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January 2014 Babies Club
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Sooner rather than later! :eek: William was born at 00:14 today weighing seven pounds three ounces. He's a cutie!
Labour was fast and furious, speeded up by Oxytocin (due to meconium in the waters.) I was probably only in established labour for three hours ... sounds great, but God it was sore. Pushed him out then with around 3-4 contractions, that was the easy part by far! Going from 0-10cm in a couple of hours was hell.
Anyways he's here now.
I'm completely lost as to how to look after him though! I'm sure that will come with time! 0 -
Chattastrophe! wrote: »Sooner rather than later! :eek: William was born at 00:14 today weighing seven pounds three ounces. He's a cutie!
Labour was fast and furious, speeded up by Oxytocin (due to meconium in the waters.) I was probably only in established labour for three hours ... sounds great, but God it was sore. Pushed him out then with around 3-4 contractions, that was the easy part by far! Going from 0-10cm in a couple of hours was hell.
Anyways he's here now. I'm completely lost as to how to look after him though! I'm sure that will come with time!
Big massive congrats
delighted for you. Fingers crossed I won't be waiting too long! 0 -
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Chattastrophe! wrote: »Sooner rather than later! :eek: William was born at 00:14 today weighing seven pounds three ounces. He's a cutie!
Labour was fast and furious, speeded up by Oxytocin (due to meconium in the waters.) I was probably only in established labour for three hours ... sounds great, but God it was sore. Pushed him out then with around 3-4 contractions, that was the easy part by far! Going from 0-10cm in a couple of hours was hell.
Anyways he's here now. I'm completely lost as to how to look after him though! I'm sure that will come with time!
That's great news!! Congratulations! x0 -
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Chattastrophe! wrote: »Sooner rather than later! :eek: William was born at 00:14 today weighing seven pounds three ounces. He's a cutie!
Labour was fast and furious, speeded up by Oxytocin (due to meconium in the waters.) I was probably only in established labour for three hours ... sounds great, but God it was sore. Pushed him out then with around 3-4 contractions, that was the easy part by far! Going from 0-10cm in a couple of hours was hell.
Anyways he's here now. I'm completely lost as to how to look after him though! I'm sure that will come with time!
Huge Congratulations! 0 -
Chattastrophe! wrote: »By the way, I was at home when my waters broke, and they ACTUALLY made a big POP sound! :eek: I heard it a few seconds before I felt it. That was one thing I wasn't expecting!
Chattastrophe did you go straight in after waters broke? Or did you wait at home for a while? I just can't wait till it's my time baby William was a lovely size the seemed to be spot on with his scan! This has me worried about pushing my bruiser out lol 0 -
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aww,at least you know that you are at the end.
38,39,41 were mine,it got longer every time!!! but the labours got shorter.
I would take an easier labour any day if it means waiting a bit longer, the first one went on for a long time and ended up with an episiotomy and forceps. I'm not the most patient person in the world anyway, and my family are not helping by ringing me wondering if anything is happening constantly. As if I wouldn't let them know straight away 0 -
I would take an easier labour any day if it means waiting a bit longer, the first one went on for a long time and ended up with an episiotomy and forceps. I'm not the most patient person in the world anyway, and my family are not helping by ringing me wondering if anything is happening constantly. As if I wouldn't let them know straight away
I ended up turning my phone off on my first... it wasn't a smart phone at the time so didn't really need it on... The other times it was on but on silent so let ring out if anybody rang and texts weren't answered until after the birth either. Facebook and boards were a god send those other times though!0 -
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I would take an easier labour any day if it means waiting a bit longer, the first one went on for a long time and ended up with an episiotomy and forceps. I'm not the most patient person in the world anyway, and my family are not helping by ringing me wondering if anything is happening constantly. As if I wouldn't let them know straight away
I think the 1st was the easiest labour it was the longest at about 3 hours,2nd was about 33 minutes and 3rd about 32. The 2nd was the hardest as it was just too quick by the 3rd I knew baba would be here from 1st pain within the hour.0 -
Congrats, great stuff! ;-) let the baby fun begin!
With our first, the waters broke first, and contractions only started about 4 hours later or so. At least I didn't have to sit here counting contractions, the thought of that still scares me - be afraid I'd miss something and end up having the baby either in the house (who'd want to clean up???) or in the car stuck in traffic -we live a good bit in the countyside, and it could take an easy hour to get to hospital at the wrong time...:eek:
Hope it's the same for this one 0 -
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Chattastrophe did you go straight in after waters broke? Or did you wait at home for a while? I just can't wait till it's my time baby William was a lovely size the seemed to be spot on with his scan! This has me worried about pushing my bruiser out lol
Millem when my waters broke, they were clear, and my contractions were 12-15 minutes apart, so I planned to go info the hospital a couple of hours later when my boyfriend got home ... I was guessing they'd just check me and send me home anyways.
