Kayte
12-07-2007, 11:43
Finally getting around posting my birth story!
On Saturday May 13th DP and I had just finished unpacking boxes and setting up the nursery (can you believe it?) as we had just moved into our new house that took nearly 6 months to finalize everything! We decided that we would go down to the local shopping centre so we could buy our mums mother’s day presents! We arrived to the shops at about 1ish and walked around for a bit with not a clue what to get either of them! (Typical mums whatever they need or want they buy themselves!) So after not having a clue we decided to ring DP’s mum and ask her what she wanted. After she told us she would like a DVD player so we thought right of to the good guys it is (pay cash and they’ll slash the prices!) Dp needed to go to the toilet so off we go. I ummed and arrred over whether to go and though na bugger it ill be right I don’t really need to go anyways. So I waited outside for DP which felt like forever even though he reckons it was only 2mins. As we walked out of the toilet entrance part into the main shopping centre we stopped and couldn’t remember where we parked. We both agreed it was in the way we were heading so off we went. As I took ONE step I felt a leakage. Although I had been leaking white discharge through my whole pregnancy I thought it was just that but as I took another step I felt a HUGE gush and looked down to see I had “wet myself” (haha) I looked up to dp who was still walking and said “Jai I think my waters have broken” and with that his face lit up and I started to bawl my eyes out!!! So we hurried out of the entrance to the shops only to find that it was the completely wrong exit we were supposed to be walking the other way. Dp told me to sit down and he would go get the car so off he went. While I was waiting can you believe I ran into 3 of my friends! Dp came back with the car and I told him I didn’t want to ruin the seats in my car so to go and get plastic bags but due to everyone “going green” no one would give him any luckily someone gave him a sheet and off we went. Rung mum and dad in the car and they were meeting us at home to drive us in to the hospital as DP has no license.
When we arrived home mum and dad were already waiting so we went in I had a shower finished packing my hospital bags (I had packed them the night before) and off we went.
We arrived to the hospital at about 2.30pm so my waters had broken nearly an hour ago so the midwife did all the checks and advised me I wouldn’t be leaving the hospital! Off we went to our room which had a double bed, huge shower etc. I had to be hooked up to the monitors for an hour to trace bubs heart beat but I really can’t remember why! At 5:30 I was still on the monitors with no contractions so mum and dad decided to leave. Dp and I watched TV for a bit then he decided we should go for a HUGE walk. So off we went trekking around the whole hospital grounds and to the end of the street. By the time we got back it was about 6.30ish and dinner was being pushed around. So we ate dinner and settled in to watch a bit more tv. About 7:45ish my mum and dp’s mum arrived we were all having a chat when I got my first contraction at 8.30pm. They weren’t lasting very long probably about every 15 mins lasting for 20ish seconds. In my head I was thinking “omg im going to be a mum by early morning max – and I wont need any drugs this is nothing!” YEAH RIGHT!!! Dp decided to go home and get some clothes as he was staying the night so I stayed with mum. My contractions were starting to come every 10 mins lasting about 30 secs then every 10 lasting about a minute. Dp got back and we buzzed the nurse who wasn’t to fazed and told me I could look at some pain relief. So and injection of morphine in the bum it was and the thrilling news I was 1cm dilated. After that dp’s mum and my mum left – Back to watching TV the dp fell asleep that’s when my contractions were coming 7/8 mins apart lasting just over a minute. The morphine had bought my contractions on harder and slightly faster so we buzzed the nurse again about 1am and she told me to go get in the spa. Off we go to the spa which was hideous I hated it. I was in there for about 15 mins breathing through all my contractions and crying! Dp helped me get out and back to the room it was. Sat through a few more contractions then DP fell asleep about 2ish. I decided to jump in the shower so in and out of the shower I got not to mention sitting on the toilet constantly!! I noticed about 4am I was loosing my plug! I tried to wake DP up because I needed a cold drink so bad but no luck he’s a real deep sleeper. So after the next contraction I waddled up to the vending machine and got a bottle of water and a red Gatorade. Back in the shower it was after sculling the bottle of water. I was still thirsty so I started drinking some of the Gatorade. What a mistake I was literally power yakking red Gatorade everywhere!!!!! But some strange reason I kept drinking it and the more I drunk the more I threw up. FINALLY a midwife came in to see how I was going so I cried to her and she decided to check how dilated I was. On the bed having contractions every 4 mins lasting min and a half she checks. Here I am expecting her to say OMG your ten cms !!!! That wasn’t the case.. Only 3cms in nearly 6 hours!!! So back in the shower I got for another hour. I woke dp to ask him the time.. 5.30am – I remember thinking sh!t I have been in the shower for ages. On the phone I got to my mum bawling my eyes out told her I couldn’t do this anymore and could she come in. Mum arrived about 6.30ish by this time dp was awake. I sat with them for a bit with them helping me all they could when about 7am ish a midwife walked in and decided they would wheel me to birth suite. Now by this time my contractions were unbearable every 2 mins lasting nearly 2 mins. We arrive at birth suite and everything is a blur until about 8.30am when the midwife asked me what pain relief I would like advising me an epidural would be a good idea. I started to freak as I didn’t want an epidural I just wanted the pain to go away and my buba out! After another quick shower I made the decision to have an epidural. I cried the whole time it was being inserted I hated it, it hurt so much. DP has only just told me now how much blood there was when he was inserting it!! I was so worried I would never be able to feel my legs again! (Crazy pg brain right?) The epidural only numbed my right side so I was still feeling my contractions on the left hand side! Dp’s mum arrived just before the epidural. After all that I went to sleep!!! I woke every hour or so for a top up and went back to sleep.
