My Birth Story

20/03/05 Sunday 8:30pm. Arrived at birth suite, Dr preformed an internal and I am still found to be 1cm dilated, bp 130/90 Kye's heart rate fine. The cervidal gel process was explained to me and they said it may take two lots or even prostogladin gel but hopefully not. The dr attached a monitor to me for 1/2 an hr before inserting this thing that looked like a piece of thin tape. Pretty much straight away I had period type cramping and I asked was this normal and the dr said it's a good sign. I honestly felt scared. The dr said if the pain worsened over night or my waters broke buzz the nurse. However 6:30am tomorrow morning my waters will be broken and tomorrow arvo I should have Kye in my arms or so I thought. About 9:00pm David went home after I was put on the maternity ward in a room to my self. I felt alone but calm and good and I couldnt notice pain. The midwife came in and gave me iced water and I read my magazine I bought with me. I was now given sleeping tablets to go to sleep. I already feel tired but I think the tablets will help.

21/03/05 Monday 4:00am half an hr ago I started getting contractions. I thought they started out as 10 mins apart but watching the clock the are 5mins apart lasing 30 seconds. The midwife came in and made the bed next to me and a lady from Antenatal class moved in she was also getting contractions. I timed hers for her and rubbed her back weird part was our contractions were in time. In 25mins I'd had 5 contractions so i thought maybe i need to ask about them. I suddenly get the urge to be sick so i run to the loo lucky it was in the room and throw up so i buzz the midwife and tell her and she confirms i'm in labour yay finally. By this time it was 5:00am she said in an hr she'd take me up to birth suite to get me checked over. An hr and a half passes and David turns up and I go up stairs still contracting. I go up to be monitiored as well as Kye whilst getting contractions. The dr says your 4cm's dilated time to break your waters. YAY I was in labour. So the dr breaks my waters and the water and my contractions really get going. I get a bit scared as its pain I'd never felt before but everyone says I'm going well. I get put in to a birthing room where my labour progresses and as a 1st pain relief I tried a hot shower well let me tell you it made the contractions far worse. I tried rocking for a while but the pain was really becoming something so I asked for a shot of pethadine and I was also handed the gas. High as a kite I was coping quite well with the pain but pethadine wore off so I asked for another shot and david was rubbing my back not that this was helping. The pain got so intense I really let out a high pitched squeal and I was thinking oh my god I cant cope with this. I get connected to syntocin to really get my labour progressing and I got that bad that the thing I said I never wanted I practically begged for. The words rolled off my tongue "Can I have an Epidural please". I was in the middle of contracting when the epidural was being put in. I dont know why I was so worried about them before I highly recommend them to anyone. I managed to get a control of my labour again and the pain wasnt so bad by this time my mum was a side of me and I felt better just knowing she was by my side when I needed her the most. I also had a catherder insterted as I was practically numb from the waste down although I could still move my legs and so on. An internal revealed I was 7cm's dilated I was getting excited cause I knew the end was near and Kye would soon be here. But things started to go wrong Kye's heart rate suddenly started dropping due to the syntocin so they turned it off and my contractions went back to normal. The dr said in an hr I will check how far dilated you are and we may have to do a ceaser. Now I was really getting scared I so badly wanted to have Kye naturally and I was thinking in my head please let me be more then 7cm's dilated. An hour had passed and the dr came back and checked again he was murmering to the midwive and I was getting stressed. He said Sonja we're going to have to preform a ceaser your still 7cm's dilated not progressing because Kye is stuck my pelvis is to small to pass him through. I was so worried and disheartned I started apologising cause I couldnt have him naturally. I signed a consent form and I was taken up to therta with mum and david beside me. I was preped and had a top up of epidural and they check to make sure I was numb. I was drifting in and out of sleep still in labour very scary. They gave me this yukky stuff which made me sick. But I had david and the dr's trying to reasure me everything was fine. All I felt was a pulling and tugging motion and I asked was this normal and the dr said yes. I didnt know what time it was or anything but before I knew it they held Kye up and showed me and David went and cut the cord and then proceeded to take off with my son to show mum. I was stapled and put in recovery. I was still so high and I finally got to hold my son. He was born 7:29pm weighing 7lb 5oz's and 48cm's long. They said I had a 10hr labour from 3:30am but in reality it would of only been a 7hr labour. I had mum beside me and I breastfed straight away and he attached well. I was taken back to maternity ward where they checked me and Kye and I re fed him. The both of us went to sleep.