February 9th, 2009, 09:40 AM
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Birth story:
As you know I wonke up at 3:15am Tues night/Wed morning, with what I thought was a contraction. I lay in bed and waited for an hour to ensure I was correct, they were coming every 10 minutes, like period pain with a braxton. I contracted every 10 minutes on my birthing ball for 4 hours then woke DH. By around 9am thy were around 4 mins apart, but kept fluctuating off and on from 2-12 minutes.
At around 11am, they were about 5-7mins. We put the TENS machine on about 12:30 ish, I've absolutely no idea if it helped me or not, but even if it didn't it was a good distraction pressing the button at the beginning & end of each contraction. By 2pm the contractions were getting intense and closer together so I phoned the midwife, she said they were very busy, it was my first baby & to try and wait it out more at home blink.gif We gave it another half hour and DH was panicking as the contrax were 2-5 mins apart. So off we went to hospital.
We arrived about 2:30 I think, I got checked internally around 3ish and was a "good 4 cm" and my waters were bulging, so off down to a delivery room. By the time I got to the room about 30 mins after being checked, I'd had a show and the contrax were bad. I was given diamorphine & gas and air.
My waters went about 4:30 and I got checked and was 10cm!!!! Talk about shocked!!! We waited til around 5 before I started pushing. The urge is unbelievable, I have never felt anything like that urge to push. By 7:15pm my contrax had slowed a little, I still wasn't managing to push her out so we got an episiotomy and had ventouse - one contraction & push later and she was born @ 7:27pm.[/b]
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quoted over! sorry girls! things have been hectic and just when i think i#ll post more, kirsty wakes to feed 
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Firefly
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