Then about half an hour later, I got another gush of waters, and this time there was meconium. Not enough to panic me, but definitely there. So I decided I'd better go on ahead in. My contractions were coming ten minutes apart when I got into the taxi ... with rush hour traffic, it took about 45 minutes to get to the hospital, and by then my contractions were coming about 3-4 minutes apart, but the pain was totally bearable.
The midwives didn't believe me, either about my waters breaking or about the contractions, until they examined me! I was grand, walking and talking through the contractions. I guess that was the problem, because even though they were getting longer and closer together, they weren't strong enough and had barely started dilating.
Anyways because of the meconium and because my blood pressure was high, they decided to give me Oxytocin. They told me that almost everyone who gets it ends up needing an epidural. I said that I was fine with that - my original "plan" was to try for a natural birth, but I knew that I'd probably need an epidural if I was induced. However I told them that, if I was going to get one, I would rather get it sooner rather than later. My logic was that, if I was going to have the risks associated with an epidural, might as well get maximum benefit from having it. They said we'd see as things progressed.
So the Oxytocin kicked in very quickly ... however my own contractions had started to kick in much stronger too, and I'd already gone from 0-2cm very fast on my own. I was already asking about the epidural, but they were tracking the baby's heartbeat (by a trace and with the clip on his head) and it took them a while to be happy enough with it that they would arrange the epidural. That's one thing that bothered me all the way through - they kept saying things like "Baby's not happy" or "Baby's not liking that", without any real explanation, and it got to the stage were I was just not physically able to ask them to explain. If I went again, I'd make it clear at the start that I'd like to know exactly what's going on ... I understand about decelerations etc, it's not going to panic me, but I hated not knowing exactly what was going on.
So all of a sudden I was 5cm, and the pain was just beyond anything I could imagine. They finally brought in the anasthesist to do the epidural at this stage, and I had to sit with my legs open leaning forward without moving for fifteen minutes. Can't even describe the pain.
And then the anasthesist left and I was 10cm and ready to push. Not a chance of the epidural having any effect at that stage! But the pushing was fine, it was easy compared to everything that had come before. I just remember the midwife saying she was about to do an episiotomy when the head was coming out ... she traced the scalpel over where she was about to do it to check that I couldn't feel it, but I could, clearly! So she gave me a local anaesthetic.
It was very weird feeling it coming out. You can clearly feel the shape of the head, and then the body slithering out. There was nothing like One Born Every Minute, when they get to the end and are all like "No big pushes, just breathe the baby out" ... at this stage, they really wanted him out ASAP so it was all big massive pushes as fast as possible.
And then he was out, and he was fine ... bawling crying, thankfully! He was put in an incubator for about 20 minutes, but all OK. The epidural probably kicked in around when the placenta was coming out, but even then I didn't really notice a difference.
I didn't have a birth plan, and I'm glad I didn't, because the above wouldn't have been it! But it could've been much worse, too. It's hard to know what I would have done differently. I do think that, in hindsight, the Oxytocin was unnecessary - but sure neither myself or the midwives knew that at the time, and you couldn't ignore signs that the baby was distressed. I kinda wish I'd been firmer about getting the epidural early if I was getting it at all - but look, it did me no good but at least I've no side effects from it, so no harm done.
I think the main thing is to manage your expectations, and realise that it mightn't go the way you expect and that certain things might be out of your control. E.g. I had been planning on trying on a natural birth - however the minute I saw the meconium in the waters, I decided I'd basically go with everything the hospital advised, with the goal of just getting the baby out of me and making sure he was OK.
Anyways that's how it went for me, maybe not according to plan, but the end result was a healthy baby, so I'm happy! 0 -
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Chattastrophe! wrote: »Millem when my waters broke, they were clear, and my contractions were 12-15 minutes apart, so I planned to go info the hospital a couple of hours later when my boyfriend got home ... I was guessing they'd just check me and send me home anyways.
Then about half an hour later, I got another gush of waters, and this time there was meconium. Not enough to panic me, but definitely there. So I decided I'd better go on ahead in. My contractions were coming ten minutes apart when I got into the taxi ... with rush hour traffic, it took about 45 minutes to get to the hospital, and by then my contractions were coming about 3-4 minutes apart, but the pain was totally bearable.
The midwives didn't believe me, either about my waters breaking or about the contractions, until they examined me! I was grand, walking and talking through the contractions. I guess that was the problem, because even though they were getting longer and closer together, they weren't strong enough and had barely started dilating.
