How was your birth experience?
It was awful but worth it in the end
How long was your entire labour from the first contraction to the birth of your precious baby?
24 hours
Were there any complications?
Kasia was stuck she needed help getting out
What pain relief did you use? And did it work?
Everything the epidural didn't work at first but it did in the end
Was it anything like you had expected?
No, it took longer than should.
Did you make a birthing plan beforehand? And if so, did you manage to stick to it?
No
What was it like to hold your baby for the first time?
Lovely, I couldn't believe she came out of me.
Did you have your baby in hospital or at home?
Hospital
How long were you in hospital (if you had a hospital delivery)?
A week before and I went home the day after I gave birth.
Well on Wednesday 29th November, at 9:50am I had the first pessery gel inserted. And I was 2cm dilated at the time. Then I was told the at 3:50pm they are not going to insert the second gel as they feel they would be able to break my waters, which I thought was great anyway 3:50pm came and they broke my waters the contractractions came on very strong at 5 mins apart and at 5:30pm I was in established Labour. They said that I should have my baby by 8pm, but that was not the case. Then for some reason I stopped dilating but by 4:00am the next day I was fully dilated and started to push, but after 40 mins of pushing nothing happened so they decided that I would need to go into theater and have the baby with the aid of forceps. And they would give it two tries and if that didn't work then I would need an emergency c-section, anyway the forceps worked and out came Kasia weighing 6lb12ozs at 7:31am. Simon and I were both really happy. But I lost a one and a half pints of blood but luckily managed to avoid a blood transfusion. All the midwives that looked after me during the time when I went in at 30 weeks were working and they were due to finish at 7:00am but they all hung around and came to the theater to see Kasia and they all loved her.