I woke up for my last top up about 1.30pm. Fell asleep when a midwife woke me up to check how dilated I was. Her exact words “OMG Kayte you are 10cms you can start pushing now” Good one lady…. Bawled my eyes put for agessssssssss!!!!!! I was so scared!!! So at 2.10 I started pushing … I pushed for nearly an hour with no luck they could only just start to see the head! WTF !!!! Up my feet went up on the stirrups…I was pushing on every contraction. I kept asking the doc how much longer. But do you think anyone would give me an approximate time.
It was about 4ish now and I was so exhausted by now and I couldn’t feel my contractions anymore and my eyes were rolling I the back of my head. I eventually told my mum to eff of and chewed all my acrylic nails off !!! It got to about 4.15 and mum wandered back in and with that I had an almighty contraction and a head came out !!! (ouccccccccch!!!!!!) I then remember panting and out came a body and staright up onto my chest it was !! Just as the head came out I called in dp’s mum and my dad so they were able to see to !! We still didn’t know what it was so dp lifted buba up and was like “IT’S A BOYYYYYYY!!” he had tears rolling down his face as did all of us. I cried again because I would have sworn it was a girl and so did mum she reckons she would has mortaged her house !!
So after nearly 21 hours of labour and 2 and half hours of pushing …
TYLAH JAI arrived
3780g (8p 6oz)
50cm long
HC 33cm
My mum and dp's mum thought they got the best mothers day present ever !!!!! First grandchild on both sides !!!!
On Saturday May 13th DP and I had just finished unpacking boxes and setting up the nursery (can you believe it?) as we had just moved into our new house that took nearly 6 months to finalize everything! We decided that we would go down to the local shopping centre so we could buy our mums mother’s day presents! We arrived to the shops at about 1ish and walked around for a bit with not a clue what to get either of them! (Typical mums whatever they need or want they buy themselves!) So after not having a clue we decided to ring DP’s mum and ask her what she wanted. After she told us she would like a DVD player so we thought right of to the good guys it is (pay cash and they’ll slash the prices!) Dp needed to go to the toilet so off we go. I ummed and arrred over whether to go and though na bugger it ill be right I don’t really need to go anyways. So I waited outside for DP which felt like forever even though he reckons it was only 2mins. As we walked out of the toilet entrance part into the main shopping centre we stopped and couldn’t remember where we parked. We both agreed it was in the way we were heading so off we went. As I took ONE step I felt a leakage. Although I had been leaking white discharge through my whole pregnancy I thought it was just that but as I took another step I felt a HUGE gush and looked down to see I had “wet myself” (haha) I looked up to dp who was still walking and said “Jai I think my waters have broken” and with that his face lit up and I started to bawl my eyes out!!! So we hurried out of the entrance to the shops only to find that it was the completely wrong exit we were supposed to be walking the other way. Dp told me to sit down and he would go get the car so off he went. While I was waiting can you believe I ran into 3 of my friends! Dp came back with the car and I told him I didn’t want to ruin the seats in my car so to go and get plastic bags but due to everyone “going green” no one would give him any luckily someone gave him a sheet and off we went. Rung mum and dad in the car and they were meeting us at home to drive us in to the hospital as DP has no license.
When we arrived home mum and dad were already waiting so we went in I had a shower finished packing my hospital bags (I had packed them the night before) and off we went.
