Tiredness
I know it tells you in the books that the first 12 weeks ofpregnancy you will be tired. This is a lie you will be shattered the whole 9months. You spend nights tossing and turning cause your hot, fidgety, worried,excited the list is endless. I found it easier to sleep through the day on thesofa to a good film. So prepare for your social life to dwindle before baby iseven here and give into weekends of sleeping because you'll need all you canget.
Internal Scan
I was so unbelievably lucky to fall pregnant due to medicalreasons that I was under a consultant within days and early scan was requiredto check everything was where it should be. The first was inconclusive and soneeded a second 2 weeks after. That night at my friends I began to bleed. My heartbroke instantly and went straight down to A&E after hours of waiting andthinking it was game over they told me that it was due to the internal and wasa common side effect. I was mortified no one had warned me about this and I'dthought I was miscarrying and spent the rest of my pregnancy terrified. Ipersonally would not opt for an internal again I would wait until the 12 weeks.
Going past due date
I was convinced my baby would be early as he would be just aseager to meet me as I was to meet him. Wrong!!! I went to term plus 11!!! Thatlast 2 weeks was the longest of my life. The first few days after my due date werethe worst. I was at home thinking if I went anywhere it would start and I wasadamant my labour would be private and not plastered over Facebook so didn'twant to be in anyone's company. I tried every home remedy to get things goingand it's all lies none of it worked. Then I decided just to get on with lifeand spent days wanting to smack people in the mouth when they asked 'when areyou due'. If I had the time again I would really appreciate it by catching upwith friends, going to cinema, sleeping and reading.
Labour
When they say slow labour I thought couple of day’s tops. Wrongtry 5 slow, tiring days! Also my midwife said don’t worry you will know when you’rein labour WRONG. I started with back ache on the Tuesday which just got worse,lost my plug on the Wednesday which turned out to be most painful part for me,Thursday morning contractions every 3 mins for an hour then stopped, Thursdaystretch and sweep through really irregular contractions and Friday watersbroke. This was also not a trickle it was like there was a person in therethrowing out buckets of water my god was there a lot. So off to hospital wewent to be sent home. Spent all night on the bath thinking I really need a pooand I now know I was resisting pushing. Felt so the next morning after 8 hoursin the bath, we went back to hospital where I laid in medical assessment for 12hours completely unaware of anything going on around me I was so riddle withinfection and fever. They kept coming and telling me I would be induced thenanother emergency happened and they needed seniors available for me in case ofcomplications. They never checked where I was in labour as I was on a monitorand contractions were very irregular. I was moved to delivery at about 9pmwhere again they put back induction. By this point I hadn't had any sleep sincethe Tuesday or eaten for 24 hours. I was on a drip and had a catheter fitted asI couldn't add urine and wasn't even passing fluid after 8 litres had beenpumped into me. I spent 2 more hours in the bath full of trapped wind so gavein and started pushing out this wind as i didn't want it to happen in front ofeveryone. By the time it came to them getting ready to induce me it was12:30pm! We talked through what would happen and that I'd have epi as soon ascontractions became regular. You see I have a condition called IdiopathicIntracranial Hypertension (too much fluid on around my brain) so they wouldn'tlet me experience too much pain or push for more than an hour in case it mademe Ill. I was devastated by this as I wanted a natural birth. Anyway theydecided to check me and of course you all know what I'm going to say yes thehead was visible. They were so shocked as I'd been doing it all on my own. Ipushed baby out without contractions as they had stopped and without any painrelief not even has and air! I can honestly say I had absolutely no pain whatso ever during end stage and I experienced everything and it was the bestfeeling in the world.
Now I've told you all this because if like me you have a high painthreshold if you even think for a second things may be happening get tohospital and insist they check or if you feel ill or have a temperature. Icould have made my baby seriously Ill as he'd been in birth canal for 24 hours!Luckily all was ok.
Part 2 to follow
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