Birth Stories

I would just like to share my story with you as i have been reading your stories and it made me realise that sometimes we feel like certain things only happen to us only, thats how i felt until i read some of your stories that made me feel im not alone.

I'll make it short - On the day i gave birth the 22nd April, it was around 6 in the morning when i started getting slight contractions, i was opted for natural birth. Went straight to the hospital thinking the earlier the better....on arrival i was booked in and given a room, whilst laying on the bed the nurse checked me i was 4,5 centimetres my water did not break still. My gynae arrived and broke my water, left and came back to check by then i was 6 centimeters, the baby was pushing downwards but something was wrong. My gynae told the nurses to rush me to theatre, i started to panic thinking this is not what i wanted, i started to cry and hubby comforted me, we both knew this was the only way and it was for the best for our little baby. They did an emergency caesar and found that the Umbilical cord was wrapped around the babys neck twice. At that moment it didnt hit me...all i could think of is that my baby is healthy and fine and we did it. Thank God:-)

Congrats Huggles.

Beautiful Birth Story.

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Congrats skitterling!

Congrats chantz and skitterling. xxx

Congrats Skitterling!

Birth story
Liam Victor
Born on due date
3.38kg and 50cm
Natural

here goes:
Whole week I have been having very random cramps, wrote it off and decided if that I do not want natural anymore, was going to ask the doc on Sunday for a csec.
So thursday (39w6d) cramps come and go, get slightly worse at 12 that night, but wrote it off due to the fact that they were not THAT sore.
Never managed to fall asleep and at 2:55woke hubby up and told him it might only be a false alarm but I want to go to the hospital and have it checked out.
Took him a while to wake up during which time I start timing the contractions (7min apart) and packing the bags. One for Liam, Micheala and myself.
Got to the hosp at 3:30 and got put on monitors etc, and shortly after getting there the contractions started getting worse. When we got there it read +-30 and 30 min later it reached 127.
Gynie was phoned and I was told to wait at the hosp until she does her rounds at about 8.
Hubby and M went home and I tried sleeping a bit, easier said than done because another lady was giving birth during that time (boy did she scream )
Got an internal and wow...1cm dilated, better than nothing I thought. Asked gynie if I can go home after she came and examined me, finding that I was 2cm then.
Baby was VERY high and the internals hurt like HELL. So they thought it will only happen tonight. Was instructed to walk a lot and come back if I needed pain meds (pethidine or gas).
Got home 9:30 about and made some breakfast for hubby and with every contraction (6min apart by then) I swung my hips like swinging a hulla hoop. Helped a lot!
Took a bath with M to help with the pain too.
At one we all went down for a nap. I was woken up with really painful contractions at 2:30. Walked around the house while everyone was still sleeping in utter pain.
At thee I just could not handle te pain anymore and I woke hubby up crying telling him to get M and get ready to go again.
Got into a warm bath again and just could not get out, the contractions was about 3min apart and very sore.
Could not get dressed and with every contraction I laid down wherever I was and just waited for the worse to pass before going to sit on the loo. It really felt like I had to poop, lol.
Took me ages to get dressed and once I got dressed I simply could not walk to the car as the pain was constant.
Shame while in the car M was sitting in her chair behind me crying and asking for me the whole time, she did not know why mommy is doing what she was (moaning from pain)
Sucked it up and at 16:00 we were at the hosp. I was instructed to walk into my room (could not do it, so went straight to the loo where my waters broke and I started pushing).
Hubby helped me get undressed and get onto the bed. Telling me to stop pushing the whole time,lol.
He was told to wait outside with M so they can do an internal, so he went out for a smoke.
They opened my legs and saw baby was crowning, so straight to the delivery room. (grrrr, all of a sudden the wheelchair could reach the bed hey)
I begged them the whole time for gas, but they (oh, "they" are the two nurses) just said, wait, wait.....did not like that at all.
While they got kitted out etc I started pushing.
5pushes and 5min later he was out at 16:20 weighing 3.38kg and 50cm long.
What was nice is that I decided when I wanted to push as I was not hooked to any monitors etc. and Once the head is out it is all smooth sailing. Dont get me wrong to get the head out was extremely sore and I did give out a scream or two.
Hubby barely finished his smoke and when he got back it was over. (so much for having him in the delivery room)
I was stitched up and baby was put on my bare skin. Had to stay in the delivery room for about an hour during which baby also had his first feed and I had a drip.
My cord was really weird and the ladies commented saying that I can easily have 10kids, oh hell no!!
Got taken to my new room, which was a private room as all the rooms are private. Had dinner while baby got his first bath and took a quick shower. I forgot to bring a towel....go figure.
Shortly after baby was bought to me and there he stayed until we were discharged the next morning at 10. Got loads of help with breastfeeding and had colostrum immediately after birth. He is a champ drinker, just not awake a lot to do it.

And shortly that was my whole birth experience
Baby Liam waited until his due date....still cant believe it