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(1) Easy birth story
Laura - had her daughter with gas and air
Like
most mum‘s I was totally dreading giving birth. I'm not very good at handling pain so I thought I would be a nightmare
in labour, but thankfully it turned out to not be as bad as I thought.
I was due on 10th Nov, but that date came and
went and nothing happened, not for another six days. Finally on 16th I woke up around 8am after my boyfriend had already gone
to work. My mother had come to stay a week before my due date, and was still asleep. I knew something wasn't quite right but
didn't think this was actually it.
I got up, made the bed and went for a shower. I wasn't really in pain just uncomfortable,
but it was getting worse as the morning went on. I didn't tell my mum in case it was nothing. By 11am I knew something was
definitely happening, but I just tried to relax and watch TV.
By 12.30pm I was pacing from the living room to the
kitchen trying to take my mind off it. Then by 1.30pm, the contractions were coming every ten minutes and they were getting
stronger every time. I phoned the hospital to see what I should do, but until my waters had broken , I was to stay at home
and take a couple of paracetamol. By this time I had phoned Tim and told him to come home.
By 2.30pm they were coming
every five minutes and lasting for around a minute, so my Mum drove us up to labour ward. I was examined and told I was 3cm
dilated and was coping with the pain really well, so I was admitted to day care to wait as this was my first baby so we could
have been there a while! Within about twenty-five minutes the pain was a hundred times worse and coming every minute. Up till
this point I had been adimant that I didn't want an epidural as the needle scared me, but now I was considering it!
Tim
went to find the midwife, who gave me two paracetamol and told me to try and relax. A couple of minutes later my waters broke,
so I went to get changed into my nightie. By the time I got back and lay on the bed I had the urge to push... I was quickly
wheeled down to the labour ward in my bed, but the midwife was telling me not to push until I had been checked to see if I
was at 10cm. However, when the urge comes you can not stop it!
When I got to the labour ward I was at 10cm, I was
given gas and air and it was great, I still felt all the pain but I was so out of it that it didn't seem to bother me. I found
the pushing stage of labour much easier to deal with than the pain of the contractions before.
At 7.02pm my little
girl was born, she weighed 7lbs 4oz . Now as I write this she 7 months and a real handful, but I am more than ready to go
through it all again, lets just hope the next time is as easy.
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