The doctors were again talking about taking me to theatre to have it surgically removed. The umbilical cord had broken leaving the placenta still inside. Our midwives were so happy for us and the room was bursting with love and joy.Īl and I were in baby bliss when all of a sudden the room was filled with doctors, lights on and music off. I remember looking down at her in amazement, thinking she’s absolutely perfect and feeling so proud of myself for listening to my body and giving birth to our baby. No words can describe the feeling of having your baby placed on your chest. I hadn’t pressed the epidural button in hours so I could feel the contractions and knew when to bare down, Al caught our baby and placed her straight on my chest saying “That was incredible, let’s do it again!” We kept the lights low and put our Birth Playlist on, my morning midwives stayed on so I was surrounded by four amazing women who encouraged me through each push. I was examined and much to everyone’s relief I'd gone from 6am to 10cm in the hour and it was time to push! After an hour the room filled up again and I could tell there was tension between the midwives and doctors. Al was in control of my phone, watching the monitor and pressing the button when he could see I was having a contraction. I closed my eyes, put on my noise-cancelling headphones and listened to a Hypnobirthing app called “Freya” which counts breathing through your contractions and guided meditations in the breaks. I immediately asked to have all of the lights turned off and curtains closed. She agreed to give us another hour but if I hadn’t dilated to 8cm we were going to go to theatre. I asked “Is the baby in danger, am I in danger?” She replied no, so I asked that we could have more time. This doctor also happened to be the one who performed the successful ECV on me at 37 weeks to spin the baby out of breech position so she knew how much I wanted to have a vaginal birth. My contractions slowed down and I was assessed again at 11.30am to find out I was still only 6cm, the doctors did an ultrasound and suggested because I wasn’t progressing we should go in for a cesarean. I slept for 45 minutes and when I woke up I was able to eat a piece of toast… I felt like a whole new woman! I was disheartened and so tired - remember saying to my midwife “I haven’t slept or eaten in 3 days, there is no way I am going to be able to birth my baby, what can you give me?” She offered an epidural. Upon arrival I was 4cm, I used gas as pain relief until 5am on Tuesday morning, by this stage I was only 6cm. I remember looking longingly at our bed wondering whether I'd be able to lay down again… Al called the hospital and told them I was exhausted and we went back in. At around 11.30pm I became distressed that I was going to have to go through another sleepless night. Once home we picked up where we left off in the lounge room, breathing through the contractions and using the tens machine and massage. We packed our things and I waddled back out of the hospital feeling deflated and exhausted - I hadn’t slept or eaten in 2 days. We were taken to the Birth Suite and continued to labour through the (still very random) contractions for an hour, the midwife came in and we found out that my waters hadn’t broken, I was only 2cm dilated and it was best we went back home. Contractions in the car are as uncomfortable as I'd heard! We called the hospital and they told us to come in, so we packed our bags and drove in. We continued this through to Monday morning and around midday I started vomiting and as I ran to the bathroom I thought my waters had broken (I found out later I’d just peed myself… a lot). I was wearing a tens machine and Al was amazing at supporting me through the contractions that were still random and coming every 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 minute … That night we set the lounge room up with dim lighting, listened to our birth meditations and utilised the pressure point and massage techniques we’d learnt at our Calm Birth Course. Sunday morning we went for a walk along the beach track, again stopping to breathe through each contraction… We spent the day at home, the contractions strong but still not any pattern.
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