Anyways because of the meconium and because my blood pressure was high, they decided to give me Oxytocin. They told me that almost everyone who gets it ends up needing an epidural. I said that I was fine with that - my original "plan" was to try for a natural birth, but I knew that I'd probably need an epidural if I was induced. However I told them that, if I was going to get one, I would rather get it sooner rather than later. My logic was that, if I was going to have the risks associated with an epidural, might as well get maximum benefit from having it. They said we'd see as things progressed.
So the Oxytocin kicked in very quickly ... however my own contractions had started to kick in much stronger too, and I'd already gone from 0-2cm very fast on my own. I was already asking about the epidural, but they were tracking the baby's heartbeat (by a trace and with the clip on his head) and it took them a while to be happy enough with it that they would arrange the epidural. That's one thing that bothered me all the way through - they kept saying things like "Baby's not happy" or "Baby's not liking that", without any real explanation, and it got to the stage were I was just not physically able to ask them to explain. If I went again, I'd make it clear at the start that I'd like to know exactly what's going on ... I understand about decelerations etc, it's not going to panic me, but I hated not knowing exactly what was going on.
So all of a sudden I was 5cm, and the pain was just beyond anything I could imagine. They finally brought in the anasthesist to do the epidural at this stage, and I had to sit with my legs open leaning forward without moving for fifteen minutes. Can't even describe the pain.
And then the anasthesist left and I was 10cm and ready to push. Not a chance of the epidural having any effect at that stage! But the pushing was fine, it was easy compared to everything that had come before. I just remember the midwife saying she was about to do an episiotomy when the head was coming out ... she traced the scalpel over where she was about to do it to check that I couldn't feel it, but I could, clearly! So she gave me a local anaesthetic.
It was very weird feeling it coming out. You can clearly feel the shape of the head, and then the body slithering out. There was nothing like One Born Every Minute, when they get to the end and are all like "No big pushes, just breathe the baby out" ... at this stage, they really wanted him out ASAP so it was all big massive pushes as fast as possible.
And then he was out, and he was fine ... bawling crying, thankfully! He was put in an incubator for about 20 minutes, but all OK. The epidural probably kicked in around when the placenta was coming out, but even then I didn't really notice a difference.
I didn't have a birth plan, and I'm glad I didn't, because the above wouldn't have been it! But it could've been much worse, too. It's hard to know what I would have done differently. I do think that, in hindsight, the Oxytocin was unnecessary - but sure neither myself or the midwives knew that at the time, and you couldn't ignore signs that the baby was distressed. I kinda wish I'd been firmer about getting the epidural early if I was getting it at all - but look, it did me no good but at least I've no side effects from it, so no harm done.
I think the main thing is to manage your expectations, and realise that it mightn't go the way you expect and that certain things might be out of your control. E.g. I had been planning on trying on a natural birth - however the minute I saw the meconium in the waters, I decided I'd basically go with everything the hospital advised, with the goal of just getting the baby out of me and making sure he was OK.
Anyways that's how it went for me, maybe not according to plan, but the end result was a healthy baby, so I'm happy!
O far play to you! I just keep hoping my baby will come soon (even though I am not overdue yet!). I am not able for the pressure pains in pelvis or vomiting anymore! Don't know how I will cope in labour! Are you home yet?
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I went for the Medela Swing, and just tried it - delighted with it. I was afraid it mightnt be strong enough as my milk is still only coming in, but I got twice as much out of it as I did in any of my feeds in hospital earlier today - and just managed my first breast milk only feed!
HL the Holles St lactation consultant gave me that price - not sure if you rent it directly from them or what.
I'm so happy I gave expressing a go - the first couple of times, I was LITERALLY only getting 3-5 drops - so disheartening, but I'm glad I stuck with it. He's still not latching on, but I'm doing plenty of skin-to-skin time, and the PHN is coming out tomorrow and I'm going to one of the Holles St breastfeeding groups on Thurs morning, so I'm hoping I might still get it working. If not, I'll probably just keep pumping - it's really not as bad as I expected.
Got home from hospital today. Holles St is mental busy at the moment. Extra beds on all the wards, so obviously no privacy if you need to be examined etc, as the curtains can't be fully pulled around. Got kicked out of my bed early and ended up having to express in someones office (with her in there) ... awkward! Sure what can they do I guess, it's not like they can control when babies are born.
William is sooo good, he's got a perfect routine and only cries when he wants to be fed etc, he's making things so easy for me. I really hope this lasts, but I doubt I'll be that lucky!
Hope those of you still waiting aren't waiting much longer. Just think, you're nearly there, and your babies are getting bigger and stronger inside you every day. 0 -
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