramps that were every 7 mins apart and lasting about 50 seconds each. I rang the delivery suite at about 4 am, and they said as long as i was happy to stay at home for the time being and to ring if they got worse. By 6 am they were every 2-3 mins and lasting about 1 min 30 seconds, we rang the delivery suite again and were told to make our way in.

We got to the hospital at about 7 am. They gave me 2 Co-Dydramol to help take the edge off as the pains were quite bad by this time. They checked me over and i was only 1cm dilated. They transferred me to the labur ward, where i had a hot bath that really helped. The pains were getting steadily worse, and by 11 am, they were every 30 seconds with no build up at all anymore. I was checked again and found to be 7cm dilated, so i was moved back down to the delivery suite. I started using Gas and Air, which was working quite nicely along with the use of the birthing ball. Unfortunalty, after an hour, it made me throw up all over my poor husband and a big part of the floor. For the next hour i was reluctant to use it again because of this, so at about 2 pm, they gave me a pain killing injection - meptid , not as strong as pethidine, but it didnt cross the placenta so would not affect baby as much, but it helped take the edge off and i stopped using the gas and air as i was making me feel fuzzy, and i didnt like it, i really did not want to throw up again!!!. By 3pm i was feeling the urge to push, and my midwife at this point was telling me to push with every contraction i felt. She also had to break my waters. Unfortunatly, my contractions slowed down and were coming every 20 mins and lasting only 20 seconds or so.....By 5pm, i still had the very strong urge to push with every contraction, and the midwife kept checking baby over and saying he was definatly moving down and was ready, so i had to be given an iv drip to help speed up my contractions and make them last longer....after another 2 hours of pushing, a total of 4, and a 15 hour labour, Baby Lucas Gabriel was born at 18:53pm and weighing 8Lbs1. When the baby's head crowned, the midwife let me feel his head, as she had been saying for a fair few minutes, as she could see the head moving down, that he had a full head of hair. It took another 35-40 mins for me to deliver the placenta, the Dr gave me to 19:30 to deliver it on my own or i would have to be taken into theatre, which i really didnt want, as, my sister had had a retained placenta with 2 of hers, and after given birth with no epidural, to have to have one to deliver the placenta was not something i was looking forward to. Luckily, at 19:29, i delivered the placenta.....just in time.
I also had 2 2nd degree tears so had to have stiches put in also.

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