EDIT: apologies it's so long!!!!
Well here's the story of Connor James B* entering the world..
On the*Saturday 7th we*walked to Tesco which is only*10mins away..
Had a bumpy drive on the old town cobbly road which Jacob loved.
Walked for a hour under the number bridge.
Went to Indian restaurant for tea. Madras for me
Ending the night with 3 hours on my birthing ball. As didn't realize*'wolf of wall street' was that long!*
Throughout the day I had a few 'tightenings' they wernt painful and whilst on my ball.
Late night and went to bed around 2am! First time since been pregnant I've stayed up so late, which was typical as I woke up at 3:10am with a painful tightening. Started nodding off again and got my 2nd one. This is when I download a app and started timing them just to see if they were more coming...
Well they did, every 8ish mins! I woke Rob to tell him I've had a few pains that are coming regularly.
By half 4am they were every 4-6mins lasting 30/40seconds. This is when texted my mum & sisters! called delivery ward too & they said take paracetamol, have shower.. come in when can't handle anymore, or if no change in 2hours I'd to go get checked anyway.
Just over a hour went and they were almost every 3mins but still 30/40seconds apart. But were getting very painful!! I had hot shower, walked around, sorted last min bits in room.
By 6:10am I text my mum saying she needs to come round soon (mile up the road and having jacob for us) but I had like a few more contractions and needed her to come now!! Lol.*
So we set off to hosp around 6:25am And arrived and put into a room by 7:15am. Only waited 5mins for them to sort one for me too..
Here's where times etc I don't really remember! I was on birthing ball when there and walking around. They checked me after a little while to see how I was. I was 2-3cm. So she told me to have a bath with these oils to help get things going. Cannot remember what they were though! Very strong smelling.*
I was in the bath for about a hour, it helped with contractions but not, as I couldn't find a comfy way to be whilst they came.
I too were actually having a few snoozes as contractions started slowing down a lot, so I got out after the hour. As soon as I got out the bath, my god they came on strong, long and fast. I couldn't even get dried and changed without burying my head into robs shoulder.
around 11:10am*I was 4-5cm, I thought was 3-4cm but robs text updates were 4-5cm! This is when I had the pethine injection and started g&a
Things were going good, longer, stronger contractions. Around 12:30pm midwife actually thought I was ready to push from the noises I was making with contractions. She checked and I was slightly pushing but wasn't fully dialated yet. But guess it helped with the pain. between then and around 1pm (when I got the epidural) I blacked out and was in/out consciousness as I was so high on the gas & air. I was also talking about microwaves!! Lol.*
Unfortunately epi didn't work properly, so had hard time for a while until I got it redone around 3:20pm.. they also popped my waters before I had the second epi and put heart monitor on his head.
Baby heart rate was also dropping slightly with contractions so some concern but after second epi it had gone to normal.
I also kept falling asleep afterwards with the pain gone.
4:47pm midwife could feel babys head. He came right down as loads of string on the heart monitor on his head had come down. Also said she doesn't think will be much longer!!*
Checked me again about 6:30pm which I was ready to push my baby out!!*
The room was warm, fan turned off. I had rob holding my left leg, midwife between my legs and another at my right leg. I started pushing. It was lovely Rob been so involved and helping me push, he was even looking occasionally!.
It took a little while to push his head right out as said I just needed to just get past that little part for his head to pop out.*
He was in a funny position apparently and was looking up ... (Which now we know as he did have a red mark on his forhead where she said he'd been tucked under my pubic bone.)
I remember the midwives saying I needed cutting a little on my old episiotomy.*which obviously I was fine with!
Once his head came out his body slowly followed, I asked if I needed to push but i didn't and he slowly came! I*was pushing for approx 20mins and Connor was born at 18:51!*
He was put straight onto my chest for skin to skin.
Best feeling ever!!*
Placenta was delivered easily, I didn't even realize! Rob actually took a picture of it with the sentence of "that is rank, you can see what I've just seen!" And took a picture on the camera!! Pmsl.
And that Is the story of how Connor entered this world <3*
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