After reading all your lovely stories I decided to find my birth story on here and it really did make me smile and I had such lovley replies it made me miss all my bump buddies.........

Heres my story 5 days after I gave birth to Mason James.....

Well after 13 days over cooking Mason decided to make a drastic appearance!!!

I woke up in the morning with a stomach ache (it felt like I had the runs) but decided to ignore it and have a cuppa. When I got up to go to the loo I had a gush of liquid and it just didn't stop!! I had black bottoms on so couldn't see the colour until I got on the loo. My waters were a green brown colour so I knew something wasn't right. I phoned delivery suite and they told me to come straight in as they were sure baby had pood in me. My delivery suite was over an hour drive away and needed to get stepson sorted etc so we went to local birth centre which was 10 mins away. Was put on monitor and baby seemed fine which was a huge relief. At this point my contractions were all over the place and not too painful so was sent off to delivery suite. At this point girls I can honestly say it really hadn't sunk in I was actually in labour!!! When we got to hospital my contractions were more regular but still bearable. Baby was still fine so they left me for 2 hours to see how I progressed on my own. Well 2 hours later I wasn't even 1cm dilated!!! My waters had broken at 915am and it was now 4pm and nothing!!! I was then taken to my own room and was put on the drip to speed things up. The drip was started at 6pm. The contractions were still bearable but I could tell they were a lot stronger. By 8pm I asked for 2 paracetomol as the contracts were getting worse. I hadn't been examined so thought I was being a wimp as thought I was only 1-2cm dilated. Midwife then examined me and I was 7cm dilated!!! She asked me if I wanted any pain relief as she said it wasn't fair on me to be doing it all on 2 paracetomol and I was like "Oh am I allowed...yes please!!!" I had an epidural but I knew I needed to push while she was putting it in but didn't say a word. My epidural was put in at 945, followed by my waters breaking for a third time and 6 pushes later Mason was out by 1015. He was the first and only baby born on 12th June all the others waited til Friday the 13th!!!

I can honestly say the whole way through my labour I kept thinking this is gonna get worse, this is gonna be bad and it really wasn't!!! I'm not saying I would want to do it everyday but I found the whole experience compelling. I had 3rd degree tear and lost over litre of blood so was in hospital for 3 days but was that out of it I don't really remember being there!!!

To all of you that are still waiting to have your babies I wish you a smooth hassle free labour and you get to meet your little ones soon.

To all of you that have been through labour I hope it was as good as mine!!

Katie and Mason.x x x

I had gestational diabetes controlled on insulin so I was booked in for an induction at 39 weeks. I arrived at hospital 4.30pm on 20th december, no one was expecting me, so I was sent home again until 9.30pm. Returned to hospital at 9.30pm, examined by mw and put on monitor, just about to have the first pessarie when doctor came along and stopped it. Said it was not safe as they did not have enough staff.

Was not happy!! Refused to leave hospital without my baby so stayed over night. Hubby went home at 11pm then I was on my own in a 4 bed bay, not a mw seen for hours.

at 1am was still wide awake and suddenly got really bad period like cramp, happened again 10 mins later, so I got out my mobile phone and got the stop watch running. Cramps were 9 mins apart, but quite bearable. By 4am was sure they were contractions as were 4 mins apart and very strong and each one made me desperate to pee (like I had a UTI), still had not seen a mw at all so pressed my call button. Was greeted very frostily and told that they only wanted to know when 3 mins apart.

At 6am 3mins apart and very strong, I was not coping well by this stage as was tired, in pain, lonely and scared, so called mw again and asked to phone my husband. She examined me but only 2 cm dilated so sent off to have a bath.

Husband helped to put on tens macine which gave me something to focus on, but was still in a lot of pain, so midwife gave me some paracetamol - as if that was going to help!

At 11am I was taken to the labour ward to have my waters broken, which contained meconium, so I had to be monitored with a foetal scalp monitor, which meant I had to stay on bed. At same time was attached to insulin drips. Examined again but was only 3cm.

I was also told at this point I was no longer able to eat or drink anything.

Had gas and air which was lovely, felt very drunk. Between this and my tens machine I was nicely occupied for each contraction. Because I was being monitored we could see when each contraction was coming, so my husband would watch the screen and tell me when to start puffing on the gas and air before the full contraction hit.

The foetal scalp monitor kept detaching, so they had to keep putting it back, which was extremely painful. They decided that the tens machine was interfering with the monitor so I had to take it off.

By 5pm I had been contracting very strongly, so when the midwife examined me she was shocked to find I was still only 4cm dilated. She suggested an epidural and a syntocinon drip, I tried to put it off by having some meptid, but by 6.30pm I had an epidural in place. It was amazing relief to finally be able to rest a little bit.

The syntocinon was turned up full and the contractions were getting stronger, but I was still not dilating any more.

Some time around midnight the doctor came in and told me that the baby was in distress and they needed to get on with a c-section asap. I was whisked into theatre within 10 mins.

It was so strange to be aware of them routing around in my tummy but not really feeling it. It made me feel very sick and my whole body was shaking uncontrolably!

My husband was with me the whole time and finally at 00:55 on saturday 22nd December my beautiful baby boy was born.