We arrived to the hospital at about 2.30pm so my waters had broken nearly an hour ago so the midwife did all the checks and advised me I wouldn’t be leaving the hospital! Off we went to our room which had a double bed, huge shower etc. I had to be hooked up to the monitors for an hour to trace bubs heart beat but I really can’t remember why! At 5:30 I was still on the monitors with no contractions so mum and dad decided to leave. Dp and I watched TV for a bit then he decided we should go for a HUGE walk. So off we went trekking around the whole hospital grounds and to the end of the street. By the time we got back it was about 6.30ish and dinner was being pushed around. So we ate dinner and settled in to watch a bit more tv. About 7:45ish my mum and dp’s mum arrived we were all having a chat when I got my first contraction at 8.30pm. They weren’t lasting very long probably about every 15 mins lasting for 20ish seconds. In my head I was thinking “omg im going to be a mum by early morning max – and I wont need any drugs this is nothing!” YEAH RIGHT!!! Dp decided to go home and get some clothes as he was staying the night so I stayed with mum. My contractions were starting to come every 10 mins lasting about 30 secs then every 10 lasting about a minute. Dp got back and we buzzed the nurse who wasn’t to fazed and told me I could look at some pain relief. So and injection of morphine in the bum it was and the thrilling news I was 1cm dilated. After that dp’s mum and my mum left – Back to watching TV the dp fell asleep that’s when my contractions were coming 7/8 mins apart lasting just over a minute. The morphine had bought my contractions on harder and slightly faster so we buzzed the nurse again about 1am and she told me to go get in the spa. Off we go to the spa which was hideous I hated it. I was in there for about 15 mins breathing through all my contractions and crying! Dp helped me get out and back to the room it was. Sat through a few more contractions then DP fell asleep about 2ish. I decided to jump in the shower so in and out of the shower I got not to mention sitting on the toilet constantly!! I noticed about 4am I was loosing my plug! I tried to wake DP up because I needed a cold drink so bad but no luck he’s a real deep sleeper. So after the next contraction I waddled up to the vending machine and got a bottle of water and a red Gatorade. Back in the shower it was after sculling the bottle of water. I was still thirsty so I started drinking some of the Gatorade. What a mistake I was literally power yakking red Gatorade everywhere!!!!! But some strange reason I kept drinking it and the more I drunk the more I threw up. FINALLY a midwife came in to see how I was going so I cried to her and she decided to check how dilated I was. On the bed having contractions every 4 mins lasting min and a half she checks. Here I am expecting her to say OMG your ten cms !!!! That wasn’t the case.. Only 3cms in nearly 6 hours!!! So back in the shower I got for another hour. I woke dp to ask him the time.. 5.30am – I remember thinking sh!t I have been in the shower for ages. On the phone I got to my mum bawling my eyes out told her I couldn’t do this anymore and could she come in. Mum arrived about 6.30ish by this time dp was awake. I sat with them for a bit with them helping me all they could when about 7am ish a midwife walked in and decided they would wheel me to birth suite. Now by this time my contractions were unbearable every 2 mins lasting nearly 2 mins. We arrive at birth suite and everything is a blur until about 8.30am when the midwife asked me what pain relief I would like advising me an epidural would be a good idea. I started to freak as I didn’t want an epidural I just wanted the pain to go away and my buba out! After another quick shower I made the decision to have an epidural. I cried the whole time it was being inserted I hated it, it hurt so much. DP has only just told me now how much blood there was when he was inserting it!! I was so worried I would never be able to feel my legs again! (Crazy pg brain right?) The epidural only numbed my right side so I was still feeling my contractions on the left hand side! Dp’s mum arrived just before the epidural. After all that I went to sleep!!! I woke every hour or so for a top up and went back to sleep.
I woke up for my last top up about 1.30pm. Fell asleep when a midwife woke me up to check how dilated I was. Her exact words “OMG Kayte you are 10cms you can start pushing now” Good one lady…. Bawled my eyes put for agessssssssss!!!!!! I was so scared!!! So at 2.10 I started pushing … I pushed for nearly an hour with no luck they could only just start to see the head! WTF !!!! Up my feet went up on the stirrups…I was pushing on every contraction. I kept asking the doc how much longer. But do you think anyone would give me an approximate time.
It was about 4ish now and I was so exhausted by now and I couldn’t feel my contractions anymore and my eyes were rolling I the back of my head. I eventually told my mum to eff of and chewed all my acrylic nails off !!! It got to about 4.15 and mum wandered back in and with that I had an almighty contraction and a head came out !!! (ouccccccccch!!!!!!) I then remember panting and out came a body and staright up onto my chest it was !! Just as the head came out I called in dp’s mum and my dad so they were able to see to !! We still didn’t know what it was so dp lifted buba up and was like “IT’S A BOYYYYYYY!!” he had tears rolling down his face as did all of us. I cried again because I would have sworn it was a girl and so did mum she reckons she would has mortaged her house !!
So after nearly 21 hours of labour and 2 and half hours of pushing …
TYLAH JAI arrived
3780g (8p 6oz)
50cm long
HC 33cm
My mum and dp's mum thought they got the best mothers day present ever !!!!! First grandchild on both sides !!!!