hi everyone i really wanted to write this all down as i was really freaking out about giving birth so i just wanted to share my labour and birth with everyone as it wasnt at all what i thought it wud be..
my waters broke on the thursday night although i wast sure if they had or not so i went to the midwives on friday (when i was due for a sweep) and they did a check which we found out they had broken....nothing happend (i was so annoyed i went to the county gamefair!i think the 3hr walk round shopping started me off!) so i was booked in to be induced on the monday morning at 9am.
sunday night me and partner had a lovely chinese and went to bed. i didnt really pay much attention to the slight period pains i was having and just put them down to braxton hicks. by 4am i calld the hospital as i was having full blown contractions. they told me to wait until i was sure i couldnt stay at home anymore. so i tried to go back to bed.i dont think my brain actually registerd what was going on i was so stuck in my own little zone. it was so strange i didnt want my partner to speak or touch me! i just wantd to be in the bedroom in the dark lol!
once i stopped fighting the contractions and just rode then out i felt so much better even though it felt as though i kept weeing myself! i didnt realize it was blood until i felt the urge to go to the loo, the blood did scare me and my partner took that as enough sign to get moving to hospital. By this time it was 9am. i really should mention my partner manages a ford garage so he had a sporty little mazda x5 (about 1ft off the floor!) the plan was we would swap it on the way to hospital when i was being induced so he could have his last day with it before he swapped it for his company 'family car!'
so there i was, even though i dont really remember how i got in the bloody thing, having contractions and bleeding all over his lovely leather seats mind you a 40min drive to hospital took about 2mins!
we got to hospital about 9.20am i remember a lovely midwife greeting me in the labour ward were i told her i was in labour and she was half way through saying 'are you sure' when i had a huge contraction. i was put in a wheelchair a wisked into a delivey room.
i dont really remember much as i was so far into the little zone of mine but it was very chilled out atmosphere. there was just me my other half and one midwife. i was 9cm dialated by 10am so she told me i could push if i felt ready, which i was more then ready to! i really listened to the midwife and my body with the pushing and i had no pain at all just a load of pressure. i didnt even realised babys head was out! waiting for the last contraction seeming to take forever it was quite funny we just all looked at each other waiting! my baby boy was born bang on 12 even to the second. just in time for lunch :)
the midwifes all thought i was strange how quite and relaxed i seemd all the way through even more so i askd if the injection to get the placenta out was going to hurt...she had to remind me i just had a baby and i little needle was nothing haha
i didnt have a tear or stitches and was up and about after my shower when my mom came and asked about everything only then i realized i had no pain relief!
just wanted to share that with you as it was nothing like i thought it would be! and hopfully that helps anyone who was dreading it as much as i was! :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

congratulations on your new baby boy, well done it sounds like you were in perfect control of everything, and very calm! take care xx

Hi,

Congratulations and so impressed with how well your birth went! (Also impressed with you getting in the MX5 thats my husbands car but I wont be getting in it!)

Im scared about the birth but it just goes to show no-one knows how it will be and hopefully mine might be similar to yours! (Fingers crossed!...no pain relief..wow..wonder woman!)

Inka xxx

congratulations on the birth of your baby boy, and im sure other mum's to be will be glad to hear that not all birth's are horrendous! well done.

have you posted on pregnancy too?? seems to be alot more activity over there xx

hey guys!
thanks so much for nice comments :) i will post this on pregnancy too good idea! the poor new sales lad has been given the MX5 as hes company car...im sure my other half isnt planning on telling him all the details of the cars history! xxx

Many congratulations I'm so glad you had a good birth. And really wanted to thank you for sharing your story. It's so lovely to be able to read a positive birth story for a change. I've given up reading negative ones as they've been starting to make me more worried about things that could go wrong with mine. Did you do any hypnobirthing or anything like that to prepare yourself?
Amanda
xx

congratulations,

It does sound like you had been doing some hypnobirthing - i've just got a CD about it and the leaflet is quite interesting about how we are the only mammels that seem to be so scared of giving birth and who experience such pain (and actually more so in our Western culture). Whereas animals will find a safe, dark, quiet place and listen to their bodies to know what to do. If we feel scared and as if we are being watched our bodies will naturally not want to give birth and labour will slow which is why there is more chance of intervention.

I'm 30 weeks pregnant now and planning on having a home birth in an environment where I feel safe and comfortable and hope to keep it as natural as possible.

OMG that is the most wonderful birth story! Thank you for sharing it and congratulations!!! Absolutely inspiring!

What made the difference for you? Did you do anything specific to get in the zone or did you just focus on what was happening and let it be?
xxx

Congratulations!! I'm only in the TTC stage but already the thought of labour terrifies me, reading your story has helped calm me down though, thanks for sharing!! xo

hiya guys! sooo sorry i havnt been on for a while...occupied with bundle of joy :) hes 7 weeks now cant belive it cant belive ive had a baby still lol!!
im so so so happy my story been useful :) comments made me really happy!
i really cant pin point anything that i did to get in the zone just really listend to my body and dont panic,
sarah jb ive never heard of the hypnobirth? just had a google and really does sound like thats wht i did lol i was in my bedroom with lights off and i felt so much move positive and incontrol when i was on my own i really didnt intend to be like that i thought id want my mom lol but if it was the hypno i did then its really really worked for me :) i would say that i was stubbon and wantd to stay out of hospital as long as i could but do listen to you body if theres a prob get going there :) xxxxx